Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization
[PERU - INCAN CIVILIZATION]
RIVERO Y USTARIZ, MARIANO EDUARDO DE AND TSCHUDI, JOHANN JAKOB VON. Antiguedades Peruanas. Vienna: Imprenta Imperial de la Corte y del Estado, 1851. Two volumes, bound in publisher's printed paper boards, the atlas volume with cloth spine and a lithographed illustration on the rear board. Text: (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (27 x 22 cm); [1 f.], xiv, 328 pp., with a tinted lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and printed music. Atlas: 16 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (42 x 55 cm); chromolithographic title and 59 tinted and chromolithographic plates, two heightened in gold and one in silver, numbered I-VI, VIa, VII-LVIII, and signed "litografia del instituto litografico de Leopoldo Müller en Viena." Bindings are worn, with rubbing, staining, and wormholes, the corners with bumping, creasing, and a loss, one spot of wax on the front board of the atlas volume, the text volume with losses at the head and foot of the spine, its contents with occasional foxing and light toning, the atlas volume's plates have varying amounts of foxing, and some wormholes, a few plates with generally short edge tears and some small marginal losses not affecting the plates, one plate with a hard crease, half of the front free endpaper is lost and the rest is creased, a complete set of this rare attractively illustrated study on Peruvian antiquities, even rarer when found as issued in the fragile original publisher's boards.
A significant, early, rare, and splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. Part of the text was first published in 1841; the present work contains the first complete edition and is offered with the first edition of the plates.
Compiled in the 1830s and 1840s by the Peruvian museum curator Mariano Eduardo de Ribero or Rivero (1798-1857) and the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818-1889), the work is a comprehensive survey of all the relics, ruins, bones, artifacts and artworks of pre-Columbian Peru recorded at the time. Their work was the most thorough archaeological and anthropological review of ancient Peru yet published. Antiguedades Peruanas contains the "earliest authentic delineation of [Incan] architectural and other remains" (Sabin). The authors surveyed the history of European exploration of Peru, recounting the histories of pre-Conquest Peru (Garcilasso de la Vega, Prescott, Montesinos, etc.). There are chapters on the system of government and political institutions; the Quechuan language (several long passages in Quechua and Spanish are reprinted from a 1648 bilingual Spanish-Quechua edition of sermons by Fernando de Avendano), with a bibliography of Quechuan grammars and dictionaries; the science of the Incas - their calendar, medicine, art of navigation, mathematics and astronomy; and Incan religion, arts, and ancient monuments, especially those of the Chimu state and its capital Chan Chan (where both authors are commemorated in sites bearing their names).
The striking large lithographed plates, printed by Leopold Muller at Vienna, show mummified skeletons with their knees pulled close to their chests, many still in their burial garments, including two views of an infant with a peculiarly elongated skull (a condition which the authors claimed to have seen often and which they attributed to an inherited trait rather than to any kind of mechanical binding or disease); burial objects including the typical Incan "Conopas" (containers shaped like animals), tools, musical instruments, of which the Peruvian whistling bottles served both as musical instruments and containers for liquids, other ceramic objects, textiles, tombs, burial sites, temples, and views and plans of Incan palaces. Sabin 71642-43 ("a work of great importance on the ethnology and antiquities of Peru"); Leclerc Bibliotheca Americana 3497.
$7,000 - $10,000
[PERU - INCAN CIVILIZATION]
RIVERO Y USTARIZ, MARIANO EDUARDO DE AND TSCHUDI, JOHANN JAKOB VON. Antiguedades Peruanas. Vienna: Imprenta Imperial de la Corte y del Estado, 1851. Two volumes, bound in publisher's printed paper boards, the atlas volume with cloth spine and a lithographed illustration on the rear board. Text: (10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches (27 x 22 cm); [1 f.], xiv, 328 pp., with a tinted lithographed frontispiece, wood-engraved illustrations in the text, and printed music. Atlas: 16 3/4 x 21 3/4 inches (42 x 55 cm); chromolithographic title and 59 tinted and chromolithographic plates, two heightened in gold and one in silver, numbered I-VI, VIa, VII-LVIII, and signed "litografia del instituto litografico de Leopoldo Müller en Viena." Bindings are worn, with rubbing, staining, and wormholes, the corners with bumping, creasing, and a loss, one spot of wax on the front board of the atlas volume, the text volume with losses at the head and foot of the spine, its contents with occasional foxing and light toning, the atlas volume's plates have varying amounts of foxing, and some wormholes, a few plates with generally short edge tears and some small marginal losses not affecting the plates, one plate with a hard crease, half of the front free endpaper is lost and the rest is creased, a complete set of this rare attractively illustrated study on Peruvian antiquities, even rarer when found as issued in the fragile original publisher's boards.
A significant, early, rare, and splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. Part of the text was first published in 1841; the present work contains the first complete edition and is offered with the first edition of the plates.
Compiled in the 1830s and 1840s by the Peruvian museum curator Mariano Eduardo de Ribero or Rivero (1798-1857) and the Swiss naturalist Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818-1889), the work is a comprehensive survey of all the relics, ruins, bones, artifacts and artworks of pre-Columbian Peru recorded at the time. Their work was the most thorough archaeological and anthropological review of ancient Peru yet published. Antiguedades Peruanas contains the "earliest authentic delineation of [Incan] architectural and other remains" (Sabin). The authors surveyed the history of European exploration of Peru, recounting the histories of pre-Conquest Peru (Garcilasso de la Vega, Prescott, Montesinos, etc.). There are chapters on the system of government and political institutions; the Quechuan language (several long passages in Quechua and Spanish are reprinted from a 1648 bilingual Spanish-Quechua edition of sermons by Fernando de Avendano), with a bibliography of Quechuan grammars and dictionaries; the science of the Incas - their calendar, medicine, art of navigation, mathematics and astronomy; and Incan religion, arts, and ancient monuments, especially those of the Chimu state and its capital Chan Chan (where both authors are commemorated in sites bearing their names).
The striking large lithographed plates, printed by Leopold Muller at Vienna, show mummified skeletons with their knees pulled close to their chests, many still in their burial garments, including two views of an infant with a peculiarly elongated skull (a condition which the authors claimed to have seen often and which they attributed to an inherited trait rather than to any kind of mechanical binding or disease); burial objects including the typical Incan "Conopas" (containers shaped like animals), tools, musical instruments, of which the Peruvian whistling bottles served both as musical instruments and containers for liquids, other ceramic objects, textiles, tombs, burial sites, temples, and views and plans of Incan palaces. Sabin 71642-43 ("a work of great importance on the ethnology and antiquities of Peru"); Leclerc Bibliotheca Americana 3497.
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Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 10am
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Featuring The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 10am. Showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection of Raymond Chandler
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offers the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book (Est. $3000-5000). At the center of the archive is an extensive group of unpublished drafts of fantasy stories begun by Chandler in the 1920s, envisioned as a book in 1939, and retained by him until given to Sybil and Jean in 1957 (Est. $40,000-60,000). Nearly 800 typed and hand-annotated pages, the fantasy stories have compelling titles such as The Disappearing Duke, The Rubies of Marmelon, and The Carsbrook Mystery. Written during the period Chandler was honing his craft, the drafts offer much on the writer’s working method. Another excellent offering is Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 typewriter used to write his final novel Playback (Est. $10,000-20,000) and an inscribed copy of that novel to the dedicatee’s son. Unpublished poems, letters, inscribed books, and personal artifacts abound such as Chandler’s cocktail muddlers, jewelry gifted to Jean and her daughter Sybil, and Chandler’s 1945 Edgar Allan Poe Award. Now nearly seventy years since his death, this is the largest trove of Chandler papers to come to light, and the Jean Vounder-Davis Collection undoubtedly provides valuable insight to Raymond Chandler’s complicated last years. Institutions and collectors should take notice of the unparalleled opportunity to acquire unpublished material from this major 20th century author.
Literature
Beyond Raymond Chandler, literature is headed by a group of early Ernest Hemingway titles including his first two books Three Stories and Ten Poems and In Our Time. An item of Hemingway interest is matador Antonio Ordóñez's Traje de Luces or Suit of Lights worn in the bullfighting rings of Spain while Hemingway wrote One Dangerous Summer. A manuscript page from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged is offered in the auction as is a rare pack of promotional Random House Who is John Galt? cigarettes. 19th century literature offers an early printing of Frankenstein and the Polidori's The Vampyre.
Presidential Material & Americana
Presidential material includes a wooden beam from the 1949 White House reconstruction inscribed by Harry Truman and excellent letters from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Mamie during World War II. Early Americana features a rare document in defense of a Shay's Rebellion conspirator sentenced to death and a scarce periodical titled the Colonizationalist which encouraged settlement to Liberia and the Oregon Territory.
Maps & Travel
From an Upper East Side Map Collector comes H.S. Tanner's extremely rare monumental wall map of North America and Munster's circa 1568 map of North and South America. A collection of world maps offers a finely colored example of Visscher's 1652 double-hemispheric world map and other related examples. Travel includes a scarce copy of Sir Walter Raleigh's 1596 narrative of his discovery of Guiana.
Art & Illustrated Books
Art and illustrated books includes a set of Rockwell Kent's edition of Moby Dick and an original illustration from the book. The manuscript of a children's book by Nanno Freerk de Groot is present as are works by Milne, Sendak, Rackham and others.
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