Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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The fourth edition of Audubon's Birds
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES
The Birds of America. New York: V. G. Audubon, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860 (the fourth volume is dated 1859). Fourth octavo edition (other than the fourth volume, which is the third edition). Seven volumes, publisher's ornate blind-stamped brown morocco, the spine lettered in gilt in compartments two and four. 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (27 x 17 cm); with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates under tissue guards by J.T. Bowen after drawings by Audubon, half-titles not present. The spines lightly faded and rubbed, nicked and with some scratches, slight lean to most volumes, many plates and text leaves loosening in volumes I and a few in other volumes, rather heavily foxed and toned throughout, short marginal tear to plate 195. Name in ink of W. J. Herbert at the front of all volumes, which has offset in some volumes to the initial plate; Jerian Hartley (ownership inscription in pencil in volume 2).
"An early republication of the octavo edition of Audubon, differing in various particulars from the original octavo of 1840-44 in title-pages and in plates. It is the same text, reset, without the appended lists of new subscribers. The plates, however, are distinctly different in one way or another. A universal change appears to be in the inscriptions which are in distinctly larger type. The plain backgrounds of the original octavo are replaced by tinted ones; those which were tinted are altered in tone or some minor detail. Many of the elaborate scenic backgrounds of the original folio, which were modified or eliminated in the first octavo, have been replaced and in some cases the size of the figures has been altered in consequence." (Ayer/Zimmer, p. 23). Anker p. 19; Ayer/Zimmer p. 23; See Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 40.
Sold for $8,960
Estimated at $8,000 - $12,000
Includes Buyer's Premium
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES
The Birds of America. New York: V. G. Audubon, Roe Lockwood & Son, 1860 (the fourth volume is dated 1859). Fourth octavo edition (other than the fourth volume, which is the third edition). Seven volumes, publisher's ornate blind-stamped brown morocco, the spine lettered in gilt in compartments two and four. 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (27 x 17 cm); with 500 hand-colored lithographed plates under tissue guards by J.T. Bowen after drawings by Audubon, half-titles not present. The spines lightly faded and rubbed, nicked and with some scratches, slight lean to most volumes, many plates and text leaves loosening in volumes I and a few in other volumes, rather heavily foxed and toned throughout, short marginal tear to plate 195. Name in ink of W. J. Herbert at the front of all volumes, which has offset in some volumes to the initial plate; Jerian Hartley (ownership inscription in pencil in volume 2).
"An early republication of the octavo edition of Audubon, differing in various particulars from the original octavo of 1840-44 in title-pages and in plates. It is the same text, reset, without the appended lists of new subscribers. The plates, however, are distinctly different in one way or another. A universal change appears to be in the inscriptions which are in distinctly larger type. The plain backgrounds of the original octavo are replaced by tinted ones; those which were tinted are altered in tone or some minor detail. Many of the elaborate scenic backgrounds of the original folio, which were modified or eliminated in the first octavo, have been replaced and in some cases the size of the figures has been altered in consequence." (Ayer/Zimmer, p. 23). Anker p. 19; Ayer/Zimmer p. 23; See Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 40.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered 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.
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