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Auction Details
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
-Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 10am
-Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
-We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Appraisal of Your Collection
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 10am. The selection of Americana features important autograph letter from Thomas Jefferson on the arrest of Toussant Louverture and a prisoner discharge signed by Abraham Lincoln. Among the maps are a rare example of Matthew Dripps’ Map of the City of New-York, Moses Greenleaf’s Map of the State of Maine, and Joseph Bouchette’s monumental ten sheet Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada.
Literature includes a fine collection of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including a rare signed copy of his novel of the French Riviera, Tender is the Night. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mosquitoes are offered in dust jacket and a great rarity is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, one of 250 signed deluxe copies. In children’s literature, signed first limited editions in dust jacket of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and House at Pooh Corner are included as is an inscribed 1869 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Fine printing includes the magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner and early books include Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum.
-Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
-We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Appraisal of Your Collection
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 10am. The selection of Americana features important autograph letter from Thomas Jefferson on the arrest of Toussant Louverture and a prisoner discharge signed by Abraham Lincoln. Among the maps are a rare example of Matthew Dripps’ Map of the City of New-York, Moses Greenleaf’s Map of the State of Maine, and Joseph Bouchette’s monumental ten sheet Topographical map of the Province of Lower Canada.
Literature includes a fine collection of books by F. Scott Fitzgerald, including a rare signed copy of his novel of the French Riviera, Tender is the Night. William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury and Mosquitoes are offered in dust jacket and a great rarity is Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, one of 250 signed deluxe copies. In children’s literature, signed first limited editions in dust jacket of A.A. Milne and E.H. Shepard’s Winnie-the-Pooh and House at Pooh Corner are included as is an inscribed 1869 edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Fine printing includes the magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner and early books include Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum.
Auction Curator:
Peter Costanzo
Executive Director, Books, Autographs & PhotographsLot Number: Lowest
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0002: The exceedingly rare first edition of Ben Jonson's comedy, The New InnEst. $1,200-$1,500
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0006: An elaborately carved wooden goblet reputedly from Shakespeare's mulberry treeEst. $4,000-$6,000
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0007: A collection of memorial poems for Ben Jonson, published shortly after his deathEst. $800-$1,200
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0012: A small group of books about the English theatre and its playwrightsEst. $500-$800
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0013: A Rare Wedgwood catalog printed in London for the French MarketEst. $800-$1,200
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0017: A Study on Poyntz and Grafton, two merchants involved with having the Bible printed in EnglishEst. $800-$1,200
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0020: A fine illustrated Italian sixteenth-century work on fortification and military architectureEst. $1,500-$2,500
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0021: Three sixteenth-century treatises on fortification and siege tactics.Est. $400-$600
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0022: From the library of Alexander Boswell, the father of James BoswellEst. $500-$800
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