CHICAGO – On May 12, Hindman will present its spring Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana sale. The auction will showcase 368 lots of books, manuscripts, Americana, prints, and maps, including collections of Bibles, fine press books, and American prints, among them an extensive collection of Currier and Ives prints. Property from the Historic Sengen House in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York; the collection of Jack Belcher; a distinguished Midwestern collection, and LSC Communications, Inc. will be included in the sale. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
A large collection of Bibles will lead the auction. Highlighting the session is a copy of Robert Barker’s “He” Bible, the first edition of the King James Bible, published in 1611 and estimated at $8,000-$12,000. The collection features a very fine tall copy of the Rheims New Testament, the first edition of the Roman Catholic version of the New Testament in English, translated from the vulgate by Gregory Martin under the supervision of William Allen (later Cardinal Allen) and Richard Bristow. It carries an estimate of $6,000-$8,000. The session will also offer several fine incunable printings of the Bible.
The American prints session of the auction features a strong offering of Currier and Ives prints from a private collection. The collection contains many rarities, including Rocky Mountains – Emigrants Crossing the Plains, after Frances F. Palmer, estimated at $10,000-$15,000. Only one other example of this print has sold at auction in the last 60 years. Another Currier and Ives print after Palmer, Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way, from 1868, is estimated at $7,000-$10,000. Also included are prints by John James Audubon and Karl Bodmer.
The selection of fine press books includes books printed by the Allen Press, the Grabhorn Press, the Book Club of California, and several books produced by the Logan Elm Press. Also featured in the session is a remarkably extensive, and nearly complete, run of publications by The Limited Editions Club — one of the most comprehensive to appear at auction in more than 20 years. Offered as one lot, the group is estimated at $50,000-$70,000.
Other highlights include several letters, such as an autograph letter from English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to his publisher Charles Ollier, estimated at $3,000-$4,000, in which he discusses his masterpiece Prometheus Unbound. Also featured is a group of nine letters from Georgia O’Keeffe to Jean Ledoux, collectively estimated at $3,000-$4,000.
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