Distinguished ecologist’s library featured Nov. 29 at Quinn’s Rare Books auction

Five-volume set of ‘The Christmas Books’ by Charles Dickens (1844-1848), handsomely bound in modern ¾ red Morocco gilt over marbled boards, estimated at $1,200-$1,600. Image courtesy of Quinn’s Auction Galleries
Five-volume set of ‘The Christmas Books’ by Charles Dickens (1844-1848), handsomely bound in modern ¾ red Morocco gilt over marbled boards, estimated at $1,200-$1,600. Image courtesy of Quinn’s Auction Galleries

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – On Tuesday, November 29, Northern Virginia’s Quinn’s Auction Galleries will present a Rare Books, Prints and Autographs auction loaded with more than 450 lots of rare books, antique maps and Americana. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers. The auction will begin at noon Eastern time.

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Rarities in Doyle’s Oct. 13 auction aim for top shelves of your library

Georges Rouault, ‘Cirque de l’etoile filante,’ estimated at $15,000-$25,000. Image courtesy of Doyle and LiveAuctioneers
Georges Rouault, ‘Cirque de l’etoile filante,’ estimated at $15,000-$25,000. Image courtesy of Doyle and LiveAuctioneers

Georges Rouault, ‘Cirque de l’etoile filante,’ estimated at $15,000-$25,000. Image courtesy of Doyle and LiveAuctioneers

NEW YORK – Doyle will hold an auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on Thursday, October 13 at 10 am Eastern time. The sale will showcase a wide variety of Americana, antiquarian books, first editions, maps and signed items in all fields. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Quinn’s to auction 300+ lots of rare and signed books, maps & prints, July 8

‘Just Friends and Brave Enemies,’ Harper & Row, 1962, by Robert F. Kennedy and inscribed by the author to Senator Stuart Symington. Stated first edition, near-fine condition with dust jacket. Estimate $800-$1,200

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – On Thursday, July 8, Quinn’s Auction Galleries will host an outstanding 317-lot auction of rare and signed books, antique maps, prints and autographs, with absentee and Internet live bidding available through LiveAuctioneers. Selections include works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, Ulysses S. Grant, and Dutch engraver/cartographer Henricus Hondius II. The art category features an unpublished Frederic Dorr Steele illustration titled The Slavering Hound, which was created for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles.

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