[Rarebooks] AntiquarianAuctions.com 3rd sale in the US is now 'live'

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 AntiquarianAuctions.com  3rd sale in the US, under the expert guidance of Adam Langlands, is now open for bidding from 2.30pm EST on 13th to 2.30pm EST on the 20th August. The sale provides a spectacular and wide-ranging voyage for the imagination, but is particularly strong in original artwork from the 18th through to the 21st century. In addition there is a fascinating selection of books, manuscripts, typescripts, and a few photographs. 
  
 For more details visit our website (https://antiquarianauctions.com/auction?auction_type=us-auction) or contact Adam Langlands (adamlanglands at gmail.com).
  
 Some highlights:
  
 lot 15 a WWI German bronze medallion satirizing Sir Winston S. Churchill;
  
 lots 7-14 a spectacular grouping of typescripts of articles that Churchill and his son Randolph, wrote in the 1930s, most with corrections by the Great Statesman himself;
  
 lot 250 Bryan Organ’s original portrait of Sir Roy Strong;
  
 lots 104-107 a group of original pen and ink designs by Italian fashion designer Roberto Capucci;
  
 lot 257 Marc Chagall’s 1956 Illustrations for the Bible;
  
 lots 71-83, 86-92, 94 feature the work of award-winning artist and illustrator Robert Andrew Parker; lots 207-214 showcase the poster work of Austin punk-era legend Rick Turner.
  
 Sports books, photographs and ephemera:
 lot 34 Badminton Library’s book on Tennis, with manuscript revisions by the author, who was also one of the men who wrote the rules of Lawn Tennis;
  
 lots 21 and 115 two golfing books;  lot  54 baseball; lot 33 real tennis;  lot 36 ice-skating;  lot 35 Eton ‘fives’; lots 55, 56, 57. 58, 60, 62-66, 68, 69: fly-fishing.
  
 Diaries and journals :
  
 lot 252 printed account of a 1902-03 voyage in a 72-foot yacht from England to India (the author’s own copy with his manuscript notes and a record of costs);
  
 lot 155 Mary A. Hodgson’s manuscript account of her journey across the Great Plains;
  
 lot 32 a family archive mostly about the early days in Colorado;
  
 lot70 a typescript of a raft journey through the Grand Canyon in the 1970s
  
 lot 111 an 1880’s manuscript account of a trip starting with Pike’s Peak and ending in New York, via California, Mexico and Cuba;
  
 lot 19 a journal of European Grand Tour on a budget in the 1820s.
  
 Some of the other categories represented: modern first editions; literature; fine bindings; miniature books, children’s books; history; politics (radical and otherwise); Americana; Judaica; royalty….  In short, apart Incunabula, this sale probably includes something for everyone.
  
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