[Rarebooks] AntiquarianAuctions.com US#8 - Preview today, Auction runs from 1st to 3rd September

[africana at clarkes.co.za]

Bidding starts Wednesday 1st September at 2.30 EDT and ends on Friday 3rd September at the same time

In addition to rare books, manuscript material, photographs, fine art and ephemera, the sale also features
over 80 lots of book-binding tools from the Studio of Master Bookbinder (and Antiquarian Bookdealer)
Denis Gouey, of Connecticut via France and New York.

https://antiquarianauctions.com/auction?auction_type=us-auction

A selection:

1. One of 55 copies of Paul Verlaine’s ‘Dedicaces’ with an autograph poem (est: $7000-10000)

4. A late 15th-century illuminated miniature on vellum by Martino da Modena  ($3500-5000)

5. American author and shipping magnate R.B. Minturn’s copy of ‘Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official’ by W.H. Sleeman,
inscribed in Bombay on 12th March 1856 (est: $4000-6000)

11. There is also what appears to be an unusual variant issue of what is ‘widely considered the most beautiful English botanical
print’: Dr. Thornton’s ‘Tulips’ (est: $3000-5000)

12. The antiquarian book section is spearheaded by two exceptional copies of quite well-known works, the first is an
excellent copy of the first edition in English of the Koran (‘The Alcoran of Mahomet’, London: 1649. est: $4000-6000)

27. There is also a quite rare wall map (in sections) of the French Cote d’Azur, Northern Italy, Alps, Nice, Milan,
Venice: Nicolas De Fer’s ‘L'Italie, aux environs du Po’ (Paris: probably after 1720. Est: $1200-1800)

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Adam Langlands
Lakeville, CT
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