Jeremy Dibbell
Here's a roundup of rare book, manuscript & map auctions we'll be watching this week.
The sales I'll be watching this week feature Bill Reese's Herman Melville collection, books from the Collection of Jay I. Kislak, and more.
This week may be a short one, but it is jam-packed with interesting auctions.
1639 Henricus Hondius map showing California as an island, offered at Hindman this week.
A trio of sales I'll be watching this week features antiquarian books, photography, and a Sunkist archive.
Promotional piece for the Vincent Price films "The Fly" and "Return of the Fly," offered as part of a large archive of British film promotional material at Dominic Winter Auctioneers this week.
Titles from a lot of 53 English editions of P.G. Wodehouse books offered together at Bonhams this week as part of the David Lloyd Collection of Modern Literature.
A fairly quiet week coming up in the auction rooms, but here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:
Headed to auction this week: rare science books, a Gutenberg Bible leaf, works on paper, photography, and more.
