Event Calendar

Vintage Posters

Potter & Potter is excited to begin the year with an expansive vintage poster auction consisting of hundreds of travel, war and propaganda, theatrical, advertising, concert, winter sports, and pictorial map posters. The sale includes a trove of early advertising and World War I posters from the company archives of the Western Litho. Co. of Los Angeles, and works by notable designers and masters of the form such as Hohlwein, Cappiello, Steinlen, David Klein, James Montgomery Flagg, Jo Mora, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Norman Rockwell, Austin Cooper, and Paul George Lawler.

10am

Potter & Potter Auctions
5001 W. Belmont Avenue

Chicago, IL 

The Holbrook T. Mitchell Collection of Books & Manuscripts

From the estate of a Northern California collector, the auction features 85 lots of antique or vintage written works in various languages from the 14th-20th centuries. Themes include art, antiquities, history, geography, travel and foreign countries, literature, poems, commentaries, and more. Highlights include an illuminated 19th-century Persian Qu’ran (Koran) in Arabic; a book from the library of Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, the second wife of Napoleon; Cook's Voyages Around the World by G. W. Anderson, 1781; 11 Egyptian papyrus fragments, likely all from a single leaf; and a first edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from 1885.

Of particular note in this auction is the Book of Hours (Horae), an illuminated manuscript in Latin from the 15th-16th centuries. Popular in the Middle Ages and produced initially by scribes in monasteries, books of hours were created to assist the daily devotions of Christian monks, nuns, and laymen. They contained sets of prayers, usually in Latin, which were to be recited during the eight canonical hours. These books, each unique, were often designed with great visual appeal, with leading artists paid by wealthy patrons to create opulent illustrations that encouraged reflection and piety.

10:30am - 1pm

Turner Auctions & Appraisals
461 Littlefield Avenue

South San Francisco, CA

January 2022 Auction

1pm

Arader Galleries
1016 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair
Sale #683

10am

VIEWINGS:
Mon 31 Jan - 10am-4pm
Tues 1 Feb - 10am-4pm
Day of sale by appointment

33 Broughton Place

Edinburgh, UK

Comic Books: Pre-Code & International Horror, Golden, Silver & Bronze Age, and Undergrounds
Sale #3022

11am

PBA Galleries
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA