Amsterdam — Maps show the knowledge of the geography of a place at a given time, and Henricus Hondius’ America noviter delineata (1631) displays an unusual East Coast of North America, packed full of place names, including Chesdpiooc (Chesapeake), Sanawanook, Hatoraske (Hatteras); Charlefort, Cap de S. Roman, etc. The Great Lakes are not yet shown, nor does Long Island appear.

This beautiful and popular map of the Americas was emulated by numerous cartographers and went through various editions. Originally issued by Jodocus Hondius II in 1618 with carte-a-figures borders, it was derived from two earlier maps by Blaeu. North America retains the peninsular California and the East Coast is beginning to take shape, although it still lacks detail in the mid-Atlantic region. In the Southwest, the famous seven cities of Cibola appear on the banks of a large lake. In South America, there is a large inland sea on the equator and two engraved scenes -- one detailing a cannibalistic feast. Two stylized insets of the polar regions are enclosed in strapwork cartouches; the North Pole depicts Frobisher's theory of the Northwest Passage and the South Pole shows the long-held notion of the mythical southern continent. The map is richly ornamented with a strapwork title cartouche, fleets of ships and sea monsters.

Shortly after Jodocus Hondius' death in 1629 the plate passed into the hands of his brother, Henricus. The borders were removed to facilitate the smaller atlas. This is the third state with the imprint of Henrico Hondius and a date of 1631.

Marc Harrison, category manager Books, Manuscripts & Cartography at Catawiki: “One of The fascinations of maps, is our ability to see the development of knowledge over time. This beautiful map shows how knowledge of America grew in the early 17th century.”

The auction will be online starting Friday 21 August 2020 at 10:00 UTC | closing Friday 28 August 2020 at 18:01 UTC and will be visible at this link.

Other cartography sale highlights include:

-A very nice Spanish armillary sphere (pictured above). With a diameter of 20cm an height of 32cm, this would sit nicely on the desk of anyone who dreams of the planets. Paluzie manufactured these from 1885 to 1935, but this copy is a fairly early “model A” issued around the turn of the century. In excellent condition, it retains its original paper labels. https://www.catawiki.com/l/39616203

-A very nice copy of Klodt’s scarce Sterrenhimmel. This large map of the planets is over 1 metre tall by 1 metre wide. In excellent condition, it will be an unusual find for any collector of celestial objects. The chart rotates, allowing the observer to see the stars as the cross the skies. https://www.catawiki.com/l/39616035

Amsterdam — The Dutch have always been known for beautiful flowers, and particularly for their tulips. Indeed, the Tulip Craze is often cited alongside the South Sea Bubble as one of the more interesting economic collapses of the modern age. This wonderful book contains 52 (of 53 - it appears that one was never bound in) beautiful engraved and professionally coloured illustrations of Dutch flowers. Naturally these include Tulips!

With clean, bright engravings, and held in a full leather binding, this is an opportunity to bid on one of the most beautiful books of its type.

H.L. Myling was one of the finest Dutch engravers. He often engraved portraits and city views. This Dutch Flower work is one of the best examples of his work.  

P.T. van Brussel (Paul Theodor) was one of the finest flower painters of his age. This was one of his last, and best, works, as he died a year later.

Marc Harrison, category manager Books, Manuscripts & Cartography at Catawiki: “The Tulips of Holland are one of the most instantly recognizable national symbols of the Dutch, and we are very pleased to offer this copy of a highly important and collectable work. The height of Dutch flower painting. “

The auction is visible be online from now until Friday 21st August 2020 at 20:00 CET and will be visible at the following link: https://www.catawiki.com/l/39787219

Boston – An alluring treasure trove awaits seasoned collectors as well as new visitors at the 44th annual Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair which will be held virtually November 12-14, 2020. The event will showcase the finest in rare and valuable books, illuminated manuscripts, autographs, ephemera, political and historic documents, maps, atlases, photographs, fine and decorative prints, and much more.
 
Collectors will be able to virtually peruse the booths of every exhibitor in the Fair, or quickly visit their favorite dealers, hosted in an easy-to-navigate online version of the traditional book fair booth. A search feature will allow visitors to quickly browse by category, dealer, keyword, with each item featuring a brief description, condition, and price; with the ability to contact dealers directly to learn more about the items for sale. Each exhibitor will showcase up to 50 of their most interesting and significant pieces, creating a remarkable and diverse selection of items from around the world.  Fresh items will be available throughout the weekend as dealers will be continually restocking their virtual booths.
 
With the Fair moving online, everyone around the globe can attend the Boston Book Fair, one of the oldest and most respected antiquarian book shows in the U.S.!
 
The 2020 Boston Book Fair will launch with a Patron Preview on Friday, November 12, 11AM-7PM, and will require purchase of a ticket for $50.00.  It will be an exclusive opportunity to get a first look at items for sale. The Fair opens, free to the public, at 11AM on November 13 and will run 24 hours a day online at www.abaa.org/vbf until November 14 at 7PM.  For more information and tickets for the Patron Preview visit www.abaa.org/vbf.

Whether just browsing or buying, the Fair offers something for every taste and budget—books on art, politics, travel, gastronomy, and science to sport, natural history, literature, fashion, music, and children’s books—all appealing to a range of bibliophiles and browsers.  From the historic and academic, to the religious and spiritual, from the exotic to everyday—the Fair has offerings in every conceivable genre and subject.  Attendees will have the unique chance to view rare and historic museum-quality items, offered by some of the most prestigious participants in the trade.
 
Special events at this year’s fair will include a series of webinars that will be announced in early fall.  For more information about programming at the Fair, visit bostonbookfair.com.
 
In recent years, novice and younger collectors have been increasingly captivated with unique offerings at accessible price points. For attendees wanting to start a collection without breaking the bank, there will be dealers offering “Discovery” items priced at $100 or less, so there is something for everyone.

The Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair is sponsored by the New England Chapter of the Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America. Exhibitor registration opens August 20 at https://www.biblio.com/app/booksellers/join_book_fair, but only ABAA members and ILAB members are eligible.

San Marino, CA — As part of its Centennial Celebration, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens has announced the creation of a one-year fellowship for the study of Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006), the first science fiction writer to receive a MacArthur “genius” Fellowship and the first African American woman to win widespread recognition writing in that genre. The seed funding for this initial year paves the way for possible longer-term endowment that would support the fellowship in perpetuity.

In tandem with the announcement of the fellowship, The Huntington will host another of its Centennial events, part of the ongoing President’s Series activities centered around Butler’s papers, “Inspired by Octavia E. Butler.” The Aug. 26 event features Los Angeles-based writer Lynell George, author of the forthcoming book A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky: The World of Octavia E. Butler (Angel City Press, 2020), in conversation with William Deverell, professor of history at the University of Southern California and director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Karla Nielsen, The Huntington’s curator of literary collections. George, a 2017–18 Alan Jutzi Fellow at The Huntington, will discuss how she came to know and identify with Butler, who grew up near where George lives in Pasadena, through her work in Butler’s archive. The virtual event will take place on Aug. 26 from 4–5 p.m. (Reserve online.)

The Huntington is the repository of Butler’s literary archive.

The Octavia E. Butler Fellowship

“The Huntington is delighted to offer a research grant that will provide support for a scholar who wishes to spend a full academic year working with Butler’s literary archive and reflecting on and writing about its profound implications,” said Steve Hindle, The Huntington’s W.M. Keck Foundation Director of Research. “This initiative is particularly timely because it is designed to promote critical engagement with the published work and personal reflections of a writer who was committed to the reconstruction of the experience of the disenfranchised not only in the real, historical past but also in imaginary pasts and futures.” Applicants for the fellowship may be working from a variety of disciplinary perspectives on the ideas and issues explored by Butler in her published works, ranging from speculative fiction and Afrofuturism to environmental studies and biotechnology.

“In the seven years since it has been open to researchers, Butler’s archive has become the most frequently requested collection in our reading room, testament to intense scholarly interest in the collection,” Nielsen noted.
(For information about applying for the fellowship.)

The President’s Series: Inspired by Octavia E. Butler

“While the Butler Fellowship focuses expressly on the scholarly use of her capacious archives, our Centennial events on Butler present her work in the context of the blueprint and inspiration it has become—for writers and other artists, students, educators, and activists,” says Karen R. Lawrence, Huntington President and the host of the series. Lawrence herself taught Butler as a professor of 20th-century literature at the University of Utah and the University of California, Irvine.

In January 2020, in association with UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, the President’s Series sponsored “Octavia E. Butler’s Parables: A Music Talk with Toshi Reagon,” the acclaimed composer and lyricist, in The Huntington’s Rothenberg Hall. In March 2020, the President’s Series presented Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the No. 1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation, discussing their new graphic novel adaptation of Butler's Parable of the Sower. Other public events planned for the series before the pandemic are currently under revision.

Octavia E. Butler

Octavia E. Butler, a Pasadena native, began writing at the age of 10 and turned to science fiction by the time she was 12. She often cited the 1954 movie Devil Girl from Mars as her inspiration: “I thought, I can write a better story than that.” Despite being told repeatedly by family and friends that writing science fiction was not a career for a Black person, Butler pursued creative writing courses at Pasadena City College and there won a student short story writing contest.

In 1969, Butler attended a screenwriting workshop where she caught the attention of Harlan Ellison, a prolific and influential author of speculative fiction. Ellison encouraged Butler to attend the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop in Pennsylvania, where she made lifelong connections and sold two stories.

For the next five years, Butler wrote and supported herself with menial jobs but did not sell any of her writing. Finally, in 1976, Doubleday published Butler’s first novel, Patternmaster. Her best-known work, Kindred, appeared in 1979. A standard in many high school and college curricula, the novel follows a Black woman who travels back in time to a plantation in antebellum Maryland to confront her history.

In 1993, Butler published Parable of the Sower, a near-future dystopian novel that continues to resonate with contemporary readers. The sequel, Parable of the Talents, followed in 1998. Butler moved to Washington state in 2000 and died in 2006 after a fall outside her home. She was 58 years old. In all, Butler published 12 novels and one volume of short works, earning two Hugo and two Nebula awards along the way. Her pioneering work explored themes of identity, community, power, climate, sexuality, and class, as well as race.

After Butler’s death, The Huntington became the recipient of her papers, which include extensive drafts, notes, and research materials for her novels, short stories, and essays, as well as correspondence and ephemera from throughout her life. In all, the rich trove of materials now fills 386 boxes.

In 2017, The Huntington presented “Octavia E. Butler: Telling My Stories,” an exhibition that examined the life and work of the author through some 100 selected objects from the archive, revealing the writer’s early years and influences and highlighting specific themes that repeatedly commanded her attention.

The Huntington’s Centennial Celebration is made possible by the generous support of Avery and Andrew Barth, Terri and Jerry Kohl, and Lisa and Tim Sloan.

London — An historically important collection of antiquarian cookery books and manuscripts assembled by hotelier and television presenter, Ruth Watson was 100% sold at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts sale in London on Wednesday 19 August. The collection as a whole made £152,260, nearly three times its lower estimate.
 
Among the highlights were:

• A collection of handwritten culinary and medicinal recipes, including Spanish Natas, dated 1658 and inscribed Sarah Turner. Sold for £15,063 (estimate: £3,000-4,000).
• A handwritten recipe and household book kept by the Croft family of Stillington Hall, North Yorkshire, from the mid-18th to the mid-19th centuries written in several hands, including French and Indian recipes. The Crofts were part of the famous wine-shipping dynasty and friends of the novelist Laurence Sterne, who may well have dined off some of the dishes in the book. Sold for £11,938 (estimate: £2,000-3,000).
• A Book of culinary receipts written in several late seventeenth and eighteenth century hands, many with attractive calligraphic headings, including recipes for "Marmalade of Rasberrys or Currants" and a set of menus and decorative table plans suggesting how to serve the dishes à la française. Sold for £12,563 (estimate: £2,000-3,000).

Bonhams senior book specialist Simon Roberts said, “This was a wonderful collection full of good and rare things and I am not surprised that collectors were so eager to acquire examples of books that rarely come onto the market. The unique manuscripts, of course, are unlikely to appear at auction again for many years.”

Other highlights of the sale included:

• Klänge, by Wassily Kandinsky.  A first edition of this 1913 work,  number 64 of 300 copies signed by the artist. Sold for £37,563.
• Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph, by T. E Lawrence.  A privately printed edition, inscribed by the author. Sold for £35,063.
• A series of letters from the Welsh poet and painter David Jones to Valerie Wynne-Williams. Sold for £35,063

The sale made £848,000 with 91% sold by lot and 75% by value.

London — The Welsh painter and poet David Jones rarely found life easy. As he wrote to his great friend Valerie Wynne-Williams, ‘When people say they paint for 'pleasure' I am dumbfounded. It's always a vast struggle for me. Perhaps I'm awfully bad at it really – but there's nothing else I can do at all, nothing..." The extract is taken from an extensive series of love letters written by Jones to Wynne-Williams between 1959-1974 to be offered at Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale in London on Wednesday 19 August. The collection is estimated at £30,000-50,000.
 
Throughout his life, David Jones had several romantic, strictly platonic, relationships with woman, but his relationship with Valerie Wynne-Williams seems to have been the most intense. They met in 1959 when Valerie was 25 and David Jones in his mid-sixties. Their initial bond was a shared love of the Welsh language – Wynne-Williams was a fluent Welsh speaker and an active supporter of Plaid Cymru – but the relationship soon broadened. They corresponded until the artist’s death in 1974.
 
Jones always maintained that the demands of his artistic life and temperament were incompatible with marriage but that did not prevent him from expressing his strong physical attraction to Valerie; the letters are peppered with allusions to his feelings. In April 1959, shortly after they met and not long before Valerie’s marriage, Jones wrote “...You did make me so happy...I do hope we meet again very, very, soon. I do wish that today was yesterday again... with very, very, much love.”
 
As the friendship matured over the years, Jones increasingly confided in his correspondent sharing his innermost thought on subjects ranging from his creative life  - “It's a strange business, this creativity – you can't command it, - it's like love – y mae y gwynt yu chwythu lle y mynno [the wind blows where it pleases]..."; to  his continuing battle with depression which left him in a "...low, unreasonable, irritable, depressed trough and very muddled...". and reflections on his fellow painters and poets – such as T.S. Eliot I'm deeply attached to him... He's a really great man and a good one…”
 
These are not only love letters to Valerie Wynne-Williams, however, they are also love letters to Welsh culture and language. Throughout the correspondence Jones lapses into Welsh (which he asks Valerie to correct) and digresses into long discourses on Welsh history and legend and the etymology of the language. He laments the decline of spoken Welsh, finding his own inability to master the language a constant preoccupation and disappointment, lamenting "...You've no idea what it means to me – it is a disaster & prevents me fulfilling so much of my heart's desire. I feel an alien in ways I can't explain...".
 
Many of the letters are beautifully illustrated with, for example, delicate floral vignettes adorning Valerie’s name, a cat curled-up in an armchair, the horses in the field below his house, and a herd of pigs ("...much harder to draw than the horses or cats... sheep are also jolly hard..."), The letters also contain many examples of the inscriptions Jones turned to later in life. He enjoyed the placing of the letters and the use of Welsh, Latin or Greek texts which allowed the piece to be seen rather than read. A particularly fine example of thirteen lines included within a letter of December 1959 in biro and coloured inks begins 'Gwedia Dros Cymru' and is written to commemorate the anniversary of the death of the last Welsh-born Prince of Wales, a date he often commemorates with Valerie.
 
Bonhams Head of Books and Manuscripts Matthew Haley said: “This wonderful and very entertaining collection of David Jones’s letters reveals – sometimes painfully – the deeply-held emotions which were such driving forces in his life and art”.

David Jones (1895-1974) was a Welsh painter and poet whose work often reflects his strong Christian beliefs. Considered to be one of the first British modernist poets, he was greatly admired by T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden.
 
Valerie Wynne-Williams had a successful career as a radio and television broadcaster, model and actress. An ardent Welsh Nationalist, she was instrumental in promoting the establishment of a Welsh-language TV channel in Wales and stood unsuccessfully as the Plaid Cymru candidate for Barry in the February and October 1974 General Elections.
 
Link to online catalogue: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/26014/

An extraordinarily rare Lou Gehrig handwritten letter is among Important Baseball Autographs up for bid in Boston-based RR Auction Sports auction closing August 20. 

Sought-after one-page letter on Andrew Jackson Hotel letterhead, dated April 6, 1936. Letter to his accountant Theodore Witkin, in full: "Enclosed please find another letter, which is self explanatory. I just dropped Mr. Palmer a letter advising him that I felt quite sure this matter had been adjusted by you. Many thanks again, and hope you are having a little leisure now."  

Rarely made available to the public market, handwritten letters from Gehrig are virtually nonexistent, with this neatly penned example—written a week before Gehrig would embark on his final MVP-winning season—representing the first our company has ever offered. (Estimate: $15,000+)

Among other featured lots is a Babe Ruth single-signed Baseball from 1927. The gorgeous official Spalding No. 6 'Star' baseball signed in fountain pen on the sweet spot, "'Babe' Ruth." This is a particularly desirable example, as the quotation marks around his first name date it to about 1927, as he stopped signing in that manner in subsequent years. Single-signed Ruth baseballs stand among the most sought-after pieces of all sports memorabilia, and this is a superior example. (Estimate: $10,000+)

Christy Mathewson Signed Book. The desirable signed book: Won in the Ninth. First edition. NY: R. J. Bodmer Company, 1910. Hardcover with attractive custom slipcase, 298 pages. Signed on a presentation copy bookplate affixed to the front pastedown in fountain pen by Christy Mathewson; the bookplate, No. 404, bears a typed inscription to "Mr. F. W. Harris." A superb book autographed by the dominant New York Giants pitcher, widely regarded as the greatest of his generation. (Estimate: $7,500+)

Hank Aaron's contract for the year he broke Babe Ruth's record. Contract, signed “Henry L. Aaron,” five pages on three adjoining sheets, December 19, 1973. National League uniform player's contract in which Hank Aaron agrees to render "skilled services as a baseball player during the year 1974" for the Atlanta Braves, for a salary of $220,000. Signed at the conclusion in ink by Hank Aaron, National League President Chub Feeney, and Atlanta Braves owner William Bartholomay. Following the 1974 season, Aaron was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers, which is noted in a statement signed by Braves Executive Vice President Eddie Robinson, and in two approval stamps signed by NL President Chub Feeney and AL President Lee MacPhail. The contract also contains a "Special Covenant" addendum concerning a $300,000 loan given to Aaron and guaranteed by the ballclub.

The 1974 Major League Baseball season was hotly anticipated—and quite controversial—as Aaron began the year with 713 career home runs, trailing the legendary Babe Ruth by just one for the all-time record. Hammerin' Hank tied Ruth's record in his first swing of the season on April 4th, blasting a pitch from Reds pitcher Jack Billingham into the stands at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium. He broke the record when the Braves returned to Atlanta on April 8th, sending an Al Downing fastball into the bullpen for his famous 715th home run. Aaron would decide not to retire after the end of the season, and Atlanta traded him to the Milwaukee Brewers for Roger Alexander and Dave May. (Estimate: $10,000+)

Online bidding for the Sports Auction from RR Auction began Aug 13 and will conclude Aug 20, 2020. For more information, go to www.rrauction.com. 

New York — Swann Galleries’ summer offering of Vintage Posters on Thursday, August 27 is set to bring an assortment of material, from war propaganda to advertisements for summer destinations and sporting events, as well as a select choice of Art Nouveau and Art Deco designs by notable artists.

A strong selection of World War I and II propaganda posters is led by the iconic 1939 British World War II poster Keep Calm and Carry On, with an estimate of $12,000 to $18,000. Also among choice pieces from WWII are each of three sizes of Norman Rockwell’s 1943 Four Freedoms war bond posters, with the middle and largest sets each hand signed and inscribed by Rockwell in pen. World War I highlights include James Montgomery Flagg’s 1917 emblematic image of Uncle Sam in the recruitment poster I Want You for U.S. Army is set to cross the block at $5,000 to $7,500; Laura Brey’s Enlist / On Which Side of the Window are You?, 1917,  at $1,500 to $2,000; and H.T. Cubberley’s rare Victory Naval Aviation Show / Commercial Museum, 1919, at $2,000 to $3,000.

From the collection of Marilyn Blaisdell comes a run of Sutro Baths memorabilia that includes bathing suits rented out to visitors, as well as broadsides and trolley cards used to advertise the baths from the 1890s through the 1950s. The centerpiece of the Sutro Baths collection is a large poster of the impressive venue: the rare version with the red borders and the caption, “On the Shore of the Pacific Ocean” along the bottom ($10,000-15,000). Further summer advertisements and destinations include the 1941 sunscreen ad Bi-Oro / Anti-Solaire by Niklaus Stoecklin ($4,000-6,000); a 1929 image drawing people to Australia by Percival Albert Trompf ($7,000-10,000); La Ciotat – Plage, circa 1930, by Dabo ($1,500-2,000); and a circa 1950s ad for Bermuda ($1,200-1,800)

Sporting events feature Maxfield Parrish’s Harper’s Weekly / National Authority on Amateur Sport, 1896, showing a group of men playing a round of golf ($5,000-7,500). The Olympics are represented by two designs for the games held in Germany: Ludwig Hohlwein’s design for the 1936 winter games ($1,000-1,500) and Jacob Lawrence’s 1972 image for the summer games ($400-600). Also of note is Fritz Genkinger’s World Cup / Player Between Ball and Ground, 1974 ($500-750).

A small assortment of Art Deco posters is underscored by Charles Loupot’s striking 1949 image Lion Nior, Cirage – Crème, set to be offered at $20,000 to $30,000. Cathleen Mann’s vibrant 1938 ad Film Stars Use Shell / You Can Be Sure of Shell stands out among the grouping, and is available at $1,500 to $2,000. Also of note are designs by Jean Dupas and A. M.  Cassandre.

Over 45 beautiful and important Art Nouveau posters feature in the sale, including works by masters of the genre, most notably Jules Chéret, Alphonse Mucha, and Leonetto Cappiello. Highlights from the offering include Chéret’s Grands Magasins du Louvre / Jouets Etrennes, 1891 ($2,000-3,000); Mucha’s Laurel & Ivy, two 1901 decorative panels ($6,000-9,000); and Cappiello’s Les Parfums de J. Daver Paris, 1903 ($3,000-4,000). Several rare and seldom-seen Italian Liberty Style posters also feature, including Leonard Bistolfi’s Première Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Modernes, 1902 ($4,000-6,000).

Limited previewing (by appointment only) will be available from August 24 through August 27, to be scheduled directly with the specialist in advance and conforming to strict safety guidelines. Swann Galleries staff will prepare condition reports and provide additional photographs of material on request. Advance order bids can be placed with the specialist for the sale or on Swann’s website, and phone bidding will be available. Live online bidding platforms will be the Swann Galleries App, Invaluable, and Live Auctioneers. The complete catalogue and bidding information is available at www.swanngalleries.com and on the Swann Galleries App.

Additional highlights can be found here.

Boston — A group of four Elektra Records signed promotional photos of The Doors sold for $18,262, according to Boston-based RR Auction.

The vintage matte-finish photographs individually signed in black felt tip, "J. Morrison," "John Densmore," "Robby," and “Ray.”

This is the only set of these entire band signed Elektra Records promo photos that RR Auction has ever offered, with the elusive and much sought after Morrison autograph.

"Because of Morrison's brief and meteoric career, he just wasn't available to sign material that we typically see from other 1960's icons," said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction.

Highlights from the sale include, but are not limited by:

George Washington handwritten letter, penned in the period between the end of Revolutionary War and taking office as president sold
for $28,016.

Sun Yat-sen rare matte-finish signed oval portrait of the Chinese leader sold for $20,660.

Jack Swigert signed NASA lithograph in his white space suit sold for $14,742.

Nikola Tesla bold ink signature sold for $7,130.

Iwo Jima Marine Corps flag raising photo signed by all three Iwo Jima survivors sold for $7,205.

Diego Rivera original 1933 sketch from the Mexican artist sold for $6,055.

The Fine Autographs and Artifacts sale from RR Auction began on July 24 and concluded on August 12. For more information, go to www.rrauction.com.

Spencer W Stuart, Collections Advisor, is pleased to announce an expanded, three-part format of Lifecycles: Collecting & Collections. These one-hour webinars will be expanding on his introductory sessions delivered in April and June of this year, taking a deeper dive into the three distinct phases of collecting outlined in his Lifecycles program. With more case studies and methodologies, this Series will offer a multi-perspectival approach to building collections of fine art and rare print material.

Dates: Thursday, October 1 , 8 , 15 - 2PM [EDT]

Register through EventBrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lifecycles-collecting-collections-3-sessions-tickets-115930532343

Lifecycles covers the complete timeline of a collector and the lifecycle of their collections. It discusses the initial attractions that move one to collect through to the steps one must take to ensure a collection's legacy beyond one's very personal time and place.

More on the Lifecycles program at: http://spencerwstuart.ca/lifecycles/

What Lifecycles: Collecting & Collections attendees are saying:

"For anyone who deals with collections or their collectors I would strongly recommend Spencer Stuart’s: “Lifecycles: Collecting & Collections”. I found this webinar to be very informative concerning the nature of this activity. In over 20 years, in my position as an acquisition archivist, I have had dealings many collectors and the items they collect but Spencer’s presentation made me think about this in an entirely new way and inform my own work.” - Brian Hubner, Acquisition and Access Archivist, University of Manitoba

"I attended Spencer’s LIFECYCLES seminar, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I found his approach insightful and practical, and his presentation engaging. Spencer was able to put a framework around the process and psyche of collecting, and to articulate this in the historical context of several major collectors and collections. His approach was a great balance between the theoretical and the pragmatic. I’m very glad to have attended and really appreciated Spencer’s follow-up to my questions both during the session and afterwards." - Nancy Boehm, Book Collector

“Lifecycles: Collecting & Collections helped me understand and focus my collecting habits by clarifying the approaches to collecting and providing practical strategies for moving forward. Mr. Stuart’s presentation style is clear, well-researched, and engaging; I particularly appreciated the generosity and expertise with which he addressed questions from his audience. I recommend this seminar to new collectors or to anyone interested in gaining a better sense of how to organize, advance, and share their collections." - Virginia-based book collector

About Spencer W Stuart, Collections Advisor
Spencer provides advisory services to collections both private and institutional, helping to facilitate collection development, cataloguing and deaccession strategies. His specialities include rare books, prints and photography. For more information go to spencerwstuart.ca.

Spencer holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London, England (recipient of the Director’s Award). Upon graduation he took a position with Bonhams Auctioneers where he worked closely with the North American Rare Books and Manuscripts department in Toronto and New York.

He is also an alumnus of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminars and the Rare Book School (University of Virginia).

In concert with his advising, Spencer presents a monthly segment on Sheryl MacKay's CBC Radio program North by Northwest as a Book Historian: http://spencerwstuart.ca/media/