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Elite Americana, Travel & Exploration, Natural History, and Cartography
Sale #841

Fifty-five choice lots representing collecting highlights such as an original letter from Benjamin Franklin, complete plate books from Audubon, Catlin, and J.D. Hooker, and an important document issued by the First Continental Congress of 1774. Several of these lots come from important collections, including those of William Henry Crocker, as well as of Warren Heckrotte and Maragret Gee. The sale also features rare maps, manuscript and ephemeral material, and more.

11am

PBA Galleries
605 Addison Street

Berkeley, CA

Auction 124

The auction features several illustrated books, including Lodewyk Alberti’s "De Kaffers aan de Zuidkust van Afrika" (1810) – the first ethnographic monograph on southern Africa, complete with four exquisite hand-coloured plates. Also included are Thomas Baines’ "The Victoria Falls Zambesi River" (1865) and Thomas Bowler’s "Pictorial Album of Cape Town", both containing double-tinted lithographic plates depicting the falls and early colonial Cape scenes.

The auction also offers significant travel narratives, such as William Ten Rhyne’s "Schediasma de Promontorio Bonae Spei" (1686) – one of the earliest descriptions of the Cape and its people. Abraham Bógaert’s "Historische Reizen door d'Oostersche Deelen van Asia" provides a detailed account of 18th-century Asia, while Captain Daniel Beeckman’s "A Voyage to and from the Island of Borneo" recounts a pepper-trading expedition to the East Indies.

A notable inclusion is a rare, self-published work by Dr. J.N. Haldeman, Elon Musk’s grandfather. His 1960 Cold War-era book, "The International Conspiracy to Establish a World Dictatorship and the Menace to South Africa", appears alongside "Lost City of the Kalahari". Co-authored with Fay Goldie, the latter documents modern expeditions into the Kalahari Desert in search of Farini’s lost city, with Haldeman providing the first account.

16:30pm GMT

AntiquarianAuctions.com
PO Box 186

Constantia, South Africa

Western Manuscripts and Miniatures
Sale #6388

Freeman's | Hindman presents its second sale of Western Manuscripts, again alongside Senior Consultant, Dr. Sandra Hindman, who curated the selection and prepared the catalogue. Highlights among the bound volumes include several attractively estimated Books of Hours associated with important artists such as Attavante di Attavante, Herman Scheere, Taddeo Crivelli, Leonardo Bellini, and the Master of the Vitae Imperatorum—the latter once owned by Victorian polymath John Ruskin (author, artist, social critic, and collector). A surprise discovery is a long-lost illuminated historiated initial from the Beaupré Antiphonal, also previously in Ruskin’s collection.

Among the leaves and cuttings are a leaf from the Ghistelles Hours, a group of finely painted Atlantic Bible fragments, and numerous Bible leaves—from the Chester Beatty Bible, the Mailhac-Faber Bible, the Josephinum Bible, the Bohun Bible, and the Hornby-Cockerell Bible, among others. Also included are a leaf from the Llangattock Breviary, leaves from the Bute-Soissons Hours, and numerous examples by or from the circle of leading French illuminators such as Jean de Haincelin, the Master of Philippa of Guelders, François Barbier, the Master of the Entries of Francis I, and the Master of the Echevinage de Rouen.

A fascinating cutting from the circle of Simon Bening—survivor of the famous Jarmon flood—is also featured, along with a lovely Renaissance volume of Petrarch’s Canzoniere. Unusual 19th-century additions include an illuminated English copy of Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale and a lavish neo-Gothic French marriage book, with borders and miniatures after Jean Bourdichon.

10am

Preview by appointment

Freeman’s | Hindman - Chicago
1550 W Carroll Avenue

Chicago, IL

Rare Books, Autographs & Maps

This eclectic summer sale brings together such wide-ranging offerings as Americana, literature, sporting books, manuscripts and early printing, travel and voyages, children's and illustrated books, fine bindings, autographs, maps and more. Certain to attract attention is a group of fascinating New York-related material from various collections and estates.

10am

Viewings by appointment

Doyle New York
175 East 87th Street

New York, NY

British & European Paintings & Watercolours, Old Master & Modern Prints & Drawings

10am

Dominic Winters Auctioneers
Mallard House,
Broadway Lane,
South Cerney

Cirencester, UK