The Black Cat Poster, First Edition Emma, Rimbaud Autograph: Auction Preview
A deluxe copy of Owen Simmons' 1903 publication The Book of Bread, featuring ten tipped-in silver bromide prints, offered at Chiswick Auctions this week.
Here are the auctions I'll be keeping an eye on this week:
At Chiswick Auctions on Monday, March 31, 473 lots of Photographica, with an 1880s album containing thirty-two albumen photographs of Rio de Janeiro sharing the top estimate of £3,000–5,000 with a group of fifty-six carbon prints made by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London between 1867 and 1878. A deluxe edition of Owen Simmons' The Book of Bread (1903) with the tipped-in silver bromide prints is estimated at £2,000–3,000.
New England Book Auctions sells 212 lots of Early Printing, Americana, Exploration & Selections from the Inventory of Periodyssey on Tuesday, April 1.
On Wednesday, April 2, Manuscrits & Autographes – Collection d'un Amateur at ALDE, in 352 lots. A manuscript receipt written by Arthur Rimbaud during his time as a coffee trader in Harar, Ethiopia is expected to realize €20,000–25,000, while an 1846 Gustave Flaubert letter to Louise Colet is estimated at €8,000–10,000.
At Artcurial on Wednesday, Livres, Manuscrits & Gravures Anciennes, in 172 lots. A mid-fifteenth-century manuscript book of hours leads the way at €40,000–60,000, while Réaumur and Duhamel du Monceau's Description des Arts et Métiers (1761–1776) in 25 volumes is expected to sell for €12,000–15,000.
Bonhams New York sells 169 lots of Photographs on Thursday, April 3, with Edward Weston's "Bertha Wardell, Glendale (Legs of a Dancer)" and László Moholy-Nagy's "Untitled (Photogram)" sharing the top estimate at $70,000–100,000.
At Sotheby's New York on Thursday, "There Are Such Things:" 20th Century Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy on Screen, in 62 lots. A model E.T. used in the famed "closet scene" is expected to sell for $600,000–900,000. One of four known copies of the "Style D" poster for the 1934 film The Black Cat, starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, is estimated at $200,000–250,000, while a copy of an insert poster for the 1931 Dracula with Lugosi in the title role (one of three known copies) could sell for $200,000–300,000.
PBA Galleries sells 288 lots of Antiquarian Books on Thursday, with a first edition copy of Jane Austen's Emma leading the way at $20,000–30,000. An unnumbered copy of William Everson's unfinished fine press edition of Novum Psalterium PII XII is estimated at $8,000–12,000.
