May Auction Featured Rare Books and Gutenberg Facsimile
The May 20, 2017 sale at National Book Auctions featured a vast array of rare and desirable printed material from multiple estates and personal collections nationwide.
Notable volumes included an early edition of Charles Wilkes's "Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition" ($3,750); David Roberts's profusely illustrated six-volume set "The Holy Land" ($3,500); and the remarkable Pageant Books facsimile of the Gutenberg Bible ($2,125).
This sale was also particularly strong on antique prints and ephemera. Notable lots included Auguste Renoir's etching "Sur la Plage a Berneval;" Fremont's 1848 map of Oregon and California; a military certificate engraved by Paul Revere; a vellum manuscript dating to 1470; and an intriguing album of real photo postcards.
National Book Auctions' sales take place at the Galleries at Worth Asset Brokerage in Freeville, New York, just six miles from Cornell University, and are simulcast via Invaluable.com. Auctions are forthcoming on June 3, 2017 and June 10, 2017, with the latter being a special Curator's Catalog featuring such exceptional items as a two-volume composite atlas by Johann Baptist Homann (est. $30,000-40,000).
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