Turner Auctions + Appraisals is pleased to present Books, Art & Ephemera on Saturday, October 12, 2024. The sale from multiple consignors features a diverse selection of 260 lots. Offerings include books from the 17th-20th centuries; printed illuminated leaves; engravings from the 1700s; currency from the 18th-20th centuries; letters, certificates, shares, and other legal documents from Early America to the 20th century, including from Saybrook, Connecticut; two gold-knob canes; glass slides and negatives from the 1900s; several photo and postcard albums; photographs of Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman; international stamps and commemorative medals from the early 1900s; a signed Snoopy sketch by Charles Schulz; a wide selection of advertising, fantasy, and comic art, plus other artworks; portraits of Ruby Helder by Francis Bruguière; a stereoscope viewer with 54 cards; and much more.
The diverse selection of books includes the writings of Mark Twain, signed; 15 volumes of Nathaniel Hawthorne; Observations... Voyage Round the World by John Forster, 1778; Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini; The Pilgrim’s Progress, 1860; Advance and Retreat by J. B. Hood; Dante’s Inferno by Ecco Press signed by 20 poets; History of the Donner Party, 1879; Rituale Romanum from 1786; a complete collection of Oz books; 19th-century bibles; books by John Muir, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Montgomery, other women writers; and more. Subjects include history of California, Chicago, and New Orleans; California birds; dogs; books for children including Disney Little Books; British periodicals; Hawaii and the South Seas; fishing; Japanese tsubas; and much more.
There is also colonial/Confederate currency from the 1770s-1780s; fractional currency from the 1800s; Confederate currency from the mid-1800s; $2 bills; and a Mexican bank note from 1914.
Visual art includes a Mary Cassatt etching; Book of Hours printed leaves, Persian illuminated leaves, and leaves from the Nuremburg Chronicle; a new map of the world, circa 1705; a drawing of the Edinburgh riot sentencing; architectural engravings by D. Pronti; an assembled history/print volume from the end of Edo Period; and signatures/drawings by Xavier Martinez.
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