Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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A leaf from Richard II from each of the first four folios
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. A Leaf from each of The Four Folios. The First Folio 1623, The Second Folio 1632, The Third Folio 1664, The Fourth Folio 1685 [cover title] [N.p.]: JSW, 1979. Comprising pp. 39–40 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the First Folio of 1623; pp. 39–40 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Second Folio of 1623; pp. 343–44 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Third Folio of 1623; and pp. 35–36 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Fourth Folio of 1685. Housed in the white card folder printed in red and black on the front, the publisher's imprint at the foot, no text issued. Four folio leaves (measuring approximately 12.625 x 8.125 inches; 12.9375 x 8.625; 12.0625 x 8.5; and 13.0625 x 8.4375 inches, respectively). Evidence along the gutter margin of the leaves of having once been bound. The first folio leaf with a restoration in the outer margin affecting the line border and with loss of a portion of the line above.
A scarce Shakespeare leaf book, unusual in that all four leaves carry substantially the same text from Act IV, scene I, the first three folios beginning with Fitzwilliam's speech How fondly do'st thou spurre a forward Horse?; the last leaf, which distributes the text differently, begins later in the scene, but much of the text remains identical. This affords an interesting opportunity to compare the physical make-up of all the folios across the four editions.
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SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. A Leaf from each of The Four Folios. The First Folio 1623, The Second Folio 1632, The Third Folio 1664, The Fourth Folio 1685 [cover title] [N.p.]: JSW, 1979. Comprising pp. 39–40 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the First Folio of 1623; pp. 39–40 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Second Folio of 1623; pp. 343–44 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Third Folio of 1623; and pp. 35–36 from The Life and Death of Richard the Second from the Fourth Folio of 1685. Housed in the white card folder printed in red and black on the front, the publisher's imprint at the foot, no text issued. Four folio leaves (measuring approximately 12.625 x 8.125 inches; 12.9375 x 8.625; 12.0625 x 8.5; and 13.0625 x 8.4375 inches, respectively). Evidence along the gutter margin of the leaves of having once been bound. The first folio leaf with a restoration in the outer margin affecting the line border and with loss of a portion of the line above.
A scarce Shakespeare leaf book, unusual in that all four leaves carry substantially the same text from Act IV, scene I, the first three folios beginning with Fitzwilliam's speech How fondly do'st thou spurre a forward Horse?; the last leaf, which distributes the text differently, begins later in the scene, but much of the text remains identical. This affords an interesting opportunity to compare the physical make-up of all the folios across the four editions.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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