Posted on Monday 3 December 2007
Today Christie’s, New York, celebrates the changing logic of the books, manuscripts and ephemera auction field with a two part sale that unites the highly interesting and exceptionally valuable.
In this sale both the up and coming auction buyers and serious collectors will find material that commands their attention, and their wallets.
In the first auction session, a wide range of Printed and Manuscript Americana is offered, including: books, signed copies, books and maps, newspapers, ephemera, photographs, blueprints, drawings and colour swatches.
While the second session presents an array of material, including ancient and scientific work, fiction, firsts and signed copies, illustrated books, and correspondence. The emphasis with both sessions is on the concept “collectible.”
Some of the most exciting lots featured in the sale include "An archive of drawings and blue prints from Davenport Co., and McKim, Mead & White, 1902." These are plans and drawings for the 1902 renovation of the White House, by A. H. Davenport (est. $150,000 to $200,000).
A first edition, and important association copy of Ernest Hemingway’s In our time. This copy is inscribed by Hemmingway to the underwriter of In our time, Alma Lloyd on the front free endpaper: "It being impossible to write #30 worth of dedication So---------- with affection to Lloyd from Ernest Hemingway Paris, April, 1924" (est. $90,000 – $120,000).
A serious highlight of the sale is a very rare first edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture on the principles of classical Greek architecture, and the only architectural treatise to survive from Antiquity. It was considered the supreme authority by Italian Renaissance architects and later became the single most influential work for the development of European architecture (est. $200,000 – 300,000).
http://www.christies.com/features/dec07/1922/overview.asp
In this sale both the up and coming auction buyers and serious collectors will find material that commands their attention, and their wallets.
In the first auction session, a wide range of Printed and Manuscript Americana is offered, including: books, signed copies, books and maps, newspapers, ephemera, photographs, blueprints, drawings and colour swatches.
While the second session presents an array of material, including ancient and scientific work, fiction, firsts and signed copies, illustrated books, and correspondence. The emphasis with both sessions is on the concept “collectible.”
Some of the most exciting lots featured in the sale include "An archive of drawings and blue prints from Davenport Co., and McKim, Mead & White, 1902." These are plans and drawings for the 1902 renovation of the White House, by A. H. Davenport (est. $150,000 to $200,000).
A first edition, and important association copy of Ernest Hemingway’s In our time. This copy is inscribed by Hemmingway to the underwriter of In our time, Alma Lloyd on the front free endpaper: "It being impossible to write #30 worth of dedication So---------- with affection to Lloyd from Ernest Hemingway Paris, April, 1924" (est. $90,000 – $120,000).
A serious highlight of the sale is a very rare first edition of Vitruvius's Ten Books on Architecture on the principles of classical Greek architecture, and the only architectural treatise to survive from Antiquity. It was considered the supreme authority by Italian Renaissance architects and later became the single most influential work for the development of European architecture (est. $200,000 – 300,000).
http://www.christies.com/features/dec07/1922/overview.asp