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PBA Galleries – August 28 – 11.00am

Sale 540

Fine Books – Manuscripts
Art – Ephemera – Golf

Among the highlights:

• The Edito Princeps in Greek of the tragedies of Euripides, two volumes, the first edition in the original Greek, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1503. Estimate: $10,000/15,000.

• The first of A.A. Milne's Christopher Robin books, When We Were Very Young, 1924, one of 100 copies of the first edition, signed by Milne and illustrator E.H. Shepard. Estimate: $8,000/12,000.

• Superb association copy of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, signed and with a sketch by illustrator Arthur Rackham, also signed by author J.M. Barrie, by the Royal Princesses Beatrice and Mary Louise, and others. Estimate: $5,000/10,000.

• The Doll Doctor, original oil on canvas painting by the Santa Monica, California artist Millie Greene, noted for her vibrant color scheme and fanciful portraits. Estimate: $4,000/6,000.

• Exceptional copy of The Cat in the Hat, first edition, first printing in the original dust jacket, the most famous of the many books by Dr. Seuss and the first specifically targeted for beginning readers. Estimate: $4,000/6,000.

• Very rare Russian language edition of The International Jew, Henry Ford's infamous series of anti-Semitic articles demonizing the Jewish people, published in Berlin in 1925. Estimate: $4,000/6,000.

• The rare second illustrated edition of the Martin Luther translation into German of the Bible, published in Wittemberg in 1576. Estimate: $3,000/5,000.

• The Art of Fair Building, 1675, the second edition in English of Pierre Le Muet's notable work, with 79 copperplates of architectural plans, drawings, etc. Estimate: $3,000/5,000.

• "Autumn Moon at Tama River," original color woodblock print by Hiroshige, the first printing, c.1837-38, of this ukiyo-e print from the series Eight Views of the Environs of Edo. Estimate: $2,000/3,000.

Each lot illustrated in the online version of the catalogue.
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Please visit our website to view Over 600 lots in a wide variety of themes, genres, character and type, from early printed books to lovely livres d'artiste, original paintings and prints to golfing memorabilia, with illustrated books, fine bindings, old Bibles, landmarks of science, manuscripts and autograph letters, scarce ephemera, fine press books, children's books, and much more.

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Dickens was not Fooled

On show at Peter Harrington’s bookshop in Dover Street, London in 

its original presentation binding and priced at £275,000 is A Tale of Two Cities, inscribed to George Eliot by Charles Dickens. This is part of a wider correspondence between the two authors where Dickens was intrigued enough to ask if he was in fact a she in a letter.

Dickens had in fact read one of Eliot’s novels and wrote:  “I have observed what seem to be to be such womanly touches, in those moving fictions, that the assurance on the title-page is insufficient to satisfy me, even now. If they originated with no woman, I believe that no man ever before had the art of making himself, mentally, so like a woman, since the world began.”

The inscription inside the first-edition copy reads: “Charles Dickens, To George Eliot, with high admiration and regard. December, 1859.”

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