This item sold at Chiswick for £30,240 ($39,943 ). The sale price was 75x the presale high estimate of £400

De Cartis Salutat(ionis?) Clerk’s manual, 15th-century chancery hand, 52 numbered leaves (1 - 31; 33 - 51; with no. 41 repeated), on vellum, with rubricated and inhabited initials, rubricated text, instructional tables including ‘Prima tabula salutatione ad sumnum pontificem’, final 5pp. in another hand, signature of the antiquarian Thomas Martin of Palgrave (1696/7 – 1771) to fore-edge flap, and initial to pastedown, also ‘John Younge’ to stub, leaves yellowed, stain in lower margin occasionally affecting text, trimmed with occasional loss to decorative borders, original vellum with yapped edges, ink inscription to spine and front panel, detaching internally, some loss to corner of lower panel, staining, 21 x 17 cm.

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Lot 87 Offset lithograph poster.

Millard was known for his book illustrations, sheet music & theatrical covers, promotional silkscreen travel posters and brochures for Hamburg-American Cruise Lines, as well as advertising material for Paramount Pictures. A prolific designer, he created hundreds of posters for RCA Victor Records during the 1920s and 1930s. This pictorial map utilized Millard's talent for illustration art, featuring side panels of 26 vignettes of New York City history, as well as many figures and landmarks throughout.

35 1/4 x 20 in. (89.5 x 50.8 cm.) S.M. Stanley Co., New York.

https://www.swanngalleries.com/auction-lot/claude-e-millard-manhattan-first-city-in-america-_a934433a33 This link has a hover feature which allows viewer to see all the intricate detail.

See the whole luscious event consisting of 284 lots along with prices realized at

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Pokemon "Pikachu" Illustrator Unnumbered Promo CoroCoro Comics PSA Trading Card Game Mint 9 (The Pokemon Company, 1998) MBA Gold Diamond.

What makes this card so valuable, you ask? Well, the only way you could obtain a copy was through an illustration contest publicized in CoroCoro Comics. The Pikachu Illustrator was awarded to the winners of the initial three contests, which took place in 1998. The first contest awarded 23 copies, with the following two awarding 8 copies each for a total of 39 copies distributed.

This card is the only card to bear the pen symbol in the bottom right corner and the only card to feature the word "Illustrator" at the top. The artwork was done by Atsuko Nishida. 

Couple, Coney Island, from Brooklyn Gang. 1959; printed 1998.
Silver print. With Davidson's signature, inscription, and print date in pencil on verso. The image 8 1/2 x 12 3/4 incjes. (21.6 x 32.4 cm.), the sheet 11 x 14 in. (27.9 x 35.6 cm.)

One of the defining photos of the mid 20th century. This recent sale at Swann Galleries was a sensational featuring over 200 lot of New York City photos, maps and prints. For fans of the Big Apple take the time to browse the original catalog. Some exceptional work at surprisingly modest prices. Surprisingly some of the best work didn't sell!

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Lot 281 Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, Boston, 1845

...An American Slave, Written By Himself, Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845, with frontispiece portrait, bound in publisher's brown blind stamped and gilt cloth, 7-1/8 x 1/2 x 5-3/4 inches.

Provenance: Property of a South Carolina Collector"},

Description: Some light staining and fading to cloth, bumped corners, light foxing at front and rear pages, frontis page with small water stain at top corner

See more photos of this volume at https://live.brunkauctions.com/online-auctions/brunk/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-9545491

NB - The price on the auction site does not include the buyer's premium.

Excerpts from catalog notes:

Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species, 1859, first edition hardcover book

DARWIN, Charles (1809–1882). On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: John Murray, 1859.

An exceptional example of the landmark first edition, first printing of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (London: John Murray, 1859). Presented in Very Good Plus condition, this copy features a remarkably well-preserved original cloth binding conforming to Freeman's Binding Variant b (Darwin Census Variant B), displaying the notable typographic layout with no point after MURRAY at the bottom of the spine, and retaining the original binder's ticket (Edmonds & Remnants) on the rear paste-down.

Internally, the text block includes the critical folding lithographed diagram facing page 117 and retains all necessary, uncorrected textual markers confirming the earliest state of the first printing sheets: the structural misspelling "speceies" is present on page 20 (line 11), page ii preserves exactly two quotations (by William Whewell and Francis Bacon), and the famous, unsuppressed "whale-bear" narrative remains intact on page 184 (lines 5–7). The original half-title page is included, remaining present though currently loose.

This copy is considered complete, containing the required ix, 502 pages of text and the complete 32-page publisher's advertisement catalogue bound in at the rear. The inserted catalogue conforms to the Darwin Census as Advertisement Variant 3 (characterized typographically by unruled page borders and the absence of the numeral "4" on page 2). The internal condition is generally clean, though it exhibits several pencil inscriptions and notations scattered throughout the text block.

Original brown coated front endpapers intact. The front pastedown features an early ink inscription reading "1st Edition" above a contemporary owner signature ("H. Watney"), or similar. Affixed below is the engraved armorial Ex Libris bookplate of Stephen A. McClellan, displaying a central heraldic crest with the motto "SAPIT QUI REPUTAT", military emblems (including U.S. Navy and Marine Corps insignia) along the left margin, and a facsimile signature at the foot.

Provenance: The Estate of Dr. William D. Shidal, Jr. of Indiana

Housed in a custom leather-backed clamshell box designed in book-form with raised bands and gilt-lettered spines.

NB from OP: There's lots of current interest in Darwin. Various editions of this famous landmark work have come to market this year. RBH records show 27 sales of this title so far this year (not many as rare or expensive as this one). Only one other copy, sold at Christie's on July 8, for somewhat more.

See more photos of the copy that sold at Ripley's at https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/charles-darwin-on-the-origin-of-species-1859-firs-52-c-5c0d55642d?objectID=206117483&algIndex=upcoming_lots_lotNumber_asc_prod

Black and White photograph of (Irish poet) W.B. Yeats during the time he was a member of the Irish Senate, photographed by Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street. This photograph was taken at a time when Yeats advocated for the Abbey Theatre resulting in annual subsidy from the State to the value of $1750, which made it the first and only state endowed theatre in any English speaking country, at that time.

Yeats, who is best known as a poet and dramatist, was a member of the Irish senate from 1922-1928.

This item Lot 111 was part of an auction titled The W. B. Yeats Sale - The Libraries Of The Late Prof. Warwick Gould & His Wife Deirdre Toomey, both prominent Yeats scholars along with important works from select clients.

From catalog notes - Lot 930 for Chorley's sale titled The September Auctions

Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821) and the East India Company]

A collection of letter books, cash books and documents relating to Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821) during his career as an administrator for the East India Company, to include a diary for Charles William Boughton spanning 1770-1778 including his service as the Chief at Dacca (Dhaka) in 1775, small folio, original wrappers [often dealing with surveys of agricultural land, reports on local trade, taxation by the East India Company with detailed descriptions of travel and landscape, often interspersed with Persian writing and translations thereof [Persian was retained in India until 1835 as the language of official documents],

(Also material) discussing local customs, festivals and manners.

Several sketches of local rulers' family trees, descriptions of local flora, trees and crops

Four manuscript copy letter books, folio, marbled paper wrappers, 1771-1777, personal letters, as well as letters pertaining to East India Company business

Manuscript Abstract of Dacca Consultations, folio, marbled paper wrappers, March - December 1775, with index

Sheaf of manuscript copies of 'Letters written to Europe between August 1774 & July 1775', 4to, loose stitch bound gatherings, indexed to fron

A collection of papers, large folio, ribbon bound in a neat scribal hand including 'Extract of Bengal Secret Consultations the 19th December 1783', various transcribed extract of letters, 'Notes of Reference to the Proceedings recited in the Statement of the Origin and Progress of the Disputes between the Nabob of Arcott and the Rajah of Fanjore 1749-1781; 'Particulars of Bengal Civil Charges 1775 & 1777' [1785]; 'Minutes of Council 3d Sept. 1781', 'Notes concerning the Nabobs Debts 1761-1785'; 'Report of Messrs. Croftes, Anderson & Bigle on the Revenue of Bengal ... 1778 ... to the Honble Warren Hastings Esq, Governor General at Fort William'; 'An Estimate of the Receipts and Payments from March 1787 to March 1790'; 'Settlement of the Revenues of Bahar for 1788-9' with two pages of 'Conjugation of a Verb active' in English and Persian'

[Manuscript maps] Cities along the Hooghly River, Map of area and rivers around Gopalpur and a further large map of 'Bhoosnah' and 'Kishen Nugger including a large section of the Ganges, noting forts and temples

(3)A stitch bound folder of papers, folio, manuscript wrappers entitled 'Indian Papers' containing printed extracts, a manuscript story of a Dacca woman whose husband had died and who insisted she be burnt on a pyre with him; several notes on Sanskrit language, three pages of notes on the 'Description of the Sun and Planets, taken from a Sanskrit Manuscript called Shanty Tuttawmirt (?), explained to me by Keul Ram Brisbut Bullacharge of Nuddeah', a small note on Chinese characters, a copy of a Firman of the Emperor Akbar respecting the Collection of certain Duties', 8vo, 12pp, Persian, annotated 'Inclosed in Mr Gladwin's Letter of Feb 1 1792'

Provenance: Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821)

Sir Charles William Rouse Boughton (1747-1821) was a British colonial administrator in India with the East India Company. Boughton travelled to India as a writer in 1765 and held several judicial and administrative offices in the service of the Company. He was at various times a Persian interpreter [1768], senior merchant and a judge [Sadar Diwani Adalat, 1773]. Rouse Boughton served as chief at Dacca in 1775. During his time in India, he inherited an estate at Rous Lench, Worcestershire by the will of Thomas Phillips Rouse. In 1784 he was appointed Secretary to the Board of Control for India and held the post until 1791. He opposed the impeachment of Warren Hastings. In 1791 he published a lengthy Dissertation concerning the landed property of Bengal.

Catalog Notes computer translated from French to English

(Lot 6) at Alde: First Editions from 19th-21st Century auction held Sept. 16.

Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal, 1857, Paris, Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1857. 12mo, brown half-morocco with corners, richly decorated spine, gilt top edge, untrimmed (R. Raparlier).

First edition, rare and highly sought after, printed in 1300 copies (200 of which were uncut) on Angoulême vellum paper, plus about twenty copies on large Holland paper given to the author.

After the famous trial that placed six poems on the Index, most of the edition, published six weeks earlier, had already sold out, and only about 230 copies remained in stock, from which the offending work had to be removed. This copy is complete with the censored items. The extremely rare error on p. 12 (“s’enhardissent” for “s’enhardissant”), the only remark concerning the first printing, is corrected here, as is almost always the case.

The copy exhibits the other usual errors: "Feurs du Mal" as the running title on pp. 31 and 108, p. 45 on page 44, "captieux" for "capiteux" on p. 201, etc. A superb copy in a nearly contemporary binding, executed by Raparlier around 1870.

Romain Raparlier settled in Paris around 1855 and practiced there until around 1880. His address was then 12 rue Gozlin, where he moved around 1870. He was highly esteemed, notably by Anatole France, who praised him in 1874 in *Le Livre du bibliophile*. Very rare in such fine condition.

Carteret, I, 118-123 – Oberlé, Auguste Poulet-Malassis, no. 212 – En français dans le texte, no. 276

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This is an uncensored copy in the first edition of controversial French poetry by Baudelaire. See more details in Wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Fleurs_du_mal

DARWIN, Charles, FITZROY, Captain Robert & KING, Captain Philip Parker. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836, describing their examination of the southern shores of South America, and the Beagle's circumnavigation of the globe. London, Colburn 1839.

This lot comprises the first two volumes of the set, and the appendix . It also includes Darwin’s “Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle...” London, Colburn 1839. See Freeman number 11 (variant b.)

All volumes bear the stamps of the Royal Society of New South Wales. Overall an attractive set showing some signs of use, with all volumes in the original publisher’s cloth, The Journal of the Researches is brown in colour and the others are dark green. All parts are collated and complete. Ferguson 2739 This is a very good set with the occasional blemish as well as a little offsetting and a couple of loose pages. Very rare and important.

This auction firm is located in Australia.

Charlotte's Web by EB White, Harper & Brothers, NY, 1952

8vo. Illustrated throughout by Garth Williams. [vi], 1-184 pp. Publisher's full beige cloth, front board and spine stamped in black and blue, pictorial endleaves, publisher's unclipped ("$2.50") dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED TWICE BY WHITE. The first inscription is on the ffep (front free end paper): "Gale Hinckley / with my best E B White". The second inscription is on the half-title: "For Gale Hinckley / with greetings from E B White". This famous children's novel is the basis of several film, television, and stage adaptations. In 2000,

Publisher's Weekly stated that the paperback version was the best-selling children's paperback of all time.

Condition Cloth binding soiled and lightly scuffed, lightly edgeworn, lightly toned, bookseller's ticket on ffep (not affecting inscription); jacket worn, soiled, chipped with tears, several tape repairs to verso, spine toned. A very good copy in a good jacket. Housed in modern quarter red morocco clamshell case.

Provenance: With the bookplate of Gale M. Hinckley, the recipient, on the fp. Hinckley was a business owner, photographer, and book collector.

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Excerpts from catalog notes

(This ) is an employment application filled out by Apple Inc. co-founder and technological revolution figurehead Steve Jobs. It is believed that the tech icon's first formal job positions were as a part-time repair technician at Reed College's psychology department workshop and, one year later, at personal gaming pioneers Atari, implying that this application could be for either one of those positions and is likely one of the earliest, if not the very first, job applications that Jobs ever submitted.

At the time he had no employment, no college degree, and no phone. He did have personal will, intelligence, and imagination, attributes which helped him to "Think different," in the words of Apple's famous turn-of-the-millennium advertising campaign.

At this time, Jobs would've been 18 years old; his relationship with technological design was already flourishing thanks to a budding friendship with Steve Wozniak. Together, the pair marketed a series of "blue boxes" (an electronic device that mimics tones to allow for free long-distance phone calls), with Wozniak designing the items and Jobs selling them. With Wozniak studying at UC Berkeley, Jobs enrolled at Portland's Reed College; he dropped out after one semester but continued staying on campus and auditing classes, including a calligraphy class that he later claimed influenced the kerning and variety of typefaces available for the Mac.

Considering his growing interest in computer electronics, as well as the West Coast counterculture movement, it should come as no surprise that Jobs was less than enthusiastic when filling out this early job application for an unspecified position and company.

The three-hole-punched document is dated "(1973)" in the top-right corner, with Jobs' birth date "24 February 1955" printed below. Along the left-hand side, Jobs listed his name ("Steven Jobs"), address (simply "reed college"), phone ("none"), and college major ("english lit," a topic that Jobs became enamored with after studying Shakespeare and Plato in an AP English course).

The "Past Employment" section is totally blank. Jobs lists that, "yes," he does have a driver's license, but adds humorously that his access to transportation is "possible, but not probobale [sic]." Under the skills section, Jobs ignored the categories of "Typing," "Machines, Keypunch," and "Other," but did reply "yes" to "Computer" and "Calculator," adding a notation that his skills in those devices lie in "design, tech." He lists his special abilities as "electronics tech or design engineer. digital. — from Bay near Hewitt-Packard [sic]."

While Jobs' refusal to oversell his abilities on this document might surprise those of us who have spent days perfecting our applications, it perfectly aligns with the uncompromising ethos that made him one of the most important business people and innovators of the last 50 years.

In a 1998 interview with Fortune magazine, Jobs reflected on the early computer technology era and his reasons for working in the field: "I was lucky to get into computers when it was a very young and idealistic industry. [...] There are people around here who start companies just to make money, but the great companies, well, that's not what they're about."

Jobs knew that his ideas and skills would not be contained within a 9-to-5, punch-in and punch-out job. Just three years after he filled out this job application, Jobs and Wozniak started the Apple Computer Company and began marketing and selling Wozniak's creation, the Apple I. The Apple II arrived in 1977, selling between 5 and 6 million units over the next 17 years.

Born out of a belief that personal computing was the future of technology, the company went public in 1980 and both men were instant millionaires.

The Apple III, released in 1980, was a commercial failure; 1984's Macintosh was the first successful mass-market all-in-one personal computer.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, with the company struggling financially, Jobs spearheaded a second revolution with the development of the iPod MP3 player and the iPhone, a mobile phone with a pioneering multi-touch interface.

While the iPod forever changed the way the world consumed music, the iPhone had even larger ramifications. While the development of the Apple I and Apple II helped to move the concept of personal computing out of university labs and into the homes of consumers, the iPhone went one step further and moved it into the pockets of those consumers, granting every iPhone user wireless access to the World Wide Web, a circumstance that dramatically altered our perception of and access to education, communication, commerce, and information.

Jobs passed away in 2011 at the age of 56; by the time of his death, the company he started with Wozniak in Jobs' parents' Los Altos, California, home had a market capitalization of around $360 billion. It surpassed $1 trillion market cap in 2018 and $2 trillion in 2020.

The application is printed on three-hole-punched white paper that displays areas of discoloration throughout and vintage tape repair at the top margin. All text remains entirely legible, affording a glimpse at the early mindset and attitude of the computing pioneer. This is a pre-Apple document—possibly the first-ever job application filled out by Jobs, and certainly among the earliest—that illustrates that, no matter one's credentials or upbringing, we are all capable of changing the world.

Encapsulated by PSA, with Autograph Certified and graded MINT 9 by PSA/DNA (84624250).

JOSEPHINE BAKER'S "LA REVUE NEGRE" IN PARIS, designed by Italo Orsi (1889-1947),rTheatre de l'Etoile LA REVUE NEGRE Lithograph on paper, Paris

PHOGOR, g2 r. d'Amsterdam1925
 Mounted to 64 7/8 x 49 1/4 inches 

An iconic and significant poster from Josephine Baker's first performance in France, La Revue Negre. The revue opened on 2 October 1925 at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to a sold-out crowd. Featuring jazz, innovative dance choreography, and erotic burlesque, Josephine Baker was the star of the show, titillating the French public.

The dynamic design highlighted the sensual exoticism that was so alluring. Negrophilie (negrophilia) was already widespread, especially among the Surrealists and other art movements, who admired and fetishized Black art and culture.  

This poster dates from when the show moved just a few blocks away to the Theatre d'Etoile in November 1925. It ran through the end of the year and then saw significant reorganization before it toured Europe in 1926.

The revue is widely credited with introducing and widely diffusing Black culture and jazz music to a wide European audience. 

VERY RARE. While frequently reproduced, original 1925 copies remain very scarce. We found only 1 copy of this design to have sold at auction. 

This poster was sold at Fleischer's on Sept. 8 for $22,100, double the presale high estimate of $10,000.

Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women, 1927, NY, Scribner's Sons:

8vo. [xii], 232, [4, blank] pp. Publisher's full black cloth, printed gold labels on upper cover and spine, publisher's unclipped ("$2.00") first issue dust jacket. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY HEMINGWAY ON THE TITLE-PAGE TO EDDIE TILYOU: "To Eddie Tilyou with or without Women Ernest Hemingway".

IN ADDITION, THIS COPY HAS TWO ORIGINAL INK AND COLORED PENCIL PAINTINGS BY HEMINGWAY'S FRIEND, WALDO PIERCE. The first painting is on the verso of the half-title, titled "Don Ernesto" depicting Hemingway leaning against a confused bull; the second painting is a double-page painting (on pp. x and xi), "Bonheur Formidable des Hommes / Paris 15 November 1927" depicting Hemingway, himself, and another man, all drunk, with enormous beer glasses with goldfish inside them.

Eddie Tilyou (1872-1929) was the brother of the owner of Steeplechase Park and managed the park. Waldo Pierce (1884-1970) was an American painter and illustrator; he was a bohemian expatriate, and lived a life of revelry. After World War I, he met and became a lifelong friend to Hemingway, and they traveled extensively in Europe.

Pierce painted a few portraits of Hemingway, one of which appeared on the October 18, 1937 cover of Time Magazine.

This book is accompanied with the July 1936 issue of Esquire Magazine, with a double-page spread of paintings by Pierce.

Condition Cloth binding a bit rubbed, front board with small bump at fore-edge, text a bit toned, with occasional pencil underlinings in text, several gutters cracking, some offsetting from paintings; jacket torn at front joint (front panel detached from spine, but is present), jacket toned, worn, soiled, with a tear to front panel at upper edge.

A very good copy in a fair first issue dust jacket. Housed in a beautiful brown calf clamshell case with black and blue gilt morocco lettering labels, with pictorial labels inset on the covers reproducing the original artwork in the book (there are other reproductions of the original artwork inside the case).

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 Alcoholism ["The Big Red Book"]. New York City: Works Publishing Company, 1939. 8vo. [viii], 400, [6] pp. Original red cloth stamped gilt in unclipped dust jacket, housed in custom red cloth drop-spine box. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, IN FINE CONDITION, with all points present, including repetition on p. 234 and "One Hundred Men" in title. This remarkable association copy was gifted by Bill Wilson ("Bill W.") to his brother-in-law, Rogers Burnham, and is INSCRIBED on the front endpapers by Burnham and his wife: "Laura S Burnham / and / Rogers Burnham / October 1940 / from 'Bill,'" and "Laura S Burnham / and / Rogers Burnham / Manchester Depot / Vermont."

Rogers Burnham served as the best man at Wilson's wedding in 1918, having originally introduced Wilson to his sister, Lois Burnham. After returning from military service in 1919, Wilson developed the severe alcohol dependency that ultimately led to the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous.

The group began on June 10, 1935, in Akron, Ohio, when Wilson's first recruit and co-founder, Bob Smith ("Dr. Bob"), had his last drink. Soon after, the men began to work with alcoholics at Akron City Hospital.

In 1938, after realizing their ideas had kept some 40 members sober for 2 years, Wilson and Smith began outlining their iconic twelve-step program in this volume. The first printing in 1939 comprised 4,650 examples, of which it is estimated only 200 remain with original dust jackets (Fine Books, 2019).

The volume's thick paper and wide margins earned it the affectionate nickname "the Big Red Book," while the bright, multi-colored cover by Ray Campbell became known as the "Circus Jacket."

The first edition presents the core Twelve Steps along with 29 personal stories, including those of Bill W. and Dr. Bob, and remains the core manual of AA principles, with hundreds of millions copies sold through subsequent editions and translations.

This fine first printing, complete with original dust jacket and family provenance, is a stunning association copy of one of the 88 "books that shaped America" (LOC, 2012).

Condition Dust jacket rubbed and chipped at extremities, few tears closed with several tape repairs on verso. Occasional thumb staining and spotting. A remarkable bright, clean copy. Fine.

Provenance: Gifted to Rogers and Laura Burnham by "Bill W," as noted on front endpaper: "Laura S Burnham / and / Rogers Burnham / October 1940 / from 'Bill.'"

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Excerpts from Catalog notes:

Six volumes with 48 hand colored full page illustrations.

Japanese Illuminated Manuscript. Genji Kokagami [The Tale of Genji, abridged], 6 volumes, Japan, 17th century, manuscript text written in an attractive calligraphic hand on fine gold-decorated paper, with 48 hand-coloured and illuminated full-page illustrations.

Occasional damp-staining to some text leaves of each volume, heavier to volume 2 (several of the full-page illustrations with small losses and transfer of colour to facing text leaf), gilded endpapers, gilt-decorated dark indigo wrappers, manuscript title labels to upper cover of each volume, stitched as issued in fukurotoji-bon style, wrappers with general soiling and discolouration, and associated surface losses, with minor worming, sheet size 30 x 21.5 cm

(Quantity: 6 vol)

Provenance: Harry A. Levinson (1904-1995), bookseller, California, circa 1960s (his printed catalogue entry loosely inserted).

The Tale of Genji, written by the noble lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu at the beginning of the 11th century in the court of Heian-era Japan, is considered one of the world’s first novels and a masterpiece of Japanese literature. Its great length inspired more than one notable digest, abbreviated versions of the tale containing summaries and excerpts of the original. Genji kokagami, ‘A Little Mirror of Genji’, is one of these, composed in approximately the 14th century and very popular in literate Japanese society.

This manuscript is one of the Nara ehon, or ‘Nara picture-books’, so-called for their lavish illustrations and possible origin in the monastic centres of Nara, near Kyoto. Many were produced in the 17th century, perhaps after changing economic conditions pushed temple artists to create more secular, commercial works.

Notes from the auction catalog.
Siddur Derech Yesharah and Book of Tehillim – Amsterdam, 1748 – From Library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar Seder Tefillah Yesharah – year-round siddur, following the Ashkenazic (Polish) rite, including laws and customs, prayers and blessings for various occasions, Selichot, Passover Haggadah, Tikunei Shabbat, Perek Shirah, confession and Keter Malchut. Amsterdam: sons of Shlomo Proops, 1748.

This item sold at Kedem auction on Sept. 1 for $47,500. The presale estimate was $2,000.

Two title pages. First title page illustrated. Bound with: Book of Tehillim, maamadot and techinot [in Yiddish], with commentary and Yiddish translation, by R. Yechiel Michel Epstein, author of Kitzur Shlah. Amsterdam: sons of Shlomo Proops, [1748]. Divisional title page for Book of Tehillim. Copy from the library of Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar. Many stamps on title page and at end of book: "Yoel Teitelbaum, Rabbi of Irshava and the region".

We surmise that these stamps were made and stamped on the books at a later date than his rabbinic tenure in Irshava – see Kedem, Catalogue 99, November 2024, Lot 185. Early signature at top of title page: "Hertz Schick". Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar (1887-1979), author of Divrei Yoel, a leader of his generation, president of the Edah HaCharedit in Jerusalem and leader of American Orthodox Jewry, one of the founding pillars of Chassidic Jewry after the Holocaust.

Catalog describes various details of condition. Elaborate new leather binding, with embossing.

A poster for the RKO 1949 UK version of King Kong sold at Forum on Sept. 2 for for £9,930.00 ($13,396) well above presale high estate $1,613. British Quad, linen backed, framed and glazed.