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Freeman's – Books and Manuscripts Auction
Wed Sep 27, 2023 - Wed Sep 27, 2023
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Freeman’s – Books and Manuscripts Auction
September 27 at 11 AM ET
books@freemansauction.com
www.freemansauction.com
PHILADELPHIA — Freeman’s September 27 books and manuscripts sale transports collectors with a dynamic and wide-ranging selection of material, from travel books and maps to art, literature, private presses and more.
Collectors will find a selection of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century travel and color plate books, led by a rare first edition of Frederick Catherwood’s 1844 Views of the Ancient Monuments in
Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, as well as volumes on the Mediterranean and Middle East.
The sale also brings to market a selection of rare Americana, including a 1776 Philadelphia edition of Thomas Paine’s celebrated Common Sense; a first edition of The Last Men of the Revolution (1865) featuring six original photographs of the last surviving veterans of that war; and selected abolitionist material, including a rare 1759 first edition of Quaker Anthony Benezet’s Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes, one of the earliest antislavery pamphlets printed in North America.
The personal archive of storied detective Ellis H. Parker, including more than 1,100 items from his four-year investigation into the 1932 kidnapping and murder of Charles A. Lindbergh Jr is also on offer.
Books and manuscripts features a roster of celebrated Nineteenth and Twentieth Century art and artists, including Surrealists Man Ray, Max Ernst and Yves Tanguy; Andy Warhol, Joan Mitchell, Marina Abramović, Marcel Duchamp, Matthew Barney and more. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s iconic poster Ambassadeurs: Aristide Bruant is a standout.
Literary selections include an inscribed first edition of Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles; J.D. Salinger’s Nine Stories, inscribed; signed books and ephemera by Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Walt Whitman, and T.S. Eliot; and first editions by Eliot, Salinger, Ernest Hemingway and others.
Freeman’s is at 2400 Market Street. For more information, www.freemansauction.com or 215-563-9275.
One of 200 Copies of the First Authorized Edition of America’s Founding Documents. Philadelphia, 1781. From the library of Joshua Mersereau (1728-1804), American patriot who operated the Mersereau Spy Ring, gathering intelligence for the Continental Army. $7,000-10,000
CONTACT
Darren Winston
267.414.1247
books@freemansauction.com
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