Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542, estimated at $30,000-50,000 at Swann.
Other highlights include several important first-edition Darwin titles, including his Researches in Geology and Natural History and Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of the Beagle, and a section of works in economics, which will feature Locke’s Several Papers Relating to Money from 1696, and a first edition of John Stuart Mill’s Principles of Political Economy printed in London in 1848.
Pictured above is Geoffrey Chaucer, The Works of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542, estimated at $30,000-50,000.
Later that same month at Swann, on October 27, the Fine Books & Autographs auction will include a large assemblage of Americana autographs including a sweeping group of US presidents, and many representatives of America’s founding fathers.
One of Gertrude Stein’s (1874-1946) scarcest titles, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, Firenze, 1912, guided at $2000-3000 at Swann.
Highlights from the literature portion of that sale include James Joyce’s Exiles and the first English edition of Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte-Cristo.
