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FINE PHOTOGRAPHS & PHOTOBOOKS
FEBRUARY 26
Remarkable 20th-centur y offerings include Edward S.
Cur tis’s The North American Indian, Portfolio 1, 1904,
with 39 large-format photogravures; Ber t Stern’s
The Last Sitting Portfolio , 1962, with 10 color prints
of his famous shots of Marilyn Monroe; Ansel Adams’s
large-format The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, 1942,
printed 1970; Doris Ulmann’s Roll Jordan Roll, 1933; Man
Ray’s carte-postale A Regarder d’Un Oeil, De Près, Pendant
Presque Une Heure , 1920, with the Société Anonyme
imprint and Rober t Adams’s Longmont, Colorado , 1985,
from Summer Nights.
There are rare and early Asian photographs from
the Estate of Fong Chow, with an 1860s album contain-
ing photographs of Japan by Felice Beato and a late
1860s suite of Korean photographs. Joshua Beal’s
scarce three-par t panorama of New York City, 1876;
a Hammerschmidt album of Egyptian views from
1860 and Francis Frith’s photographically illustrated
volume Cairo, Sinai, Jerusalem, and the Pyramids of Egypt,
1860, are also among early photographic highlights.
Ansel Adams, The Grand Tetons and the Snake River, silver print, 1942, printed 1970. $50,000 to $75,000.
EARLY PRINTED, MEDICAL, SCIENTIFIC &TRAVEL BOOKS FEBRUARY 28
A diverse sale including Aldine imprints, Bibles, classics, post-medieval manuscripts, music, books by and relating to Samuel
Johnson, and works on law, astronomy, the occult, China and the 15th-century Albanian national hero Skanderbeg. Among
the highlights are Euripides, Tragoediae septendecim, Venice, 1503; Pindar et al., Olympia, Pythia, Nemea, Isthmia , Venice,
1513; Lavardin, The Historie of George Castriot, surnamed Scanderbeg, London, 1596; Samuel Johnson’s copy of Novum
Jesu Christi . . .Testamentum , Frankfurt am Main, 1601; Botero, An Historicall Description of the most Famous Kingdomes and
Common-Weales in theWorlde , London, 1603; Cartwright, A Confutation of the Rhemists Translation, Glosses, and Annotations
on the New Testament , Leiden, 1618; Spinoza, Tractatus theologico-politicus , Hamburg, 1670; Archimedes, Monumenta omnia
mathematica quae extant, Palermo, 1685; and Wright, An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe, London, 1750.
Juan González de Mendoza, The Historie of the Great and Mightie Kingdome of China, London, 1588. $20,000 to $30,000.
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