With the 2020 auction season on the horizon, we sat down with the newest addition to our books and manuscripts department, Devon Eastland, senior specialist for early printed books, to discuss all things books and material culture.
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Born in London in 1606, John Bulwer was an important figure in the study of deafness, gesture and the human body and a pioneer the education of the deaf in England. He published five works on the subject before his death in 1656. Set to come across the block are three first editions of Bulwer’s publications.
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A choice selection of incunabula brings to auction infrequently seen editions of Johannes Jacobus Canis’s 1476 guide to the study of civil and canon law; Albertus Magnus’s comprehensive lapidary De mineralibus, Pavia, 1491; and Philippus Beroaldus’s philosophical tract on happiness, De felicitate opusculum, Bologna, 1495.
Our November 12 auction of Early Printed, Medical & Scientific Books features religious texts, early manuscripts and illuminated works, incunabula, scientific treatises, philosophical classics and more. Among these is Edward…
The February 28 auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books offered a number of incunabula, early printed editions of Greek plays by Euripides, Pindar and Sophocles as well…
(Bible in Latin) Portion of vellum leaf from Vulgate manuscript…, Germany, 9th century. Estimate: $1,500 to 2,500. Deborah Chaleff and Jacqueline Feinberg introduce the Early Printed Books & Manuscripts…
