Phiz Drawings, Beatrix Potter, Inscribed Churchill: Auction Preview

Here are the sales I'll be keeping an eye on:

At Aguttes on Wednesday, September 24, Autographs & Manuscripts, in 473 lots. Expected to lead the way is an album of Parisian drawings from 1859 to 1861, estimated at €10,000–15,000. A small group of letters from Louis-Ferdinand Céline to his Danish lawyer Thorvald Mikkelsen is expected to sell for €8,000–10,000.

Forum Auctions sells 206 lots of Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper on Thursday, September 25, including a second edition of Erasmus' Moriae Encomium (1511) and a thirteenth-century manuscript copy of St. Raymond of Peñafort's Summa de casibus poenintentialis and Summa de matrimonio, sharing the top estimate of £30,000–40,000. Gould's Birds of Great Britain (1862–1873) in the original parts is expected to sell for £25,000–35,000.

At Swann Galleries on September 25, The New York Sale, in 215 lots. The Martin Lewis drypoints Subway Steps (1930) and Rainy Day, Queens (1931) share the top estimate at $15,000–20,000. A three-color halftone print of Edward Steichen's The Flatiron - Evening from Camera Work XIV (1906) could sell for $10,000–15,000.

PBA Galleries sells 371 lots of Western Americana on September 25, with a copy of the 1879 Illustrated Atlas and History of Yolo County, California and a presentation copy of Zane Grey's Tales of Southern Rivers (inscribed by the author to his son) each estimated at $4,000–6,000.

Potter & Potter Auctions holds their Cabinet of Curiosities sale on Saturday, September 27.

On Tuesday, September 30, Chiswick Auctions sells Books & Works on Paper, in 228 lots, and Bulldog Spirit: The Churchill Sale, in 46 lots. Expected to lead the first sale are forty-two original "Phiz" drawings for Dickens' Little Dorrit (£25,000–35,000), and rating the top estimate among the Churchill lots is a set of his The World in Crisis, five volumes in six, with authorial inscriptions in four of the volumes (£20,000–30,000).

Dominic Winter Auctioneers sells 469 lots of Printed Books & Maps, Travel & Natural History, Bewick Woodblocks & Ex-Libris on Wednesday, October 1, with a copy of Anthony Sherley's His Relation of His Travels into Persia (1613) rating the top estimate at £10,000–15,000. Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz's Premiere [-Seconde] Centurie de Planches (1775–1781) of natural history illustrations is estimated at £8,000–12,000.

At Dominic Winter on Thursday, October 2, Beatrix Potter: The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster, in 159 lots. A remarkably fresh copy of the very rare privately printed first edition of The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) should lead the way at £40,000–60,000.

Lyon & Turnbull sell 197 lots of Books & Manuscripts on October 2, with an Edmund Dulac watercolor rating the top estimate at £3,000–5,000; a complete set of A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh books could sell for £2,500–3,500.