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Non-Fiction Top 10
April 2011

#1 $6,500.00 WILLIAM KLEIN NEW YORK/ROME/MOSCOW/TOKYO - FULL SET
#2 $4,856.40 Botanical miscellany [becoming The journal of Botany].
#3 $3,449.00 Rare 1679 Beekeeping Book Rusden bees apiculture 1st ed
#4 $3,100.00 Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela signed -Easton
#5 $2,000.00 The Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611
#6 $1,537.86 Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
#7 $1,358.33 HARRY CALLAHAN: PHOTOGRAPHS RARE EL MOCHUELO GALLERY!
#8 $1,210.00 Edward Ruscha TWENTYSIX GASOLINE STATIONS 3rd Ed 1969
#9 $1,152.77 MANLIO MORGAGNI ITALIA IMPERIALE PARR/AUER - NO RESERVE
#10 $1,111.00 COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE (FOUR VOLUMES) 1784

#1
New York
Rome
Moscow
Tokyo

William Klein
200547133891

In this set are 4 of William Klein's city books. The oldest was New York, published in Italy in 1956; it was a fine copy in a new fine dust jacket. Next, in the same condition, was Rome, published by Viking in 1959. The third volume was Moscow, published by Crown Publishers in 1964 and in fine condition with a very good plus dust jacket. Tokyo was also published by Crown, this time in 1964. It was in fine condition with a near fine dust jacket. The set sold for $6,500 as a Best Offer.

#2
Botanical Miscellany
290486006050

Later titled The Journal of Botany, this journal was published in Edinburgh. The listing, by an Australian seller, consisted of 7 volume with 223 engraved plates. The set sold for $4,856.40 as BIN.

#3
A Further Discovery of Bees, Treating of the Nature, Government, Generation & Preservation of the Bee, with the Experiments and Improvements Arising From the Keeping of Them in Transparent Boxes, Instead of Straw-Hives
Moses Rusden
300548695371

Written to the "Bee-Master to King Charles II" and published by the author in London in 1679, the volume is bound in "full black morocco by Philip Dusel, all edges gilt." After 9 bids, it sold for $3,449.

#4
A Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
190472888609

The signed Easton Press copy is 1 of 2000 published in this edition. Listed in as new condition, it sold for $3,100 as a Best Offer.

#5
A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues
Randle Cotgrave
230594001055

Listed "in a modern library binding," the 1611 dictionary is ex-library. It sold for $2,000 as a Best Offer.

#6
Bradshaw Art of the Kimberley
Graham L. Walsh
160562782530

The Australian seller listed this book which "has only been published once in a limited edition." Calling it "scholarly and detailed," the seller notes that Walsh "spent much of his adult life researching the "Bradshaw: paintings in the dangerous and remote Kimberly region of northern Australia." After 10 bids, it sold for just over $1,500 US dollars.

#7
Photographs
Harry Callahan
320685946916

Coming in at #7, Callahan's Photographs was published in a limited edition of 1500 in 1964. The copy sold after 14 bids.

#8
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Edward Ruscha
190515406609

Sold as a Best Offer, the 3rd edition 1969 book was part of a limited edition of 3000.

#9
Italia imperiale
Rivista Illustrata Del Popolo D'Italia

Stefano Bricarelli and others
160574222113

Published in Milan in 1937, the very good+ elephant folio was called "'The best italiam propaganda photobook from the fascist era ...'" by Parr and Badger in The Photobook, quoted in the listing by the U.S. seller. It received 18 bids.

#10
A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean
Undertaking by the Command of His Majesty ...

160566375597

Better known as Cook's Third Voyage, the 4-volume set sold for $1,111 after 20 bids.

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