First Edition of Work Introducing the Word Robot to Auction
HIndman
Karel Čapek's R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots
Hindman will hold its fall Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, including Americana sale on November 10. Featuring more than 400 lots, the sale includes early fencing books, an extensive run of works by Sir Richard Francis Burton, a selection of livres d’artistes in very fine 20th-century bindings by French binder Renée Haas, fine press books, and Dickens in parts. A session of Americana includes several Audubons and American color plate books.
Highlights from the auction include:
- Lot 367, John James Audubon. American White Pelican (Plate CCCXI) Pelicanus americanus. Ca 1836 (estimate: $70,000 - $90,000)
- Lot 90, Marc Chagall, Bible. 1956. Limited edition, signed, in an exceptional binding by Reneé Haas (estimate: $40,000 - $60,000)
- Lot 6, Joachim Meyer, Gründtliche Beschreibung… Kunst des Fechtens. Strasbourg, 1570. First edition, rare (estimate: $8,000 - $12,000)
- Karel Čapek, R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots. First edition in the rare original wrappers of the work which introduced the word 'Robot' (estimate: $5,000 - $7,000)
The previous day, Hindman will offer a complete copy of Edward S. Curtis’s seminal The North American Indian, arguably the most complete ethnographic record of the native peoples of North America ever assembled.
