Hemingway's First Book, Wilde's copy of Salomé, Schubert Manuscript: Auction Preview

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

At Ader on Tuesday, November 4, Part I of an Autograph Letters and Manuscripts sale, in 253 lots. The top estimate of €10,000–12,000 goes to a file of letters and manuscripts related to the 1914 project for a Gallery of New Writers, Painters, Sculptors and Musicians which was being organized by Ricciotto Canudo and Pierre Corrard.

Heritage Auctions holds an Illustration Art Signature Auction on November 4, in 457 lots. Frank Franzetta's 1970 painting A Princess of Mars is expected to fetch more than $1.5 million. Frank Xavier Leyendecker's original painting for the June 1915 issue of Vanity Fair could sell for more than $70,000.

Part II of the Ader sale of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts will be held on Wednesday, November 5, in 252 lots. A manuscript report by explorer Emil Holub on his expedition to the Zambezi region in 1885 is expected to sell for €3,000–4,000.

At Dominic Winter Auctioneers on November 5, Printed Books & Maps, Geology & Charles Darwin, in 449 lots. Darwin's Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands (1844) rates the top estimate at £4,000–6,000. A copy of William Camden's 1637 atlas Britain, with contemporary hand coloring, is expected to reach £3,000–4,000, and Philip Rashleigh's Specimens of British Minerals estimated at £3,000–5,000.

On November 5 at Freeman's | Hindman in Chicago, 211 lots of Photographs, including property from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Ansel Adams's Mount McKinley and Wonder Lake, Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska, (1947; printed ~1973–1977) rates the top estimate at $25,000–35,000.

Christie's Paris sells 200 lots of Livres rares et manuscrits on November 5, including Oscar Wilde's own copy of his Salomé (1893), with original ink drawings by Max Beerbohm and Charles Ricketts, as well as an inscription from Wilde to his lover Robert Ross. It is estimated at €100,000–150,000.

At ALDE on Thursday, November 6, Livres anciens du XVe au XIXe siècle – Voyages & Histoire naturelle, in 348 lots.

Forum Auctions holds a sale titled The Pity of War: The First World War in words and images on November 6, in 221 lots. A presentation copy of Robert Graves's Over the Brazier, inscribed by Graves to Siegfried Sassoon just five days after publication, is expected to sell for £10,000–15,000. Sassoon's The Old Huntsman and Other Poems, inscribed by the author to Thomas Hardy, is estimated at the same range; a copy of the same title inscribed by Sassoon to Graves could fetch £8,000–12,000.

Swann Galleries sells 272 lots of Autographs on November 6, with an album of presidential autograph letters rating the top estimate at $80,000–120,000. A Franz Schubert music manuscript fragment from "Die Taucher" could sell for $60,000–70,000.

At PBA Galleries on November 6, Rare Books, Manuscripts and More! in 100 lots. A copy of the 1485 Florence edition of Plato's De legibus [and] epistolae rates the top estimate at $50,000–80,000. A trial proof set of George Elbert Burr's series of desert Southwest etchings is estimated at $20,000–30,000.

New England Book Auctions holds a Hunting, Fishing sale on Tuesday, November 11, in 241 lots.

At RR Auction on Wednesday, November 12, Fine Autographs and Artifacts, in 860 lots.

Freeman's | Hindman sells 285 lots of Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana on Thursday, November 13, including a presentation copy of Ernest Hemingway's first book, Three Stories & Ten Poems (1923), inscribed by Hemingway to his cousin Ruth. This is estimated at $60,000–80,000. A Sangorski calligraphic manuscript of Tennyson's Le Morte d'Arthur could sell for $40,000–50,000. A previously unrecorded copy of the first issue of the Shakespeare Third Folio is estimated at $40,000–60,000.

At Potter & Potter Auctions on November 13, 664 lots of Vintage Posters, with Henri Privat-Livemont's Absinthe Robette poster from 1896 rating the top estimate at $10,000–15,000.