It's the decades-long collection of a retired California physician, who obviously had access to the best and rarest -- and funds to spend. Highlights include an extremely rare Shakespeare Fourth Folio from 1685, as well as first editions by Erasmus, Thomas More, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Donne, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Boyle, Galileo and more.
He also collected early books on hunting, brewing beer, herbal remedies and other homesteading-type subjects. Also from a wide range of well-known authors.
Even if you don't have the bucks to bid, you can still flip through 100 pages selected from the collection -- pages from books you'll hardly ever see anywhere, as early as the 1500s.
Andrea Mays, author of The Millionaire and the Bard, will give a talk the evening of July 19 on Henry Folger and his obsession with collecting Shakespeare folios. (His Folger Shakespeare Library is in Washington, D.C.) You do have to RSVP for it. (Just use the link below.)
Previews are July 19 and early on July 20. A fully-illustrated print catalog is available from Skinner. I plan to watch auction results carefully -- this is going to affect 'record of sales' for appraisers for years to come.
Go take a look.
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