This sale features a wide array of furniture and decorative arts from a number of consignors, including the Millhiser Collection, the Collection of Robert K. and Joy Lewis, Sag Harbor, New York, and the Zaricor Quilt Collection. Property from notable institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Atlanta History Center, and a Mid-Atlantic Institution offer a depth of forms. The selections include William & Mary, Queen Anne, Chippendale, Federal, and Victorian furniture, as well as highly decorative objects such as silver, cut glass, porcelain, brass, and iron. Portraits, miniatures, Marine objects, needlework samplers, and quilts round out the auction. 

Chicago

The September 10 Freeman’s | Hindman Fine Books & Manuscripts auction in Philadelphia features almost 300 lots of printed and manuscript Americana, Literature, Artist Books, Travel & Exploration, and more. The sale is led by a fine example of the first official broadside printing of Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation ($30,000-$50,000), a handsome first octavo edition of Audubon's The Birds of America ($20,000-$30,000), and a first edition of Andre Level's monograph on the art of Pablo Picasso, including the signed lithograph ($20,000-$30,000). Other highlights include the scarce English edition of A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston,1770, recounting the events of that night ($10,000-$15,000); the monumental Arion Press edition of James Joyce's Ulysses with etchings by Robert Motherwell ($10,000-$15,000); a complete portfolio of Josef Albers Die Oberflache, featuring five signed screen prints ($10,000-$15,000); the earliest obtainable Connecticut printing of the U.S. Constitution ($10,000 - $15,000); 27 lots of rare and unique productions from the Black Sun Press; over 50 lots of fine first and rare editions of Charles Dickens from the collection of Dr. David L. Harrar II, including an original unpublished portrait of the great author ($8,000-$12,000).