NEW YORK, NY.- Through 16 December 2016, Sotheby’s New York’s Books & Manuscripts department will host a series of four auctions. Spanning across 15 centuries, with works varying from religious texts to musical instruments, this season’s sale series from the Books & Manuscripts department truly offers something for everyone.

FINE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS INCLUDING AMERICANA
Auction: 6 December 2016
Exhibition: 1-5 December 2016
The department’s seasonal sale of Fine Books & Manuscripts is representative of the eclectic mix of property that will be auctioned this December. From traditional offerings, like Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer’s 1459 Edition of Guillelmus Durandus’s Rationale Divinorum Officiorum (estimate $350/450,000) to special works, like an unpublished Original Watercolor for the Character of the "Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (estimate $70/100,000), the sale is a treasure trove for those with a penchant for books and manuscripts.

BOO-HOORAY PRESENTS: POST-WAR, COUNTERCULTURE & POP
Online-Only Auction: 1-16 December 2016
Exhibition: 1-9 December 2016
In collaboration with Boo-Hooray, an exhibition space curated by Johan Kugelberg dedicated to 20th and 21st century cultural movements, Post-War, Counterculture & Pop is one of two onlineonly sales presented by the department this December. With documents from the revolutionary May ’68 protests, early New York hip hop and concrete poets, as well as science fiction stories by Phillip K. Dick (estimate $400/600), the selection brings together influential movements from the last two centuries.

ICONS OF CHILDREN’S ILLUSTRATIONS
Online-Only Auction: 30 November-14 December 2016
Exhibition: 1-12 December 2016
While Boo-Hooray celebrates counter-culture, Icons of Children’s Illustrations harks back to some of the most celebrated, and cherished, childhood memories. Walt Disney’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse make an appearance in this online-only sale, as do Ludwig Bemelmans’s Madeline and Maurice Sendak’s Wild Things, such as in Hooray For Happy Birthdays In Spring And Summer! (estimate $300/500,000). To say that the sale is walk down memory lane accompanied by characters from some of the best children’s stories is no exaggeration.