Manuscript Society On-Line Catalog Auction

Thursday, February 24, 2022 through Thursday, March 3, 2022 (10PM Eastern Time)

Henkels manuscript covers

Over 2000 manuscript, rare book, autograph, and dealer catalogs available!

Manuscript Society member David McGuire of the McGuire Group, LLC will host the auction.

Proceeds benefit the work of the Manuscript Society.

To participate, go to The McGuire Group site, www.themcguiregroupllc.com. Register. You will receive an email when the Manuscript Society Auction goes live. You will be able to peruse the on-line catalog of all auction items.

As every collector knows, catalogs provide a wealth of information about historic documents. They include provenance, monetary values and much more.  Some catalogs, such as those issued by the venerable Walter Benjamin and his daughter Mary, included short articles and news that provided keen insight to the world of manuscript. Many are still beneficial to today’s collector.

Catalogs Include:

  •  earliest ones (1887-1888) issued by Walter Benjamin;
  •  issues by Mary Benjamin;
  • an impressive run of Charles Hamilton catalogs;
  • The Flying Quill: Autographs at Goodspeed’s and The Month at Goodspeed’s;
  • Stan V. Henkels catalogs including one from 1893 describing Revolutionary War items and relics of General George Washington;
  • a large quantity of Rendell catalogs;
  • over 30 catalogs issued by the late Joseph Rubinfine;
  • several catalogs by the Jenkins Company;
  • and many more catalogs from small-to medium-size dealers, such as Robert Batchelder, Emily Driscoll, Lone Star Autographs, Paul Richards, Seaport Autographs, and others.

To download a pdf of the Catalogs being offered Click Here.

The catalogs will be offered in manageable sized lots.  Detailed descriptions are provided in the auction catalog on the McGuire website, www.themcguiregroupllc.com when the auction is live.  For those of you in the greater Washington DC area winning lots are available for pick up at McGuire’s in Falls Church Virginia. All others items will be mailed to you at the lowest possible postal shipping charges.

For further information on the Manuscript Society Auction contact: Robert Hopper at hopper@manuscript.org

This should be fun and beneficial for the Manuscript Society.  So stay tuned for the next one!