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Auction House Name	Sothebys
Site URL	http://www.sothebys.com/
About Us	Art, antiques, rare and fine books in Americana, prints, ephemera, maps. On March 11, 1744, Samuel Baker, founder of Sotheby's, held the first-ever sale under his own name. It has only been in the last century, after all, that the original London company has expanded from book auctions to cover all areas of the fine and decorative arts. Sotheby's holds auctions practically every other day. In New York alone, there are more than 150 auctions in any given year.
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City	Amsterdam
Country	Netherlands
Zipcode	1083 HJ
Contact Number	(212) 606-7000
Buyer's Fee	20% premium and an additional 12% after 100,000 USD or 70,000 GBP.
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AUCTION LIST

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Dramatized Sales Methods, designers unknown, 36 pamphlets, 1930. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Paul Rand, IBM, 1982. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Charles Loupot, Peugeot, 1926. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Wladyslaw Strzeminski, [Create the “Week of the Red Gift” Everywhere], 1919. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Charles Loupot, Twining, 1930. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Charles Loupot, Lion Noir / Cirage – Crème, 1949. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Triplex, 1931. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Étoile du Nord, 1927. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Edward McKnight Kauffer, Shop Between 10 and 4, The Quiet Hours, And by Underground, 1930. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries May 23: Lester Beall, Rural Electrification Administration, 1939. $20,000 to $30,000.
<center>Chiswick Auctions

Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Rumphius (Georgius Everhardus). D’Ambionsche Rariteitkamer, FIRST EDITION, 61 handcoloured engraved plates, 1705. £10,000 to £15,000

Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Collodi (Carlo) Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 61 illustrations by Enrico Mazzanti, 1883. £8,000 to £12,000

Chiswick Auctions, May 29: De Bry (T, J T & J I). [Great Voyages, part IV] Americae sive Insignis & Admiranda Historia de Reperta primum Occidentali India, FIRST EDITION, 23 engraved plates, 1594. £4,000 to £6,000

Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Wine & Beer.-Kellermaysterey. Gründtlicher bericht wie man alle wein Teütscher und Welscher landen vor allen zufallen bewaren..., 16 leaves of manuscript notes, 1548. £2,000 to £3,000

Chiswick Auctions, May 29: Table Globe'- Doppelmayr (J G) & Puschner (J G, engraver). An 8-inch German terrestrial table Globe, diameter c.200 mm, height c.300 mm, 1730. £6,000 to £8,000

<center>Chiswick AuctionsChiswick Auctions, May 30: An album with 107 original watercolours featuring landscapes and views of various places in England, Scotland and Ireland, late 1840s. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Hemingway (Ernest). Black and white, landscape photograph of man on horseback, signed and inscribed by Hemingway. £1,000 to £1,500

Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Unrecorded autograph letter by Charles William Stewart to his father the Marquess of Londonerry, describing the ceremony of the presentation to Consul Bonaparte in January 1803. £6,000 to £8,000.

Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Davis (William Heath). Seventy-five Years in California, Author's Section of the Argonaut Edition, no. 142 [of 250 copies] signed by the editor and publisher on limitation leaf. £1,500 to £2,000

Chiswick Auctions, May 30: Prussian Royal Family. Six signed photographs of members of Prussian Royal Family, in a contemporary folding triptych, ebonised wood display case. £1,500 to £2,000
<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Breviarium Romanum, before 1478. Est: € 15,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: C. Ptolemaeus, Geographie, 1513. Est: € 140,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: M. Chagall, Daphnis & Chloé, 1961. Est: € 130,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: F. Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1499. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: J. H. van Linschoten, Itinerarium, 1644. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: M. Chagall, Cirque, 1967. Est: € 120,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: G. L. L. Buffon, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux, 1765-83. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: P. J. Redouté, Les liliacées, 1802-16. Est: € 120,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: M. E. Bloch, Naturgeschichte der Fische, 1782-95. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: H. A. Châtelain, Atlas historique, 1718-20. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Bauhausbücher, complete series, 1925-30. Est: € 28,000
Bonhams, Jun 13: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Very Fine. $200,000 to $300,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. $40,000 to $60,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. $15,000 to $25,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Neill, John R. Pen-and-ink drawing from Oz, "He raised his gun, took aim and fired," $6,000 to $8,000

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts June 13 - New York

Bonhams, Jun 13: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. $8,000 to $12,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Thompson, Kay. Eloise at Christmastime. New York: Random House, [1958]. First edition. In custom binding by Asprey. $3,000 to $5,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. $2,000 to $3,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. $7,000 to $9,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Taylor, Deems. Walt Disney’s Fantasia. New York: 1940. In custom binding by Asprey. $3,000 to $5,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. $5,000 to $7,000

Bonhams, Jun 13: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. $1,500 to $2,500