<b>Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019</b>

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Greco (Gioachino). <i>Primo modo del gioco de Partito…</i> Manuscript, France, 1624 or 1625. A collection of partiti, or 'chess problems' by one of the most important figures in the history of chess. £20,000 to £30,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Herodotus. <i>Historiae,</i> translated into Latin by Lorenzo Valla and edited by Antonio Mancinelli. Venice, 1494. £15,000 to £20,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Darwin (Charles). Autograph Letter signed to his cousin Reginald Darwin, Down, Beckenham, Kent, 27th March 1879. £12,000 to £18,000.

<b>Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019</b>

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Nicolay (Nicolas de). <i>The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie,</i> first edition in English, Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de). <i>The Little Prince,</i> number 66 of 525 copies signed by the author, 1943. £8,000 to £12,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Catlin (George, 1796-1872). Tuch-ee, A Celebrated War Chief of the Cherokees, watercolour, [circa 1834]. £6,000 to £8,000.

<b>Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019</b>

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Genetics.- A collection of c.300 pamphlets on genetics comprising many of the major contributions from the first half of the 20th century. £5,000 to £7,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> India.- Rajasthan.- Kota School (probably late 18th c.). Elephant in a landscape with chains around his feet, brush and black ink with opaque pigments. £5,000 to £7,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Commelin (Caspar). <i>Horti medici Amstelaedamensis plantae rariores et exoticae,</i> first edition, 48 finely hand-coloured engraved plates, Leiden, F.Haringh, 1706. £4,000 to £6,000.

<b>Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. March 28, 2019</b>

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Plague-water and cookery & medical recipes.- Jackson (Mrs Sarah). Medical and cookery recipes, manuscript in several hands, title and 134pp., 1688-1755. £4,000 to £6,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Vernet (<i>After</i> Joseph, 1714-1789). <i>[Vues des ports de France],</i> sixteen plates (of 18), etchings and engravings by Charles Nicolas Cochin fils and Jacques Philippe Le Bas, [c.1760-1780]. £4,000 to £6,000.

<b>Forum Auctions, Mar 28:</b> Detmold (Edward Julius, 1883-1957). Parrots and Butterflies, watercolour. £2,500 to £3,500.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 7: John Blackbridge. <i>The Complete Poker Player.</i> New York, 1875. First Edition. $1,500 to $2,500.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 14: Garrett Brown. <i>How to Beat the Game.</i> New York, 1903. $100 to $200.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 22: Anthony Comstock. <i>Frauds Exposed.</i> New York, 1880. $300 to $500.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 35: S.W. Erdnase. <i>The Expert at the Card Table.</i> Chicago: Author, 1902. First edition. $6,000 to $9,000.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 41: [Gerritt Evans] “A Retired Professional,” pseudo. <i>How Gamblers Win.</i> New York, ca. 1870s. $250 to $350.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 54: Jonathan Harrington Green. <i>An Exposure of the Arts and Miseries of Gambling.</i> Cincinnati, 1843. First edition. $2,000 to $3,000.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 277: Phil Farley. <i>Criminals Of America Illustrated.</i> New York, 1876. $50 to $100.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 228: <i>The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon, a Witty Extravagant: Comprising the Most Eminent Cheats of Both Sexes.</i> London, 1666; 1671; 1680. $3,000 to $5,000.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 219: Abraham De Moivre. <i>The Doctrine of Chances: or, a Method of Calculating the Probabilities of Events in Play.</i> London, 1718. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 95: Barabbas Whitefeather, pseudo. <i>The Handbook of Swindling.</i> London, 1839. Presentation copy, inscribed. $900 to $1,300.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 134: <i>Poker Chips: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Stories of the Great American Game.</i> New York, 1896. Five issues. $1,500 to $2,500.

<b>Potter & Potter Auctions, Mar 30:</b><br>Lot 87: Harry Houdini. <i>The Right Way to Do Wrong.</i> Boston, 1906. $150 to $250.

<b>Koller Auctions: Books & Autographs. March 26, 2019</b>

<b>Koller Auctions, Mar 26:</b> Jacques Gamelin. <i>Nouveau recueil d'osteologie et de myologie, dessine d'apres nature...</i> 2 parts in 1 vol., large folio, 82 copper plates. CHF 12,000 to 18,000

<b>Koller Auctions, Mar 26:</b> Melchior Pfintzing. <i>Die geverlicheiten und einsteils geschichten des loblichen streytparen...</i> 118 woodcut engravings, first edition. CHF 30,000 to 50,000

<b>Koller Auctions, Mar 26:</b> Book of hours. Handwritten Latin text on vellum. With 17 large miniatures, Flanders, c.1460. CHF 70,000 to 90,000

<b>Koller Auctions, Mar 26:</b> Maria Sibylla Merian. <i> Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium,</i> 72 copper plates, Den Haag, 1726. CHF 60,000 to 90,000

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> <i>The Negro Travelers' Green Book,</i> edited by Victor H. Green, New York, 1958. $2,500 to $3,500.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Phillis Wheatley, <i>Poems on Various Subjects, Religious & Moral,</i> London, 1773. $15,000 to $25,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> David Ruggles, <i>The Mirror of Liberty,</i> first issue of the first magazine edited by an African American, New York, 1838. $8,000 to $12,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Lorraine Hansberry, <i>A Raisin in the Sun,</i> draft typescript, inscribed by the playwright, circa 1958. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Pair of letterpress broadsides for Ira Aldridge’s historic first 2 performances at London’s Theatre Royal, 1833. $10,000 to $15,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Archive of letters to John Augustine Washington III at Mount Vernon, many of which discuss the lives of enslaved persons, 1837-61. $20,000 to $30,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Important archive of letters and photographs of Charles White and his spouse, Frances B. White, 1956-60. $4,000 to $6,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Papers of educator Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, one of the leading popularizers of Kwanzaa, 1940-1975. $6,000 to $9,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Stock certificate of the Negro Factories Corporation, signed by Marcus Garvey, 1920. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Benjamin Banneker, <i>Bannaker’s Maryland . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1796,</i> Baltimore, 1795. $15,000 to $25,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> Frederick Douglass, previously unknown carte-de-visite by Samuel M. Fassett, Washington DC, 1878. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28:</b> <i>First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance,</i> New York, 1837. $3,000 to $4,000.