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Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: KNIGHT, HILARY. The Original Portrait of Eloise that Hung at the Plaza Hotel. $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: WARHOL, ANDY. "Iced Lemon Delight," an Original Watercolor Presented to Hilary Knight's cat, Phoebe $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with drawing to Hilary Knight in the month following publication. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: NOLAND, KENNETH. Original circle painting, untitled, acrylic and ink on cloth, for cover of monograph $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. Histoires Naturelles, 1899. With 22 original lithographs. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A Collection of Poems, [1711]. The first authoritative and complete collected Sonnets.$15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: LONDON, JACK. The Call of the Wild. 1903. First edition, first state jacket. $2,000 to 3,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: FROST, ROBERT. Autograph Manuscript of "Build Soil," 12 pp, 1932-1936. $15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: GOULD, GLENN. Glenn Gould's extensively annotated copy of Bach's Goldberg Variations $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: PLATH, SYLVIA. EARLY Autograph Letter Signed, about her beginnings as a writer, Northampton, MA, 1951. $7,000 to 10,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: HOUDINI, HARRY. A collection of 11 cast iron shackle and lock items from Houdini's personal collection. $20,000 to 30,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: M4 ENGIMA MACHINE, with very rare RARE HYDRA KEY ENVELOPE. $400,000 to 600,000
Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: [MAGGIOLO, Vesconte] Carta nautica manoscritta, bottega di Vesconte Maggiolo. Italy, c.1550. Previously unknown extraordinary portolan chart. €50,000 to 80,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François. Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde. Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, 1797. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: PEREA Y ROJAS, Daniel. The preparatory watercolours to the renown album A Los Toros. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: MELA, Pomponio. Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Venice, 1478 [Bound with] DIONISIO il Periegeta. De situ orbis… Venice, 1478. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: DE FELICE, Fortunato Bartolomeo. Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonne des connoissances humaines. Yverdon, 1770-1780. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VECELLIO, Cesare. De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo. Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA, Giovanni Battista; SPECCHI, Alessandro. Il nuovo teatro delle fabriche… [bound with] ll quarto libro del nuovo teatro delli palazzi in prospettiva di Roma moderna. 1665-1699. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA Giovan Battista. Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi pubblici della citta - Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano… Rome, [1691]. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FERRERIO, Pietro & Giovanni Battista FALDA. Palazzi di Roma de piu celebri architetti disegnati… [1655 – 1677]. €2,500 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VON JACQUIN, Joseph Franz. Eclogae graminum rariorum. Vienna: Strauss Sommer, 1813-1844. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: Prayer book according to the synagogical Ashkenazy rite in an elegant and precious silver binding. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Ameto. Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1524. €3,000 to 5,000
Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 230: Charles Bukowski. South of No North. Los Angeles, 1973. First edition. Signed. $1,500 to $2,000

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 244: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. Garden City, 1932. First American edition. Signed. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 10: Frank Lloyd Wright. “Fallingwater Side Elevation” Original Blueprint. $1,500 to $2,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 169: Chicago’s Progress: A Review of the World’s Fair City. Chicago: Bishop Publishing, (1933). $150 to $250

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 299: [Tanguy, Yves] Benjamin Peret. Dormir dans Les Pierres. Paris: Editions Surrealistes, 1927. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 276: Jean Hans Arp. Arp: Eleven Configurations. Zurich, 1945. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 235: Joseph Conrad. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. New York: 1904. First edition. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 290: Umberto Brunelleschi. Louys, Pierre. Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. Paris: 1930. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 700: X-Men No. 94. Marvel Comics, 1975. CGC 9.0. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 540: Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins [and] Mary Poppins Comes Back. Signed. New York: 1936. $1,000 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 576: Mickey Mouse. 17 Big Little Books. 1930s-40s. $300 to $500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 429: Paracelsus. Medicina Diastatica or Sympathecall Mumie. London: 1653. $800 to $1,200
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…

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AUCTION LIST

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, first edition with inclusions. $18,000 to $26,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: John James Audubon. A la poupee color engraving on paper "Stanley Hawk." $6,000 to $12,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE] Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, London, 1838. 3 vols. $8,000 to $10,000

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Land indenture between William Penn and Thomas Gell, dated October 12, 1681, wherein Gell purchased 500 acres Pennsylvania farmland; signed by Penn. $4,000 to $6,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Thomas Hart Benton, lithograph on paper "The Woodpile", pencil signed, original AAA certificate. $1,500 to $2,500

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Helen Dryden, Vogue cover design lithograph completed in hand watercolor, proof design for September 1922 issue. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Fisher, John D. Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small Pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow Pox, and Chicken Pox, Boston, 1829. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [Rare Dust Jacket] Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage, NY, 1896. $500 to $700

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: after Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920), chromolithograph on paper "Lunia Czechowska", signed in plate, artist's proof (A/P). $200 to $400

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Samuel Arlent Edwards, color mezzotint on paper "A Visit to the Boarding School", pencil signed. $100 to $200
Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Kingsborough, Edward King. Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics… London, 1831-1848. $80,000 to $120,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Paul Revere. The Bloody Massacre perpetrated In King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg. Boston, 1770. $150,000 to $200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Battle of the Alamo. Suplemento al Diario del Gobierno de la Republica Mexicana. (Núm. 326. Tom. IV.). Mexico City: Imprenta del Aguila, Dirigida por José Ximeno, 1836. $6,000 to $8,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: The Declaration of Independence. The first book-form printing of the Declaration of Independence. $300,000 to $500,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Treaty of Paris, Ratification. By the United States in Congress Assembled, A Proclamation … Annapolis, [Ca. 16-17 January 1784]. $800,000 to $1,200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Declaration of Independence. The only known privately held copy of the celebrated William J. Stone facsimile for which provenance can be traced back to a direct ancestor who received it in 1824. $600,000 to $800,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Crockett, David. Autograph letter signed ("David Crockett") to George Patton, announcing his intention to travel to Texas. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Wytfliet, Cornelius. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, Sive Occidentalis Notitia Brevi Commentario Illustrata. Leuven: Johannes Bogaerts 1597. $35,000 to $50,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum cum Figuris et Ymaginibus. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: New York Mets. Baseball from the first victory of the New York Mets. $25,000 to $35,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Robert E. Lee. Autograph letter signed ("R E Lee") as Confederate commander, to Rabbi Max Michelbacher, declining to furlough Jewish Confederate troops for the high holy days. $150,000 to $250,000
Chiswick Auctions: Rare Books & Works on Paper. January 23, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Rossini (Luigi, artist & engraver). Le Antichità Romane, ossia Raccolta della piu interessanti Vedute di Roma Antica, 89 plates. £2500 to £3500

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Four original hand-painted propaganda posters, (550 x 770 mm.), North Korea, 2009. £1200 to £1800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Plinius Secundus (Gaius). Historia Natural, 2 vol, Spanish translation, woodcut arms of Philip IV of Spain, Madrid, 1624; 1629 £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Nasmyth (James) & Carpenter (James). The Moon, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 24 plates, 1874. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions: Rare Books & Works on Paper. January 23, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: A group (12) of large size Chinese Cultural Revolution papercuts on red paper presented on white paper backing, featuring various slogans and images of General Mao. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Coronelli (V. M.). Tran-Siselana, copper engraved, hand-coloured, title cartouche with four winds and four monkeys, coat of arms, Venice, c.1692; and 8 others. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Pouchkine (Alexandre). Contes populaires Russes… traduits … par Alexandra de Holstein et René Ghil, FIRST EDITION, n. 165 of an edition of 270 copies. £400 to £600
Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, Gehenna Press, 1983. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special copy for illustrator Alan James Robinson, first book from Cheloniidae Press, 1980. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of 6 etchings, 1990. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition, Munich, 1913. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Charles Dickens, The Nonesuch Dickens, limited edition, 1937-38. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1919. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, Paris, 1911. $3,500 to $5,000.
Shapero Rare Books: Fine Illustrated Books. 50 illustrated works across a range of subjects.

Shapero Rare Books: Present Perfect. Books & works on paper including Literature, Children’s & Illustrated, Sports & Pastimes, Modern Prints and more.

Shapero Rare Books: The House of Romanov, marking the centenary of the tragic demise of the Romanov dynasty.

Shapero Rare Books: CHAGALL & GOGOL. Les âmes mortes, 1948. Chagall’s first major illustrated book.

Shapero Rare Books: GUSTAV KLIMT, eine nachlese, 1931. An important early monograph on Klimt.

Shapero Rare Books: ELLIOT. Birds of North America, 1866. One of 200 2 vols sets, folio.

Shapero Rare Books: PURCHAS. His Pilgrimes/Pilgrimage, 1625-26. 5 vols. Probably the greatest collection of voyages ever published.

Shapero Rare Books: HUXLEY. Brave New World, 1932. Exceptionally fine first edition.

Shapero Rare Books: KELMSCOTT PRESS. Poems of Shakespeare, one of 500, publisher’s vellum.

Shapero Rare Books: LEROUX. Phantom of the Opera, 1911. First UK edition in fine S&S binding.

Shapero Rare Books: INDIANA, Robert. The American Dream, one of 30 AP copies, 30 screen prints.

Shapero Rare Books: BENOIS. Tsarskoe Selo during the Reign of Elizaveta Petrovna, St Petersburg, 1910. Deluxe issue.

Shapero Rare Books: CORONATION ALBUM. Description du sacre et du couronnement de leurs Majestés Impériales, 1883. One of 200.

Shapero Rare Books: IMPERIAL FAMILY. Signed original photograph of Tsar Nicholas II’s 4 daughters.

Shapero Rare Books: Souvenir du Couronnement de Leurs Majestés Imperiales a Moscou, 1896.