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Auction House Name	Swaen Map Auction
Site URL	https://www.swaen.com
About Us	Paulus Swaen specializes in maps of all parts of the world, atlases and globes, illustrated books and medieval manuscripts. Paulus Swaen Internet Auction, first offered in 1996, was the first internet auction to specialize in old maps. It is a unique place for buying and selling antique maps, atlases, books, and medieval manuscripts. Sales are conducted in February, March, April, May, June, September, October and November. The firm has an ample stock of maps of all parts of the world produced by renowned cartographers, such as Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, Janssonius, Hondius, Visscher, de Wit, as well as dealing in atlases, globes, travel books and medieval manuscripts.A certificate of authenticity is provided with each lot. The firm was founded in 1978 in the Netherlands and the Gallery was housed until the middle of 1997 in a lovely old building. Beginning in 1996 we began to offer catalogues on the Internet. A map auction division was added the same year. Today the business is managed from both Florida, USA and London
Who do I contact if I have questions?
City	Indian Rocks Beach
State	Florida
Country	United States
Zipcode	33785
Contact Number	(727) 687-3298
Buyer's Fee	The buyer pays, on top of the hammer price, a premium of 12% on the first $30,000 and 8% on the excess. Buyers from within the State of Florida pay a 7% sales tax on the hammer price plus buyer's premium and shipping cost.
Consigner's Fee	Commission rates for consignors depend on value: 12% for items that sell for $5,000 and below, 8% for items that sell for more than $5,000.

AUCTION LIST

<b><center>Hindman Auctions<br>Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection<br>March 19, 2021</b>

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). <i>The Pastures of Heaven.</i> New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. $10,000 to $15,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). <i>Tender is the Night.</i> New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. $6,000 to $8,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. $5,000 to $7,000.

<b><center>Hindman Auctions<br>Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection<br>March 19, 2021</b>

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> GOLDING, William (1911-1993). <i>Lord of the Flies.</i> London: Faber and Faber, 1954. $4,000 to $6,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. $4,000 to $6,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). <i>The Torrents of Spring.</i> New York: Scribner's, 1926. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b><center>Hindman Auctions<br>Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection<br>March 19, 2021</b>

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). <i>Brave New World.</i> London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> WELLS, H.G. <i>The Time Machine, an Invention.</i> New York: Henry Holt, 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> DAHL, Roald (1916-1990). <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.</i> New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. $2,000 to $3,000.

<b><center>Hindman Auctions<br>Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection<br>March 19, 2021</b>

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $2,000 to $3,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). <i>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.</i> New York: The Viking Press, 1962. $2,000 to $3,000.

<b>Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19:</b> VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). <i>Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade.</i> New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>

<center><b>California Virtual Book Fair<br>March 4-6, 2021<br>www.abaa.org/vbf</b>
<center><b>The Collectors’ Sale<br>March 3, 2021</b>

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: <i>The Book of Kells,</i> the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION. €5,000 to €6,000.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Rowling (J.K.) <i>Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone,</i> 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1997, First Deluxe Edn., Signed by the Author on title page. €4,000 to €5,000.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Gilbert (John T.) Account of Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, from the earliest extant specimens to A.D. 719. €2,000 to €3,000.

<center><b>The Collectors’ Sale<br>March 3, 2021</b>

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> <i>The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin [-Ireland],</i> 5 vols. lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Limited Editions. €1,500 to €2,000.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Yeats (W.B.) <i>The Poems of W.B. Yeats,</i> 2 vols., roy 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949, Limited Edn., No. 185 (of 375 copies). Signed. €1,500 to €2,000.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Crone (John S.)ed. <i>The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography.</i> Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. €1,250 to €2,000.

<center><b>The Collectors’ Sale<br>March 3, 2021</b>

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Yeats (John Butler) <i>An original self-portrait Sketch,</i> Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York. €1,200 to €1,500.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Photograph Album. Entitled ''A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst… 14th December 1927''. €1,000 to €1,500.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Pistolesi (Erasmo) <i>Il Vaticano,</i> 8vols. large atlas, folio Rome (Tipografia della Societa..) 1829. €500 to €600.

<center><b>The Collectors’ Sale<br>March 3, 2021</b>

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Chagall (Marc)illus., Legmarie (Jean) comp., <i>The Jerusalem Windows,</i> folio N.Y. (George Braziller) 1962. €400 to €500.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Bullitt (Thos. W.) <i>My Life at Oxmoor,</i> Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. €300 to €400.

<b>Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3:</b> Popish Plot: Oates (Titus) <i>The Popes Whore House or The Merchandise of The Whore of Rome,</i> folio L. 1679. First Edn. €100 to €150.
<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Dorothea Lange, <i>Migrant Mother (horizontal),</i> silver print, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Group of 32 WWII-era identification badges for manufacturing & military-related companies, 1940-50s. $2,000 to $3,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Julia Margaret Cameron, <i>Alfred, Lord Tennyson,</i> albumen print, 1869. $10,000 to $15,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Arnold Genthe, <i>Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt,</i> silver print, circa 1908. $1,000 to $1,500.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Edward Curtis, <I>Oasis in the Badlands,</I> toned platinum print, 1905. $8,000 to $12,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Francis Frith, three volumes, approximately 140 photographs, 1860-70s. $10,000 to $15,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Eugène Atget, <i>20 Photographs,</i> gold-toned silver prints by Berenice Abbott, 1898-1927. $8,000 to $12,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b> Neil Leifer, <i>Muhammad Ali,</i> chromogenic print, 1965. $4,000 to $6,000.

<b>Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11:</b><br>A group of approximately 50 Photomatic selfies of the same man taken over a period of time, 1940s. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.