Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. June 9, 2020

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks…, first edition, presentation copy to Nicolas Fatio de Duillier and with his ink and pencil annotations. £300,000 to £400,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Aliotti (Girolamo). Gratulatio ad Pium II pro foelici, ac secundo ex Mantuana peregrinatione reditu…, illuminated manuscript on fine vellum, in Latin, Florence, 1460. £50,000 to £70,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Sangorski (Alberto).- Keats (John). La Belle Dame sans Merci..., illuminated manuscript on vellum, magnificently bound in morocco elaborately tooled in gilt & inlaid with 137 jewels, 1928. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. June 9, 2020

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Miniature Book.- Taylor (John). Verbum sempiternum [&] Salvator mundi, 2 parts in 1, contemporary embroidered dos a dos binding, 1614. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Bodoni.- Rossi (Giovanni Gherado de). Scherzi Poetici e Pittorici, with original gouache drawings bound in, Neoclassical red straight-grain morocco, gilt, Parma, Bodoni, 1795. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Palladio (Andrea). I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, first edition, Venice, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570. £14,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. June 9, 2020

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Voyages.- Lowther (Rear Admiral Marcus, 1820-1908). An album of 166 original watercolours and drawings made on voyages between 1842 and 1853. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, third edition (seventh thousand), presentation copy to Robert Colgate, John Murray, 1861. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Jane Austen's Family - ?C[ooper] (E[dward], married Jane Leigh (1736-83), sister of Cassandra Leigh (1739-1827), married George Austen (1731-1805), parents of Jane Austen. Miscellanies, poems dated btwn. 1750-88.

Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper. June 9, 2020

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Americas.- Herrera y Tordesillas (Antonio). Novus orbis, sive descriptio Indiae occidentalis, 4 parts in 1 vol., Amsterdam, Colijn, 1622. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Canada.- Baker (Lt. Col. Sir Edward). An Eye Sketch of the Fall of Niagara, [c. 1795.] £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jun. 9: Dance.- Caroso (Fabrizio). Il Ballarino, first edition, Venice, Francesco Ziletti, 1581. £5,000 to £7,000.
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Swann Auction Galleries: Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation by the President of the United States, pamphlet, 1862. Sold May 7 for $11,875.

Swann Auction Galleries: Family papers of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family, Portland, Maine, 1853-1961. Sold May 7 for $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: E. Simms Campbell, A Night-Club Map of Harlem, in inaugural issue of Manhattan, 1933. Sold May 7 for $27,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Papers of the comedian Nipsey Russell, including a letter from MLK, 1929-2000. Sold May 7 for $17,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Edmonia Lewis, prominent sculptor, carte-de-visite by Henry Rocher, c. 1866-71. Sold May 7 for $5,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, 44 issues, San Francisco, 1967-1971. Sold May 7 for $6,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Ernest Withers, I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, silver print, 1968. Sold May 7 for $5,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: March For Freedom Now!, poster for a protest on the 1960 Republican Convention. Sold May 7 for $17,500.
<center>Bonhams Essential Genius: Ten Important Manuscripts For Modern Times Online June 1 – 10, 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: Renaissance Manuscript featuring two Dialogues by Plato, with translation from the Greek and learned discourse by Leonardo Bruni, called Aretino. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: Isaac Newton on the plague. Autograph Manuscript, being Newton's notes on reading Van Helmont's "De Peste." $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Autograph Letter Signed ("A. Einstein"), to "Die 'A.E. Group' in New York" humorously accepting his role as patron saint, and offering a motto for their members. $30,000 to $50,000.

<center>Bonhams Essential Genius: Ten Important Manuscripts For Modern Times Online June 1 – 10, 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: LOBACHEVSKY, NIKOLAI. Document Signed ("Lobachevsky"), and accomplished in Manuscript, a letter of designation in his role as Curator of Regional Education in Kazan. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG. Autograph Letter Signed ("Ludwig Wittgenstein") to Moritz Schlick discussing Gödel's incompleteness theorems. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: DARWIN, CHARLES. Autograph Letter Signed ("Ch Darwin") to Alexander Agassiz regarding gradation of structure in pediculariæ. $20,000 to $30,000.

<center>Bonhams Essential Genius: Ten Important Manuscripts For Modern Times Online June 1 – 10, 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: PAULI, WOLFGANG; BOHM, DAVID. Typed Letter Signed ("W. Pauli") to physicist David Bohm offering his second and final critique of Bohm's hugely influential 1952 paper. $15,000 to $25,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: WHITMAN, WALT. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Walt Whitman"), a draft of the final lines to his final poem "A Thought of Columbus." $15,000 to $25,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: KANT, IMMANUEL. Autograph Quotation Signed ("Immanuel Kant"), from an album amicorum. "Quod petis in te est, ne te quaesiveris extra." $15,000 to $25,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 1 – 10: CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE. Photograph Signed ("Mark Twain") and Inscribed, with the witty aphorism, "Admonitions—harvested from the wisdom of the ages: Physician, heal thyself. Patient, heel thyself." $10,000 to $15,000.

Recent Reported Auction Results

No	Sale Number	Auction House	Sale Name	Date of Auction	Archived Date	Total Lots	Lots Sold	% Lots Sold	CURR	Exch. Rate	Low Est. Lots Sold	High Est. Lots Sold	High Est. All Lots	Total Sales	Total Sales In $	% Total Sales / High Est.
1	#282022	Heritage Auctions	World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 5/26	June 2, 2020	June 3, 2020	127	127	100.00%	USD	1.0	22,524.00	33,786.00	33,786.00	29,829.00	29,829.00	88.29%
2	#2023	Bruun Rasmussen	Prints	June 1, 2020	June 3, 2020	70	60	85.71%	DKK	0.150376	186,000.00	210,000.00	263,500.00	243,000.00	36,443.93	92.22%
3	#53120	Dirk Soulis Auctions	The Ed McHugh Collection: Sportsman and Advertising	May 31, 2020	June 2, 2020	186	185	99.46%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	123,893.20	123,893.20
4	#152022	Heritage Auctions	Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 5/17	May 31, 2020	June 2, 2020	293	293	100.00%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	171,055.20	171,055.20
5	#64151	Heritage Auctions	The Armando Valdes Collection of South American Banknote Proofs Online Auction	May 31, 2020	June 1, 2020	208	199	95.67%	USD	1.0	38,424.00	57,636.00	63,276.00	39,048.00	39,048.00	61.71%
6	#122022	Heritage Auctions	Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online	May 31, 2020	June 2, 2020	629	629	100.00%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	343,281.00	343,281.00
7	#162022	Heritage Auctions	Movie Posters Weekly	May 31, 2020	June 2, 2020	552	548	99.28%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	62,411.00	62,411.00
8	#5302020	Dirk Soulis Auctions	McHugh Railroadiana Collection, Session II	May 30, 2020	June 2, 2020	425	413	97.18%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	340,090.45	340,090.45
9	#156	Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers	Important Numismatic Book Sale - bidstart 5/4	May 30, 2020	June 2, 2020	419	351	83.77%	USD	1.0	102,120.00	102,120.00	116,910.00	172,043.50	172,044.03	147.16%
10	#1189	Nadeau's Auction Gallery	Mic-Century and Contemporary Sale - Prints, Photographs, Books	May 30, 2020	June 2, 2020	39	37	94.87%	USD	1.0	8,075.00	15,725.00	16,525.00	19,399.25	19,399.25	117.39%
11	#53020	Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books	Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper	May 30, 2020	June 1, 2020	200	195	97.50%	USD	1.0	88,050.00	164,600.00	174,000.00	49,252.50	49,252.50	28.31%
12	#222	Rachel Davis Fine Arts	Works on Paper - Prints	May 30, 2020	June 3, 2020	184	162	88.04%	USD	1.0	29,230.00	52,400.00	59,790.00	38,978.10	38,978.10	65.19%
13	#52920	Dirk Soulis Auctions	The Ed McHugh Collection: Books, including Railroad and Military History	May 29, 2020	May 30, 2020	102	102	100.00%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	38,798.55	38,798.55
14	#52920a	Catawiki B. V.	Cartography - Online Bidstart 5/22	May 29, 2020	June 1, 2020	35	20	57.14%	EUR	1.12413	11,575.00	15,150.00	35,200.00	11,266.24	12,577.22	32.01%
15	#52920b	Catawiki B. V.	Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 5/22	May 29, 2020	June 1, 2020	140	120	85.71%	EUR	1.12413	15,770.00	19,050.00	26,495.00	19,894.68	22,209.72	75.09%
16	#1669	Freemans	Books and Manuscripts	May 28, 2020	May 30, 2020	218	200	91.74%	USD	1.0	164,750.00	257,600.00	356,230.00	261,325.00	261,325.00	73.36%
17	#1043T	Morton Subastas	Online Only, Morton Weekly - Books, Prints	May 28, 2020	May 30, 2020	61	41	67.21%	MXN	0.046048	93,500.00	145,600.00	245,300.00	116,520.00	5,234.43	47.50%
18	#697	PBA Galleries	Art & Archaeology of Asia - Travel & Exploration - Cartography	May 28, 2020	May 30, 2020	319	250	78.37%	USD	1.0	126,770.00	201,100.00	390,900.00	142,020.00	142,020.00	36.33%
19	#1668	Freemans	The Martin Magovsky Collection of Children's Books	May 28, 2020	May 30, 2020	156	119	76.28%	USD	1.0	23,890.00	37,360.00	53,600.00	25,094.50	25,094.50	46.82%
20	#514	Morphy Auctions	Founders and Patriots: Documents, Maps, Rare Imprints and Books	May 27, 2020	May 30, 2020	58	48	82.76%	USD	1.0	92,550.00	190,800.00	258,100.00	139,028.00	139,028.00	53.87%
21	#2154	Forum Auctions	Forum Auctions @ Artsy: The Body Inform	May 27, 2020	June 2, 2020	59	27	45.76%	GBP	1.260294	26,200.00	38,350.00	122,850.00	34,456.00	43,091.67	28.05%
22	#N10508	Sothebys	Books and Manuscripts: A Spring Miscellany - Online bidstart 5/14	May 27, 2020	May 28, 2020	190	133	70.00%	USD	1.0	536,100.00	800,800.00	1,071,400.00	770,750.00	770,750.00	71.94%
23	#52720	Catawiki B. V.	Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 5/15	May 27, 2020	June 1, 2020	90	84	93.33%	EUR	1.12413	3,450.00	4,440.00	5,640.00	7,651.80	8,542.21	135.67%
24	#19122	Christies	Rare Books and Manuscripts	May 27, 2020	May 29, 2020	182	147	80.77%	EUR	1.12413	731,200.00	1,060,750.00	1,388,450.00	1,283,576.00	1,422,958.32	92.45%
25	#52720	Nye & Company Auctioneers	Estate Treasures - Fine Art Prints, Maps	May 27, 2020	May 29, 2020	35	16	45.71%	USD	1.0	0.00	0.00	0.00	29,980.00	29,980.00
26	#3378T	Skinner	Fine Prints and Photographs	May 27, 2020	May 29, 2020	138	118	85.51%	USD	1.0	165,100.00	251,750.00	287,350.00	278,638.00	278,638.00	96.97%
27	#745	Dominic Winter Book Auctions	Printed Books, Maps, Prints, Autographs & Documents, Antiquarian, Travel, Military & Natural History	May 27, 2020	May 30, 2020	874	830	94.97%	GBP	1.260294	223,390.00	335,150.00	365,050.00	583,138.80	718,652.85	159.74%
28	#142021	Heritage Auctions	U.S. Currency Weekly - Internet Bidstart 5/19	May 26, 2020	May 28, 2020	727	723	99.45%	USD	1.0	119,686.00	172,238.00	174,538.00	139,460.40	139,460.40	79.90%
29	#282021	Heritage Auctions	World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 5/19	May 26, 2020	May 28, 2020	130	130	100.00%	USD	1.0	21,952.00	32,928.00	32,928.00	33,879.60	33,879.60	102.89%
30	#105718	Aguttes	Autographs and Manuscripts	May 26, 2020	June 3, 2020	278	222	79.86%	EUR	1.12413	287,920.00	374,050.00	429,420.00	487,706.00	548,199.09	113.57%
31	#4061	Artcurial	ASTERIX SUPPORTS FONDATION HÔPITAUX DE PARIS - HÔPITAUX DE FRANCE	May 26, 2020	May 28, 2020	5	4	80.00%	EUR	1.12413	260,000.00	400,000.00	520,000.00	390,000.00	429,900.12	75.00%
32	#28	Gonnelli Casa DAste	Books and Graphics	May 26, 2020	May 29, 2020	1145	847	73.97%	EUR	1.12413	345,670.00	477,870.00	771,670.00	800,837.50	887,799.97	103.78%
33	#52620	William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals	Online Only: Timed Eclectic Variety - bidstart 3/15	May 26, 2020	May 28, 2020	25	24	96.00%	USD	1.0	900.00	1,780.00	1,820.00	1,104.00	1,104.00	60.66%
34	#52620	Catawiki B. V.	Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 5/15	May 26, 2020	June 1, 2020	42	36	85.71%	EUR	1.12413	7,300.00	9,090.00	47,090.00	10,940.33	12,213.39	23.23%
35	#2022	Bruun Rasmussen	Prints	May 25, 2020	May 29, 2020	100	91	91.00%	EUR	1.12413	35,435.00	38,890.00	42,105.00	41,920.00	46,472.03	99.56%
36	#63661	Vermot de Pas	History and Regions of France	May 25, 2020	May 29, 2020	578	179	30.97%	EUR	1.12413	31,070.00	40,460.00	124,810.00	49,121.10	54,455.00	39.36%
37	#52520	Catawiki B. V.	Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 5/15	May 25, 2020	June 1, 2020	69	55	79.71%	EUR	1.12413	10,560.00	13,720.00	30,145.00	15,722.16	17,551.67	52.16%
38	#52420	Catawiki B. V.	Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 5/15	May 24, 2020	June 1, 2020	40	31	77.50%	EUR	1.12413	8,470.00	9,980.00	14,410.00	8,981.60	10,026.75	62.33%
					TOTAL VALUES	9,128	7,796	85.41%							$7,525,688.15

Koller International Auctions: Books [and] Manuscripts & Autographs. June 15, 2020

Koller, Jun. 15: INCUNABULA -Fridolin, Stephan. Schatzbehalter. With 96 (including 5 repeated) full-page text woodcuts. Nürnberg, 1491. € 39 470 / 57 020

Koller, Jun. 15: Kokoschka, Oskar. Die Träumenden Knaben (The Dreaming Boys). With 11 original lithographs. Vienne, 1908. € 35 090 / 52 630

Koller, Jun. 15: Third Bessarion Master (active in Lombard in the third quarter of the 15th century). Leaf from a gradual, 1455-60. € 21 930 / 30 700

Koller, Jun. 15: Picasso, Pablo - Delgado, José alias Pepe Illo. La Tauromaquia o arte de torear. With 26 original aquatints and 1 original etching by Picasso. € 21 930 / 35 090

Koller International Auctions: Books [and] Manuscripts & Autographs. June 15, 2020

Koller, Jun. 15: Linschoten, Jan Huygen van. Itinerario, Voyage ofte Schipvaert naer Oost ofte Portugaels Indien… Amsterdam, 1595. € 17 540 / 26 320

Koller, Jun. 15: CHILDREN’S BOOKS - Meggendorfer, Lothar. Nah und Fern. Ein Tierbilderbuch zum Ziehen. With 8 coloured, lithographed plates. € 530 / 790

Koller, Jun. 15: DANSE MACABRE - Bille, Edmond. Une Danse macabre. With 20 coloured woodcuts. Lausanne, 1919. Large folio. € 610 / 880

Koller, Jun. 15: Dexel, Walter. A collection of 7 invitation cards from the Kunstverein Jena, each typographically designed by W. Dexel. Jena, 1924-1928. Each 10.5 x 14.8 cm. € 530 / 790
<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Live and Online June 23, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [SUPREME COURT JUSTICES]. A very extensive collection of 203 letters, documents and signatures. A COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES, JOHN JAY THROUGH WILLIAM REHNQUIST. $20,000 to $30,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: ZATTA, Antonio. Atlante Novissimo. Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1775-1785. ONE OF THE FINEST WORLD ATLASES issued in Italy in the 18th century. $15,000 to $20,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [CHICAGO HISTORY] -- [COLUMBUS, Christopher]. Monumental historiated and embroidered panel of the MADE FOR THE 1893 COLUMBIAN EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO. $12,000 to $18,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Live and Online June 23, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [MONASTERY HILL BINDING]. AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Historical Romances. Philadelphia, n.d. A fine early exhibition binding by the Monastery Hill Bindery. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM]. New York: Tiber Press, [1960]. 4 volumes. LIMITED EDITION, number 119 of 200 COPIES, EACH SIGNED BY THE POET AND ARTIST. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: GRATIANUS, the Canonist. Decretum. Venedig: Petrus de Plasiis, 25 January 1483. Second quarto edition. FIRST PAGE ILLUMINATED BY A CONTEMPORARY ARTIST. $4,000 to $6,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Live and Online June 23, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [ABOLITIONISTS]. William Lloyd Garrison. The Story of his Life. New York, 1885. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS FROM SEVERAL NOTABLE ABOLITIONISTS neatly bound in throughout. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: ANSON, George. A Voyage round the World, In the Years 1740... 1744. London: John and Paul Knapton for the author, 1748. FIRST EDITION. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: Blank railroad ledger, "Compagnie des Chemins de fer de l'Ouest" (spine title). N.p., 1909. A MONUMENTAL 20th-CENTURY ART NOUVEAU BINDING. $1,000 to $1,500.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana Live and Online June 23, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [MINIATURE ROOM] -- [FLEMING, John (1910-1987)]. Miniature of his 57th Street Library and Gallery. JOHN F. FLEMING'S BARONIAL 57TH STREET GALLERY. $1,500 to $2,500.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE BINDING]. CHESTERTON, G.K. Five Types: A Book of Essays. London, 1910. LIMITED EDITION, number 3 of 30 copies on vellum SIGNED BY GEORGE SUTCLIFFE. $400 to $500.

Hindman Auctions, Jun. 23: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. When Adam Delved and Eve Span.... [Ancoats Brotherhood, 1894-5]. LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies printed. $500 to $700.

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