• Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas

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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 #726 PBA Galleries Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography April 01, 2021 April 02, 2021 394 281 71.32% USD 1.0 174,750.00 273,650.00 391,750.00 171,288.00 171,288.00 43.72%
2 #40121 Eldreds Spring Sale: Session 1 April 01, 2021 April 02, 2021 38 38 100.00% USD 1.0 38,500.00 62,500.00 62,500.00 66,875.00 66,875.00 107.00%
3 #L21899 Sothebys Original Film Posters - bidstart 3/18 April 01, 2021 April 02, 2021 258 228 88.37% GBP 1.414 271,300.00 427,200.00 485,700.00 427,140.00 590,862.73 87.94%
4 #1232 Robert Siegel Galleries United States Stamps and Postal History March 31, 2021 April 01, 2021 252 249 98.81% USD 1.0 194,600.00 269,800.00 271,800.00 309,702.80 309,702.80 113.95%
5 #1233 Robert Siegel Galleries Inverted Jenny Position 77 and William T. Robey Letters March 31, 2021 April 01, 2021 12 12 100.00% USD 1.0 869,700.00 878,850.00 878,850.00 1,042,134.70 1,042,134.70 118.58%
6 #26772 Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts March 31, 2021 April 01, 2021 150 129 86.00% GBP 1.414 324,000.00 469,900.00 512,300.00 747,155.00 1,030,326.90 145.84%
7 #2195 Forum Auctions Forum Auctions @ Artsy March 31, 2021 April 01, 2021 69 27 39.13% GBP 1.414 31,750.00 48,100.00 160,700.00 44,179.80 60,923.98 27.49%
8 #18571 Christies Prints and Multiples - Online, bidstart 3/17 March 31, 2021 April 02, 2021 175 161 92.00% GBP 1.414 1,654,800.00 2,452,700.00 2,630,400.00 3,146,000.00 4,351,862.10 119.60%
9 #135 Jeschke van Vliet Auctions Berlin GmbH Rare Books, Classic Art and Antiques March 31, 2021 April 02, 2021 1084 493 45.48% EUR 1.219 324,845.00 450,360.00 918,580.00 563,233.95 663,658.54 61.32%
10 #26731 Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts, Online - bidstart 3/22 March 30, 2021 March 31, 2021 109 71 65.14% USD 1.0 313,650.00 469,950.00 1,079,300.00 524,478.00 524,478.00 48.59%
11 #FB1A Lark Mason Associates Rare Books and Incunabula - bidstart 3/9 March 30, 2021 March 31, 2021 204 185 90.69% USD 1.0 73,470.00 127,355.00 143,775.00 162,163.75 162,163.75 112.79%
12 #21jj01 Doyle New York Travel & Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson March 30, 2021 March 31, 2021 218 209 95.87% USD 1.0 29,790.00 45,995.00 47,755.00 79,147.00 79,147.00 165.74%
13 #20157 Christies Banksy: I can't believe you morons actually buy this sh*t - bidstart 3/19 March 30, 2021 April 02, 2021 47 44 93.62% GBP 1.414 2,760,000.00 4,260,000.00 4,580,000.00 4,461,250.00 6,171,247.19 97.41%
14 #113029 Aguttes Online Only: Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 3/19 March 29, 2021 March 31, 2021 260 154 59.23% EUR 1.219 49,400.00 67,320.00 111,700.00 94,081.00 110,432.37 84.23%
15 #2113 Bruun Rasmussen Prints March 29, 2021 March 31, 2021 174 159 91.38% DKK 0.152 508,100.00 586,600.00 651,600.00 706,500.00 111,132.71 108.43%
16 #32721 Arader Galleries Spring Sale March 27, 2021 March 29, 2021 174 105 60.34% USD 1.0 2,323,100.00 3,320,200.00 4,490,700.00 2,880,580.00 2,880,580.00 64.15%
17 #32721 Bruneau & Co. Spring Comic, TCG & Toy Auction March 27, 2021 March 29, 2021 404 402 99.50% USD 1.0 76,120.00 1,353,470.00 1,353,870.00 384,650.00 384,650.00 28.41%
18 #32721 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper March 27, 2021 March 29, 2021 200 190 95.00% USD 1.0 73,750.00 157,750.00 163,550.00 56,490.50 56,490.50 34.54%
19 #32721 Second Story Books 20th Century Art and Art Books March 27, 2021 March 29, 2021 63 13 20.63% USD 1.0 4,700.00 6,150.00 40,050.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 7.49%
20 #A196 Koller Auctions Old Master Prints March 26, 2021 March 27, 2021 28 24 85.71% CHF 1.104 25,100.00 35,800.00 40,000.00 61,313.00 65,341.31 153.28%
21 #110840 De Baecque and Associes AUTOGRAPHS AND MANUSCRIPTS - NUMISMATICS - PHILATELY - BOOKS March 26, 2021 March 29, 2021 281 217 77.22% EUR 1.219 37,750.00 53,450.00 66,750.00 110,183.75 129,840.53 165.07%
22 #2544 Ferraton Books, Paintings and Drawings March 26, 2021 March 29, 2021 929 826 88.91% EUR 1.219 123,985.00 173,145.00 193,645.00 332,406.25 391,707.43 171.66%
23 #7758 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Pictures and Prints March 26, 2021 March 27, 2021 56 42 75.00% GBP 1.414 1,050.00 1,340.00 2,190.00 2,565.60 3,524.87 117.15%
24 #32621a Catawiki B. V. Cartography - Bidstart 3/19 March 26, 2021 March 29, 2021 50 21 42.00% EUR 1.219 12,300.00 15,700.00 43,600.00 14,490.46 17,075.57 33.24%
25 #32621b Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 3/19 March 26, 2021 March 29, 2021 114 88 77.19% EUR 1.219 7,350.00 9,425.00 22,770.00 13,862.13 16,335.11 60.88%
26 #32521 Arenberg Auctions Books March 25, 2021 March 29, 2021 1523 1160 76.17% EUR 1.219 485,725.00 673,710.00 840,760.00 1,217,806.25 1,435,062.87 144.85%
27 #111834 De Baecque and Associes Old and Modern Photographs March 25, 2021 March 29, 2021 155 98 63.23% EUR 1.219 19,030.00 24,540.00 37,660.00 46,618.75 54,935.54 123.79%
28 #32521 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 3/19 March 25, 2021 March 29, 2021 52 29 55.77% EUR 1.219 9,530.00 11,405.00 25,930.00 9,389.26 11,064.29 36.21%
29 #32421 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 3/12 March 24, 2021 March 29, 2021 140 131 93.57% EUR 1.219 6,395.00 8,025.00 11,465.00 18,407.92 21,691.89 160.56%
30 #32321 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 3/12 March 23, 2021 March 29, 2021 35 29 82.86% EUR 1.219 5,500.00 6,800.00 10,050.00 11,405.76 13,440.56 113.49%
31 #32221 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 3/12 March 22, 2021 March 29, 2021 84 73 86.90% EUR 1.219 5,315.00 6,875.00 11,525.00 14,528.80 17,120.67 126.06%
32 #32121a Catawiki B. V. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 3/12 March 21, 2021 March 29, 2021 40 31 77.50% EUR 1.219 5,060.00 6,360.00 9,000.00 10,350.10 12,196.52 115.00%
33 #32121b Catawiki B. V. Books - bidstart 3/12 March 21, 2021 March 29, 2021 32 13 40.63% EUR 1.219 27,450.00 34,250.00 96,180.00 35,405.29 41,721.57 36.81%
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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