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<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Currier & Ives, <i>The Mississippi in Time of Peace,</i> hand-colored lithograph, 1865. $6,000 to $9,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Hartmann Schedel, <i>Liber Cronicarum...,</i> Nuremberg, 1493. $40,000 to $60,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Claudius Ptolemaeus, <i>Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo,</i> Lyons, 1535. $20,000 to $25,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Thomas Jefferys, <i>The American Atlas,</i> London, 1776-77. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> John Speed, <i>A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World,</i> 20 miniature maps, London, 1665. $2,000 to $3,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> <i>Biblia Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft Durch D. Martin Luther Verteutscht,</i> illustrated cartographic Bible, Basel, 1665. $1,500 to $2,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Early Hawaiian-language school geography, Lahainaluna Seminary, 1840. $2,500 to $3,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Cornelis de Jode, <i>Africae Vera Forma, et Situs,</i> Antwerp, 1593. $4,000 to $6,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Maria Vincenzo Coronelli, <i>America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno,</i> Venice, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Johann Christoph Volkamer, <i>Nürnbergische Hesperides,</i> Nuremberg, 1708-1714. $12,000 to $18,000.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Johann Bayer, <i>Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata...,</i> 51 celestial charts, c. 1603. $5,000 to $7,500.<b>Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17:</b> Manuscript map of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship squadron at Edo Bay, with manuscript sketchbook, ink & watercolor, Japan, c. 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
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<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. <i>Macbeth: A Tragedy.</i> London, 1673. FIRST SEPARATE AND FIRST QUARTO EDITION. THE CHARLTON HESTON COPY. $80,000 to $120,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. <i>In Our Time.</i> Paris, 1924. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. $20,000 to $30,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. <i>Fanshawe, A Tale.</i> Boston, 1828. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $20,000 to $30,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. <i>Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.</i> Boston, 1854. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. <i>Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies.</i> London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO, Brewster/Bentley issue. $20,000 to $30,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> STEIG, WILLIAM. Original maquette and 58 finished drawings for <i>The Agony in the Kindergarten,</i> one of Steig's most important books. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> VERNE, JULES. <i>A Journey to the Centre of the Earth.</i> New York & London, 1872. FIRST EDITION, RARE AMERICAN ISSUE, with Scribner & Welford cancel title. $5,000 to $8,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 5:</b> KING, STEPHEN. <i>Carrie.</i> New York, 1974. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $1,200 to $1,800.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 4:</b> APPLE MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE. 1983. The earliest known Macintosh with "Twiggy" drive, one of only two known working machines. $120,000 to $180,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 4:</b> PLATO. <i>Timaeus</i> [AND] <i>Critias</i> [from Ficini's 1484 Opera]. A LANDMARK OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. $80,000 to $120,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 4:</b> LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London, 1843. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN EARLY DIGITAL COMPUTING. $15,000 to $20,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 4:</b> APPLE-1 COMPUTER. Signed by Steve Wozniak, used in development of Apple II. $200,000 to $300,000.<b>Bonhams, Dec. 4:</b> DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. <i>On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection.</i> London, 1859. FIRST EDITION. $80,000 to $120,000.
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<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> [EINSTEIN, ALBERT]; JOHN GRAUDENZ [PHOTOGRAPHER]. Photographic portrait of Albert Einstein by John Graudenz, taken circa 1928. $15,000 to $25,000.<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> ENIGMA M4. A fully operational four-rotor ("M4") Kriegsmarine Enigma Cipher Machine. Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany, Heimsoeth und Rinke, 1942. $300,000 to $500,000.<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> FEYNMAN, RICHARD P. <i>“Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”. Adventures of a Curious Character.</i> New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. $15,000 to $20,000.<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> An intact egg of the Aepyornis Maximus, or Elephant Bird. Pre-17th century, Madagascar. $35,000 to $45,000.<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Palm frond with fish. Green River Formation, Wyoming, United States. <i>Sabalites sp.,</i> and <i>Diplomystus dentatus</i> Cenozoic, Eocene (53-33 million years ago). $60,000 to $70,000.
Bruun Rasmussen: Prints, 1947, Copenhagen
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- 11/18/2019 - 11/19/2019
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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16 | Lucas Jansz Waghenaer | Mappa fluminis? (Carte de la Belt). Handcoloured engraved chart over the Danish sea. | c. 1590 | EUR 1,350.00 - 1,350.00 | EUR 1,437.50 | |
19 | Johann Lorenz Rugendas | Bombardement de Copenhague, de 2 au 5, Septembr. | 1807 | EUR 1,050.00 - 1,050.00 | Not Sold | |
103 | Max Liebermann | Badende Knaben. Bathing boys. | 1896 | EUR 535.00 - 670.00 | EUR 568.75 | |
121 | Max Liebermann | Die Judenstrasse in Amsterdam. The jewish street in Amsterdam. | 1906 | EUR 535.00 - 670.00 | EUR 737.50 | |
178 | Johannes Larsen | Birdmotifs. | EUR 1,350.00 - 1,600.00 | EUR 1,562.50 | ||
191 | Johannes Larsen | A deer. | 1923 | EUR 270.00 - 270.00 | EUR 368.75 | |
194 | Charles Howard Hodges, T. Park, 18th century | Two mezzotints. | EUR 270.00 - 400.00 | EUR 168.75 | ||
220 | J. F. Clemens (after C. A. Lorentzen) | Bataillen d. 2 April 1801, paa Kiøbenhavns Reed. | Ca. 1802-1805. | EUR 270.00 - 270.00 | EUR 368.75 | |
231 | Painters unknown, 19th-20th century | A collection of 13 miniature portraits of partially painted prints in frames of bone and bronze. | EUR 270.00 - 400.00 | EUR 250.00 | ||
243 | Georg Christian Schule | View from Frederiksberg Gardens. | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | ||
247 | A. F. Willumsen | View of Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen. | EUR 135.00 - 135.00 | Not Sold | ||
297 | Sebastian Münster | Map of Denmark and South Sweden. | 16th century. | EUR 200.00 - 200.00 | EUR 143.75 | |
334 | Jean-Jérôme Baugean | Five seascapes with sailing ships. | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | EUR 250.00 | ||
423 | Abraham Ortelius | Daniae Regni Typus. | EUR 270.00 - 270.00 | EUR 400.00 | ||
461 | Wilhelm Camphausen | Two equstrian portraits. | EUR 270.00 - 270.00 | Not Sold | ||
505 | Pablo Picasso | Portrait d'une fille (Maya), 1965. | 1965 | EUR 2,700.00 - 3,350.00 | EUR 5,687.50 | |
537 | Carl-Henning Pedersen | Jerusalems syv porte nr. | EUR 270.00 - 400.00 | EUR 281.25 | ||
539 | Richard Mortensen | Orezza. | 1989 | EUR 805.00 - 805.00 | EUR 1,087.50 | |
542 | Zao Wou-Ki | Composition. | 1978 | EUR 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,062.50 | |
545 | Maurice Estève | Grisande, 1966. | 1966 | EUR 1,350.00 - 1,350.00 | EUR 1,250.00 | |
547 | Maja Lisa Engelhardt | Composition. | 1997 | EUR 200.00 - 270.00 | EUR 206.25 | |
561 | Robert Jacobsen | ?Drømmebilleder?. | EUR 400.00 - 400.00 | EUR 568.75 | ||
562 | Robert Jacobsen | Composition. | EUR 270.00 - 400.00 | EUR 275.00 | ||
570 | Jim Dine | Composition. | 1985 | EUR 805.00 - 1,050.00 | EUR 537.50 | |
572 | Andy Warhol, after | ?Marilyn Monroe?. | EUR 270.00 - 400.00 | EUR 418.75 |