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Bonhams: FREDERICK DOUGLASS RETURNS TO AMERICA A FREE MAN. Sold for $353,175.Bonhams: TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY. Sold for $57,600.Bonhams: A FRAGMENT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF OF MICE AND MEN, EATEN BY THE DOG. Sold for $12,800.Bonhams: KEPLER INVESTIGATES PLANETARY MOTION. Sold for $1,008,375.Bonhams: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT LEAF FROM DARWIN'S DESCENT OF MAN, SIGNED BY DARWIN AT THE FOOT. Sold for $239,775.Bonhams: AUDOBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. Sold for $32,000.Bonhams: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Sold for $38,175.Bonhams: MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956). BOXED SET OF 4 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Sold for $20,480. -
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Ending 13th December 2023Forum, Dec. 13: Ackermann (Rudolph) [Views of Country Seats...], 146 hand-coloured aquatints from 'Repository of Arts’. £1,000 to £1,500.Forum, Dec. 13: Campbell (Colen) & others. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., [1751-1819]. £7,000 to £10,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Austen (Jane). The Novels, 12 vol., Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911. £1,500 to £2,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Murder broadside.- Horrid and barbarous murder of a female by cutting off her head, arms, and legs,… £200 to £300. -
CHRISTIE’S
Valuable Books and Manuscripts
London auction
13 December
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TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695–1769). Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]. £30,000–40,000Christie’s, Explore now
VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623–88). Liber Organicus Astronomiae Europaeae apud Sinas restituate. [Beijing: Board of Astronomy, 1674]. £250,000–350,000Christie’s, Explore now
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALICE & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Master of Jean Rolin (active 1445–65). Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, [Paris, c.1450–1460]. £120,000–180,000Christie’s, Explore now
A SILVER MICROSCOPE. Probably by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), c.1700. £150,000–250,000Christie’s, Explore now
AN ENGLISH HORARY QUADRANT
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Sotheby’s
Important Modern Literature from the Library of an American Filmmaker
8 December 2023Sotheby’s, Dec. 8: Kerouac, Jack. Typescript scroll of The Dharma Bums. Typed by Kerouac in Orlando, Florida, 1957, published by Viking in 1958. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. The autograph manuscript of "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber." [Key West, finished April 1936]. 300,000 - 500,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Miller, Henry. Typescript of The Last Book, a working title for Tropic of Cancer, written circa 1931–1932. 100,000 - 150,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Ruscha, Ed. Twentysix Gasoline Stations, with a lengthy inscription to Joe Goode. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, Dec. 8: Hemingway, Ernest. in our time, first edition of Hemingway’s second book. 30,000 - 50,000 USD
Chiswick Auctions: Modern and Contemporary Prints and Multiples, 100323, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- October 03, 2023 - October 03, 2023
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GWENDOLEN RAVERAT (BRITISH 1885-1957) | Bathsheba |
1920 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 400.00 | |
| 2 | CHRISTOPHER R. W. NEVINSON ARA (BRITISH 1889-1946) | Place de Tertre, Montmartre [Black 67] |
1919-20 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | GBP 1,750.00 | |
| 3 | STANLEY ANDERSON CBE RA RE (BRITISH 1884-1966) | Quai de Montebello, Paris |
1929 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 325.00 | |
| 4 | DAME LAURA KNIGHT RA RWS (BRITISH 1877-1970) | Carting Corn |
1943 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 375.00 | |
| 5 | CHARLES PAINE (BRITISH 1895-1967) | Shell Oil and Petrol The Quickstarting Pair |
c.1928 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 875.00 | |
| 6 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (BRITISH 1887-1976) | A Hillside |
London | 1967 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 7,250.00 |
| 7 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (BRITISH 1887-1976) | The Cart |
Vienna | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,000.00 | |
| 8 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (BRITISH 1887-1976) | The Harbour |
Bristol | 1972 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 2,250.00 |
| 9 | LAURENCE STEPHEN LOWRY RBA RA (BRITISH 1887-1976) | His Family |
GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,875.00 | ||
| 10 | AFTER SIR WILLIAM NICHOLSON (BRITISH 1872-1949) | An Almanac of Twelve Sports and London Types |
Gloucestershire | 1980 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 11 | WILLIAM NICHOLSON OBE FRSL (1872-1949) | Five prints from the Twelve Portraits (First and Second Series) |
1899-1902 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 250.00 | |
| 12 | JOHN NASH CBE RA (BRITISH 1893-1977) | Untitled |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 162.00 | ||
| 13 | HENRY MOORE OM CH FBA (BRITISH 1898-1986) | Mother and Child XXV |
1983 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 1,625.00 | |
| 14 | LYNN CHADWICK CBE RA (BRITISH 1914-2003) | Reclining Figure on a Green Wave |
St Gallen | 1971 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 475.00 |
| 15 | KENNETH ARMITAGE CBE (BRITISH 1916-2002) | Two Figures |
1953 | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 16 | KENNETH ARMITAGE CBE (BRITISH 1916-2002) | Untitled Richmond Park |
1978-1981 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 17 | ROBERT ADAMS (BRITISH 1917-1984) | Two Figures |
1949 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 18 | ROBERT ADAMS (BRITISH 1917-1984) | Study for Sculpture |
1952 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |
| 19 | ROBERT ADAMS (BRITISH 1917-1984) | White Print No.1 |
1971 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 250.00 | |
| 20 | BEN NICHOLSON OM (BRITISH 1894-1982) | Turkish Sundial between Two Turkish Forms [Lafranca L72] |
1967 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | GBP 938.00 | |
| 21 | STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER (BRITISH 1901-1988) | Death of Hector (plate III) [Black & Moorehead 403] |
Surrey | 1979 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 275.00 |
| 22 | STANLEY WILLIAM HAYTER (BRITISH 1901-1988) | Scrap Book [Black and Moorehead 421] |
Paris, Barcelona | 1982 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | ANTHONY GROSS CBE RA (BRITISH 1905-1984) | Whitmonday Fair Blackheath |
1978 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 24 | GRAHAM SUTHERLAND OM (BRITISH 1903-1980) | Lammas [Tassi 23] |
London | 1926 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,175.00 |
| 25 | GRAHAM SUTHERLAND OM CH (BRITISH B.1903-1980) | Sutherland Sketchbook- Édition de tête with Standing Form [Tassi 138] |
Rome | 1973 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
