• Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Finarte, July 4-5: FERMI, ENRICO. Letters, 1923. €30,000 to €40,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The comedy, 1477. €45,000 to €50,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. The Comedy [Commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Addition: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in Latin and Italian], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: ASTRONOMIA - CALENDARIO - REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES (MÜLLER, JOHANN, OF KÖNIGSBERG) Kalendarium, 1483. €5,000 to €7,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: CATERINA II DI RUSSIA, Parchment diploma granted by Catherine II of Russia, 1778. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Finarte, July 4-5: VICO, GIAMBATTISTA New Science Principles, 1725.
  • Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Audubon Birds of America, 1st Octavo Edition; 5 vols plus Journals, ex. J.J. Pringle. $4,000 to $4,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: American Ornithology Plates Folio in 2 Vols, A. Wilson and C. Bonaparte. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 23 CP Railroad Photographs c. 1883 by O.B. Buell. $1,800 to $2,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Cormac McCarthy, Signed 1st Editions, The Passenger & Stella Maris Box Set. $1,700 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Oliver Buell Cabinet Photograph, Chief Crowfoot. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Colton's Atlas of the World, 1856, in Two Volumes; plus Africa / Mahdist War Map. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2024 Summer Fine Art & Antiques
    July 6-7, 2024
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1805 Thomas Jefferson Inaugural Speech. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Barflies and Cocktails, Harry McElhone, First Edition Mixology Book. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 1861 U. S. Grant Broadside Proclamation, Paducah, KY. $1,000 to $1,200.
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    Case Antiques, July 6-7: 2 John Overton Signed Letters, 1803, re: TN Statehood. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Simon Wastell "Microbiblion or The Bibles Epitome: in Verse" 1629. $600 to $700.
    Case Antiques, July 6-7: Thomas Lewis Family Letter Archive; Boston, Massachusetts. $400 to $500.

Sworders: Books and Maps - online 4/19, A1139, Essex

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 28, 2024 - April 28, 2024
Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
205

Lloyd's Natural History: 1- A Hand-book to the Order Lepidoptera, 5 vols.

1896-97 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 187.50
206 BLAKE, William

Trianon Press: William Blake's Illustrations of the Book of Job, 6 vol.

GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,150.00
207 BLAKE, William

Trianon Press: America: A Prophecy.

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 450.00
208 BLAKE, William

Trianon Press: Europe, A Prophecy, number 372 of 480 copies, from an edition limited to 526, collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
209 BLAKE, William

Trianon Press: 1- Song of Los, number X of 26 copies numbered A to Z reserved for the Trustees & publishers, from an edition limited to 458, collotype plates hand-coloured through stencil.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 87.50
210 BLAKE, William (ill)

BLAIR'S GRAVE, illustrated in Twelve Plates (including engraved Title page), Plus a portrait by Louis Schiavonetti after Thomas Phillips.

1808, however 1913 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 137.50
211 BLAKE, William

Bentley, GE (edit): Vala or The Four Zoas: A Facsimile of the Manuscript, Oxford UP, 1963, 1st.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 62.50
212 BLAKE, William

The Illuminated Books.

GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 187.50
213 By and About William BLAKE

Quantity, including: WICKSTEED, Joseph: 1- Blake's Vision of the Book of Job.

1910 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 100.00
214 Peacock or Pecock, Reginald

A treatise proving Scripture to be the rule of faith.

1688 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
215 Strype, J

1- Annals of the Reformation... 3 vols.

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
216 BROWNE, John

The History of the Metropolitan Church of St. Peter, York.

London 1847 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
217

THEOLOGICAL PAMPHLETS 43 individual Pamphlets, all loose, stitched and unbound, mostly first editions, including: Four by Bishop Burnet; two by W.

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
218 CALMET, AA

Dictionary of the Holy Bible, in 5 vols.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
219

NINE PAMPHLETS, bound in one volume: Sermon against Popery in 1735, vol.

1735 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 100.00
220 CHARLES I

Reliquiae sacrae Carolinae.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 275.00
221 Martin Luther

Thirty-Four Sermons on the Most Interesting Doctrines of the Gospel.

1816 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 200.00
222 CHURCHILL, Winston S

Marlborough His Life and Times, 4 volumes.

1933-1938 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
223 CHURCHILL, Winston S

1- Liberalism and the social problem.

1919 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 325.00
224 Churchill, WS

The World Crisis, 4 vols.

GBP 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
225 SHILLIBEER, Lieut. John

Ontmoetingen op eene Reis met het Schip 'Briton', naar het Eiland Pitcairn...Dordrecht: Blusse en Van Braam, 1819.

GBP 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
226 John Vandeleur

Letters of Colonel John Vandeleur, 1810-46,

1894 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 125.00
227

Bridging Normandy to Berlin, 1945, folio, DW, fully illustrated; Montgomery, Major General: The Story of the Fourth Army in the battles of the hundred days, August 8th to November 11th.1918.

GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 125.00
228 SCOTT, Lieut-General William A

An authentic narrative of the late sanguinary battle on the plains of Waterloo..

1815 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 112.50
229

WWI Diary/Journal of Col. T. B. Watson, R.A.M.C.,

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 225.00
  • Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.
    Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
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