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Auction Name January Auction - Featuring Art and Animation - Online bidstart 12/14 Total Sales (USD) 694,937.50
Auction Date January 09, 2019 - January 09, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 510,900.00
Sale Number #543 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 758,400.00
Total Lots 987
Sold Lots 587 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,229,700.00
% of Lots Sold 59.47% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,766,900.00
Unsold Lots 400 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 39.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
412 Paul Cezanne

Paul Cezanne Sketch

USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,292.50
1 George Washington

George Washington ADS

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,393.75
30 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln DS

1863 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,133.75
134 1865-S $20 Gold Liberty Head Double Eagle Coin recovered from the SS Brother Jonathan Shipwreck (NGC MS63)

1865-S $20 Gold Liberty Head Double Eagle Coin recovered from the SS Brother Jonathan Shipwreck (NGC MS63) Gold Coin

USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,003.75
908

Eyvind Earle concept storyboard painting of Lady and Tramp from Lady and the Tramp

1955 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
543 Beatles

Beatles Program

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,228.75
427 Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol Screenprint

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,055.00
122 John Hancock

John Hancock DS

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,912.50
921

Merlin and Arthur production key matching master background set-up from The Sword in the Stone

1963 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,382.50
897

Mary Blair concept painting of Alice and Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland

1951 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,375.00
469 Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman Book

1888-89 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,181.25
408 Banksy

Banksy CD

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 9,140.00
896

Mary Blair concept painting of Ichabod and the Headless Horseman from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

1949 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,075.00
516 Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt AMQS

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,772.50
923

Baloo and Bagheera production key matching master background set-up from The Jungle Book

1967 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
903

Mary Blair concept painting of Tinker Bell from Peter Pan

1953 USD 9,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD 8,125.00
911

Eyvind Earle concept storyboard painting of Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty

1959 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,125.00
559 Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley 45 RPM Record

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,667.50
883

Mickey Mouse watercolor concept painting from Fantasia

1940 USD 6,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD 7,218.75
561 Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones Signed Photo

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,155.00
260 Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson

Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson ALS

1852 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,970.00
545 Beatles

Beatles Signatures

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,970.00
535 Django Reinhardt

Django Reinhardt Signed Photo

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,816.25
7 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison DS

1805 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,196.25
641 Bruce Lee (PSA/DNA MINT 9)

Bruce Lee (PSA/DNA MINT 9) Check

1966 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,196.25
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
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