• 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
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    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.
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Sothebys: Books and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 1,070,626.00
Auction Date June 18, 2019 - June 18, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 668,100.00
Sale Number #pf1903 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 932,100.00
Total Lots 194
Sold Lots 109 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,045,600.00
% of Lots Sold 56.19% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 1,490,600.00
Unsold Lots 85 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152 Matisse, Henri

JAZZ.

1947 EUR 120,000.00 - 150,000.00 EUR 118,750.00
166 Picasso, Pablo -- Honoré de Balzac

LE CHEF-D'ŒUVRE INCONNU.

1931 EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 100,000.00
187 Schmied, François-Louis -- Joseph-Charles Mardrus

LE CANTIQUE DES CANTIQUES.

1925 EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 EUR 75,000.00
37 Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de

LETTRE AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉE À SA COMPAGNE LEOCADIA ZORRILLA, À BORDEAUX.

1827 EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 56,250.00
39 Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de

LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA.

1863 EUR 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 50,000.00
188 Schmied, François-Louis -- Joseph-Charles Mardrus

HISTOIRE CHARMANTE DE L'ADOLESCENTE SUCRE D'AMOUR.

1927 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 47,500.00
160 Morand, Paul

OUVERT LA NUIT.

1924 EUR 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 35,000.00
1 Buffon, Georges Marie Leclerc, comte de

HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES OISEAUX.

1770-1786. EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 27,500.00
171 Picasso, Pablo -- Roch Grey

CHEVAUX DE MINUIT.

1956 EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 EUR 27,500.00
121 [Duchamp, Marcel]

LE SURRÉALISME EN 1947. EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE DU SURRÉALISME PRÉSENTÉE PAR ANDRÉ BRETON ET MARCEL DUCHAMP.

1947 EUR 6,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 20,000.00
93 Colette -- André Dunoyer de Segonzac

LA TREILLE MUSCATE.

1932 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,750.00
147 Legrand, Louis

POÈMES À L’EAU-FORTE.

1914 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
163 Péguy, Charles

CAHIERS DE LA QUINZAINE.

1905-1914 EUR 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
194 Wols -- Franz Kafka

L'INVITÉ DES MORTS. DANS NOTRE SYNAGOGUE. L’ÉPÉE. LAMPES NEUVES.

1948 EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 17,500.00
185 Rouault, Georges -- André Suarès

PASSION.

1939 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
113 Dalí, Salvador

ALCHIMIE DES PHILOSOPHES.

1976 EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 11,875.00
80 Bernanos, Georges

LE JOURNAL D'UN CURÉ DE CAMPAGNE.

1936 EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,250.00
20 Giuseppe Zocchi

VEDUTE DELLE VILLE, E D’ALTRI LUOGHI DELLA TOSCANA.

1757 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
33 Daudet, Alphonse

LETTRES DE MON MOULIN.

1869 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
42 Hugo, Victor

ACTES ET PAROLES.

1875-1876. EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
182 Proust, Marcel

LETTRE AUTOGRAPHE SIGNÉE À MAURICE LEVAILLANT.

1920 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 10,000.00
128 FOUJITA -- André Gide

ANDRÉ GIDE. 

1928 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
131 Genet, Jean -- Jean Cocteau

QUERELLE DE BREST.

1947 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 8,750.00
10 Houël, Jean

VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DES ÎLES DE SICILE, DE MALTE ET DE LIPARI.

1782-1789. EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
130 Genet, Jean

MIRACLE DE LA ROSE.

1946 EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,125.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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