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Auction Name The Forke Collection of Early America/ August Americana Total Sales (USD) 48,373.00
Auction Date August 11, 2019 - August 12, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 15,550.00
Sale Number #3278M High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 23,600.00
Total Lots 21
Sold Lots 21 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 15,550.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 23,600.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 204.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
774

The Spiritual Chimes: A Watercolor and Pen and Ink Fraktur Birth Letter,

c. 1840 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,220.00
773 , attributed to Marti Brechall, Pennsylvania, d. 1809

Watercolor and Pen and Ink Fraktur Birth Letter

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,765.00
628 by A. Imbert,

Naval Engagements Between the Buenos Ayrean and Brazillian Fleets in 1827 & 1828,

1829 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 5,228.00
188

Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe, England, 1776

1776 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,998.00
189

An Accurate Map of North America, Eman Bowen,

1763 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,690.00
840

Painted Wood "Ship Chandlery" Sign, probably Nantucket

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,091.00
254

Fourteen Early Cooking and Related Books

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,476.00
909

Mount Washington and the White Mountains, From the Valley of Conway and Lake Winnipiseogee from Center Harbor NH,

late 19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,230.00
911 after Edwin Whitefield (Massachusetts, 1816-1892)

Panoramic Views of Providence, 1849

1849 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,046.00
193

The New-England Primer,

1771 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 984.00
58

Nine Early Framed Engravings, 17th to 18th century

17th to 18th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 615.00
255

Six Early Gardening and Related Books

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 554.00
38

Five Framed Engravings, four sporting: hunting, fowling, falconry, and hawking, and one with an architectural subject

18th century, USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 523.00
190

Atlas, Three Ledgers, Four Indentures, and a Group of Wrappers,

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 492.00
191

Two Early Architectural Books and two Prints,

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 492.00
908

The Hudson Highlands,

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 461.00
127

Early Bible and Two Miniature Biblical Works, 18th and 19th century

18th and 19th century USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 338.00
137

Three Mezzotint and Watercolor Domestic Scenes Mounted on Glass, England, 18th century

18th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 308.00
910

A 'Crack' Sloop in a Race to Windward./Yacht Gracie off New York,

1882 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 308.00
912

Barnum's Circus Entering New York City

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 308.00
192

Eleven Early Instructional Books,

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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