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    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.
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    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - internet bidstart 7/19

Auction Reports

Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - internet bidstart 7/19 Total Sales (EUR) 11,095.11
Auction Date July 26, 2019 - July 26, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,015.00
Sale Number #72619 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 8,245.00
Total Lots 104
Sold Lots 87 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 11,865.00
% of Lots Sold 83.65% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 15,495.00
Unsold Lots 17 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
28118679 Gerard Hoet, Arnold Houbraken, Bernard Picart, Jacques Saurin

Taferelen der voornaamste geschiedenissen van het Oude en Nieuwe Testament

1728 Not Available EUR 1,425.72
28197103 Arabisch manuscript

Ottomaanse geneaologie

1800 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,035.50
28274797 Pierre Violier

L' Usage de la sphère du globe et des cartes pour la géographie + Introduction a la geographie ...

1704 Not Available EUR 505.76
27569021 Lukas Rotgans

Poëzy, van verscheide mengelstoffen; met konstplaaten versiert

1735 EUR 275.00 - 375.00 EUR 403.30
28126791 Gerard Brandt

Het Leven en Bedryf van den heere Michiel de Ruiter, Hertog, Ridder, &c. Lt. Admiraal Generaal...

1746 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 370.60
28169335 Esiodo

Hesiodou tou Askraiou ta Euriskomena. Hesiodi Ascraei opera omnia (Bodoni)

1797 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 327.00
28227989 Joost van den Vandel, Marcus Gerards

Vorstelijcke Warande der Dieren

1730 EUR 330.00 - 370.00 EUR 327.00
28163965 [Godefroid Sellius]

Description abrégée, géographique et historique du Brabant hollandois

1747 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 218.00
28250679 J. Winckelmann

Histoire de l'art chez les anciens

1766 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 212.55
28173977 Henri van Deventer

Observations importantes sur le manuel des accouchemens

1733 Not Available EUR 207.10
28216099 Paul François Velly, Claude Villaret, Jean-J. Garnier

Histoire de France. Depuis l'etablissement de la monarchie jusqu'au regne de Louis XIV. 26/30 vol

1761 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 185.30
28224373 André Du Ryer, Jan Hendrik Glazemaker

Mahomets Alkoran

1734 Not Available EUR 185.30
28174969 citoyen David

Campagnes du général Pichegru. Histoire chronologique des opérations de l'Armée du Nord

1795 Not Available EUR 168.95
28232151 M. G. Pellier De Quensgy Fils

Recueil de mémoires et d'observations sur les maladies qui attaquent l'Oeil

1783 Not Available EUR 164.59
28267737 M. Duplessis

Traités de M. Duplessis sur la coutume de Paris. Avec des notes de M. Berroyer et De Laurière

1702 EUR 180.00 - 200.00 EUR 163.50
27813617 Dupuis

Planches de l’origine De Tous Les Cultes

1794 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 152.60
28122901 Aristote

La rhetorique d'Aristote, traduction en francois par Mr Cassandre

1733 Not Available EUR 142.79
28231811 Abbé Rozier

Cours Complet d'Agriculture

1783 Not Available EUR 142.79
28225045 J.L. Baudelocque

L'art des accouchements

1796 Not Available EUR 141.70
28260483 Philipp van Limborch

Commentarius in acta Apostolorum et in epistolas ad Romanos et ad Hebraeos

1711 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 141.70
28180415 M. Westerman

Amsterdamsche burgerfeest, beleg van Naarden

1780 Not Available EUR 136.25
28274395 Cornelius Nepos

The Lives of Illustrious Men. Done Into English from the Original Latin of Cornelius Nepos.

1712 Not Available EUR 136.25
28165661 Denis Diderot / Jean Baptiste Le Rond D'Alembert

(Recueil de planches sur les sciences, les arts libéraux...) Optique, Physique

1767 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 130.80
28196597 Louis Chambeau

Dictionnaire portatif

1760 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 120.99
28164817 Guy Patin

Lettres choisies, sur la vie & la mort des Sçavans de ce siècle sur leurs écrits, etc...

1715 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 119.90
  • 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
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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.
    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
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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
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    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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