• 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.
  • 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
  • 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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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
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Forum Auctions: Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper

Auction Reports

Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 72,967.25
Auction Date October 03, 2019 - October 03, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 37,305.00
Sale Number #2118 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 53,090.00
Total Lots 216
Sold Lots 190 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 44,885.00
% of Lots Sold 87.96% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 64,000.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 114.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
168 [Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge)], "Lewis Carroll".

Xie Kitchin

c.1874. GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 4,160.00
125 La Bourdonnais (Louis-Charles Mahé de, French chess master, 1795-1840)

Autograph Note signed

1837 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,380.00
46 [De Forest (Lockwood)]

Indian Architecture and Ornament

1887 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 2,250.00
54 Rembrandt Dutuit (Eugène)

L'Oeuvre Complet de Rembrandt

1883 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,500.00
102 Diderot (Denis) and Jean d'Alembert.

Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des metiers

1777-79 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,500.00
53 Rembrandt Blanc (Charles)

L'Oeuvre de Rembrandt... Catalogue Raisonné de toutes les estampes ...

1873 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,375.00
155 [Cooper (James Fenimore)]

The Pilot; a Tale of the Sea

1824 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,250.00
9 Gauguin (Paul) Wildenstein (Daniel)

Gauguin: A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888)

2002 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,187.50
44 Coomaraswamy (Ananda)

Rajput Painting: Being an Account of the Hindu Paintings of Rajasthan and the Panjab Himalayas from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century...

1916 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,125.00
95 Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France

L'Office de la Semaine Sainte

1752 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,062.50
48 Fergusson (James) and James Burgess.

The Cave Temples of India

1880 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 1,000.00
180 Stuart (James) and Nicholas Revett.

The Antiquities of Athens, Measured and Delineated

1825-1830 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 1,000.00
189 Doughty (Charles M.)

Travels in Arabia Deserta

1888 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 937.50
201 Wood (William)

General Conchology

1815 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 937.50
45 De Forest (Lockwood)

Indian Domestic Architecture

1885 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 875.00
176 Müller (Wilhelm)

Schubert's Winter Journey

2015 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 875.00
177 Breval (John Durant)

Remarks on Several Parts of Europe: Relating chiefly to the History

1726 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 812.50
200 [Spratt (George)]

Flora Medica: Contained Coloured Delineations of the Various Medicinal Plants ...

1829-30. GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 750.00
206 Prange (Christianus)

Q.D.B.V De Locustis

1693 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 750.00
33

Idemitsu Collection: Japanese Ceramics; Japanese Genre Painting; Ukiyo-e Paintings; Yamato-e; Kosugi Hoan; Itaya Hazan; Sengai; Ancient Chinese Artists

1980s GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 687.50
37 Kidder (J.Edward)

Prehistoric Japanese Arts: Jomon Pottery

1968 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 687.50
40 Shimizu (Yoshiaki)

Japan: The Shaping of Daimyo Culture 1185-1868

1988 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 687.50
55 Rembrandt Rovinsky (Dimitry)

L'Oeuvre Grave de Rembrandt

1890 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 687.50
117 Browsholme Hall, near Clitheroe, Lancashire

Account Book relating to the Parker family of Browsholme Hall & Inventory of Browshole Hall

1790 & c. 1830s GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 687.50
94 Target shooting in Vienna

Beschreibung des Kaiserl. Gnaden=und Frey =Schiessen

1739 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 625.00
  • 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
    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
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