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Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 5/22 Total Sales (EUR) 19,894.68
Auction Date May 29, 2020 - May 29, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 15,770.00
Sale Number #52920b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 19,050.00
Total Lots 140
Sold Lots 120 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 21,645.00
% of Lots Sold 85.71% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 26,495.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 75.09%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
37069027 Lev Maksimovich

New and complete geographical dictionary of the Russian state , or Lexicon

1788/1789 EUR 6,800.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 4,207.40
37464021 Carlo Allioni

Flora pedemontana, sive Enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii

1785 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,635.00
37417679 PIGAGE Nicolas de

Estampes des tableaux de la Galerie électorale de Düsseldorff

1778 Not Available EUR 926.50
37370231 Le Roy

Groot werreldlyk tooneel des hertogdoms van Braband

1730 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 872.00
37484647 Carl Peter Thunberg

Voyages de C.P. Thunberg, au Japon, par le Cap de Bonne-Espérance, les îsles de la Sonde &c. Traduit

1796 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 603.86
37460637 Faujas de Saint-Fond

Description des Experiences de la Machine Aerostatique de MM. De Montgolfier -

1784 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 EUR 534.10
37440465 Biblia, dat is de gantsche ...

Statenbijbel, Keurbijbel met 96 Danckerts prenten

1710 Not Available EUR 381.50
37420575 Vincenzo Manfredini

Regole armoniche

1775 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 332.45
37456433 Jan Wagenaar

Vaderlandsche Historie

1796/1790 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
37514577 Phaedrus en D. van Hoogstraaten

Ezopische fabelen van Fedrus, gevryden slaef des keizers Augustus

1704 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 316.10
36939723 [Johan Hendrik Swildens]

Vaderlandsch A-B Boek voor de Nederlandsche jeugd

1781 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 294.30
37534065 G.R. van Kinschot.

Beschryving der stad Oudewater,

1747 EUR 350.00 - 450.00 EUR 267.05
37186759 R.P. Nicolas Collin

Traité de l'Eau Bénite ou L'Eglise Catholique Justifiée sur l'Usage de l'Eau Bénite

1776 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 261.60
37562983 Heinrich Müller.

Beautiful binding: Himmlischer Liebes-Kuß Oder Ubung des wahren Christenthums

1726 EUR 275.00 - 375.00 EUR 261.60
37460955 J.J.Rousseau

Dictionnaire de Musique

1768 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 240.89
37374049

Secrets merveilleux de la magie naturelle et cabalistique du Petit Albert - n.d. (half XVIII cent.)

EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 239.80
37563283 Fanny Burney

Camilla, A Picture of Youth

1796 Not Available EUR 221.27
37537745

Missale Romanum (bound with:) / Commune Sanctorum / Missae Propriae Sanctorum + other 4

1848/1692 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 218.00
37574255 David van Hoogstraten

Beschryving der Heidensche goden en godinnen, getogen uit de fabelschryveren en oude dichteren

1716 Not Available EUR 218.00
37390955 Jan Luyken

De bykorf des gemoeds

1735 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 212.55
37407141 A. Loosjes

Beschrijving van de zaanlandsche dorpen

1794 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 185.30
37531403 Tertullianus

Apologeticus

1718 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 168.95
37513559 Johan van Heemskerk - Batavische Arcadia, waer in: onder 't loofwerck liefkooserye, gehandelt werdt

van den oorspronck van 't Oudt Batavien, vryheydt der voorige en volgende Bataviers ...

1729 EUR 175.00 - 275.00 EUR 164.59
37239703 Gerard van Loon

Aloude Hollandsche histori der keyzeren, koningen, hertogen en graaven, etc

1734 Not Available EUR 163.50
37501367 Jo. Baptistae Morgagni

De sedibus et causis Morborum

1779 Not Available EUR 163.50
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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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    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
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    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.
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    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.
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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.
    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.
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    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.
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    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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    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.
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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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    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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