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Auction Name Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana - bidstart 10/1 Total Sales (USD) 2,732,750.00
Auction Date October 16, 2020 - October 16, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,528,800.00
Sale Number #19027 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,351,100.00
Total Lots 108
Sold Lots 77 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,086,600.00
% of Lots Sold 71.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,183,300.00
Unsold Lots 31 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 85.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36

The First National Thanksgiving

1777 USD 500,000.00 - 800,000.00 USD 475,000.00
73 ARISTOTELES (384-322 BCE)

The complete editio princeps

1495-1498. USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 475,000.00
30 PELHAM, Henry (1748-1806)

Boston under Siege

1777 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 300,000.00
2 BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG (fl. 1540-1590)

Cities of the World

1599; 1606. USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 250,000.00
3 CALOIRO Y OLIVA, Placido (fl.1617-1657) [and OLIVA, Joan (fl.1592-1643)]

Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean

1617 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 112,500.00
48 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

Surveying his lands on the Ohio River

1787 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 100,000.00
25 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

On his mission to Fort Le Boeuf

1754 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 75,000.00
37 LE ROUGE, George Louis (1712-1719)

Atlas & Pilote Americain

1778 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 75,000.00
65 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)

Offering thanks for two canes

1864 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 60,000.00
1 THEVET, André (1502-1590)

The Singularities of France Antarctique

1558 USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 USD 52,500.00
72 Minoru Yamasaki & Associates and Emery Roth & Sons

World Trade Center

1968-72. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 43,750.00
71 KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963)

Notes from the first Presidential debate

1960 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,000.00
60

THE UNION IS DISSOLVED!

1860 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 32,500.00
27 EVANS, Lewis (c.1700-1756)

Lewis Evans on his Map

1756 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 30,000.00
77

Illuminated Schoeffer New Testament

1472 USD 25,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 30,000.00
46

Presidential Autographs

c.1783-1950 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,000.00
84 NICOLAUS DE GRETZ (fl. 1421-39, rector of Vienna University 1437)

Austrian chained binding

1440 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,000.00
93 GÖDEL, Kurt (1906-1978)

Gödel on the continuum hypothesis

1953 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 25,000.00
41 [TÚPAC AMARU II (1738-1781) and KATARI, Tomás (d.1781).]

Linking the American Revolution and Túpac Amaru

1781 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,500.00
99 KAFKA, Franz (1883-1924)

Franz Kafka to Klopstock's supervisor

1922 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,500.00
62 LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865)

To Secretary of War Edwin Stanton

1862 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 21,250.00
97 JUNG, Carl (1875-1961)

Carl Jung on happiness

1950 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 21,250.00
31

The Declaration of Independence

1833 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
47 JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826)

On the Mason Dixon Line & the Barbary Pirates

1785 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
55 AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after; LIZARS, William Home (1788-1859), engraver; HAVELL Jr, Robert (1793-1878), aquatint.

Wild Turkey

1827-30. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,000.00
  • 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.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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
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