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Auction Name	Interior Design: Books - session 5	Total Sales (EUR)	36,544.50
Auction Date	11/12/2020 - 11/12/2020	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	14,860.00
Sale Number	#493e	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	25,840.00
Total Lots	193
Sold Lots	179	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	17,690.00
% of Lots Sold	92.75%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	30,310.00
Unsold Lots	14	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	120.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1135		[ILLUSTRATI] Raccolta di un centinaio di incisioni dal XVI al XVIII secolo applicate su carta e raccolte in un volume in cartonato del XVII secolo (difetti).	XVI al XVIII secolo	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 1,282.50
1182	MANESSON-MALLET, Allain.	Description de l'univers.	1683	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 1,012.50
1140	[LAGO MAGGIORE - FALKEISEN] MEDONI, Francesco.	Le isole Borromee sul lago maggiore.		EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 945.00
1105		[FOTOGRAFIA - MILANO] - Cartone contenente una serie di documenti dedicati alla fotografia fra cui un catalogo generale degli apparecchi fotografici e alcuni numeri de "Il Fotografo, giornale illustrato".		EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 877.50
1071	CORANO.	Harar (Etiopia): Mohamed Bescir (copiatore), 1771.	1771	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 742.50
1098	FERRARIO, Giulio.	Il costume antico e moderno.	1831	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 742.50
1163		Lotto di 5 cartoni contenenti opere di saggistica e letteratura italiana del tardo '800 e primo '900 in belle legature coeve.	1892-1897.	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 742.50
1067	[COMO - LAGHI].	Cartone contenente una serie di libri e materiale illustrato sul lago di Como e altri laghi		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 675.00
1097		[FARMACOPEA - MILANO COLLEGIO DEGLI SPEZIALI] Riglievi del collegio de' speziali della città e ducato di Milano...concernenti tutti alla causa della terza edizione del nuovo antidotario Milanese.	1731	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 675.00
1020		[ATLANTE] Atlante universale e portatile di geografia antica e moderna formato sulle carte de migliori e piu recenti geografi e sulle ultime divisioni politiche.	1817	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 540.00
1088	DULWICH GALLERY.	Dulwich: R.	s.d. ca.1830	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 540.00
1059		[CICLISMO] lotto contenente vari volumi sul ciclismo del XIX e XX secolo	XIX e XX secolo	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 513.00
1065		[COMMERCIO] Lotto di cataloghi commerciali e testi riguardanti i grandi magazzini milanesi della seconda metà del XIX secolo e gli inizi del XX.	seconda metà del XIX secolo e gli inizi del XX.	EUR 100.00 - 200.00	EUR 513.00
1186	MANZONI, Alessandro.	I promessi sposi. Storia milanese del secolo XVII scoperta e rifatta da Alessandro Manzoni.	1840	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 513.00
1010		[ANTIFONARIO] Frammento di pagina di antifonario .	fine sec XIII.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 472.50
1017		[ARTE MODERNA] Lotto di diverse pubblicazioni, alcune autografate di artisti moderni: VIVIANI Giuseppe, MC KENNA Stephen, CUCCHI Enzo, NARDELLA Arduino		EUR 50.00 - 150.00	EUR 472.50
1019		[ATLANTE] - Atlas Moderne portatif.	1781	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 445.50
1127	HASIUS,J.M.	Historiae universalis politicae.	1743	EUR 150.00 - 250.00	EUR 445.50
1058	CHAUCHARD, Jean Baptiste.	A General Map of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the Grisons, Italy, Sicily, Corsica, and Sardinia.	1800	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 405.00
1169		Lotto di belle edizioni illustrate del tardo XIX e gli inizi del XX secolo.	XX secolo.	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 405.00
1026	BECCARIA, Cesare.	Nota autografa e firma su un appunto.	1778	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 378.00
1080	DANTE ALIGHIERI.	La Divina Commedia.	1768	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 378.00
1095		[ESOTERISMO] Cospicuo lotto di volumi dedicati all'esoterismo e alla magia pubblicati a Milano dalla casa editrice Bocca negli anni '30 e '40 del '900 [1]	negli anni '30 e '40 del '900	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 378.00
1157		[LIBRI ANTICHI] lotto di numerosi libri antichi del XIX secolo fra cui Illustrazioni del Lombardo Veneto, Diario della sesta riunione degli scienziati italiani, un libro sul colera e alcuni almanacchi di Gotha	XIX secolo	EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 378.00
1009		[ANTIFONARI] Lotto composto da due pagine di antifonario su pergamena della fine del XVI, inizi XVII secolo entro cornici dorate posteriori (difetti)	fine del XVI, inizi XVII secolo	EUR 50.00 - 100.00	EUR 351.00

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Rare 1778 Engraved map of Colonial Philadelphia after George Heap (1714-1752) and Nicholas Scull (1687-1761). $10,000 to $12,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Author signed and inscribed THE FOUNTAINHEAD, stated First Edition, by Ayn Rand, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York, 1943. $2,000 to $2,400.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engraving, "Yellow-billed Magpie, Stellers Jay, Ultramarine Jay and Clark's Crow," Plate Number CCCLXII. $1,800 to $2,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) autograph letter, signed, as President, to Nathan Reid detailing Jackson’s intervention on behalf of Reid's grandson. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Edward Steichen (Luxembourg/American, 1879-1973) portfolio of photographs, "The Early Years 1900-1927, 12 Hand-Gravure Prints" #41/1000, printed in 1981. $1,400 to $1,600.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, TLS, one-page typed letter on The White House, Washington, D.C., stationary to John Marshall Butler. $1,400 to $1,600.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two Pre-Civil War slave related letters, including one written by Mariah, a female domestic slave of James Vincent Musgrove (1814-1890) to her daughter. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two author signed and inscribed Ayn Rand related books, including one Rand signed WE THE LIVING, London 1940 edition. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: PLAN DE LA VILLE DE MEMPHIS (ETATS-UNIS) 40,000 HABITANTS pen and ink with watercolor hand drawn drainage system map, circa 1870. $700 to $900.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Scarce Mezzotint portrait of Thomas Pownall, Colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1757-1760) and South Carolina (1760). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: VIEW OF NORFOLK FROM COSPORT, VIRGINIA, John Hill, engraver, after John Shaw (U.K., 1776-1832). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: THE BURNING OF THE MERCHANT'S EXCHANGE, NEW YORK CITY -THE GREAT FIRE OF DECEMBER, 1835. Scarce color lithograph, a 1909 reissue of the original 1836 print. $500 to $700.
<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Schedel (Hartmann). Liber Chronicarum, first edition, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493. £30,000 to £50,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Greek Orthodox Church].- Menaion, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in Greek letters, [Eastern Mediterranean], [c. 1400]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: American Revolution.- Loyalist's cow powder horn, engraved with the cypher "GR" for George III surmounted by a crown, an inscription, and on reverse an engraving of the "North River" [Hudson River], 1777. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Illuminated prayer book.- Maria Carcer y Trigueros... Santa Misa y Oraciones, illuminated manuscript in Spanish, on paper, [c. 1850]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Hardy (Thomas). The Mayor of Casterbridge, 2 vol., first edition in book form, original cloth, 1886. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Austen (Jane)]. Emma: A Novel, first edition, Printed for John Murray, 1816. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Brontë (Charlotte). Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Cruikshank (George). The Road to the Derby, one of two proof copies, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1882. £600 to £800.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Meunier (Charles, binder).- Gruel (Leon). Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l'Amateur de Reliures, 2 vol., Paris, 1887.-1905. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Burne-Jones (Sir Edward). The Work of Edward Burne-Jones, edited by Philip Burne-Jones, one of 200 copies, [c.1900]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Nazraeli Press.- Six by Six, 36 vol. [a complete set], one of 100 sets, each with signed photograph, Portland, Or., 2010-16. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Freycinet. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £6,000 to £8,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph F. Kernan, College Football, oil on canvas, The Saturday Evening Post cover, 1932. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph C. Leyendecker, Golfer Lighting a Cigarette, oil on canvas, c.1920. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Howard Chandler Christy, In the Field, charcoal & watercolor, published in Scribner’s, 1902. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: N.C. Wyeth, Standish Reading, pen & ink, for The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1920. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Johnanna Stewart Mapes, A Fairy Book, conté crayon, for St. Nicholas Magazine, 1907. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Arnold Lobel, pen & ink, for The Frog & Toad Coloring Book, 1981. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Antonio Lopez, Today’s Fashions, study for The New York Times, 1981. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Charles Schulz, “I’ll have to go back to the house…I forgot my rubbers…” pen & ink, original 4-panel Peanuts comic, 1960. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Constantin Alajalov, Family Tree, watercolor and gouache, cover for The New Yorker, 1938. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

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