• 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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Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (GBP) 751,491.00
Auction Date September 15, 2021 - September 15, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 411,000.00
Sale Number #26774 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 632,900.00
Total Lots 119
Sold Lots 108 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 430,800.00
% of Lots Sold 90.76% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 662,100.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 113.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
115 TURING (ALAN)

Autograph letter signed ("Yours Alan") to Alfred William Beuttell, sending a four-page analysis of the Monte-Carlo betting system and offering a solution to a technical lighting problem, Cambridge, 2 February [19]33

1933 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 94,000.00
45 ORTELIUS (ABRAHAM)

Theatrum orbis terrarum, 2 parts in 1 vol., 70 maps with contemporary colouring, Antwerp, A. C. van Diest, 1574

1574 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 69,000.00
17 SCHEDEL (HARTMANN)

Liber chronicarum, FIRST EDITION, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 12 July 1493

1493 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 60,250.00
112 SUN YAT-SEN

Autograph letter signed ("Yours very sincerely/ Sun Yat Sen) to Mabel Cantlie ("My Dear Mrs Cantlie"), in English, 26 Reinanzaka, Tokyo, 17 March 1914

1914 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 44,000.00
113 TOLKIEN (J.R.R.)

The Lord of the Rings, 3 vol., FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSIONS, George Allen and Unwin, 1954-1955

1954-1955 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 37,750.00
110 SUN YAT-SEN

Autograph letter signed ("Very truly yours/ "Y.S. Sun") to "My dear Dr. & Mrs Cantlie", 'On board R.M.S. "Adriatic"'[printed], 8 November 1911

1911 GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 GBP 31,500.00
40 DE WIT (FREDERICK)

Atlas, 103 maps with contemporary hand-colouring, Amsterdam, Frederick de Wit, [c.1688]

c.1688 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 27,750.00
104 ROWLING (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997

1997 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 25,250.00
50 HENRY VIII

Letter signed and subscribed ("Vester bonus amicus Henry R") London, 14 July 1524 - 'THE MATTER WHICH WE HAVE OFTEN COMMENDED FROM OUR HEART'

GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 22,750.00
46 PTOLEMAEUS (CLAUDIUS)

Geographicae enarrationis libri octo, Lyon, Hughes de la Porte [colophons: Vienne, Gaspar Trechsel], 1541

1541 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 21,500.00
116 WILDE (OSCAR)

The Picture of Dorian Gray, NUMBER 144 OF 250 COPIES ON VAN GELDER PAPER SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, Ward, Lock & Co., 1891

1891 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 20,250.00
55 ELIZABETH I

Warrant signed ("Elizabeth R") at head and headed "By the Queene", Windsor Castle, 21 February 1564 - 'FOR SEEING IT UPON THE ARRIVAL OF HIM THITHER, WE BE NOT DUBBLE CHARGED'

1564 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 19,000.00
111 SUN YAT-SEN

Cabinet portrait by H.T. Thompson, SIGNED BY SUN YAT-SEN in black ink, [1911?]

1911? GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,475.00
47 SEUTTER (GEORG MATTHAUS)

Atlas novus sive tabulae geographicae totius orbis faciem, partes, imperia, regna et provincias exhibentes..., Augsburg, Matthaus Seutter, [c.1740]

c.1740 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 10,837.00
2

Album titled 'Lady/ Emily/ Bathurst's/ Scrap/ Book/ 1818', comprising some 20 watercolours and 70 drawings in pencil, pen, ink and wash, c.1818-1823

c.1818-1823 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,925.00
102

The Wakeman family collection of Plough Press books and pamphlets, 1968-2017

1968-2017 GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,925.00
3 AUDUBON (JOHN JAMES)

The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories, 7 vol., New York, V.G. Audubon, 1860

1860 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,287.00
93 FLEMING (IAN)

On Her Majesty's Secret Service, NUMBER 62 OF 250 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1963

1963 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,287.00
1 AGRICOLA (GIORGIUS)

Opera... de l'arte de metalli partita in xii. libri, Basel, Hieronymus Froben et Nicolaus Episcopius, [colophon: 1563]

1563 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 7,650.00
52 EDWARD VI

Document bearing the King's stamped signature ['Edward'] Westminster, 7 July [1551] - EDWARD VI ORDERS THE DEBASEMENT OF THE COINAGE

GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,012.00
105 ROWLING (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING, Bloomsbury, 1997

1997 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,012.00
96 HAYEK (FRIEDRICH AUGUST)

Individualism and Economic Order, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR; and 5 others

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,375.00
88 CHURCHILL (WINSTON)

Typed letter signed to Sir Frederick Ponsonby, contemplating life away from the House of Commons, S.S. Empress of Australia, 8 August 1929

1929 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 6,120.00
101

Frances Wakeman's working library of books, writings and research materials on papermaking

GBP 600.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 6,120.00
34 POTOCKI (JOSEPH)

Sport in Somaliland, Being an Account of a Hunting Trip in that Region, NUMBER 186 OF 200 COPIES signed by the publisher, Rowland Ward, 1900

1900 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,737.00
  • 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
    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
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    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
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