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Auction Name Thursday Morning @ Stair Total Sales (USD) 8,487.00
Auction Date February 25, 2021 - February 25, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,500.00
Sale Number #12849 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 7,300.00
Total Lots 21
Sold Lots 15 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 7,700.00
% of Lots Sold 71.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 12,000.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.73%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
221 After Albrecht Durer

Offerings of the Magi

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 5,227.50
62 After French School

Three Ornothological Plates

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,107.00
119 Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863)

Autograph Letter

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 615.00
142 Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973)

Building in a Foreign Country, for Life Magazine; Margot Fontayne in Swan Lake; and Portrait of Veronica Lake

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 246.00
143 After Phillippe Halsman (1906-1979)

Marilyn Monroe

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 215.25
118 After Paul Klee

Das Tor zum Hades

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 184.50
250 After George Rouault (1871-1958)

Reincarnations du Pere Ubu

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 184.50
145 Arnold Newman (1918-2006)

Portrait

USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 153.75
168 After Henri deToulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

Album de Marine

1853 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 153.75
209 French School

Un Marche Couvert

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 123.00
144 After Sante D'Orazio (b. 1956)

Semi-Nude Fashion Model

USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 92.25
185 After Lebrecht Reinold

L'oliva; and La Piegrieche Rousse

USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 61.50
226 After Henry Alken (1785-1851)

The Winning Post

1871 USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 61.50
140 20th Century School

Botanicals

USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 30.75
217 Louis Malteste (1861-1928)

Theatre Antoine

1897 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 30.75
  • Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025 Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025
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    17th July 2025
    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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  • DOYLERare Books, Autographs & MapsJuly 23, 2025 DOYLERare Books, Autographs & MapsJuly 23, 2025
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    DOYLE, July 23: WALL, BERNHARDT. Greenwich Village. Types, Tenements & Temples. Estimate $300-500
    DOYLE, July 23: STOKES, I. N. PHELPS. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-28. Estimate: $3,000-5,000
    DOYLE, July 23: [AUTOGRAPH - US PRESIDENT]FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. A signed photograph of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Estimate $500-800
    DOYLE, July 23: [ARION PRESS]. ABBOTT, EDWIN A. Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions. San Francisco, 1980. Estimate $2,000-3,000.
    DOYLE, July 23: TOLSTOY, LYOF N. and NATHAN HASKELL DOLE, translator. Anna Karénina ... in eight parts. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [1886]. Estimate: $400-600
    DOYLE, July 23: ROWLING, J.K. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. London: Bloomsbury, 2000. Estimate $1,200-1,800