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Zwiggelaar Auctions: Session I Children's books, Paper Toys, Manuscripts, Old Books, Militaria

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Auction Name Session I Children's books, Paper Toys, Manuscripts, Old Books, Militaria Total Sales (EUR) 150,905.45
Auction Date June 20, 2022 - June 20, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 60,595.00
Sale Number #27a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 117,860.00
Total Lots 574
Sold Lots 427 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 114,810.00
% of Lots Sold 74.39% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 221,815.00
Unsold Lots 147 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
490

PLATE-ATLAS WITH 356 PLATES, COLOGNE. CA. 1620

1863-70 EUR 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 22,925.00
489

IL CALLOTTO RESUSCITATO

1710 EUR 1,600.00 - 3,200.00 EUR 5,764.00
233 W. SHAKESPEARE.

HAMLET

n.d. 1985 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 3,144.00
380 APOLLONIUS OF PERGA.

CONICORUM LIB. V. VI. VII.

1661 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,358.00
450

LETTERPRESS PEACE TREATY

EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,358.00
241 ANNE FRANK.

HET ACHTERHUIS

1947 EUR 70.00 - 140.00 EUR 2,096.00
517 PIETER BOR.

NEDERLANTSCHE OORLOGHEN, BEROERTEN ENDE BORGERLIJCKE ONEENICHEYDEN,

1621-1634 EUR 900.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,965.00
153

THÉÂTRE DES VOYAGES ET DES ACTUALITÉS DE L'ANNÉE

C. 1900 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 1,834.00
235 JAMES JOYCE.

ULYSSES

1935 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 1,834.00
151

OPTIQUE LE CARNAVAL

ca. 1840 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,572.00
152

HUIT MILLE MÉTAMORPHOSES,

c. 1830 EUR 80.00 - 160.00 EUR 1,572.00
338

IUS CIVILE MANUSCRIPTORUM

1558 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,441.00
446 J.PH. SCHABAELJE.

BIBELSCHE FIGUEREN,

1648 EUR 650.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 1,310.00
569 CORN. BONTEKOE.

ALLE DE PHILOSOPHISCHE, MEDICINALE EN CHYMISCHE WERKEN

1689 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,179.00
529 J. LEUSDEN.

SCHOLAE SYRIACAE LIBRI TRES

1658 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,113.50
616 MIGUEL DE CERVANTES.

VERMAAKELYKE MINNERYEN

1733 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,113.50
346

EPIPHANIUS CONSTANTIENSIS. PERI TON PHYSIOLOGON (...). AD PHYSIOLOGUM

1588 EUR 600.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,048.00
464

F. VAN SCHOOTEN. MATHEMATISCHE OEFFENINGEN,

,1659-1660 or solely 1660 EUR 800.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,048.00
697 J. VAN LIER.

VERHANDELING OVER DE SLANGEN EN ADDERS

1781 EUR 700.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 1,048.00
482 G.J. SAAGMAN.

DE GROOTE SPAENSCHE TIRANYE OF HET CLEINE MARTELAERS-BOECK,

1667 EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 982.50
447

LA SAINCTE BIBLE

ca. 1670 EUR 700.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 917.00
522 (T. VAN DOMSELAER).

HET ONTROERDE NEDERLANDT,

vellum EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 917.00
259 CHUSIM (BEN BERAK)

CHUSIM (BEN BERAK)

1916 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 786.00
495 F. HALMA.

TOONEEL DER VEREENIGDE NEDERLANDEN EN ONDERHORIGE LANDSCHAPPEN

1725 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 EUR 786.00
516 DON J.F.M.

SERMOON OVER DE DRONKAARDS EN HET DRONKEN DRINKEN

2nd half 18th century EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 786.00
  • 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
  • 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:
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    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.
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