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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000 -
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000 -
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [1598]. £2,000-3,000")
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Potter and Potter Auctions: Wunderkammer:The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Wunderkammer:The Freeman & Fugate Oddities Collection | Total Sales (USD) | 195,702.00 |
| Auction Date | February 01, 2025 - February 01, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 106,180.00 |
| Sale Number | #173 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 178,390.00 |
| Total Lots | 321 | ||
| Sold Lots | 314 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 108,930.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 97.82% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 183,540.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 7 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 106.63% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 397 | Archive of Over 150 Post-Mortem Boston Crime Scene Photographs. |
1940s--1970s. | USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 9,600.00 | |
| 260 | Roody [Roody Book]. |
1928 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 8,400.00 | |
| 3 | SIGLER, Jack. | See A Queena. |
ca. mid-20th century. | USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 5,040.00 |
| 265 | CHERET, Jules (1836--1932). | CARMELLI, Professor (Auguste Coene, 1850--1919). Musee Grevin / Magie Noire. |
1887 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 |
| 392 | Group of nearly 400 Female Mugshots from Boston, Massachusetts, 1940--1977. |
1940s--1970s. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 4,080.00 | |
| 253 | Aurora Troupe. |
ca. [1906]. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,840.00 | |
| 257 | Wilh. Roloff Flea Circus. |
ca. [1907]. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,360.00 | |
| 266 | CARTER, Charles Joseph (1874--1936). | Carter the Great / Do the Dead Materialize? The Absorbing Question of All Time. |
ca. 1930s. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 |
| 1 | JOHNSON, Fred G. (1892--1990). | Ape Girl. |
ca. 1930s. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
| 206 | THURSTON, Howard (1869--1936). | Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston the Great Magician. |
ca. 1926 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
| 295 | KORINGA (Renee Bernard, 1913 -- 1976). | Koringa. |
ca. 1930s. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,640.00 |
| 396 | Mugshots of a Flasher. |
ca. 1940s-50s. | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 2,640.00 | |
| 256 | Every Evening / Jeden Abend / Tous Les Soirs. |
ca. [1913]. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 | |
| 258 | Circus Busch / Eldid der Teufelsfahrer in der Luft [The Devil Rider in the Air]. |
ca. [1929]. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 | |
| 391 | DESALVO, Albert (1931--1973). | Archive of Original Crime Scene Photographs from Boston Strangler Case. |
1960s. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
| 211 | Talking Skull. |
ca. 1930]. | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,280.00 | |
| 259 | Circus Busch / Die Amerikanische Sensation / Das Seil des Todes [The Rope of Death]. |
ca. [1925]. | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,280.00 | |
| 324 | Salesman's Sample "The National Tomb" Coffin Burial Device. |
Circa early 20th century. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,280.00 | |
| 233 | Royal Kap-Dwa. Two-Headed Giant [cover title]. |
ca. 1900s. | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 2,160.00 | |
| 278 | NEFF, Bill (1905--1967). | Dr. Neff and his Madhouse of Mystery. |
Circa 1950s. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
| 195 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 -- 1926). | Typed Letter Signed ("Houdini"). |
7 January 1922. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 320 | Tiffany & Co. | Harlequin Transformation Playing Cards. |
1879 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 61 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874--1926). TEALE, Oscar (1847--1934). | Houdini Exposes Slate Writing. |
ca. 1924 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,800.00 |
| 53 | RIPLEY, Robert (1890--1949). | Crocko / The Girl with a Crocodile Body. |
Circa 1930s. | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
| 71 | COOK, Florence Eliza (1856--1904). | Two Photographs of Materialized Spirit Katie King. |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
