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Auction Name: Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper
Auction Date: 10/19/2019 - 10/19/2019
Sale Number: #101919
Total Lots: 200
Sold Lots: 169
Lots Sold: 84.50%
Unsold Lots: 31

Total Sales (USD): 50,748.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 86,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 161,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 98,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 185,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 27.34%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
13000	Karl Bodmer	Karl Bodmer - "Dog Dance"; Péhriska-Rúhpa. Moennitarri Warrior in the Costume of the Dog Danse. 23	1922	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 6,105.00
12979	Robert John Thornton	Thornton - The Pontic Rhododendron	1799-1807	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,805.00
12980	Robert John Thornton	Thornton - Hyacinths	1799-1807	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,805.00
12998	Karl Bodmer	Karl Bodmer - Junction of the Yellow-Stone River with the Missouri. 29	1839-1842	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,805.00
12999	Karl Bodmer	Karl Bodmer - Indian Utensils and Arms	1839-1842	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,585.00
12977	Maria Sibylla Merian	Merian, Folio - Original Color / Counterproof Ed - Moths, Caterpillars on Fig Tree. 67	1705	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,155.00
12978	Maria Sibylla Merian	Merian, Folio - Original Color / Counterproof Ed - Soursop with Owlet Moth. 14	1705	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,155.00
12975	Maria Sibylla Merian	Merian, Folio - Lemon & Insect. 28	1730	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 990.00
12961	Richard Bowdler Sharpe & John Gould, William Hart	Sharpe & Gould - Twelve-wired Bird of Paradise	1891-1898	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 880.00
12976	Maria Sibylla Merian	Merian, Folio - Original Color / Counterproof Ed - Pink Flowered Rocu & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 44	1705	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 880.00
12839	Alexis Hubert Jaillot after Nicolas Sanson	Jaillot after Sanson - 1696 - Map of the World	1696	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 825.00
12986	Francois Levaillant & Jacques Barraband	Barraband - Toucan. 12	1801-1806	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 742.50
12955	Alexander Wilson	Wilson - Carolina Parrot & Flycatchers. 26	1829	USD 600.00 - 1,000.00	USD 715.00
12987	Francois Levaillant & Jacques Barraband	Barraband - Toucan. 13	1801-1806	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 715.00
12842	Jan Christian Sepp	Sepp - Volume 2 with 56 Entomology Engravings	1762	USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 715.00
12965	Pierre Joseph Redoute	Redoute - Eddible Canna or Indian Shot; Canna Indica. 201	1802-1816	USD 500.00 - 1,500.00	USD 577.50
12967	Pierre Joseph Redoute	Redoute - Sweet Briar Rose; Rosa Rubiginosa anemone-flora	1817-1824	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 577.50
12970	Pierre Joseph Redoute	Redoute - Cabbage Rose; Rosa Centifolia Caryophyllea	1817-1824	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 522.50
12971	Pierre Joseph Redoute	Redoute - Portland Rose; Rosa Damascena Coccinea	1817-1824	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 522.50
12968	Pierre Joseph Redoute	Redoute - Rose of Lady Monson; Rosa Collina Monsoniana	1817-1824	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 467.50

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Bonhams, Oct. 23: SMITH, CHRISTOPHER WEBB. 1793-1871. Indian Ornithology. [Patna, India]: 1828. $50,000 to $80,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DUPRÉ, LOUIS. 1789-1837. Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection de portraits, vues et costumes grecs et ottomans. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825. $60,000 to $90,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ADAMS, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed ("J Adams"), [to Dr. Perkins?] while recovering from his small pox inoculation, [late-April, 1764]. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUSTEN, JANE. Autograph Letter Signed ("J. Austen"), to her sister Cassandra, 4 pp, "Thursday – after dinner," [September 16, 1813,] Henrietta St. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York & Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DODWELL, EDWARD. 1767-1832. Views in Greece. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1821. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: JAMES, JESSE. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jesse W. James"), to Mr. Flood demanding Flood retract spurious accusations, 3 pp, June 5, 1875. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DE CORDOBA, JACOB. Map of the State of Texas. New York, 1866. $15,000 to $20,000

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ARNOLD, BENEDICT. Autograph bookseller's receipt for Dr. John Dickinson, Signed ("B. Arnold"), February 1767. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 4 Typed Letters Signed ("A Einstein") to Cleveland E. Dodge offering early reports on the meetings of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed ("Dwight D. Eisenhower") to General Henri Giraud written from a secret bunker in Gibraltar on the eve of Operation Torch, November 4 [but 6], 1942. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: Early Broadside Printing of the GADSDEN PURCHASE, Puebla, August 16, 1854. $2,000 to $3,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ALLEN, ETHAN. Autograph Letter Signed to Crevecouer during the Constitutional Debates in Congress, 2 pp, August 29, 1787. $30,000 to $50,000.
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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London John Murray, 1859. FIRST EDITION. THE VERY FINE MELLON-GARDEN COPY. $120,000 to $180,000

Hindman Auctions Auctioneers, Nov. 5: ECKERT, J. P, H. H. GOLDSTINE, and J. G. BRAINERD. Description of the ENIAC and comments on electronic digital computing machines. N.p., 1945. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY GOLDSTINE. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: EUCLID. Elementa geometriae. Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: [HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON and John JAY]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays… New York: John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo...Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence, 1632. FIRST EDITION. $30,000 to $40,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY JOYCE. $120,000 to $180,000

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Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan, 1936. FIRST EDITION. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: NEWTON, Isaac, Sir. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society, 1687. FIRST EDITION. $150,000 to $250,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROWLING. $80,000 to $120,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 5: SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. FIRST EDITION. $70,000 to $90,000
Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: William P. Welsh, Vacation Lands Are Calling / Go in Pullman, 1936. $1,500 to $2,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Paul Proehl, Chicago for the Tourist / Illinois Central, 1925. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: James Northfield, Wattle Time / Travel By Train, circa 1925. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: John O. Brubaker, California / America’s Vacation Land / New York Central Lines, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Montauk Beach, designer unknown, circa 1929. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Otto Brennemann, Football / Notre Dame by South Shore Line, 1926. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Guy Arnoux, Air France / Amérique du Nord, 1946. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Joseph Feher, Yosemite / United Air Lines. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Roger Broders, Le Tour du Mt. Blanc, 1927. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 14: Leslie Ragan, The Transportation Parade of the Years / Great Lakes Exposition, 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: RATZER, Bernard. Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. London: Jefferys and Faden, “Jan.y” 12, 1776. $80,000 to $120,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COCKERELL, Sydney C. Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897 [issued 1898]. $20,000 to $30,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes and Other Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. $6,000 to $8,000

<center> Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [GRANT, Ulysses S.— GRANT, Julia, First Lady]. Carved Applewood and 18-karat Gold Jewelry Suite, Browne & Spaulding, Jewelers, New York City, 1865. $20,000 to $30,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander. Incidents of the War |Sic Semper Sicariis [caption title]. Washington, D. C.: Philip & Solomons, 1865. $5,000 to $7,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: A COMPLETE COLLECTION of 115 titles published in R. R. Donnelley's Lakeside Classics series. Chicago, 1903-2017. COMPLETE RUN OF THE LONGEST-RUNNING CONTINUOUS SERIES OF BOOKS IN THE WORLD. $5,000 to $7,000

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: GLEIZES, Albert. METZINGER, Jean. Du Cubisme. Paris, 1947. LIMITED EDITION, number 19 of 20 copies on papier d'Auvergne. $3,000 to $4,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [THE LITTLE REVIEW]. ANDERSON, Margaret, ed. POUND, Ezra, ed. HEAP, Jane, ed. The Little Review. Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. XII, No. 2. 1914-1929. $3,000 to $4,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [MOUNTENEY, Leonard, binder]. LOUŸS, Pierre. Songs of Bilitis. Chicago: Argus Books, 1931. $2,000 to $3,000

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 6: [HANCOCK, John]. Partly-printed U.S. Loan-Office Transfer Certificate issued on behalf of Hancock. Sgn’d on recto by William Imlay, as Commissioner of Loans of Connecticut. 28 February 1793. $2,000 to $3,000

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