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Source Title	Waddington's Toronto
Description	Waddington's is a major Canadian art auction house, located in Toronto. It was founded in 1850, while Canada was still a British colony. It was founded by Andrew Henderson, a Scottish immigrant. The firm passed to Henderson's son Douglas when he died in 1928, and was sold in 1939 to Frank Waddington, hence its current name. Ronald McLean purchased the firm in 1962, and after his retirement in 2000, his three sons took over management. Waddington's is primarily an art auction, so books and related material are not that common, but books concerning art and prints do come up.
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Total Records in AED	877

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Swann: Charles Addams, Rock Climbers, cartoon for The New Yorker, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1954. Sold December 15 — $37,500.

Swann: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, three volumes, first edition, 1847. Sold June 16, 2022 — $23,750.

Swann: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542. Sold October 13 — $106,250.

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Swann: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32), silver print, 1936. Sold October 20 — $305,000.

Swann: George Washington, Autograph Document Signed, with two manuscript plat maps in holograph, 1751. Sold October 27 — $37,500.

Swann: Winfred Rembert, Winfred Rembert and Class of 1959, dye on carved & tooled leather, 1999. Sold October 6 — $233,000.

Swann: M.C. Escher, Relativity, lithograph, 1953. Sold November 3 — $81,250.
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Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Vertigo (1958), poster, US. The ultimate poster on this classic Hitchcock title, one of three known examples. £40,000 to £60,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), roadshow poster, US. £8,000 to £12,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Star Wars (1977), style C poster, printer's proof, US. £7,000 to £10,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: The Navigator/ La Croisiere du Navigator (1924), re-release poster (1931), French. £5,000 to £8,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Bullitt (1968), special test poster, US. £3,000 to £5,000.
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Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works…now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $100,000 to $125,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)]. –– ORLIK, Emil (1870–1932), artist. Lithograph signed (“Albert Einstein”). N.p., 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. [The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring. 1954. –– The Two Towers. 1954. –– The Return of the King. 1955. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford and Chicago, 1873. $6,000 to $8,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943. $2,000 to $3,000.
Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Black Sun Press] Proust, Marcel, 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), Spring and All, first edition, Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Washington, George (1732-1799), Autograph Letter Signed. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), Autograph Letter Signed. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph Manuscript. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Paris Commnue], Photograph album. $1,500 to $2,500.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Fleming, Ian (1908-1964), Casino Royale, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. $3,000 to $4,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Audubon, John James and the Rev. John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America, New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952. $600 to $800.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Bhagavad Gita] Wilkins, Charles, trans., The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon…, first edition, London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785. $700 to $1,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust: Eine Tragodie von Goethe, Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, 1906-1910. $800 to $1,200.

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