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Source Title	The Pierre S. duPont III Collection of Navigation, Voyages, Cartography and Literature of the Sea
Description	This collection of 255 lots, many of which contain multiple volumes, is a very important sale in the travel and voyages category. Many of these items have not come to auction since. At the time (1991), the prices were considered to be high, but many have in time come to look like a bargain. DuPont was a descendant of the famed DuPont family which founded the chemical company that bears their name. Pierre III was not a particularly public individual though his son went on to be a Delaware Governor and one-time presidential candidate. However, Pierre III did achieve great recognition for his spectacular collection of books in the field of voyages and navigation.
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Total Records in AED	255

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, first edition with inclusions. $18,000 to $26,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: John James Audubon. A la poupee color engraving on paper "Stanley Hawk." $6,000 to $12,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE] Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, London, 1838. 3 vols. $8,000 to $10,000

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Land indenture between William Penn and Thomas Gell, dated October 12, 1681, wherein Gell purchased 500 acres Pennsylvania farmland; signed by Penn. $4,000 to $6,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Thomas Hart Benton, lithograph on paper "The Woodpile", pencil signed, original AAA certificate. $1,500 to $2,500

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Helen Dryden, Vogue cover design lithograph completed in hand watercolor, proof design for September 1922 issue. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Fisher, John D. Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small Pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow Pox, and Chicken Pox, Boston, 1829. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [Rare Dust Jacket] Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage, NY, 1896. $500 to $700

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: after Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920), chromolithograph on paper "Lunia Czechowska", signed in plate, artist's proof (A/P). $200 to $400

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Samuel Arlent Edwards, color mezzotint on paper "A Visit to the Boarding School", pencil signed. $100 to $200
Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 230: Charles Bukowski. South of No North. Los Angeles, 1973. First edition. Signed. $1,500 to $2,000

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 244: Aldous Huxley. Brave New World. Garden City, 1932. First American edition. Signed. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 10: Frank Lloyd Wright. “Fallingwater Side Elevation” Original Blueprint. $1,500 to $2,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 169: Chicago’s Progress: A Review of the World’s Fair City. Chicago: Bishop Publishing, (1933). $150 to $250

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 299: [Tanguy, Yves] Benjamin Peret. Dormir dans Les Pierres. Paris: Editions Surrealistes, 1927. $2,500 to $3,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 276: Jean Hans Arp. Arp: Eleven Configurations. Zurich, 1945. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 235: Joseph Conrad. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard. New York: 1904. First edition. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 290: Umberto Brunelleschi. Louys, Pierre. Les Aventures du Roi Pausole. Paris: 1930. $1,200 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 700: X-Men No. 94. Marvel Comics, 1975. CGC 9.0. $800 to $1,200

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. February 2, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 540: Travers, P.L. Mary Poppins [and] Mary Poppins Comes Back. Signed. New York: 1936. $1,000 to $1,500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 576: Mickey Mouse. 17 Big Little Books. 1930s-40s. $300 to $500

Potter & Potter Auctions, Feb. 2: Lot 429: Paracelsus. Medicina Diastatica or Sympathecall Mumie. London: 1653. $800 to $1,200
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Chiswick Auctions: Rare Books & Works on Paper. January 23, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Rossini (Luigi, artist & engraver). Le Antichità Romane, ossia Raccolta della piu interessanti Vedute di Roma Antica, 89 plates. £2500 to £3500

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Four original hand-painted propaganda posters, (550 x 770 mm.), North Korea, 2009. £1200 to £1800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Plinius Secundus (Gaius). Historia Natural, 2 vol, Spanish translation, woodcut arms of Philip IV of Spain, Madrid, 1624; 1629 £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Nasmyth (James) & Carpenter (James). The Moon, FIRST EDITION, frontispiece and 24 plates, 1874. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions: Rare Books & Works on Paper. January 23, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: A group (12) of large size Chinese Cultural Revolution papercuts on red paper presented on white paper backing, featuring various slogans and images of General Mao. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Coronelli (V. M.). Tran-Siselana, copper engraved, hand-coloured, title cartouche with four winds and four monkeys, coat of arms, Venice, c.1692; and 8 others. £600 to £800

Chiswick Auctions, Jan 23: Pouchkine (Alexandre). Contes populaires Russes… traduits … par Alexandra de Holstein et René Ghil, FIRST EDITION, n. 165 of an edition of 270 copies. £400 to £600
Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, Gehenna Press, 1983. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special copy for illustrator Alan James Robinson, first book from Cheloniidae Press, 1980. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of 6 etchings, 1990. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition, Munich, 1913. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Charles Dickens, The Nonesuch Dickens, limited edition, 1937-38. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1919. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, Paris, 1911. $3,500 to $5,000.

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