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Source Title	The Library of H. Bradley Martin, Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana
Description	H. Bradley Martin was a collector of epic proportions. Only a very small part of his collecting interests were directed to the Americana field. Nevertheless, when his 48 lots of Americana came to the auction block on January 31st, 1990 every lot sold and the total realized was a staggering $4,394,775 or an average of $91,557.00 a lot. Included in the sale was George Washington's own copy of the Federalist which brought $1,430,000 that day. A folio broadside of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence brought $1,595,000.
Scope of Text	The auction catalogue includes many images and they are accessible with the individual auction records.
Total Records in AED	48

<center>Sotheby’s Zang Tumb Tuuum: la révolution futuriste Online Auction 30 November – 7 December

Sotheby’s, Nov. 18: The "Official Edition" of the United States Constitution and the First Printing of the Final Text of the Constitution, 1787. $15,000,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. I Paroliberi Futuristi. 1914-1915. 8 p. Unique corrected proofs, for an anthology that remained unpublished. €40,000 to €60,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Studenti in Lettere. Università. 1915. Seminal work, featured in 3 historical futurist exhibitions. €20,000 to €30,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Chiaro di luna. Circa 1915. Collage and gouache on paper. €15,000 to €20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. Manicure. Faire les ongles à l'Italie. Circa 1915. A fantastic parody of an advertising poster. €20,000 to €30,000.
<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 47. Roosevelt, Theodore. Photograph inscribed to Morris J. Hirsch. May 7th 1918. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 178. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [Printed for the author], 1955. First edition in the first issue binding. $70,000 to $100,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 38. Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 55. Taylor, Zachary. Autograph letter signed as President-Elect. Baton Rouge: January 15, 1849. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 203. Picasso, Pablo. Verve Vol. V, Nos. 19-20. Paris: Editions Verve, 1948. Inscribed on the title page by Picasso. $1,500 to $2,500.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 211. Domergue, Jean-Gabriel. L'Ete a Monte Carlo. Lithographed poster, Lucien Serre & Cie, Paris, circa 1937. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 105. Manuscript Illumination attr. to Neri da Rimini. Large excised initial "N" from a choirbook, extensively historiated. [Likely Rimini: first quarter of the 14th century]. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 40. McKenney, Thomas L. and Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1870. $3,00

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 222. Searle, Ronald. [Pets--a dog, cats and a parrot-- surrounded by books, and inspecting a globe, perhaps planning global domination]. Original drawing, 17 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 98. Faden, William; Scull, Nicholas and George Heap. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, Survey'd by N. Scull and G. Heap. London: William Faden, 12 March 1777. $3,000 to $5,000.
Der Sturm. 1922. Sold October 2021 for € 13,000.

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Sold October 2021 for € 18,000.

Cozzani Ettore e altri, l’Eroica. Tutto il pubblicato. Sold October 2021 for € 11,000.

Newton Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. 1714. Sold October 2021 for € 7,500.

Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli. 1767-1776. Sold April 2021 for € 26,000.
<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Carolina Parrot. Plate 26. Hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate from Audubon's Birds of America. $80,000 to $100,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Francisco Henrique Carls. [Album de Pernambuco e seus Arrabaldes]. Fifty-three chromolithographed plates of landscape, town views and more of the state of Pernambuco, northeast Brazil. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Captain Thomas Davies, after. Group of 5 engraved topographical scenes of North American waterfalls. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: William R. Morley. Morley's Map of New Mexico. Large lithographed pocket map with original hand-color in outline. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Frederick William Beechey, et al. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey… $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: ZUDA ROKASHI (Priest Hotan.) Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu. Woodblock wall map of the world on 16 sheets joined. $5,000 to $7,500.
<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 29th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: Latin Book of Hours, Langres around 1490. Est: €50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: T. Livius, Römische Historien, 1533. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: G. Mendel, Versuche über Pflanzen-Hybriden, 1865-66. Est: €30,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 29th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: A. Verard, Book of Hours, around 1488. Est: €30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1601. Est: €80,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: Der Sturm, 1910-1916. Est: €16,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 29th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: Cronica van der hilliger Stat Coellen, 1499. Est: €25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: M. Catesby, Piscium serpentum insectorum, 1777. Est: €25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: W. Grohmann, Das Werk Ernst Ludwig Kirchners, 1926. Est: €20,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 29th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: P. Borgo, Aritmetica mercantile, 1491. Est: €16,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: D. Roberts, Egypt and Nubia, 1846-49. Est: €8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 29: Estampes, with the suite by P. Picasso, 1950. Est: €15,000

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