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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> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Latin Book of Hours, around 1480. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Northern journeys - Collection of around 120 works, 17th-19th century.

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: J. Joyce, Ulysses, 1922. Est: € 8,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Florilegium, Fleurs du Printemps et de l‘Este, around 1630. Est: € 35,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: T. R. Malthus, An essay on the principle of population, 1798. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: E. Cerillo, Dipinti murali di Pompei, 1886. Est: € 2,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Bulla aurea, 1485. Est: € 40,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: A. Verschaffelt, Iconographie des Camellias, 1848-60. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: M. Duchamp & A. Breton, Le surréalisme en 1947, 1947. Est: € 16,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: M. E. Chevreul, De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, 1839. Est: € 5,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: F. Léger & P. Éluard, Liberté j‘écris ton nom, 1953. Est: € 15,000
<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Very scarce autograph letter, signed, by Emily Tennessee Donelson, wife of Andrew Jackson Donelson, who served as First Lady / White House Hostess to President Andrew Jackson from 1828 to about 1834. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Thirteen Edward Wells maps plus title page from his rare atlas, A NEW SET OF MAPS BOTH OF ANCIENT AND PRESENT GEOGRAPHY. $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: L.B. Folger and C. Kallenback: MEMPHIS - BIRD'S EYE VIEW - SUPPLEMENT TO THE APPEAL. Scarce lithograph on paper. $800 to $1,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Large NASA-Space Race era archive of material related to Colonel Michael J. Vaccaro, director of administration of the Marshall Space Flight Center of Huntsville, Alabama. $800 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: 1836 slavery related document signed by President Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson Jr., and Andrew Jackson Donelson. $800 to $1,100.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Roger Sherman Signed CT Land Grant, 1757. $600 to $700.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Letter archive related to the Randolph family of Virginia, including Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Lewis Meriwether Randolph – the grandson of President Jefferson. $400 to $500.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of British America to the East in Spanish America to the West of Mississippi map, by Thomas Kitchin, 1765. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Andrew Jackson manuscript document, unsigned, containing notes on several Tennessee legal cases, including one regarding a slave, circa 1790-96. $350 to $450.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: VA Civil War Photo, Alexander Gardner – Timothy O'Sullivan. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Military Archive, WWI/WWII French Soldier Paul Didier. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Early Virginia Map, B. Tanner, J. Reid, 1796. $300 to $400.
Swann Auction Galleries July 9: John James Audubon, Great Blue Heron, hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate, 1834. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson, A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia, Dalrymple edition, 1755. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: John James Audubon, The Birds of America, sign & inscribed to Brantz Mayer, 1840-44. $18,000 to $22,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli & Jean Baptiste Nolin, Paris, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas Historique, 7 volumes, Amsterdam, 1705-1720. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Johann Baptist Homann, Atlas Mapparum Geographicarum..., Nuremberg, circa 1750s. $12,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Lowell Mason, Musical Exercises for Singing Schools, Boston, 1838. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 9 volumes, Philadelphia, 1808-14. $6,000 to $9,000.
<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Only 25 June to 8 July 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Macbeth: A Tragedy. Acted at the Dukes-Theatre. London: printed for William Cademan, 1673. $60,000 to $90,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD. Panorama of San Francisco, from California-St. Hill. [San Francisco:] Morse's Gallery, 1877. $15,000 to $25,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: BRUNUS ARETINUS, LEONARDUS. De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1471. $12,000 to $18,000.

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Only 25 June to 8 July 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: HILL, JOHN. Compleat Body of Gardening. London: printed for T. Osborne; T. Trye; S. Crowder and Co.; and H. Woodgate, 1757. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: GASPAR DE PORTOLA. Document Signed Twice ("Gaspar de Portola," & "M. Portola"), 29 pp, Puebla, Mexico, December 10, 1780. $8,000 to $12,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: VINGTIEME SIECLE. A complete set of the second series of Vingtieme Siecle (XXe Siecle), together with all fourteen special numbers. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Only 25 June to 8 July 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. Autograph Letter Signed ("F.D.R.") as President, Washington, [1941], to Norman Davis, on White House stationery. $6,000 to $8,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: HAYEK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST. Autograph Manuscript, "Discipline of Civilisation." $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ADAMS, HANNAH; ADAMS, THOMAS "BOOK". Daubuz, Charles. A Perpetual Commentary On The Revelation Of St. John. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1720. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: EMPEROR NORTON. Photograph signed ("Norton I"), albumen print carte-de-visite. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ROBERTS, DAVID. Egypt and Nubia from Drawings Made on the Spot ... with Historical Descriptions by William Brockendon. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-9. $4,000 to $6,000.

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