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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>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Cook, James. A Voyage towards the South Pole, 1st edition, 1777. Presentation copy to James Furneaux. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Mathews, Gregory M. The Birds of Australia, 13 volumes, 1st edition, 1910-27. A fine set, with 600 hand-coloured lithographs. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Shelley, George Ernest. Monograph of the Nectariniidae, 1st edition, 1876-80. With 121 hand-coloured lithographic plates by Keulemans. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Nostradamus, Michel de. The True Prophecies or Prognostications, 1st edition in English, 1672. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Collodi, Carlo. Le Avventure di Pinocchio, 1st edition, 1883. Original cloth. £6,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Kelmscott Press. The Life and Death of Jason, 1895. One of 200 copies on paper. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Ambler, Eric. Uncommon Danger, 1st edition, 1937. With the dust jacket. £1,500 to £2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Huxley, Aldous. Crome Yellow, 1st edition, 1921. Rare in the dust jacket. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Isherwood, Christopher. Goodbye to Berlin, 1st edition, 1939. With the dust jacket, £1,000 to £1,500

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Children’s Books & Modern First Editions June 19/20 

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Lewis, C. S. Autograph letter signed to Charles Jasper Sisson (1885-1966), 1937. £1,000 to £1,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Tolkien, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings, 1956-7. Signed by Tolkien in each volume. £7,000 to £10,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 19/20: Wells, H. G. The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1898. Inscribed by Wells with autograph self-portrait. £3,000 to £5,000
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Book of Hours. Illuminated manuscript, Flanders or northern France, c. 1450. With 12 full-page illuminated miniatures. £10,000 to £15,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Zahrawi, Abu’-Qasim, al- (c. 936-1013). Albucasis chirurgicorum omnium, Strasbourg, 1532. The first comprehensive illustrated treatise on surgery. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Milles, Thomas. The Custumers Alphabet and Primer, 1608. Gilt supralibros of 17th-century English bibliophile Edward Gwynn. £2,000 to £3,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Guillemeau, Jacques. Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women, 1st edition in English, 1612. The second midwifery manual printed in English. £1,500 to £2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Rabisha, William. The Whole Body of Cookery Dissected, 1st edition, 1661. Rare. Five copies in libraries. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Royal binding. An Abridgment of the English Military Discipline, 1678. Contemporary red goatskin gilt by Samuel Mearne for Charles II (1630-1865). £1,500 to £2,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Pallavicino, Ferrante. The Whores Rhetorick, 1st edition in English, 1683. Rare anti-Jesuit satire. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Swift, Jonathan. The Benefit of Farting, 1st London edition, 1722. Teerink 19. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edwards, George. Natural History of Uncommon Birds [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1743-64. Contemporary tree calf, 362 hand-coloured engraved plates. £8,000 to £12,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers The Library and Picture Collection of the late Martin Woolf Orskey June 26

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Campbell, Patrick. Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America, 1st edition, 1793. Howes C101; Sabin 10264. Uncut in original boards. £5,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Hearne, Samuel. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay, to the Northern Ocean, 1st edition, 1795. Sabin 31181. Large-paper copy. £2,000 to £3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 26: Edgeworth, Maria. The Match Girl, A Novel, 1808. £1,000 to £1,500
Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Sold for $500,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. Sold for $25,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. Sold for $50,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Fitzroy, Robert. Autograph Letter Signed to agent Thomas Stilwell, informing him of the progress of H.M.S. Beagle. Sold for $17,575.

<center>Bonhams Property from the Collection of Nicole and William R. Keck II

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Sold for $13,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. Sold for $5,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. Sold for $7,575.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. Sold for $8,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. Sold for $4,825.
Chiswick Auctions: Rowling (J.K). Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, FIRST EDITION, first issue, 1997. £15,000 to £20,000
Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: Online-Only Auction. Now through June 18

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: MYERS, ARTHUR B.[OWEN] R.[ICHARDS] Life with the Hamran Arabs... $500 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: LYELL, D. D. Nyasaland for the Hunter and Settler. $600 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: JOHNSON, ISAAC CHARLES Sport on the Blue Nile… $600 to $900

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: Online-Only Auction. Now through June 18

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: BETHELL, ALFRED J. Notes on South African Hunting and Notes on a Ride to the Victoria Falls… $600 to $900

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold “Jake” Johnson: BISHOP, B. F. Game & Visitor's Book. $500 to $800

Doyle, Travel & Sport in Africa from the Library of Arnold "Jake" Johnson: BYRON, EDMUND What We Did in South Africa in 1873. $600 to $900

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