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Source : Watkins Americana

Source Title	Bibliothecas Americana [1622 - 1896]
Description	Note [from the preface} The following pages contain a brief descriptive list, arranged alphabetically, of the most important bibliographies, and booksellers' and auctioneers' catalogues of old, scarce, and valuable books, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps and charts relating to the antiquities, history, and geography of North and South America, and West Indies, the Great South Sea, and voyages round the World. Of the general bibliographies not included in the present list, but which are of great value to Americanists, the reader should consult Brunet's Manual; Lowndes Manual; Bibliotheca Grenvilliana; Harvard College Library Bulletins; Catalogues of the Boston Public Library, Library of Congress, Astor Library, Boston Athenaeum; and the works of DeBure, Antonio Graesse, Boehmer, Panzer, and Meuselei.
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Total Records in AED	184

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. $10,000 to $15,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. $5,000 to $7,000.

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Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: GOLDING, William (1911-1993). Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner's, 1926. $3,000 to $4,000.

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Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine, an Invention. New York: Henry Holt, 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: DAHL, Roald (1916-1990). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. $2,000 to $3,000.

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Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>California Virtual Book Fair March 4-6, 2021 www.abaa.org/vbf

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<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION. €5,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1997, First Deluxe Edn., Signed by the Author on title page. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Gilbert (John T.) Account of Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, from the earliest extant specimens to A.D. 719. €2,000 to €3,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin [-Ireland], 5 vols. lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Limited Editions. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols., roy 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949, Limited Edn., No. 185 (of 375 copies). Signed. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Crone (John S.)ed. The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography. Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. €1,250 to €2,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (John Butler) An original self-portrait Sketch, Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Photograph Album. Entitled ''A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst… 14th December 1927''. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Pistolesi (Erasmo) Il Vaticano, 8vols. large atlas, folio Rome (Tipografia della Societa..) 1829. €500 to €600.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Chagall (Marc)illus., Legmarie (Jean) comp., The Jerusalem Windows, folio N.Y. (George Braziller) 1962. €400 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Bullitt (Thos. W.) My Life at Oxmoor, Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Popish Plot: Oates (Titus) The Popes Whore House or The Merchandise of The Whore of Rome, folio L. 1679. First Edn. €100 to €150.
Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (horizontal), silver print, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Group of 32 WWII-era identification badges for manufacturing & military-related companies, 1940-50s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, albumen print, 1869. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Arnold Genthe, Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, silver print, circa 1908. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Edward Curtis, Oasis in the Badlands, toned platinum print, 1905. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Francis Frith, three volumes, approximately 140 photographs, 1860-70s. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Eugène Atget, 20 Photographs, gold-toned silver prints by Berenice Abbott, 1898-1927. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali, chromogenic print, 1965. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: A group of approximately 50 Photomatic selfies of the same man taken over a period of time, 1940s. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

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