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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>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of hours by Jean Boutin]. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, use of Rome, in Latin and French. France, early 15th century. From €50,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Pontifical illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin. Southern France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin and French. France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Officium B. Mariae Virginis. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, use of Rome, in Latin and Italian. 1482. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Manuscript on parchment, in French. Amiens, 14th century. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Verdi, Giuseppe. 9 handwritten lines signed by Luisa Miller, with a dedication 'to Monsieur Felix Le Couppey, Paris 24 Jan. 1852'. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: French Renaissance binding, produced in Lyon or Paris in the second half of the 16th century. Rhetoricorum secundus tomus in Gryphius' edition of 1548. From €800.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Gesner, Conrad. Vogelbuch Darinn die art, natur und eigenschafft aller vöglen. Zurigo, Froschauer, 1581, 1583, 1585, 1589. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Dalmatia]. Berlinghieri, Francesco. Tabula quinta de Europa. Florence, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, [before September 1482]. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Giampiccoli, Giuliano. Jacobo Comiti Duratio […] Tabulas a Marco Ricci Auctore, Julianus Giampiccoli incidit. Venezia, Teodoro Viero, 1775. €30,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Piazzetta]. Pitteri, Marco. Studj di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. Venezia, Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1760. From €4,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Palladio, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venezia, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570. From €14,000.
<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: De Wit’s composite atlas with magnificent full original color. $125,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the Civil War. $200,000 to $250,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Waugh Oil Painting, 70 Degrees North; The Polar Bear. $400,000 to $600,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquatint, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. $75,000 to $90,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Blaeu terrestrial table globe, 1602. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquautint, Ruby-Throated Humming Bird. $35,000 to $45,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Bessa original watercolor of a bouquet of flowers. $75,000 to $125,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: John Gould's only work devoted to American birds. $15,000 to $20,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Wyld & Malby pair of terrestrial & celestial globes, 1833. $50,000 to $75,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Leutze map of the world oil painting. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Caula, the finest 18th century drawing of Lison. $25,000 to $35,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Scolari / Blaeu map of Germania, 1650. $15,000 to $22,000.
<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>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Ortelius (Abraham). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, folio, Antwerp, 1570, First Edition (2nd Issue), 53 double-page maps, contemporary hand colouring. €40,000 to €60,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: An original engraved facsimile copy of the Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776, issued by order of Congress on 4 July 1823 in a limited edition of 200 copies on fine parchment. €20,000 to €30,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Joyce (James). Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co., Rue de l’Odeon, Paris 1922. No. 559 of 1000 Copies of the First Edn.,, one of 750 Copies on handmade paper. €10,000 to €15,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Malton (James) [1761-1803]. A fine quality set of twenty-five hand coloured aquatint Views of Dublin, as published for A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin. €6,000 to €7,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: 'Bloody Sunday.' An original Admission Ticket to Croke Park, Great Challenge Match (Football), Tipperary v. Dublin, Sunday, November 21,1920. Pink card, 3 ins x 4 ¼ ins. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Joyce (James). Haveth Childers Everywhere - Fragment from Work in Progress, Paris & N.Y., 1930, First Edn., Signed and Limited No. 50 (100) Copies. €4,000 to €6,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Edward Lyons, Irish (1726-1801). Genealogy: The FitzGerald's Arms of Carton House, Kildare, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Yeats (William Butler). Poems. Cuala Press, D. 1935, stiff blue paper covers, unlettered as issued, coloured initials and ornaments hand-drawn by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. One of 300 copies. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: A fine and important collection of Ulster Wit. Belfast Political Scrapbook, 19th century. €1,500 to €2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Rare Views of the Giant's Causeway. Coloured Prints: Drury (Susanna) [1698-1770]. A rare pair of original Engraved Prints. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apsostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism, L., 1682, First Edn. €800 to €1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Aringhi (Pauli). Roma Subterranea Novissima, 2 vols. lg. folio Rome (Typis Vitalis Mascardi) 1651. €350 to €750.
<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.

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