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Source Title	Dargate Auction Galleries
Description	Dargate Auction Galleries is a full-service auction located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The firm was founded in the 1980s by Edward Darnell. In 1989, Darnell sold the business to Larry and Carol Farley, who in turn sold it to Paul Novosel and Dan Zivko in 2002. In 2005, Novosel retired and Mr. Zivko purchased full ownership. Dargate offers art, books, furniture, and numerous other items, mostly from estates in western Pennsylvania.
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Total Records in AED	420

<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Gideon Welles, Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, 1791-1914. Sold September 29 — $281,000.

Swann: Charles Addams, Rock Climbers, cartoon for The New Yorker, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1954. Sold December 15 — $37,500.

Swann: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, three volumes, first edition, 1847. Sold June 16, 2022 — $23,750.

Swann: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542. Sold October 13 — $106,250.

<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32), silver print, 1936. Sold October 20 — $305,000.

Swann: George Washington, Autograph Document Signed, with two manuscript plat maps in holograph, 1751. Sold October 27 — $37,500.

Swann: Winfred Rembert, Winfred Rembert and Class of 1959, dye on carved & tooled leather, 1999. Sold October 6 — $233,000.

Swann: M.C. Escher, Relativity, lithograph, 1953. Sold November 3 — $81,250.
<center>Sotheby’s Original Film Posters 27 January - 10 February 2023

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Vertigo (1958), poster, US. The ultimate poster on this classic Hitchcock title, one of three known examples. £40,000 to £60,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), roadshow poster, US. £8,000 to £12,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Star Wars (1977), style C poster, printer's proof, US. £7,000 to £10,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: The Navigator/ La Croisiere du Navigator (1924), re-release poster (1931), French. £5,000 to £8,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Bullitt (1968), special test poster, US. £3,000 to £5,000.
Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 817. Bellin's complete five-volume maritime atlas with 581 maps & plates (1764). $24,000 to $30,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 325. An early and important map of the Republic of Texas (1837). $11,000 to $14,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 45. De Bry's early map of North Pole depicting Willem Barentsz' expedition (1601). $3,500 to $4,250.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 154. Poignant map of the United States documenting lynchings (1931). $250 to $325.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 457. Extremely rare matching set of pro-German propaganda from WWI (1914). $2,000 to $2,400.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 815. Homann's world atlas featuring 110 maps in contemporary color (1751). $14,000 to $16,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 60. Miniature pocket globe based on Herman Moll (1785). $3,500 to $4,500.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 8. Visscher's rare carte-a-figures world map (1652). $14,000 to $16,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 158. Matching satirical maps of the US by McCandlish: "Ration Map" & "Bootlegger's Map" (1944). $3,000 to $4,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 820. One of the finest English atlases of the early 19th century (1808). $4,750 to $6,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 59. Important milestone in preparation for 1969 moon landing (1963). $750 to $900.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 805. Superb bible leaf with image of crucifixion of Jesus with gilt highlights (1518). $800 to $950.
<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana February 16, 2023

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works…now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $100,000 to $125,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)]. –– ORLIK, Emil (1870–1932), artist. Lithograph signed (“Albert Einstein”). N.p., 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. [The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring. 1954. –– The Two Towers. 1954. –– The Return of the King. 1955. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford and Chicago, 1873. $6,000 to $8,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943. $2,000 to $3,000.
Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Black Sun Press] Proust, Marcel, 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), Spring and All, first edition, Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Washington, George (1732-1799), Autograph Letter Signed. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), Autograph Letter Signed. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph Manuscript. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Paris Commnue], Photograph album. $1,500 to $2,500.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Fleming, Ian (1908-1964), Casino Royale, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. $3,000 to $4,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Audubon, John James and the Rev. John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America, New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952. $600 to $800.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Bhagavad Gita] Wilkins, Charles, trans., The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon…, first edition, London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785. $700 to $1,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust: Eine Tragodie von Goethe, Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, 1906-1910. $800 to $1,200.

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