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Source Title	American Imprints Inventory No. 31. A Check List of California Imprints
Description	Of the 489 titles, 228 are listed in the two Cowan bibliographies; 59 of the titles listed were found in Harding and 60 in Wagner. 207 of the titles are represented by one copy only as far as the project records go, 180 of these, or approximately 87 percent, being located in California. The number of broadsides included in the total of 489 items is 128.
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Total Records in AED	489

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction January 28 & 29, 2023

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Gurrey, Alfred Richard, Jr. The Surf Riders of Hawaii, Gray version, Honolulu, circa 1910-14. Important, hand made publication. $16,000 to $18,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Scarce Benjamin Owen Tyler 1818 copy of the Declaration of Independence, engraved by Peter Maverick, Newark, NJ. Considered the first copy of the Declaration produced for commercial purposes. $6,000 to $6,400.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Henry Mouzon 1775 1st State Map of North / South Carolina With Indian Frontiers. $5,000 to $6,000.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction January 28 & 29, 2023

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Gurrey, Alfred Richard, Jr. Idyls of Hawaii, Honolulu, circa 1910-15. Exceptionally rare self-published and hand made. $4,000 to $5,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: McCarthy, Comrac. Suttree, New York, 1979. First edition, signed by the author. $2,600 to $3,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: 375 Different Bound Minstrel & Civil War Songs, 1830-1870, Black Americana. $2,400 to $2,800.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction January 28 & 29, 2023

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: President Andrew Jackson Signed Letter to Andrew Jackson Donelson, 1836. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Civil War Robert E. Lee Signed Letter to William Jackson. Gaines Mill, Virginia, dated June 11, 1864. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson ALS to His Sister Laura, New Orleans Barracks, 1848. $1,800 to $2,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction January 28 & 29, 2023

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian, New York, 1985. First edition, first printing. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Archive of 8 Civil War CSA Cabinet Member Letters, incl. Seddon, Randolph, Walker, Mallory, Memminger, Stephens, Tyler. $1,600 to $1,800.

Case Antiques, Jan. 28-29: Napoleon I Autograph Letter Signed and Portrait Engraving, framed. $1,000 to $1,200.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th January 2023

Forum, Jan. 26: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first hardback edition, Bloomsbury, 1998. £50,000 to £70,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: America.- Popple (Henry). A Map of the British Empire in America with the French and Spanish Settlements Adjacent thereto, 1733 [but circa 1740]. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: America.- Martyr d'Anghiera (Peter). De Orbe Novo, edited by Richard Hakluyt, with the exceedingly rare Hakluyt-Martyr map, Paris, Guillelmum Avvray, 1587. £30,000 to £40,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th January 2023

Forum, Jan. 26: Chess.- Johannes Gallensis [John of Wales]. Summa collationum, sive communiloquium, ?first edition, Cologne, Ulrich Zel, [c.1472]. £18,000 to £22,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, 1953. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: Marvell (Andrew). Miscellaneous Poems, first edition, for Robert Boulter, 1681. £8,000 to £10,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th January 2023

Forum, Jan. 26: Tennis.- Sambucus (Johannes). Emblemata, cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis, first edition, Antwerp, Christopher Plantin, 1564.

Forum, Jan. 26: China, America & Canada.- Photograph album of views of China, America and Canada, [c.1870s]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed by the author and dated October 1958, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th January 2023

Forum, Jan. 26: Bedfordshire, Luton.- Archive of 33 charters from the reign of Henry VI relating to Luton and environs, manuscripts in Latin, on vellum, in charter bookhands, 1422-52. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: Medicine.- Obstetrics.- Katakura (Kakury?). Sanka Hatsum? [Enlightenment in Obstetrics], 6 vol. in 4, Tokyo, 1799. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Jan. 26: Bawden (Edward).- Richards (J.M.) High Street, first edition, presentation copy signed by the author, Edward Bawden's copy, 1938. £1,000 to £1,500.
<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.

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