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Source Title	Dorotheum based in Vienna, Austria
Description	The Dorotheum is based in Vienna, Austria, but its sales go far beyond that nation's borders. It is Europe's leading German-speaking auction house. The firm traces its roots back over three centuries to its founding in 1707. It now has over 700 employees, including 200 abroad, and operates around 600 auctions per year, with annual sales well over €100 million. Among the many items featured in their auctions are art, antiques and collectibles, furniture, and jewelry. Naturally, many books and related works on paper are also found in the many auctions run by this large firm.
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Total Records in AED	40660

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Kingsborough, Edward King. Antiquities of Mexico: Comprising Facsimiles of Ancient Mexican Paintings and Hieroglyphics… London, 1831-1848. $80,000 to $120,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Paul Revere. The Bloody Massacre perpetrated In King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Reg. Boston, 1770. $150,000 to $200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Battle of the Alamo. Suplemento al Diario del Gobierno de la Republica Mexicana. (Núm. 326. Tom. IV.). Mexico City: Imprenta del Aguila, Dirigida por José Ximeno, 1836. $6,000 to $8,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: The Declaration of Independence. The first book-form printing of the Declaration of Independence. $300,000 to $500,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Treaty of Paris, Ratification. By the United States in Congress Assembled, A Proclamation … Annapolis, [Ca. 16-17 January 1784]. $800,000 to $1,200,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Declaration of Independence. The only known privately held copy of the celebrated William J. Stone facsimile for which provenance can be traced back to a direct ancestor who received it in 1824. $600,000 to $800,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Crockett, David. Autograph letter signed ("David Crockett") to George Patton, announcing his intention to travel to Texas. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Wytfliet, Cornelius. Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum, Sive Occidentalis Notitia Brevi Commentario Illustrata. Leuven: Johannes Bogaerts 1597. $35,000 to $50,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Schedel, Hartmann. Liber Cronicarum cum Figuris et Ymaginibus. Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 12 July 1493. $70,000 to $100,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: New York Mets. Baseball from the first victory of the New York Mets. $25,000 to $35,000

Sotheby’s NY, Jan 24: Robert E. Lee. Autograph letter signed ("R E Lee") as Confederate commander, to Rabbi Max Michelbacher, declining to furlough Jewish Confederate troops for the high holy days. $150,000 to $250,000
Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Leonard Baskin, Diptera: A Book of Flies & Other Insects, Gehenna Press, 1983. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georg Heym, Umbra Vitae, illustrated by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, first edition, Munich, 1924. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven, special copy for illustrator Alan James Robinson, first book from Cheloniidae Press, 1980. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: W.B. Yeats, Poems, illustrated by Richard Diebenkorn, accompanied by a suite of 6 etchings, 1990. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Rouault, Cirque de l’Étoile Filante, Paris, 1938. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: François-Louis Schmied, Le Cantique des Cantiques, Paris, 1925. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe, Berlin, Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Hans Bellmer & Georges Hugnet, Oeillades ciselées en branch, Paris, 1939. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Wassily Kandinsky, Klänge, first edition, Munich, 1913. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Charles Dickens, The Nonesuch Dickens, limited edition, 1937-38. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Rudyard Kipling, Le Livre de la Jungle, plates by Paul Jouve, engraved by F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1919. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Jan 29: Georges Lepape, Les Choses de Paul Poiret, Paris, 1911. $3,500 to $5,000.
Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities, first edition with inclusions. $18,000 to $26,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: John James Audubon. A la poupee color engraving on paper "Stanley Hawk." $6,000 to $12,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE] Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist, London, 1838. 3 vols. $8,000 to $10,000

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Land indenture between William Penn and Thomas Gell, dated October 12, 1681, wherein Gell purchased 500 acres Pennsylvania farmland; signed by Penn. $4,000 to $6,000

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Thomas Hart Benton, lithograph on paper "The Woodpile", pencil signed, original AAA certificate. $1,500 to $2,500

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Helen Dryden, Vogue cover design lithograph completed in hand watercolor, proof design for September 1922 issue. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions: Rare Books & Fine Prints. January 22, 2019

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Fisher, John D. Description of the Distinct, Confluent, and Inoculated Small Pox, Varioloid Disease, Cow Pox, and Chicken Pox, Boston, 1829. $600 to $800

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: [Rare Dust Jacket] Crane, Stephen. The Red Badge of Courage, NY, 1896. $500 to $700

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: after Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, 1884-1920), chromolithograph on paper "Lunia Czechowska", signed in plate, artist's proof (A/P). $200 to $400

Bunch Auctions, Jan 22: Samuel Arlent Edwards, color mezzotint on paper "A Visit to the Boarding School", pencil signed. $100 to $200
Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: [MAGGIOLO, Vesconte] Carta nautica manoscritta, bottega di Vesconte Maggiolo. Italy, c.1550. Previously unknown extraordinary portolan chart. €50,000 to 80,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: LA PÉROUSE, Jean-François. Voyage de la Pérouse autour du monde. Paris: L'Imprimerie de la République, 1797. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: PEREA Y ROJAS, Daniel. The preparatory watercolours to the renown album A Los Toros. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: MELA, Pomponio. Cosmographia, sive De situ orbis. Venice, 1478 [Bound with] DIONISIO il Periegeta. De situ orbis… Venice, 1478. €6,000 to 9,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: DE FELICE, Fortunato Bartolomeo. Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire universel raisonne des connoissances humaines. Yverdon, 1770-1780. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VECELLIO, Cesare. De gli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo. Venice: Damian Zenaro, 1590. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA, Giovanni Battista; SPECCHI, Alessandro. Il nuovo teatro delle fabriche… [bound with] ll quarto libro del nuovo teatro delli palazzi in prospettiva di Roma moderna. 1665-1699. €4,000 to 6,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FALDA Giovan Battista. Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze e luoghi pubblici della citta - Le fontane delle ville di Frascati nel Tusculano… Rome, [1691]. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: FERRERIO, Pietro & Giovanni Battista FALDA. Palazzi di Roma de piu celebri architetti disegnati… [1655 – 1677]. €2,500 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste: Books and Manuscripts. January 22, 2019

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: VON JACQUIN, Joseph Franz. Eclogae graminum rariorum. Vienna: Strauss Sommer, 1813-1844. €2,000 to 3,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: Prayer book according to the synagogical Ashkenazy rite in an elegant and precious silver binding. €3,000 to 5,000

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan 22: BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Ameto. Venice: Nicolo Zoppino, 1524. €3,000 to 5,000
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…

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