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<center>Sotheby’s Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts Online Auction 7-14 July

Sotheby’s: Isaac Newton. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. £280,000 to £350,000.

Sotheby’s: Johann Sebastian Bach. Two early editions: Fantaisie pour le Clavecin. £1,000 to £1,500.

Sotheby’s: Mozart. Early edition, in parts, of the Concerto in A for piano and orchestra. £2,000 to £3,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts Online Auction 7-14 July

Sotheby’s: Beethoven. First edition, second issue of the Ninth Symphony op.125. £1,000 to £1,500.

Sotheby’s: Cervantes. Don Quixote, Barcelona, 1617. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s: Johann Sebastian Bach. Three first and early editions of music for organ. £1,200 to £1,500.
<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers The Collectors’ Sale July 7 – 15, 2020

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: O'Fihely, Maurice Abp. Questiones subtilissme Scoti in metaphysicam Aristotelis, Venice (Octavianus Scoti) 20th November 1497. 8,000 to 12,000 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Pococke (Richard). A Description of the East and some other Countries, 3 vols. in 2, L. (W. Bowyer) 1743. 2,250 to 3,500 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Keogh (John). Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or A General Irish Herbal Calculated for this Kingdom, giving an account of the Herbs, Scrubs…, Corke (George Harrison) 1735. 1,000 to 1,500 €

<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers The Collectors’ Sale July 7 – 15, 2020

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Perry (Charles). A View of the Levant particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt and Greece, L. (T. Woodward) 1743. 800 to 1,200 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Shaw (Thomas). Travels, or Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant,, Oxford (The Theatre) 1738. 600 to 700 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: [French (Nicholas) Bishop of Ferns] Attributed, Recit Exact et Fidele de la Vente et Partage du Roiaume d'Irlande Fait Sous Charles II…, Milan (Chez Charles Joseph Quinto) 1724. 500 to 700 €

<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers The Collectors’ Sale July 7 – 15, 2020

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: [French (V. Rev.Dr. Nicholas, Bp of Ferns.)] The Unkinde Desertor of Loyall Men and True Frinds, 12mo, n.p. 1676. 500 to 700 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Yeats (W.B.) Plays and Controversies,, N.Y. (The MacMillan Company) 1924, Signed Limited Edn. 500 to 700 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Barrie (J.M.) & Thomson (Hugh) illus. Quality Street, a Comedy in Four Acts, L. (Hodder and Stoughton) 1901, Limited Edition, signed by the artist. 500 to 700 €

<center>Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers The Collectors’ Sale July 7 – 15, 2020

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Molyneaux (William). The Case of Ireland's being bound by Acts of Parliament in England Stated, [London 1719]. 200 to 300 €

Fonsie Mealy, Jul. 7 – 15: Johnston's (W. & A.) Map of South Africa, to illustrate the Military Operations 1900. 100 to 150 €
Swann Auction Galleries July 16: N.C. Wyeth, The Black Arrow, oil on canvas, for the book by Robert Louis Stevenson, 1916. $150,000 to $250,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Laurent de Brunhoff, mixed media color study for Babar’s World Tour, 2005. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Hilary Knight, Eloise with Valentine, watercolor, ink & pencil, 2015. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Howard Pyle, It was a Comrade from His Own Regiment, oil on canvas, for Harper’s Monthly Magazine, 1909. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Coby Whitmore, ‘Poor baby! You want me so much,’ she said, acrylic, for The Saturday Evening Post, 1968. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Al Hirschfeld, Charley’s Aunt, pen & ink, for the Broadway revival, The New York Times, 1940. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Erté, Décor de Laideronnette, gouache set design for third movement of Mother Goose, 1949. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Vince McIndoe, Villainous Last Supper, DC Comics, oil on canvas, 2016. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 16: Arthur Getz, Rooftop Party, casein tempera, cover illustration for The New Yorker, 1970. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Sotheby’s The Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript Online Auction 8-15 July

Sotheby’s: Elizabeth I. Early letter signed, to Edward North, First Baron North 1560. £12,000 to £18,000.

Sotheby’s: Catherine II. Empress of Russia Letter signed to Prince Grigori Aleksandrovich [Potemkin] 1784. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s: Nelson. Autograph letter signed, to Captains of Egyptian Club, 3 August 1798. £12,000 to £18,000,

<center>Sotheby’s The Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript Online Auction 8-15 July

Sotheby’s: Charles Darwin. Photograph signed, c.1871 by Oscar Gustave Rejlander. £6,000 to £8,000.

Sotheby’s: T.E. Lawrence. Autograph letter signed, to Major Littleton, 14 October 1918. £10,000 to £15,000.

Sotheby’s: Napoleon. Letter signed, ordering General Desaix to sail to Malta, prior to the Egyptian Expedition, 1798. £2,000 to £3,000.

Rare Book Monthly

diivinedbl February 01, 2003

Dear Bruce,

You were kind enough to email me when I tried to sign up for a trial
subscription on the ad you ran in Booksource Monthly which I subscribe to.

I just received another email from you. Congratulations on passing the one
thousand mark for subscribers.

Bottom Line: whoever figures out how to set up, what I think you're trying
to set up, will not only make a financial fortune but will do for the book
world what the New York stock exchange did for the capital markets almost
two hundred years ago and what the Nasdaq further did in the last decade.

Namely, to provide a universal and open and widely used medium for both auction and negotiated exchange of goods.

Up until now the bookworld continues in it's quirky, semi-subteranean world of operating in the secretive, ill-informed murky shadows of a third world bazar of haphazardly ferreting out buyers, sellers and information in the most obfuscated methods imaginable.

You're on the right track but you still have a helluva lotta work to do and there are twenty other people all trying to do the same thing.

As as a buyer and collector of books all I can say is that abebooks has the format but I think they're going to drop the ball. They
remind me of Commodore Computers twenty years ago or maybe Amiga. Same with E-Bay. Both had the beginnings of a magnificent platform but not able, for whatever reasons of corporate lack of foresight, to see the
bigger picture.

Are you the Steve Jobs of books? I certainly hope so. I hope, and know, that out there one of you is going to figure it out.

As I see your problem now, you have the vision but you're getting bogged
down pretty quick now in HOW you're putting it into effect. And please, though it's wonderful you now have a thousand subscribers, don't delude
yourself, as abebooks and e-bay have, into thinking that because you're finally making some money and creating a niche that you've answered to and found out the real solution to the big picture and are genuinely filling
that need.

Stay with it, keep soliciting ideas, keep revising the plan and tweeking it. I think, while aesthetically pleasing to look at, your web-site is missing a lot of 'meat' that's needed to fuel this puppy of an idea that your nurturing.

Well, I care about books and so took the time because you seem to really on some level be able to grasp what's needed in this book market so hope you found my comments if not helpful then at least interesting.

If I may be of further help, please let me know... all the best to you in
your endeavors, I hope you create what we all need.......and I hope this
e-mail makes it to you.

Kind regards,

Bill Brazz

e-mail at: divinedbld@comcast.net

hhurt December 03, 2002

To: catchall@americanaexchange.com

Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:56:40 -0800

Subject:

Dear Ms. Tallmer--

Thank you for the article on e-Bay. Let me add an experience that I've
had that surely is not unique. On three occasions that I have documented,
I have received what appeared to be good-faith queries from individuals
asking me to provide scans of high-end books. I have done so. Then
normal back-and-forth discussions have ensued about possible discounts,
questions about the books' condition, shipping, etc. In the cases noted,
I have then seen the scans of my items (absolutely identified by small
mars on the books in the scans) appear for sale on e-Bay at starting
prices far above my asking price. Clearly, the e-Bay seller was offering
my books and then, if he had a successful buyer, he would then consummate
the purchase from me. (The e-Bay seller's name in each case was seemingly
unrelated to the person I thought I was dealing with.) At first, this
angered me as simply wrong. In each case, I ceased negotiations with the
fake buyer. My complaints to e-Bay were received indifferently. I did
begin to watch the patterns of what appeared to be similar sales (always
very high-end books) and realized that the practice was certainly not
isolated.

In any case, as a bookseller I find e-Bay a good place to buy certain
books, but I've never tried to sell anything--except through these
operators I've just described.

Thanks again for your article.

Henry Hurt.

Shadetree Rare Books

Al November 15, 2002

Good Day,

Please sign me up for a year. The temporary trail period has already produced Lewis and Clark books at upcoming auctions that I would have not found otherwise.

Happy Trails,

Al

George December 01, 2014

I look forward every month to reading AE Monthly. Why lessen the enjoyment by including leftist political orthodoxy into otherwise delightful articles.

The latest offender::

"He continued through life to support political candidates who were focused on helping the needy, rather than those who sought to reduce taxes on the wealthy…"

—The Greatest Book Collector Dies at 100

Had the collector's forebears been of like mind, the collection receiving accolades likely would never have been formed.

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Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 1. Albertus Magnus, De Natura Locorum, 2nd edn, 1515. £3000 to £4000.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 22. George Cooke, Scenery of the East India Islands, 1811-13. £4500 to £5500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 23. J.M. Crozet, Nouveau vouage a la Mer du Sud, 1st edn, 1783. £4000 to £6000.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 27. J.P.J.Du Bois, Vies des Gouverneurs Generaux, 1st edn, 1763. £1200 to £1800.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 28. Wm Ellis, Authentic Narrative...Captain Cook, 1st edn, 1782. £2500 to £3500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 31. Thomas Forrest, Voyage to New Guinea, 1st edn, 1779. £1500 to £2000.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 32. Forster & Forster, Voyage round the World, 1st edn, 1777-78. £4500 to £5500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 38. Gianetti, Elogy of Captain James Cook, 1st edn, 1785. £2500 to £3500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 46. Otto von Kotzebue, Entdeckungs Reise, 1st edn, 1821. £3500 to £4500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 52. Alejandro Malaspina, Viaje politico-scientifico, 1st edn, 1885. £2000 to £3000.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 60. Sydney Parkinson, Journal of Voyage to the South Seas, large paper, 1773. £4500 to £5500.

Mayfair Book Auctions, July 16: Lot 64. Nathaniel Portlock, A Voyage round the World, 1st edn, 1789. £4000 to £6000.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2020

Forum Auctions, July 16: Ptolomaeus (Claudius). Cosmographia, first edition, Vicenza, Hermann Liechtenstein, 13 September 1475. £150,000 to £200,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Schoener (Johann). Opera mathematica, 3 parts in 1, first edition,The Honeyman copy in contemporary binding, Nuremberg, J. Montanus and U. Neuber, 1551. £30,000 to £40,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Lucian of Samosata. Dialogoi, editio princeps, with fine illuminated title-page, Florence, Lorenzo de Alopa, 1496. £20,000 to £30,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2020

Forum Auctions, July 16: Pian (Jean Baptiste de). [Architectural Alphabet], 26 chromolithographs by Leopold Muller after Pian, Vienna, 1842-44. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Rogers (Bruce).- Holy Bible (The)..., one of 200 copies on handmade paper, designed by Bruce Rogers, bound in modern crimson morocco, gilt, Oxford, 1935. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Jenner (Edward). An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae…, first edition, Printed for the Author, by Sampson Low, 1798. £8,000 to £12,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2020

Forum Auctions, July 16: Voyages.- Cook (Capt. James).- Parkinson (Sydney). A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in his Majesty's Ship the Endeavour, second edition, Charles Dilly...& James Phillips, 1784. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: [Clemens (Samuel Langhorne)] "Mark Twain". Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, first edition, first state, New York, Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: [Voight (Hans Henning)], "Alastair". Herod, for 'Salome: Drame en un Acte', original drawing in red & black ink over pencil, [c.1922]. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper July 16, 2020

Forum Auctions, July 16: James (M.R.) Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to A.C. Benson, 1904. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Remarque (Erich Maria). All Quiet on the Western Front, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1929. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, July 16: Ashendene Press.- More (Sir Thomas). A Fruteful and Pleasaunt Worke...Utopia, one of 100 copies, bound in black goatskin by J.Franklin Mowery, Ashendene Press, 1906. £3,000 to £4,000.

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