• Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.

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No Sale Number Auction House Sale Name Date of Auction Archived Date Total Lots Lots Sold % Lots Sold CURR Exch. Rate Low Est. Lots Sold High Est. Lots Sold High Est. All Lots Total Sales Total Sales In $ % Total Sales / High Est.
1 #L15413 Sothebys Library on an English Bibliophile, Part IV June 04, 2015 June 05, 2015 182 118 64.84% GBP 1.48 345,550.00 481,300.00 679,230.00 566,159.00 866,223.27 83.35%
2 #10619 Christies Posters June 04, 2015 June 05, 2015 200 160 80.00% GBP 1.48 526,200.00 767,700.00 1,027,500.00 837,066.00 1,280,710.98 81.47%
3 #201523 Heritage Auctions Rare Books - Internet bidstart 5/28 June 04, 2015 June 05, 2015 247 220 89.07% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 31,493.25 31,493.25
4 #22572 Bonhams Prints and Multiples June 03, 2015 June 05, 2015 252 169 67.06% GBP 1.48 136,600.00 196,500.00 292,900.00 286,309.00 438,052.77 97.75%
5 #594 Heritage Auctions Doodle for Hunger Illustration Art Auction Benefiting St. Francis Food Pantries and Shelter - online bidstart 5/11 June 01, 2015 June 03, 2015 54 54 100.00% USD 1.0 5,400.00 16,200.00 16,200.00 3,756.00 3,756.00 23.19%
6 #76 Australian Book Auctions THE COLLECTION OF JOHN LANE MULLINS June 01, 2015 June 04, 2015 276 233 84.42% AUD 0.73 178,800.00 269,530.00 362,830.00 311,060.70 242,627.31 85.73%
7 #1523 Bruun Rasmussen Prints June 01, 2015 June 05, 2015 63 48 76.19% EUR 1.09 17,725.00 20,895.00 26,515.00 17,008.75 19,049.80 64.15%
8 #71199 Dorotheum Autographs June 01, 2015 June 05, 2015 320 213 66.56% EUR 1.09 150,630.00 150,630.00 191,190.00 570,812.50 639,310.00 298.56%
9 #53115 Clars Auction Gallery Fine Art and Antiques - Books, Prints - Day 2 May 31, 2015 June 05, 2015 93 86 92.47% USD 1.0 143,800.00 219,300.00 247,600.00 181,132.00 181,132.00 73.16%
10 #53115 National Book Auctions Books, Art and Ephemera - Genealogy, Ephemera, Kane, etc. May 31, 2015 June 05, 2015 491 490 99.80% USD 1.0 41,770.00 109,250.00 110,250.00 37,993.63 37,994.51 34.46%
11 #30 Potter and Potter Auctions Old & Rare Conjuring Books May 31, 2015 June 05, 2015 276 264 95.65% USD 1.0 214,275.00 301,150.00 314,950.00 341,430.00 341,430.00 108.41%
12 #121522 Heritage Auctions Comics - Internet bidstart 5/24 May 31, 2015 June 01, 2015 881 881 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 206,969.64 206,969.64
13 #161522 Heritage Auctions Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 5/24 May 31, 2015 June 01, 2015 488 478 97.95% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 47,477.53 47,477.53
14 #33337 Audap and Mirabaud Sport - printed ephemera May 30, 2015 June 04, 2015 138 57 41.30% EUR 1.09 19,400.00 25,350.00 49,670.00 23,671.00 26,511.52 47.66%
15 #53015 Aspire Auctions Printed Art - Internet bidstart 5/22 May 30, 2015 June 04, 2015 10 10 100.00% USD 1.0 2,450.00 4,550.00 4,550.00 3,369.50 3,369.50 74.05%
16 #53015 Clars Auction Gallery Prints and Photographs May 30, 2015 June 04, 2015 124 102 82.26% USD 1.0 29,550.00 48,500.00 62,950.00 43,821.75 43,821.75 69.61%
17 #1359 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Books and Ephemera - Day 2 May 29, 2015 June 05, 2015 366 227 62.02% GBP 1.48 12,040.00 15,000.00 26,440.00 21,782.15 33,544.77 82.38%
18 #25807 ALDE Letters and Autograph Manuscripts May 29, 2015 June 04, 2015 415 251 60.48% EUR 1.09 149,340.00 188,251.00 305,751.00 325,117.80 360,880.77 106.33%
19 #23672 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Comic Strips May 29, 2015 June 04, 2015 476 304 63.87% EUR 1.09 85,160.00 85,160.00 176,135.00 102,076.80 114,325.99 57.95%
20 #33859 Ader Prints May 29, 2015 June 04, 2015 290 192 66.21% EUR 1.09 116,760.00 145,270.00 191,900.00 233,065.00 261,032.80 121.45%
21 #23094 Giquello Books May 29, 2015 June 04, 2015 304 143 47.04% EUR 1.09 174,370.00 228,170.00 506,170.00 326,025.00 365,148.00 64.41%
22 #2816B Skinner Americana and European Prints and Photography May 29, 2015 June 04, 2015 109 75 68.81% USD 1.0 169,200.00 248,400.00 381,100.00 236,342.00 236,342.00 62.02%
23 #L15402 Sothebys Music, Continental and Russian Books and Manuscripts May 28, 2015 June 01, 2015 315 204 64.76% GBP 1.48 1,408,950.00 1,935,800.00 2,982,500.00 2,669,153.00 4,083,804.09 89.49%
24 #1358 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Books and Ephemera - Day 1 May 28, 2015 June 05, 2015 709 508 71.65% GBP 1.48 29,120.00 36,430.00 51,580.00 46,357.28 71,390.72 89.87%
25 #33857 Ader Prints May 28, 2015 June 04, 2015 300 233 77.67% EUR 1.09 278,130.00 344,490.00 375,890.00 615,922.00 689,832.64 163.86%
26 #561 PBA Galleries Rare Books and Manuscripts May 28, 2015 May 30, 2015 289 145 50.17% USD 1.0 134,000.00 202,400.00 625,050.00 119,526.00 119,526.00 19.12%
27 #105g Galerie Bassenge 15th -19th Century Prints May 28, 2015 June 03, 2015 828 483 58.33% EUR 1.09 725,850.00 725,850.00 1,087,680.00 1,072,836.00 1,190,847.96 98.64%
28 #7136 Heritage Auctions Comics May 28, 2015 June 01, 2015 1737 1730 99.60% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 6,037,055.94 6,037,055.94
29 #201522 Heritage Auctions Rare Books - Internet bidstart 5/21 May 28, 2015 May 30, 2015 271 257 94.83% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 27,317.25 27,317.25
30 #21956 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Books and Manuscripts May 27, 2015 June 04, 2015 437 222 50.80% EUR 1.09 126,990.00 167,690.00 345,410.00 212,982.40 236,410.46 61.66%
31 #17 Gonnelli Casa DAste Manuscripts, Incunabula and Books May 27, 2015 June 05, 2015 792 432 54.55% EUR 1.09 283,110.00 283,110.00 538,920.00 487,596.60 550,984.52 90.48%
32 #11343 Christies THE JOEL SPITZ COLLECTION OF ENGLISH COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS May 27, 2015 May 30, 2015 199 150 75.38% GBP 1.48 379,450.00 568,150.00 740,050.00 686,509.00 1,050,358.77 92.77%
33 #52615 Adams Amsterdam Auctions Art of the XXth Century May 26, 2015 May 30, 2015 213 142 66.67% EUR 1.09 117,060.00 171,770.00 362,890.00 205,040.20 223,493.79 56.50%
34 #1522 Bruun Rasmussen Prints May 25, 2015 May 30, 2015 73 56 76.71% EUR 1.09 19,915.00 21,850.00 29,585.00 22,438.75 24,458.31 75.85%
35 #25814 ALDE First Editions of the 19th and 20th Century May 23, 2015 May 30, 2015 157 22 14.01% EUR 1.09 2,550.00 3,390.00 26,310.00 2,714.50 2,958.78 10.32%
36 #2733 Artcurial the Universe of the Creator of TinTin May 23, 2015 May 30, 2015 124 72 58.06% EUR 1.09 1,096,120.00 1,432,380.00 1,895,330.00 1,624,399.00 1,779,550.35 85.71%
37 #2732 Artcurial Comic Strips May 23, 2015 May 30, 2015 373 238 63.81% EUR 1.09 913,540.00 1,231,690.00 2,271,690.00 1,330,380.00 1,450,114.20 58.56%
38 #77 Hauff and Auvermann Modern and contemporary art. Paintings, prints, sculptures. May 23, 2015 June 03, 2015 371 147 39.62% EUR 1.09 57,550.00 57,550.00 241,820.00 73,705.60 81,813.18 30.48%
39 #76 Hauff and Auvermann Books, autographs, avant-garde and posters May 22, 2015 June 02, 2015 1116 554 49.64% EUR 1.09 186,830.00 167,210.00 313,210.00 262,681.60 288,949.76 83.87%
40 #25804 ALDE First Editions of the 19th and 20th Century May 22, 2015 May 30, 2015 260 190 73.08% EUR 1.09 129,280.00 174,480.00 232,760.00 270,156.80 294,470.87 116.07%
41 #52115 Woolley and Wallis Asian Art II - Prints May 21, 2015 May 30, 2015 12 11 91.67% GBP 1.48 2,300.00 3,900.00 5,100.00 3,721.00 5,693.12 72.96%
42 #102515 PIASA Russian and Soviet Photographs May 21, 2015 May 30, 2015 105 30 28.57% EUR 1.09 56,900.00 84,400.00 347,300.00 75,914.00 82,746.26 21.86%
43 #33611 Audap and Mirabaud Weapons, Hunting, Militaria, Historical Memories May 19, 2015 June 04, 2015 22 6 27.27% EUR 1.09 1,390.00 1,880.00 5,230.00 1,350.00 1,512.00 25.81%
44 #460 Hauswedell and Nolte Rare Books and Autographs May 19, 2015 June 04, 2015 779 387 49.68% EUR 1.09 329,880.00 329,880.00 545,205.00 449,495.04 498,939.48 82.45%
45 #421 Ketterer Kunst Doerling Rare Books May 18, 2015 June 02, 2015 1023 743 72.63% EUR 1.09 1,040,300.00 1,040,300.00 1,420,400.00 1,419,317.00 1,561,248.70 99.92%
46 #22828 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Paul Coze Archives - Wakanda April 10, 2015 June 04, 2015 70 0 0.00% EUR 1.09 0.00 0.00 255,100.00 0.00 0.00 0.00%
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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