• 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
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
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  • 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
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    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.
  • 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.
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    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
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    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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1 #991 Heritage Auctions Chuck Jones Birthday Auction Benefiting the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity October 01, 2015 October 02, 2015 58 26 44.83% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 11,298.00 11,298.00
2 #201540 Heritage Auctions Rare Books - Internet bidstart 9/24 October 01, 2015 October 02, 2015 403 355 88.09% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 25,011.50 25,011.50
3 #11330 Dorotheum Prints before 1900 September 30, 2015 October 02, 2015 54 35 64.81% EUR 1.09 56,090.00 73,750.00 100,200.00 89,053.00 99,739.36 88.88%
4 #L15145 Sothebys Made in Britain - Prints September 30, 2015 October 02, 2015 190 159 83.68% GBP 1.48 601,100.00 893,900.00 1,023,800.00 1,004,580.00 1,516,915.80 98.12%
5 #L15412 Sothebys Exploration & Discovery 1576-1939: The Library of Franklin Brooke-Hitching. Part 4, Q-Z September 30, 2015 October 02, 2015 350 342 97.71% GBP 1.48 603,550.00 887,250.00 935,700.00 1,714,453.00 2,588,824.03 183.23%
6 #92915 Adams Amsterdam Auctions Design, Photography and Books from the Collection of Frans Molenaar September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 125 124 99.20% EUR 1.09 28,460.00 45,650.00 46,350.00 65,037.33 72,841.86 140.32%
7 #11329 Dorotheum Posters, Advertising Art, Comics, Film and Photohistory September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 303 238 78.55% EUR 1.09 38,140.00 38,140.00 52,360.00 82,200.00 92,064.00 156.99%
8 #1540b Bruun Rasmussen Photographs September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 137 66 48.18% EUR 1.09 38,470.00 49,180.00 91,555.00 36,790.00 41,204.80 40.18%
9 #759 Morton Subastas Books and Documents September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 325 139 42.77% MXN 0.06 1,878,012.00 2,331,500.00 4,991,500.00 2,559,000.00 153,540.00 51.27%
10 #L15414 Sothebys Rock and Pop - Manuscripts, Photos, Posters September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 65 24 36.92% GBP 1.48 374,600.00 612,700.00 1,147,200.00 448,877.00 677,804.27 39.13%
11 #pf1531 Sothebys A Collection of Historical Items September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 34 34 100.00% EUR 1.09 221,100.00 330,830.00 330,830.00 771,639.00 864,235.68 233.24%
12 #L15161 Sothebys Prints and Multiples September 29, 2015 October 02, 2015 174 147 84.48% GBP 1.48 2,410,000.00 3,551,000.00 4,332,000.00 4,205,500.00 6,350,305.00 97.08%
13 #92815 Adams Amsterdam Auctions Modern Art from the Collection of Frans Molenaar September 28, 2015 October 02, 2015 272 214 78.68% EUR 1.09 195,370.00 287,510.00 309,360.00 402,873.75 451,218.64 130.23%
14 #1540a Bruun Rasmussen Prints September 28, 2015 October 02, 2015 81 61 75.31% EUR 1.09 23,840.00 25,705.00 34,235.00 23,945.00 26,818.40 69.94%
15 #121539 Heritage Auctions Comics - Internet bidstart 9/20 September 27, 2015 September 30, 2015 708 708 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 166,139.41 166,139.41
16 #161539 Heritage Auctions Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 9/20 September 27, 2015 September 30, 2015 507 489 96.45% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 39,249.73 39,249.73
17 #833 Eldreds Prints and Books September 26, 2015 September 30, 2015 39 27 69.23% USD 1.0 3,910.00 6,270.00 8,475.00 3,823.50 3,823.50 45.12%
18 #6133 Heritage Auctions Merrill C. Berman Collection Part III Americana & Political September 26, 2015 September 30, 2015 373 368 98.66% USD 1.0 336,608.00 504,912.00 509,472.00 561,568.75 561,568.75 110.23%
19 #92515 Dirk Soulis Auctions Late Summer Sale September 25, 2015 September 30, 2015 164 154 93.90% USD 1.0 89,150.00 139,400.00 146,350.00 156,460.80 156,460.80 106.91%
20 #1363 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Books and Ephemera - Day 2 September 25, 2015 October 02, 2015 373 255 68.36% GBP 1.48 24,870.00 31,360.00 48,500.00 35,727.05 53,948.01 73.66%
21 #393 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Fine Prints September 25, 2015 September 30, 2015 235 188 80.00% USD 1.0 430,600.00 667,800.00 803,300.00 605,172.00 605,172.00 75.34%
22 #1362 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Books and Ephemera - Day 1 September 24, 2015 October 02, 2015 770 552 71.69% GBP 1.48 44,460.00 55,670.00 97,520.00 70,262.65 106,096.95 72.05%
23 #33 Potter and Potter Auctions Advertising, Coin-Op and Vintage Poster September 19, 2015 September 30, 2015 995 746 74.97% USD 1.0 270,080.00 371,855.00 536,495.00 316,080.00 316,080.00 58.92%
24 #91115 Mennonite Life Rare and Used Books September 11, 2015 September 30, 2015 501 443 88.42% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 7,544.00 7,544.00
25 #71015 Mennonite Life Rare and Used Books July 10, 2015 September 30, 2015 443 395 89.16% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,039.00 8,039.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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