• 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas

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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 #1583 Freemans Rare Books, Maps and Manuscripts September 28, 2017 September 29, 2017 285 238 83.51% USD 1.0 173,280.00 276,570.00 347,190.00 513,958.00 513,958.00 148.03%
2 #12643 Dorotheum Globes September 28, 2017 September 29, 2017 13 9 69.23% EUR 1.184 6,360.00 6,360.00 12,660.00 12,726.00 15,016.68 100.52%
3 #529 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Fine Prints September 28, 2017 September 29, 2017 294 243 82.65% USD 1.0 551,960.00 866,470.00 1,022,970.00 775,430.00 775,430.00 75.80%
4 #N09781 Sothebys Post-War and Contemporary Photographs September 28, 2017 September 29, 2017 94 70 74.47% USD 1.0 1,524,000.00 2,319,000.00 3,168,000.00 2,486,125.00 2,486,125.00 78.48%
5 #2455 Swann Galleries Printed and Manuscript Americana September 28, 2017 September 29, 2017 325 278 85.54% USD 1.0 400,970.00 594,330.00 682,230.00 777,244.00 777,244.00 113.93%
6 #24253 Bonhams The Air and Space Sale September 27, 2017 September 29, 2017 210 120 57.14% USD 1.0 354,475.00 526,125.00 960,675.00 1,221,277.00 1,221,277.00 127.13%
7 #12652 Dorotheum Prints Before 1900 September 27, 2017 September 29, 2017 102 77 75.49% EUR 1.184 159,600.00 207,300.00 320,000.00 246,141.00 290,446.38 76.92%
8 #3029B Skinner Fine Prints, Fine Photographs September 27, 2017 September 29, 2017 143 110 76.92% USD 1.0 199,650.00 292,750.00 539,250.00 291,276.00 291,276.00 54.02%
9 #L17136 Sothebys Yeats: The Family Collection - prints, autographs, photos, illustrations September 27, 2017 September 29, 2017 64 55 85.94% GBP 1.339 212,000.00 307,100.00 732,100.00 415,879.00 557,277.86 56.81%
10 #1016 Forum Auctions Fine Books and Works on Paper September 27, 2017 September 29, 2017 576 471 81.77% GBP 1.339 293,900.00 421,900.00 536,830.00 590,506.25 792,048.88 110.00%
11 #92617 William H. Bunch Auctions and Appraisals Quarterly Catalogue Auction September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 27 27 100.00% USD 1.0 12,640.00 22,080.00 22,080.00 19,239.50 19,239.50 87.14%
12 #15785 Christies The Collection of Paul F. Walter - books, prints, autographs September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 140 128 91.43% USD 1.0 867,800.00 1,276,600.00 1,463,600.00 1,853,750.00 1,853,750.00 126.66%
13 #24256 Bonhams Rare Books and Manuscripts featuring Exploration and Travel September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 159 100 62.89% USD 1.0 1,167,900.00 1,670,600.00 2,369,100.00 1,382,184.00 1,382,184.00 58.34%
14 #L17415 Sothebys The Library of John and Suzanne Bonham September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 393 315 80.15% GBP 1.339 351,250.00 495,400.00 630,600.00 635,318.00 851,326.12 100.75%
15 #49851 Vermot de Pas Mister D. Succession : Postcards, Stamps, Posters, Historical Documents, etc... September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 499 204 40.88% EUR 1.184 19,875.00 26,830.00 122,810.00 21,308.37 25,143.97 17.35%
16 #L17148 Sothebys The Vivien Leigh Collection - Books, Scripts, Photos, Autographs September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 86 86 100.00% GBP 1.339 96,090.00 140,040.00 140,040.00 495,607.00 664,113.38 353.90%
17 #873 Bruun Rasmussen Prints September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 26 22 84.62% EUR 1.184 63,050.00 72,500.00 103,700.00 97,875.00 114,513.78 94.38%
18 #25866 ALDE Antiquarian and 19th Century Books September 26, 2017 September 29, 2017 442 301 68.10% EUR 1.184 154,520.00 200,500.00 311,520.00 275,402.80 322,221.25 88.41%
19 #141739 Heritage Auctions Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - Online bidstart 9/19 September 26, 2017 September 27, 2017 604 595 98.51% USD 1.0 96,083.00 139,712.00 143,782.00 85,144.40 85,144.40 59.22%
20 #1739 Bruun Rasmussen Prints September 25, 2017 September 29, 2017 91 78 85.71% EUR 1.184 28,160.00 31,615.00 35,655.00 32,910.00 38,504.80 92.30%
21 #121739 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 9/17 September 24, 2017 September 26, 2017 785 781 99.49% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 156,919.37 156,919.37
22 #161739 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 9/17 September 24, 2017 September 25, 2017 473 468 98.94% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 56,824.08 56,824.08
23 #151739 Heritage Auctions Internet Sports Collectibles - bidstart 8/29 September 24, 2017 September 26, 2017 312 302 96.79% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 67,498.60 67,498.60
24 #92317 Arader Galleries September Auction September 23, 2017 September 27, 2017 225 146 64.89% USD 1.0 1,380,700.00 2,010,150.00 2,532,350.00 1,899,220.00 1,899,220.00 75.00%
25 #94 Potomack Company September Live Auction: Books and prints September 23, 2017 September 27, 2017 9 6 66.67% USD 1.0 9,500.00 13,900.00 18,300.00 19,937.50 19,937.50 108.95%
26 #49669 De Baecque and Associes Demeure by Jacqueline Offenbach and the painter Pierre Mousset Souvenirs-Partitions Library -Tableaux - Books, Prints September 23, 2017 September 27, 2017 19 17 89.47% EUR 1.184 4,010.00 5,630.00 6,010.00 11,071.15 13,174.66 184.21%
27 #889 Eldreds Antiques and Accessories - Books and Prints September 23, 2017 September 27, 2017 83 60 72.29% USD 1.0 8,605.00 12,625.00 19,635.00 7,976.75 7,976.75 40.63%
28 #W254 Koller Auctions Old Master & 19th Century Prints & Drawings (West) September 22, 2017 September 29, 2017 93 33 35.48% CHF 1.014 9,560.00 13,600.00 39,650.00 11,407.00 11,749.21 28.77%
29 #49649 Ader Photograph Books September 22, 2017 September 26, 2017 328 201 61.28% EUR 1.184 71,970.00 101,670.00 152,830.00 103,049.00 122,628.31 67.43%
30 #A182c Koller Auctions Old Master Prints September 22, 2017 September 25, 2017 63 50 79.37% CHF 1.014 35,900.00 50,400.00 63,100.00 67,182.00 69,197.46 106.47%
31 #92217 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Ornithology - Books and Prints September 22, 2017 September 26, 2017 217 149 68.66% GBP 1.339 11,050.00 14,040.00 20,280.00 26,476.27 35,743.05 130.55%
32 #146 Venator and Hanstein Books, manuscripts, autographs and prints September 22, 2017 September 26, 2017 854 453 53.04% EUR 1.184 436,140.00 436,140.00 695,950.00 658,123.80 783,167.53 94.56%
33 #2025 Forum Auctions Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper September 22, 2017 September 25, 2017 102 88 86.27% GBP 1.339 16,170.00 23,060.00 26,160.00 23,243.75 31,379.19 88.85%
34 #4509 Forum Auctions in Italy NO RESERVE: Online Auction: Antiquarian and Rare Books September 21, 2017 September 23, 2017 84 83 98.81% EUR 1.184 14,130.00 27,440.00 27,460.00 11,550.60 13,745.25 42.06%
35 #7225 Heritage Auctions 1933 Goudey PSA Set Registry Sports Collectibles Catalog Auction September 21, 2017 September 25, 2017 240 240 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 861,036.00 861,036.00
36 #12704 Dorotheum Books and Decorative Prints September 21, 2017 September 23, 2017 340 252 74.12% EUR 1.184 0.00 0.00 0.00 71,118.75 84,631.63
37 #625 PBA Galleries Rare Cartography - Americana September 21, 2017 September 26, 2017 420 242 57.62% USD 1.0 110,290.00 166,200.00 332,400.00 113,915.00 113,915.00 34.27%
38 #145 Venator and Hanstein Posters September 21, 2017 September 25, 2017 308 187 60.71% EUR 1.184 207,940.00 207,940.00 313,520.00 309,996.90 368,896.34 98.88%
39 #A182b Koller Auctions Autographs September 18, 2017 September 25, 2017 50 42 84.00% CHF 1.014 82,880.00 119,800.00 125,500.00 140,612.00 144,830.36 112.04%
40 #A182a Koller Auctions Books September 18, 2017 September 25, 2017 372 291 78.23% CHF 1.014 316,910.00 480,050.00 738,200.00 567,806.00 584,840.18 76.92%
41 #2517 Ferraton Books and Engravings September 15, 2017 September 29, 2017 1026 867 84.50% EUR 1.184 76,615.00 107,345.00 145,995.00 195,631.25 228,889.72 134.00%
42 #90617 Winner's Auctions Ltd Win-One Rosh HaShana (No. 1) September 06, 2017 September 25, 2017 1 1 100.00% USD 1.0 8,000.00 10,000.00 10,000.00 9,600.00 9,600.00 96.00%
43 #OL-10 Kedem Auctions Ltd. Online Auction: Jewish and Israeli History and Culture August 29, 2017 September 25, 2017 488 401 82.17% USD 1.0 63,210.00 126,420.00 170,780.00 158,435.00 158,435.00 92.77%
44 #2109 Copley Fine Art Auctions The Sporting Sale - Books and Prints July 27, 2017 September 25, 2017 65 57 87.69% USD 1.0 55,650.00 93,900.00 114,700.00 122,640.00 122,640.00 106.92%
45 #101 Winner's Auctions Ltd Holy books, letters from Rabbis and Rebbes, Judaica, Maps, Periodicals, Postcards, banknotes, Eretz Israel and Zionism July 19, 2017 September 25, 2017 331 206 62.24% USD 1.0 52,220.00 90,380.00 138,350.00 42,828.00 42,828.00 30.96%
46 #48999 Audap and Mirabaud Posters June 23, 2017 September 29, 2017 1255 137 10.92% EUR 1.184 47,750.00 95,500.00 1,068,000.00 417,413.25 492,547.68 39.08%
  • 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
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    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
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    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.
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