• 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
    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
  • 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.
  • 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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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 #L18304 Sothebys Collections - Prints, Globes May 03, 2018 May 04, 2018 3 3 100.00% GBP 1.27 19,000.00 29,000.00 29,000.00 44,750.00 60,860.00 154.31%
2 #15054 Christies Comic Strips and Illustrations May 03, 2018 May 04, 2018 172 135 78.49% EUR 1.14 1,648,500.00 2,060,000.00 2,430,000.00 2,502,500.00 3,003,000.00 102.98%
3 #4520 Forum Auctions in Italy No Reserve Online Sale: Antiquarian and Rare Books May 03, 2018 May 04, 2018 50 50 100.00% EUR 1.14 15,365.00 29,710.00 29,710.00 16,008.40 19,210.08 53.88%
4 #24585 Bonhams Prints and Multiples - Prints May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 170 149 87.65% USD 1.0 847,800.00 1,201,000.00 1,303,000.00 1,449,935.00 1,449,935.00 111.28%
5 #3563a Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 1 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 310 258 83.23% USD 1.0 547,490.00 770,010.00 900,510.00 523,842.00 523,842.00 58.17%
6 #3563b Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 2 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 738 662 89.70% USD 1.0 2,055,050.00 2,910,650.00 3,236,200.00 1,802,209.20 1,802,209.20 55.69%
7 #3563c Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 3 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 306 294 96.08% USD 1.0 591,250.00 806,550.00 849,300.00 538,824.00 538,824.00 63.44%
8 #3563d Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 4 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 110 102 92.73% USD 1.0 1,382,700.00 2,039,300.00 2,305,200.00 1,585,266.00 1,585,266.00 68.77%
9 #3563e Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 5 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 317 314 99.05% USD 1.0 1,555,920.00 2,333,880.00 2,381,520.00 1,666,206.00 1,666,206.00 69.96%
10 #3563f Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 6 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 376 369 98.14% USD 1.0 630,040.00 945,060.00 961,980.00 709,626.00 709,626.00 73.77%
11 #3563g Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 7 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 1350 1248 92.44% USD 1.0 525,370.00 727,855.00 794,830.00 523,986.60 523,986.60 65.92%
12 #3563h Heritage Auctions CSNS Currency Signature Auction - session 8 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 785 754 96.05% USD 1.0 339,115.00 479,485.00 499,625.00 350,067.20 350,067.20 70.07%
13 #141818 Heritage Auctions Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 4/24 May 01, 2018 May 03, 2018 481 470 97.71% USD 1.0 66,877.00 95,528.00 97,763.00 60,047.80 60,047.80 61.42%
14 #43018 Cowans Auctions Fine Books, Maps and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 4/19 April 30, 2018 May 03, 2018 127 105 82.68% USD 1.0 49,300.00 77,800.00 97,300.00 50,670.00 50,670.00 52.08%
15 #4003b Heritage Auctions CSNS World Currency Signature Auction - session 2 April 30, 2018 May 01, 2018 896 820 91.52% USD 1.0 256,225.00 366,050.00 414,550.00 255,514.40 255,514.40 61.64%
16 #1818 Bruun Rasmussen Prints April 30, 2018 May 03, 2018 82 73 89.02% EUR 1.14 23,565.00 25,560.00 29,460.00 26,646.25 31,975.50 90.45%
17 #151817 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 4/1 April 29, 2018 April 30, 2018 236 227 96.19% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 61,112.40 61,112.40
18 #161817 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Movie Posters - bidstart 4/22 April 29, 2018 April 30, 2018 501 477 95.21% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 39,644.84 39,644.84
19 #121817 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 4/22 April 29, 2018 April 30, 2018 673 670 99.55% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 240,801.71 240,801.71
20 #42818 Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Fine Auction - Books and Prints April 28, 2018 May 01, 2018 23 21 91.30% USD 1.0 17,250.00 29,250.00 35,600.00 25,467.50 25,467.50 71.54%
21 #42818 Dirk Soulis Auctions Property from the William D. Hutsell Trust - Books, Prints April 28, 2018 May 01, 2018 17 16 94.12% USD 1.0 1,615.00 2,685.00 2,885.00 2,316.50 2,316.50 80.29%
22 #25883 ALDE Maps and Plans - Travel April 27, 2018 April 30, 2018 329 216 65.65% EUR 1.14 163,210.00 215,100.00 311,380.00 373,125.00 451,481.47 119.83%
23 #25893 ALDE Russian Art April 27, 2018 April 30, 2018 237 111 46.84% EUR 1.14 104,842.00 130,820.00 240,300.00 144,600.00 174,966.06 60.17%
24 #1661 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers East Anglian Sale, Part 1 - including Books and Maps April 27, 2018 May 01, 2018 114 80 70.18% GBP 1.27 9,745.00 12,280.00 31,320.00 14,365.20 19,823.97 45.87%
25 #4003a Heritage Auctions CSNS World Currency Signature Auction - session 1 April 26, 2018 May 01, 2018 470 366 77.87% USD 1.0 770,100.00 1,056,950.00 1,503,600.00 680,750.40 680,750.40 45.27%
26 #2475 Swann Galleries Fine Illustrated Books and Graphics April 26, 2018 April 28, 2018 279 216 77.42% USD 1.0 323,600.00 478,800.00 653,400.00 472,111.00 472,111.00 72.25%
27 #90486 Tessier & Sarrou and Associates Marine and Travel - Books, Prints, Maps April 26, 2018 April 30, 2018 65 34 52.31% EUR 1.14 87,730.00 110,200.00 148,870.00 135,181.00 163,569.01 90.80%
28 #164724 PIASA Masters 2 : prints, illustrated books and multiples of the 20th century, including a private collection of Sonia Delaunay April 26, 2018 April 28, 2018 109 83 76.15% EUR 1.14 132,100.00 181,450.00 252,550.00 370,358.00 448,133.18 146.65%
29 #n09849 Sothebys Prints and Multiples April 26, 2018 April 28, 2018 166 143 86.14% USD 1.0 4,823,000.00 7,086,500.00 8,083,500.00 8,012,250.00 8,012,250.00 99.12%
30 #2050 Forum Auctions Forum Auctions @ Artsy: The Master and The Muse April 26, 2018 April 28, 2018 36 28 77.78% GBP 1.27 31,450.00 45,850.00 53,950.00 44,707.00 62,142.73 82.87%
31 #3816 Artcurial Books and Manuscripts April 26, 2018 April 30, 2018 205 116 56.59% EUR 1.14 427,000.00 593,900.00 970,900.00 750,125.00 907,651.25 77.26%
32 #42518 Purcell Auctioneers Irish Interest Book Auction April 25, 2018 April 28, 2018 563 445 79.04% EUR 1.14 20,290.00 35,720.00 45,310.00 39,092.40 47,301.74 86.28%
33 #1824 Tajan Photographs April 25, 2018 April 28, 2018 187 75 40.11% EUR 1.14 100,700.00 140,500.00 340,800.00 153,595.00 185,849.95 45.07%
34 #18bp01 Doyle New York Rare Books, Autographs and Maps April 25, 2018 April 28, 2018 604 541 89.57% USD 1.0 542,350.00 808,450.00 960,700.00 866,577.00 866,577.00 90.20%
35 #61 Kedem Auctions Ltd. Rare and Important Items April 24, 2018 May 01, 2018 134 109 81.34% USD 1.0 1,174,000.00 1,983,000.00 2,309,000.00 1,244,637.00 1,244,637.00 53.90%
36 #111ABCD Galerie Bassenge Valuable Books April 17, 2018 May 01, 2018 1043 543 52.06% EUR 1.14 509,010.00 509,010.00 878,730.00 638,025.60 772,011.39 72.61%
  • Forum Auctions
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    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
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    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.
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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.
    Forum Auctions
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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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