19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. July 28, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 372: Martin Luther King Jr. March for Freedom Now! Placard. Chicago, 1960. 28 x 22”. $3,000 to $6,000

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 567: Warhol, Andy. Tate Gallery Exhibition Booklet, Signed on the Cover by Warhol. Tate Gallery, 1971. $700 to $900

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 72: Mitchell, Margaret. Gone With the Wind. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1936. First edition, first issue. $4,000 to $5,000

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. July 28, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 468: Photo Archive Documenting the 1930s—50s Chicago Jazz and Night Club Scene. A significant collection. $2,000 to $4,000

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 143: Dr. Seuss. Oh Say Can You Say. 1979, First Edition, Signed. $200 to $300

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 285: [Maps] Thomas G. Bradford. A Comprehensive Atlas, Geographical, Historical & Commercial. Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1835. First Edition. $1,600 to $1,800

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. July 28, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 69: Herman Melville. Moby Dick, or The Whale. New York: Random House, 1930. First Kent Trade Edition. $400 to $600

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 295: John James Audoban. Group of 148 Lithographs from the Birds of America. Philadelphia: J.T. Bowen, ca. 1840s. $600 to $800

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 54: Langston Hughes. One-Way Ticket. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. First edition. $300 to $500

Potter & Potter Auctions: Fine Books & Manuscripts. July 28, 2018

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 7: Ray Bradbury. The Martian Chronicles. With a Wine Label Signed by Bradbury. Garden City: Doubleday, 1950. First edition $300 to $500

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 121. Frank L Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Chicago: George M. Hill Co., 1899, 1900. First Edition. $4,000 to $5,000.

Potter & Potter Auctions, July. 28: Lot 369. [Declaration of Independence] Peter Force Engraving of the Declaration of Independence. One page; 29 x 26”. From the "American Archives" 1837-1853 series of books. $15,000 to $20,000
Swann Auction Galleries: Luis de Lucena, Arte de Ajedres, first edition of the earliest extant manual on modern chess, Salamanca, circa 1496-97. Sold for $68,750.

Swann Auction Galleries: Carte-de-visite album with 83 images of prominent African Americans & abolitionists, circa 1860s. Sold for $47,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold for $106,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Man Ray, [London Transport] – Keeps London Going, 1938. Sold for $149,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Thomas Jefferson, Letter Signed, to Major-General Nathanael Greene, promising reinforcements against Cornwallis, 1781. Sold for $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Nicolas de Fer, L’Amerique Divisee Selon Letendue de ses Principales Parties, Paris, 1713. Sold for $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Russell H. Tandy, The Secret in the Old Attic, watercolor, pencil & ink, 1944. Sold for $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems, first edition of the author's first book, Paris, 1923. Sold for $23,750.

Swann Auction Galleries: Walker Evans, River Rouge Plant, silver print, 1947. Sold for $57,500.
Skinner: Early English Books A Single Owner Sale. July 20, 2018

Skinner, July 20: Cranmer, Thomas (1489-1556). Catechismus, That is to Say, a Shorte Instruction into Christian Religion... London, 1548. First edition. $12,000 to $18,000

Skinner, July 20: Donne, John (1572-1631). Pseudo-Martyr. London: Printed by W[illiam] Stansby for Walter Burre, 1610. First edition. $25,000 to $35,000

Skinner, July 20: Fletcher, Giles (1549?-1611). The Russe Common Wealth, or Maner of Gouernement by the Russe Emperour… London, 1591. First edition. $15,000 to $25,000

Skinner, July 20: Gabelkover, Oswald (1539-1616). The Boock of Physicke. Dordrecht: Isaack Caen, 1599. First edition. $12,000 to $15,000

Skinner: Early English Books A Single Owner Sale. July 20, 2018

Skinner, July 20: Galileo, Galilei (1564-1642) trans. Thomas Salusbury (d. 1666). Mathematical Collections and Translations the First Tome. London, 1661. First edition of Galileo's works in English. $35,000 to $50,000

Skinner, July 20: Higden, Ranulphus (d. 1364). Polycronicon. Translated by John Trevisa, with the 1357-1460 Continuation by William Caxton. Southwark, 1527. $15,000 to $25,000

Skinner, July 20: Randolph, Bernard (b. 1643). The Present State of the Morea, Called Anciently Peloponnesus… London, 1689. [Bound with] The Present State of the Islands of the Archipelago… $10,000 to $15,000

Skinner, July 20: The Great Herball Newly Corrected. London, 1539. Folio, ESTC lists three U.S. copies; the last copy offered at auction was incomplete and sold in 1949. $25,000 to $35,000

Morton Subastas: Books, Photographs, Prints, IT1LB, México DF CP 11000

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Bonhams: September 25, New York

Bonhams, June 12 results: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. The Tragedie of Julius Caesar. London, 1623. 1st appearance in print, Complete from the First Folio. Sold for $175,000

Bonhams, June 12 results: Ernst, Max. Mr. Knife and Miss Fork. Paris, 1932. DELUXE EDITION. Sold for $15,625

Bonhams, June 12 results: Cage, John. Autograph musical leaf from his Concert for Piano and Orchestra, NY, 1958. Sold for $18,750

Bonhams: September 25, New York

Bonhams, June 12 results: Einstein, Albert. Signed Passport Photo for his US citizenship application. Bermuda, 1935. Sold for $17,500

Bonhams, June 12 results: Verard, Antoine. Illuminated printed Book of Hours. Paris, 1507. Sold for $7,500

Bonhams, June 12 results: Wetterkurzschlussel. German Weather Report Codebook - for Enigma use. Berlin, 1942. Sold for $225,000

Bonhams: September 25, New York

Bonhams, June 12 results: Morelos y Pavon, Jose Maria. Autograph letter signed to El Virrey Venegas, February 5, 1812. Sold for $6,250

Bonhams, June 12 results: Milne, A.A. Complete set of Winnie-the-Pooh books. 4 volumes. All first issue points. London, 1924-1928. Sold for $5,250

Bonhams, June 12 results: A 48-star American Flag, battle worn flown at Guadalcanal and Peleliu, 1942-1944. Sold for $35,000

Bonhams, June 12 results: Locke, John. Autograph Letter Signed mourning the death of his friend, William Molyneaux, 2 pp, October 27, 1698. Sold for $20,000
Doyle, online only: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson. July 13-24, 2018

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Zane Grey, Inscribed photograph album depicting Grey and party at Catalina, fishing, and in Arizona. $700 to $1,000

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Eric Taverner, Salmon Fishing...London: Seeley, Service & Co., 1931. $600 to $900

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: The Gentleman Angler. $300 to $500

Doyle, online only: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson. July 13-24, 2018

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Ken Robinson, Flyfishers' Progress. [London: The Flyfishers' Club, 2000. $200 to $300

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: G. H. Lacy, North Punjab Fishing Club Angler's Handbook. Calcutta: Newman & Co., 1890. $300 to $500

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: J. Harrington Keene, Fly-Fishing and Fly-Making for Trout, etc. New York, 1887. $200 to $300

Doyle, online only: Angling Books from the Collection of Arnold "Jake" Johnson. July 13-24, 2018

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Arthur Macrate, The History of The Tuna Club, Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, California, 1948. $400 to $600

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Joseph D. Bates Jr. Streamer Fly Tying and Fishing. Harrisburg, PA: The Stackpole Company, 1966. $800 to $1,200

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Paul Schmookler and Ingrid V. Sils. Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History. $300 to $500

Doyle, online only Jul 13-24: Herbert Hoover, Fishing For Fun - And To Wash Your Soul. New York: Random House, 1963. $400 to $600

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