• 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
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    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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    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
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    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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    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.
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    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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Zisska and Lacher: Rare Books, Autographs and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Books, Autographs and Manuscripts Total Sales (EUR) 204,462.50
Auction Date November 08, 2017 - November 08, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 100,760.00
Sale Number #69a High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 201,520.00
Total Lots 520
Sold Lots 325 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 171,710.00
% of Lots Sold 62.50% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 343,420.00
Unsold Lots 195 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
507 Diderot, (D.), und (J.) d'Alembert (Hrsg.),

Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres.

1751-80 EUR 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
216 Geiler von Kaysersberg, J.

Die Emeis ... gibt underweisung vo(n) de(n) unholden und hexen, und von gespenst der geist.

1516 EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 9,375.00
347 Recher, J. B.,

Die selbst-lehrende Rechen-Schule, in welcher alle Regulen der löblichen Rechne-Kunst ... sonder Beythun eines Lehrmeisters, leichtlich begriffen und erlehrnet werden mögen.

1692 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,125.00
171 Gregor IX., Papst,

Decretales.

1486 EUR 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 5,625.00
176 Ubaldis, Angelus de,

Lectura de Authenticis.

1484 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
123 Aubaret, L. G. Orientalist (1825-1894).

Sammlung von zus. 10 Briefen und Abschriften von Schriftstücken zur Vorbereitung der Expedition zur Erforschung der Nilquellen.

1856/57. EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 5,125.00
169

Biblia, cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra et expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis in omnes prologos S. Hieronymi et additionibus Pauli Burgensis replicisque Matthiae Doering.

1487 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,500.00
554 Sandrart, J. von,

L'Academia Todesca della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura: Oder Teutsche Academie der Edlen Bau-, Bild- und Mahlerey-Künste.

1675-79 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,375.00
27

Sammlung - Sechs orientalische Manuskripte.

Meist 19. Jhdt. EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,500.00
60

Stammbucheinträge für Reichard Geyer von Edelbach in einer durchschossenen Bilderbibel (H. P. Rebenstock, Neuwe biblische Figuren: Künstlich und artig gerissen.

1571 oder 1579. EUR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
170 Brant, S.,

Das Narrenschiff, lat. von Jacobus Locher Philomusus.

1497 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
313 Archimedes,

Kunst-Bücher oder Heutigs Tags befindliche Schrifften, aus dem Griechischen in das Hoch-Teutsche übersetzt, und mit nothwendigen Anmerkungen erläutert von J. Ch. Sturmio. 2 Tle. in einem Bd.

1667 EUR 750.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,375.00
237 Stöffler, J.

Elucidatio fabricae ususque astrolabii. Ex secunda autoris recognitione.

1524 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
348 Riese, A.,

Rechenbüchlein, auff der Linien und Federn, auch sonsten in allerley Handthierung nützlich zu gebrauchen. Auffs newe durchlesen und an vielen örthern wieder zurecht gebracht.

1626 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
189

Biblia, Das ist, die gantze heilige Schrifft, deutsch. Auffs new zugericht.

1583 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 2,125.00
15

Sonata per il cembalo del 1771, del Sig. Alessandro Felici.

1771 EUR 300.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,000.00
22

Der sterbende Jesus(,) ein Oratorium in Musick gesezt, von Rosetti.

um 1790/1800. EUR 125.00 - 250.00 EUR 1,875.00
186

Bairische Lanndtsordnung 1553.

1553 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
493

Tapeten-Musterbuch der Firma Jerk & Schuschitz.

1903 EUR 700.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 1,875.00
500 Pfnor, (J.) W. (G.),

Polytypen der Holzschnitte.

1839 EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,875.00
535 Neudörffer, J.,

Gründliche Fundamental: und Circularische Austheillung und Aufreissung der alten Romanischen Versalien.

um 1660 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,875.00
47

Sechs Wochen im Baierlande.

1849 EUR 400.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,750.00
52

Briefjournal mit Abschriften der Korrespondenz zwischen dem französischen Konsulat in Scutari und der Französischen Botschaft sowie der Politischen Direktion in Konstantinopel.

1868-70. EUR 250.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,750.00
492 Furttenbach, J.,

Architectura navalis.

1629 EUR 1,250.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 1,625.00
9

VI Sonate per il cembalo solo composte dal Sigr. Don Domenico Scarlatti Cavallier di San Giacomo in Madrid.

zwischen 1755 und 1762. EUR 200.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,500.00
  • 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
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