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Auction Name Online Sale: Books and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 30,175.00
Auction Date December 14, 2017 - December 14, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 19,200.00
Sale Number #2033 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 27,990.00
Total Lots 146
Sold Lots 121 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,810.00
% of Lots Sold 82.88% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 34,520.00
Unsold Lots 25 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 87.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33 Taylor (Isaac)

The County of Dorset

1795 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 2,000.00
36

England.- Panoramas.- A good group of 14 bird's-eye panoramic views of English cities

1887 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,187.50
35

Edinburgh and Glasgow.- Five bird's-eye views of Edinburgh and two of Glasgow

1848-1888 GBP 120.00 - 180.00 GBP 1,125.00
8 Wells (Edward)

A New Map of North America Shewing its Principal Divisions

1700 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 750.00
16 Merian the Elder (Matthaeus, 1593-1650)

Roma

circa 1650 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 687.50
31 Speed (John)

The Kingdome of Great Britaine and Ireland

1676 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 687.50
15 English Provincial School (19th century)

Hull Whaling Fleet in the Arctic

19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 575.00
40 Menpes (Mortimer, 1855-1938)

A good group of 30 works of British and continental views

circa 1900-1910 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 575.00
59 Cox (Nicholas)

The Gentleman's Recreation...Viz. Hunting

1677 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 575.00
146 Gogol (Nicolas)

The Diary of a Madman

1929 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 550.00
9 Wells (Edward)

A New Map of Present Asia; A New Map of the East Indies; A New Map of Great Tartary

1700 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 525.00
53 Cholmondeley-Pennell (H.)

The Book of the Pike

1865 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 500.00
34 Illustrated London News (The)

The City of Dublin

1846 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 475.00
26

Bristol.- Clifton Suspension Bridge.- A good group of 18 views of Brunel's suspension bridge

1836 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 450.00
30 Ortelius (Abraham)

Britannicarum Insularum Typus

1595 and later. GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 450.00
54 Taylor (Samuel)

Angling in All its Branches

1800 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 425.00
23 Wells (Edward)

A New Map of the Terraqueous Globe

1700 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 400.00
93 Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Die Elixiere des Teufels

1815-16. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 400.00
95 Hoffmann (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

Prinzessin Brambilla

1821 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 400.00
105 Bible (English)

New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ

1631 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 400.00
14

Paris.- Illustrated London News (The)

1867 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 375.00
17

Sicily.-

1893 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 375.00
43 Thoroton (Robert)

The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire

1677 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 375.00
47 Collinson (Rev. John)

The History and Antiquities of the County of Somerset

1791 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 375.00
147 Le Rossignol (Ethel, 1873-1970)

A Goodly Company. A series of psychic drawings given through the hand of Ethel Le Rossignol as an assurance of survival after death...

1933 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 375.00
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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
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    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.
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    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.
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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.
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    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.
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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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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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