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Auction House Name	Sothebys
Site URL	https://www.sothebys.com/
About Us	Art, antiques, rare and fine books in Americana, prints, ephemera, maps. On March 11, 1744, Samuel Baker, founder of Sotheby's, held the first-ever sale under his own name. It has only been in the last century, after all, that the original London company has expanded from book auctions to cover all areas of the fine and decorative arts. Sotheby's holds auctions practically every other day. In New York alone, there are more than 150 auctions in any given year.
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City	London
Country	United Kingdom
Zipcode	W1A 2AA
Contact Number	(212) 606-7000
Buyer's Fee	20% premium and an additional 12% after 100,000 USD or 70,000 GBP.
Consigner's Fee

AUCTION LIST

02/04/2021 - 02/04/2021, Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection - bidstart 1/28, #L21407

03/16/2021 - 03/16/2021, Made in Britain - bidstart 3/9, #L21144

03/17/2021 - 03/17/2021, Prints and Multiples, #L21160

03/18/2021 - 03/18/2021, Banksy - bidstart 3/9, #L21167

06/08/2021 - 06/08/2021, Music, Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 5/25, #60821

06/25/2021 - 06/25/2021, Science | Books and Manuscripts - bidstart 5/11, #62521

07/21/2021 - 07/21/2021, Old Master Prints - online bidstart 7/13, #L21170

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Frederick Douglass, ALS recruiting help for his paper after schism with Garrison, Rochester, 1851. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: James Dean, photograph by Sanford H. Roth, signed & inscribed by Dean. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Richard Wagner, ALS requesting confirmation that the Grand Duke received his letter, 1863. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Benjamin Rush, ALS, doctor’s note for a Revolutionary soldier, 1780. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Lord Byron, ALS to Cambridge classmate, “your friendship is of more account to me than all these absurd vanities,” c. 1812. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Ernest Hemingway, Three Stories & Ten Poems, first edition of the author’s first book, Paris, 1923. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, first English edition of the author’s first novel, signed, London, 1953. $1,800 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Margery Lawrence, The Madonna of Seven Moons, first edition in unrestored dust jacket, Indianapolis, 1933. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Joseph Albers, Interaction of Color, 80 color screenprints, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 1963. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 25: Albert Einstein, autograph manuscript, unsigned, likely a draft discarded while working toward a unified field theory. $10,000 to $20,000.
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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION. €5,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1997, First Deluxe Edn., Signed by the Author on title page. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Gilbert (John T.) Account of Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, from the earliest extant specimens to A.D. 719. €2,000 to €3,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin [-Ireland], 5 vols. lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Limited Editions. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols., roy 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949, Limited Edn., No. 185 (of 375 copies). Signed. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Crone (John S.)ed. The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography. Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. €1,250 to €2,000.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (John Butler) An original self-portrait Sketch, Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Photograph Album. Entitled ''A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst… 14th December 1927''. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Pistolesi (Erasmo) Il Vaticano, 8vols. large atlas, folio Rome (Tipografia della Societa..) 1829. €500 to €600.

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Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Chagall (Marc)illus., Legmarie (Jean) comp., The Jerusalem Windows, folio N.Y. (George Braziller) 1962. €400 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Bullitt (Thos. W.) My Life at Oxmoor, Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Popish Plot: Oates (Titus) The Popes Whore House or The Merchandise of The Whore of Rome, folio L. 1679. First Edn. €100 to €150.