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Auction Name: A Scholar's Library - Online, bidstart 3/9
Auction Date: 03/24/2017 - 03/24/2017
Sale Number: #2986T
Total Lots: 144
Sold Lots: 129
Lots Sold: 89.58%
Unsold Lots: 15

Total Sales (USD): 36,218.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 24,295.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 32,025.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 28,145.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 37,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 96.32%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 30

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: Initial A on vellum, Cologne around 1300. Est: €25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: J. Androuet du Cerceau, Bastiments de France, 1607. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: E. Cerillo, Dipinti murali di Pompei, 1886. Est: €2,500

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 30

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: L. de Austria, Compilatio de astrorum scientia, 1489. Est: €9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: B. Besler, Hortus Eystettensis, around 1750. Est: €50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: PAN, 1895-1900. Est: €15,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 30

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: F. Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, 1545. Est: €40,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: F. Schiller, Die Räuber, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: J. Albers, Formulation : Articulation, 1972. Est: €18,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on May 30

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: G. B. Ramusio, Delle navigationi e viaggi, 1556-1613. Est: €14,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: M. Wied Neuwied, Reise in das Innere Nord-America, 1839-41. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 30: E. Paolozzi, Bunk, 1972. Est: €25,000
<center>Sotheby’s The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part I 18 May 2022

Sotheby’s, May 18: John James Audubon and James Bachman. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. New York: J.J. Audubon, 1845-1848. £150,000 to £250,000.

Sotheby’s, May 18: Thomas and William Daniell. Oriental Scenery, London, 1795-1807 [but 1841], 6 parts in 3 volumes, folio. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, May 18: Mark Catesby. The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands... London, 1731-1743, 2 volumes. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, May 18: Gould and Lear. A monograph of the Ramphastidae, 1854; Illustrations of the family of Psittacidae, 1832. £60,000 to £90,000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Graphic Design May 19, 2022

Swann May 19: Adolphe Mouron Cassandre, Triplex, pencil maquette, 1930. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann May 19: Claude Fayette Brandon, The Chap Book, circa 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann May 19: Various Artists, a complete set of Das Plakat, set of 10 hardcover volumes, 1912-21. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann May 19: Javier Gómez Acebo & Máximo Viejo Santamarta, San Sebastian / XI Circuitto Automovilista, 1935. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann May 19: Ephraim Moses Lilien, Berliner Tageblatt, circa 1899. $12,000 to $18,000.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th May 2022

Forum, May 26: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, [1862-]1873. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum, May 26: Canadiana.- Cockburn (Maj. Gen. James Pattison, 1779-1847), After. [Six Landscape of Quebec City and Six Views of Niagara Falls], 2 suites in 1 vol., comprising 12 aquatints, 1833. £30,000 to £40,000.

Forum, May 26: Joyce (James). Ulysses, number 218 of 150 copies on verge d'arches, Paris, Shakespeare & Company, 1922. £15,000 to £20,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th May 2022

Forum, May 26: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition, signed by the author, 1997. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, May 26: Du Maurier (Daphne). Rebecca, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess, 1938. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum, May 26: Magna Carta.- An exact copy of King John's Great Charter of 1215, transcribed from the fire damaged but legible manuscript in the Cottonian Library, British Library, J. Pine, 1733. £10,000 to £15,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th May 2022

Forum, May 26: Woolf (Virginia). Mrs Dalloway, first edition, Hogarth Press, 1925. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, May 26: Tudor exiles opposed to the Marian regime.- Mary I (Queen of England) Letter signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene", 1556. £8,000 to £10,000.

Forum, May 26: America.- Newfoundland.- Whitbourne (Sir Richard). A discourse and discouery of Nevv-found-land…, second edition, By Felix Kingston, 1622. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 26th May 2022

Forum, May 26: Cervantès Saavedra (Miguel de). El Ingenioso Hidalgo Do Quixote de la Mancha, 4 vol., Madrid, Por Don Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum, May 26: Stubbs (George). The Anatomy of the Horse, first edition, first issue, Printed by J. Purser, for the Author, 1766. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, May 26: Cardiology.- Lower (Richard). Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu, first edition, 1669. £5,000 to £7,000.

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