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Auction Name: Hollywood Auction - Day 2 - scripts, photos, ephemera
Auction Date: 06/27/2017 - 06/27/2017
Sale Number: #89b
Total Lots: 297
Sold Lots: 233
Lots Sold: 78.45%
Unsold Lots: 64

Total Sales (USD): 1,083,550.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 642,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 917,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 810,200.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,166,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 92.87%

Top twenty by sale price

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Swann Auction Galleries: Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation by the President of the United States, pamphlet, 1862. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Family papers of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family, Portland, Maine, 1853-1961. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Family papers of the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens & the persons who served him, 1866-1907. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Autograph book with inscriptions by orators Moses Roper & Peter Williams, 1821-54. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Archive of letters, postcards, and greeting cards sent by Romare Bearden, 1949-87. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: E. Simms Campbell, A Night-Club Map of Harlem, in inaugural issue of Manhattan, 1933. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Papers of the comedian Nipsey Russell, including a letter from MLK, 1929-2000. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Early German-American anti-slavery broadside, Sclaven-Handel, Philadelphia, 1794. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Edmonia Lewis, prominent sculptor, carte-de-visite by Henry Rocher, c. 1866-71. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, 44 issues, San Francisco, 1967-1971. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Ernest Withers, I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike, silver print, 1968. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: March For Freedom Now!, poster for the 1960 Republican Convention. $4,000 to $6,000.
<center>Chiswick Auctions Books & Works on Paper Including Autographs & Memorabilia 31 March 2020

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Rackham (Arthur). The Old Hag Standing Outside a Cottage, original drawing, signed by the artist, [c.1909]. £10,000 to £15,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, first printing, signed by the author, original pictorial wrappers, 1997. £4,000 to £6,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Castiglione (Giuseppe, after). Twelve plates from Twenty views of the European Palaces of the Yuanming yuan, 1783-1786. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Chiswick Auctions Books & Works on Paper Including Autographs & Memorabilia 31 March 2020

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Spanish Antiphonal.- Antiphonal manuscript, [Spain], ca. 1650. £4,000 to £6,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Almanach de Gotha.- Almost complete run 1769 to 1945, 12mo & 8vo, Gotha, C.W. Ettinger [- Justus Perthes]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Bible, Greek.- New Testament [Greek], Novum Iesu Christi D.N. testamentum, ex bibliotheca regia, 2 parts in one, Robert Estienne, Paris, 1550. £2,000 to £3,000.

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Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Lithgow (William). The Total Discourse of the rare Adventures… from Scotland, to the most famous kingdoms in Europe, Asia, and Affrica…, woodcut illustrations, 4to, I. Oakes, 1640. £2,000 to £3,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Spanish Interest.-16th -18th Century. Large collection of letters related to prominent members of the Spanish court and clergymen,; v.s., late 16th-mid 18th century. £1,800 to £2,200.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Darwin (Charles). The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, 2 vol., FIRST EDITION, first issue8vo, John Murray, 1871. £1,500 to £2,000.

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Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Loewy (Raymond) ARR. Mickey Mouse, original gouache and air brush illustration of Mickey Mouse, signed by artist., n.p. [1946]. £1,500 to £2,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Potter (Beatrix) & Sendak (Maurice). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, NUMBER 2 OF 250 SIGNED COPIES, WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY SENDAK, New York, 1995. £1,500 to £2,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar. 31: Wolstenholm (Jonathan) ARR. Books on Books, original watercolor, signed and dated by the artist, 2005.
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Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: MITCHELL, John (1711-1768). A Map of the British and French Dominions in North America. Copperplate engraving with original hand color. London, 1755. $250,000 to $350,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Brown Pelican (Standing), Plate 251. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London, 1827-1838. $175,000 to $225,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Fish Hawk or Osprey, Plate 81. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London: 1827-1838. $100,000 to $150,000.

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Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: GONZALES DE MENDOZA, Juan (1545 - 1618). The Historie of the great and mightie kingdome of China… London, 1588. $100,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623-1688). [World Map] Kun-Yu Ch'uan-Tu. Engraved twelve sheet map with vertical sections joined to form six sheets. Korea, Seoul, c. 1860. $100,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: SANGGI, Chong (1678-1752). Korean Atlas. Manuscript map on mulberry bark paper. C. 1750-1790. $100,000 to $150,000.

<center>Arader Galleries April Auction April 4, 2020

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AUDUBON, John James (1785 - 1851). Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Plate 66. Aquatint engraving with original hand color. London, 1827-1838. $80,000 to $120,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: AKERMAN, Anders (1721-1778). & AKREL, Frederik (1779-1868). Pair of Celestial and Terrestrial Globes. Stockholm, c. 1800. 23 inch diameter, each. $60,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Apr. 4: BENNETT, Lieut. William Pyt (d. in action, 1916). AN IMPORTANT AND APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED SERIES OF GELATIN SILVER PHOTOGRAPHS OF LHASA AND TIBET TAKEN DURING THE CELEBRATED YOUNGHUSBAND MISSION OF 1904. $60,000 to $80,000

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