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Auction Name: Shop and Pub Signs and Memorabilia
Auction Date: 03/21/2018 - 03/21/2018
Sale Number: #32118
Total Lots: 213
Sold Lots: 164
Lots Sold: 77.00%
Unsold Lots: 49

Total Sales (EUR): 17,283.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 12,410.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 19,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 16,080.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 24,920.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 69.36%

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<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. Carolina Parrot. Plate 26. Hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate from Audubon's Birds of America. $80,000 to $100,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Francisco Henrique Carls. [Album de Pernambuco e seus Arrabaldes]. Fifty-three chromolithographed plates of landscape, town views and more of the state of Pernambuco, northeast Brazil. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Captain Thomas Davies, after. Group of 5 engraved topographical scenes of North American waterfalls. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: William R. Morley. Morley's Map of New Mexico. Large lithographed pocket map with original hand-color in outline. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Frederick William Beechey, et al. The Zoology of Captain Beechey's Voyage; Compiled from the Collections and Notes Made by Captain Beechey… $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: ZUDA ROKASHI (Priest Hotan.) Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka No Zu. Woodblock wall map of the world on 16 sheets joined. $5,000 to $7,500.
<center>Sotheby’s Zang Tumb Tuuum: la révolution futuriste Online Auction 30 November – 7 December

Sotheby’s, Nov. 18: The "Official Edition" of the United States Constitution and the First Printing of the Final Text of the Constitution, 1787. $15,000,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. I Paroliberi Futuristi. 1914-1915. 8 p. Unique corrected proofs, for an anthology that remained unpublished. €40,000 to €60,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Studenti in Lettere. Università. 1915. Seminal work, featured in 3 historical futurist exhibitions. €20,000 to €30,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Chiaro di luna. Circa 1915. Collage and gouache on paper. €15,000 to €20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. Manicure. Faire les ongles à l'Italie. Circa 1915. A fantastic parody of an advertising poster. €20,000 to €30,000.
<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 47. Roosevelt, Theodore. Photograph inscribed to Morris J. Hirsch. May 7th 1918. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 178. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [Printed for the author], 1955. First edition in the first issue binding. $70,000 to $100,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 38. Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 55. Taylor, Zachary. Autograph letter signed as President-Elect. Baton Rouge: January 15, 1849. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 203. Picasso, Pablo. Verve Vol. V, Nos. 19-20. Paris: Editions Verve, 1948. Inscribed on the title page by Picasso. $1,500 to $2,500.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 211. Domergue, Jean-Gabriel. L'Ete a Monte Carlo. Lithographed poster, Lucien Serre & Cie, Paris, circa 1937. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 105. Manuscript Illumination attr. to Neri da Rimini. Large excised initial "N" from a choirbook, extensively historiated. [Likely Rimini: first quarter of the 14th century]. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 40. McKenney, Thomas L. and Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1870. $3,00

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 222. Searle, Ronald. [Pets--a dog, cats and a parrot-- surrounded by books, and inspecting a globe, perhaps planning global domination]. Original drawing, 17 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 98. Faden, William; Scull, Nicholas and George Heap. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, Survey'd by N. Scull and G. Heap. London: William Faden, 12 March 1777. $3,000 to $5,000.
Der Sturm. 1922. Sold October 2021 for € 13,000.

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Sold October 2021 for € 18,000.

Cozzani Ettore e altri, l’Eroica. Tutto il pubblicato. Sold October 2021 for € 11,000.

Newton Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. 1714. Sold October 2021 for € 7,500.

Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli. 1767-1776. Sold April 2021 for € 26,000.

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