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<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair

<center>California International Antiquarian Book Fair February 10-12, 2023 Pasadena Convention Center abaa.org/cabookfair
<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Gideon Welles, Extensive archive of personal and family papers of Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, 1791-1914. Sold September 29 — $281,000.

Swann: Charles Addams, Rock Climbers, cartoon for The New Yorker, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1954. Sold December 15 — $37,500.

Swann: Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell, three volumes, first edition, 1847. Sold June 16, 2022 — $23,750.

Swann: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, London, 1542. Sold October 13 — $106,250.

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Swann: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age 32), silver print, 1936. Sold October 20 — $305,000.

Swann: George Washington, Autograph Document Signed, with two manuscript plat maps in holograph, 1751. Sold October 27 — $37,500.

Swann: Winfred Rembert, Winfred Rembert and Class of 1959, dye on carved & tooled leather, 1999. Sold October 6 — $233,000.

Swann: M.C. Escher, Relativity, lithograph, 1953. Sold November 3 — $81,250.
<center>Sotheby’s Original Film Posters 27 January - 10 February 2023

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Vertigo (1958), poster, US. The ultimate poster on this classic Hitchcock title, one of three known examples. £40,000 to £60,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Lawrence of Arabia (1962), roadshow poster, US. £8,000 to £12,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Star Wars (1977), style C poster, printer's proof, US. £7,000 to £10,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: The Navigator/ La Croisiere du Navigator (1924), re-release poster (1931), French. £5,000 to £8,000.

Sotheby’s, Jan. 27-Feb. 10: Bullitt (1968), special test poster, US. £3,000 to £5,000.
Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 817. Bellin's complete five-volume maritime atlas with 581 maps & plates (1764). $24,000 to $30,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 325. An early and important map of the Republic of Texas (1837). $11,000 to $14,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 45. De Bry's early map of North Pole depicting Willem Barentsz' expedition (1601). $3,500 to $4,250.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 154. Poignant map of the United States documenting lynchings (1931). $250 to $325.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 457. Extremely rare matching set of pro-German propaganda from WWI (1914). $2,000 to $2,400.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 815. Homann's world atlas featuring 110 maps in contemporary color (1751). $14,000 to $16,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 60. Miniature pocket globe based on Herman Moll (1785). $3,500 to $4,500.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 8. Visscher's rare carte-a-figures world map (1652). $14,000 to $16,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 158. Matching satirical maps of the US by McCandlish: "Ration Map" & "Bootlegger's Map" (1944). $3,000 to $4,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 820. One of the finest English atlases of the early 19th century (1808). $4,750 to $6,000.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 59. Important milestone in preparation for 1969 moon landing (1963). $750 to $900.

Old World Auctions (Feb 8): Lot 805. Superb bible leaf with image of crucifixion of Jesus with gilt highlights (1518). $800 to $950.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: The Life of an Amateur
Auction Date: 03/28/2018 - 03/28/2018
Sale Number: #25882
Total Lots: 167
Sold Lots: 108
Lots Sold: 64.67%
Unsold Lots: 59

Total Sales (EUR): 215,600.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 122,950.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 162,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 166,230.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 219,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 98.09%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts, including Americana February 16, 2023

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works…now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $100,000 to $125,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)]. –– ORLIK, Emil (1870–1932), artist. Lithograph signed (“Albert Einstein”). N.p., 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. [The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring. 1954. –– The Two Towers. 1954. –– The Return of the King. 1955. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Hartford and Chicago, 1873. $6,000 to $8,000.

Potter & Potter, Feb. 16: LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. Beyond the Wall of Sleep. Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943. $2,000 to $3,000.
Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Black Sun Press] Proust, Marcel, 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), Spring and All, first edition, Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. $400 to $600.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Washington, George (1732-1799), Autograph Letter Signed. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), Autograph Letter Signed. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph Manuscript. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Paris Commnue], Photograph album. $1,500 to $2,500.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Fleming, Ian (1908-1964), Casino Royale, first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. $3,000 to $4,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Audubon, John James and the Rev. John Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America, New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963), The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952. $600 to $800.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: [Bhagavad Gita] Wilkins, Charles, trans., The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon…, first edition, London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785. $700 to $1,000.

Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, Faust: Eine Tragodie von Goethe, Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, 1906-1910. $800 to $1,200.

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