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<center>Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin Rare Books, Prints, Historical Photography 29 September 2023

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Jan Theodor de Bry. Anthologia magna sive Florilegium novum. 1626. 9,000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: John Locke. Epistola de tolerantia ad Clarissimum Virum T.A.R.P.T.O.L.A. 1689. 9000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: F. T. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella, Carrà, a.o. Collection of 35 Futurist manifestos. 1909-1933. 7000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Johann Elert Bode, Rare engraved celestial globe. (1804). 6000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Sebastian Brant (ed.). Tertia pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali et morali. 1498. 5000 €
<center>Christie’s Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz London and online auction 15–29 September

Christie’s, Explore now: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. £100,000–150,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. £70,000–100,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Agatha Christie (1890–1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932. £40,000–60,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. £30,000–50,000
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Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: H. Scherer, Atlas novus exhibens orbem terraqueum, 1702-10. Est: € 15,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: L. de Varthema, Die Ritterlich und lobwirdig rayß, 1515. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview: G. Heym, Umbra vitae, 1924. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Preview:F. de Wit, Orbis maritimus ofte Zee Atlas, around 1680. Est: € 15,000
<center>Gonnelli: Auction 46 Books Autographs & Manuscripts Oct 3rd-5th 2023

Gonnelli: Tilson - Zanotto, Il vero tema. 2011. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Munari, Storia di un filo. Starting price 400 €

Gonnelli: Debord, Contre le cinéma. 1964. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Futurism books and ephemera

Gonnelli: Travel books

Gonnelli: Medicine books

Gonnelli: Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-1805. Starting price 52.000 €

Gonnelli: Carrera, Il gioco de gli scacchi. 1617. Starting price 3200 €

Gonnelli: Vergilius, Opera. 1515. Starting price 800 €

Auction Reports

Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood

Auction Info

Auction Name: 20th Century and Contemporary Sale - Prints, Books
Auction Date: 12/04/2018 - 12/04/2018
Sale Number: #CC1
Total Lots: 26
Sold Lots: 23
Lots Sold: 88.46%
Unsold Lots: 3

Total Sales (GBP): 20,315.90
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 13,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 14,150.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 143.58%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Bible, Dominican Use, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: probably Paris, c. 1240]. £10,000-15,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Book of Hours, in French with Latin cues. Illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, Normandy, early(?) 15th century]. £10,000-15,000.

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Book of Hours, Use of Rouen, in Latin and French. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, [France: Rouen, c. 1480]. £30,000-40,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Mary I (1516-1558). Queen of England, 1553-1558. Letter signed, ‘Marye the Quene’, Greenwich, 7 January 1558. £15,000-20,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Jonson (Ben). Works, 1st collected edition, 3 volumes, 1640. £7,000-10,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Essex. A sammelband of 27 English Civil War pamphlets mostly relating to the siege of Colchester, Essex, 1648. £5,000-8,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Latham (Simon). Latham’s Faulconry, or the Faulcons Lure and Cure, 2 parts in one, 1658/. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Exquemelin (Alexandre Olivier). The History of the Bucaniers of America, 2 volumes in 1, 2nd edition, 1695. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Campbell (Patrick). Travels in the interior inhabited parts of North America..., 1st ed., 1793. £5,000-8,000

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers September 27 The Library of the Late Christopher Foyle of Beeleigh Abbey: Part One

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Burton (Richard F.). Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1855-56. £5,000-8,000

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Cosway-style binding. Napoleon and the Fair Sex, 1894. One of 9 similar lots. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Sep. 27: Shepard (Ernest Howard, 1879-1976). Pooh and Piglet, original pen and ink drawing, 1958. £20,000-30,000
<center>Sotheby's English Literature and History Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: William Shakespeare. A Midsummer-Night's Dream, 1908. 7,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. Brontës' Novels, 1922. 2,400 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Lewis Carroll. Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Charles Dickens. Collection of Fiction including Oliver Twist and Sketches by Boz, 1838-1865. 6,250 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, 1839. 4,250 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: James Joyce. Ulysses, 1925. 2,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Jane Austen. The Complete Works of Jane Austen, 1901. 5,250 USD
<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Alken (Henry), Thomas Egerton et al. The Melange of Humour, first collected edition, Printed by W. Lewis, [c.1835]. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: [Cheny (John) and Thomas Butler, publishers]. [Horses & Their Pedigrees], Cheny & Butler, 1740-1746 or 1751-1753. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Dikenman (R.) Voyage en Suisse, Zurich, [c.1830]. £2,000 to £3,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Eckert (H.A.) Monten (Dietrich) and F. Schlever. Das K.K. Russische Militair aus dem grossen Werke Saemmtliche Truppen von Europa, first edition, Wuerzburg, 1840 [but c.1842]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Havell, Junior (Robert). Costa Scena, or a Cruise along the Southern Coast of Kent, hand-coloured aquatint panorama with original boxwood drum, 1823. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Heideloff (Victor). Ansichten des Herzoglich Württembergischen Landsitzes Hohenheim, first edition in original 6 parts, Nuremberg, 1795-1800. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Jones (Owen) and Jules Goury. Views on the Nile: from Cairo to the Second Cataract, first edition, Graves and Warmsley, 1843. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Meyer (Johann Heinrich). Der Rigiberg in Zeichnungen nach der Natur, Zurich, Fuessli, 1807. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Nichol (Andrew). Five Views of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, first edition, Dublin, William Frederick Wakeman, 1834. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins 26th September 2023

Forum, Sep. 26: Schetky (J. C.) A series of four sketches, illustrative of various situations of His Majesty's Ship Pique, Portsea, Trives & Maynard, 1835. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Stackelberg (Otto Magnus von). Costumes et Usages des Peuples de la Grece Moderne, first edition, Rome, 1825. £20,000 to £30,000.

Forum, Sep. 26: Stucchi (Stanislao). Raccolta di Scene Teatrali eseguite o disegnate dai più celebri Pittori Scenici in Milano, 3 vol., Milan, 1817. £6,000 to £8,000.
$Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.$

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John). Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, Florence, [Lorenzo Morgiani], [?1505] or possibly, 1496-99. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic, Safavid Persia (probably Isfahan), [second quarter of 16th century]. £12,000 to £16,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Foxe (John). Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church…, first edition, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [20th March, 1563]. £15,000 to £20,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, first play edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To my dear Jane Pan", 1928. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Gillray (James). John Bull taking a Luncheon: -or- British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard, with Bonne-Chére, etching with hand-colouring, 1798. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Middle East.- Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vol. bound as 4, first edition, 1842-49. £12,000 to £18,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Greenwood (C. & J.) Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., first edition, engraved map, 1827. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Smith (Percy John Delf). Collection of 19 original preliminary drawings for "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", circa 1914-1918; together with 11 drypoints from "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", 1925. £15,000 to

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Guild of Women Binders.- Watts (Alaric A.) Lyrics of the Heart: with other poems, in a stunning richly gilt green crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, Longman, 1851. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Cosway binding.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge). "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in a Cosway binding with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie, 1868. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £18,000 to £22,000.
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Swann: Charles Monroe Schulz, The Peanuts gang, complete set of 13 drawings, ink, 1971. Sold June 15 — $50,000.

Swann: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Family Archive of Photographs & Letters. Sold June 1 — $60,000.

Swann: Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York, 1949. Sold March 30 — $50,000.

Swann: William Shakespeare, King Lear; Othello; [and] Anthony & Cleopatra; Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Sold May 4— $185,000.

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Swann: William Samuel Schwartz, A Bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin, oil on canvas, circa 1938. Sold February 16 — $32,500.

Swann: Lena Scott Harris, Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants, hand-colored silver prints, circa 1930s. Sold February 23 — $37,500.

Swann: Suzanne Jackson, Always Something To Look For, acrylic & pencil on linen canvas, circa 1974. Sold April 6 — $87,500.

Swann: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, complete with 50 printed collotype plates, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold June 15 — $68,750.

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