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Auction Name: Weekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 3/19
Auction Date: 03/26/2019 - 03/26/2019
Sale Number: #281913
Total Lots: 197
Sold Lots: 195
Lots Sold: 98.98%
Unsold Lots: 2

Total Sales (USD): 35,080.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 29,325.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 39,765.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 29,875.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 40,440.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 86.75%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Swann Auction Galleries Printed & Manuscript Americana September 29, 2022

Swann September 29: Extensive archive of papers of Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles. $60,000 to $90,000.

Swann September 29: George Catlin, North American Indian Portfolio, 1844. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann September 29: The Twenty-Four Books of the Holy Scriptures, Carefully Translated…after the Best Jewish Authorities, Philadelphia, 1853-54. $10,000 to $15,000.

<center>Swann Auction Galleries Printed & Manuscript Americana September 29, 2022

Swann September 29: Wedding book of Eleanor Roosevelt’s bodyguard, Earl Miller, signed by the Roosevelts, 1932. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann September 29: Textile titled The Resignation of Pres’t Washington, Scotland, circa 1800. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann September 29: Gideon Welles, Pass for President Lincoln’s White House funeral, 1865. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann September 29: Confirmation of arms and nobility in favor of the Diez y Mora family, Madrid, 1710. $2,500 to $3,500.
<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts October 20, 2022</center>

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: JOYCE, James. Ulysses. London: John Lane the Bodley Head, 1937. PRESENTATION COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION PRINTED IN ENGLAND. $50,000 to $60,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: [SHACKLETON, Ernest]. –– BROWNING, Robert. Poetical Works of… London: Smith and Elder, 1906. PRESENTED TO SHACKLETON AND THE OFFICERS OF THE NIMROD BY A MEMBER OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. $40,000 to $60,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. $30,000 to $40,000.

<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts October 20, 2022</center>

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: ARISTOTLE. Opera, in Greek, parts one and two only: Organon and Natural Philosophy I. Edited by Aldus and others. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1 November 1495–February 1498. $20,000 to $30,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: COOK, James, Capt. [Collected Voyages]. First and Second Voyages: London: W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1773, 1777; Third Voyage: London: H. Hughes for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785. $14,000 to $18,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne (“Mark Twain”). The Writings of… Hartford: American Publishing Co., 1899–1900. $12,000 to $16,000.

<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts October 20, 2022</center>

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Poems of… Edited by Frederick S. Ellis. Hammersmith: William Morris for the Kelmscott Press, 1893. $12,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1905. PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY LONDON. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: CROWLEY, Aleister (1875–1947). The Winged Beetle. London: privately printed, 1910. $10,000 to $15,000.

<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Fine Books & Manuscripts October 20, 2022</center>

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: WILDE, Oscar (“C.3.3.”). The Ballad of Reading Gaol. London: Leonard Smithers, January 1898. $6,000 to $8,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: DRYDEN, John. Fables Ancient and Modern; translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems. London: John Tonson, 1700. $4,000 to $6,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 20: [MAP]. LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygen van. Delineatio Orarum Maritimarum… London: John Wolfe, 1598. $3,000 to $4,000.
<center>Sotheby’s Antiquarian Books Including a series of views of Milan September 27 to October 4</center>

Sotheby’s, Sep. 27 – Oct. 4: Livius, Historia Romanae decades, Venice, Vindelinus de Spira, 1470, contemporary Morocco. €30,000 to €40,000.

Sotheby’s, Sep. 27 – Oct. 4: Blaeu, Nieuw Stedeboeck van Italien (Piemont), The Hague, 1724-1725, 8 volumes, marbled calf gilt. €70,000 to €90,000.

Sotheby’s, Sep. 27 – Oct. 4: Baysio, Rosarium decretorum, Venice, 1481, later vellum. €10,000 to €15,000.

Sotheby’s, Sep. 27 – Oct. 4: [Niccolò da Poggibonsi], Viaggio da Venetia al santo Sepulchro, Venice, 1529, later half calf. €2,000 to €3,000.

Sotheby’s, Sep. 27 – Oct. 4: Hieronymus, Epistole [Italian], Ferrara, 1497, blue crushed morocco with the Rocco di Torrepadula arms. €12,000 to €15,000.

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