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Auction Name: Rare Books and Manuscripts, with Miniature Books
Auction Date: 11/21/2019 - 11/21/2019
Sale Number: #688
Total Lots: 338
Sold Lots: 242
Lots Sold: 71.60%
Unsold Lots: 96

Total Sales (USD): 152,838.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 146,710.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 230,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 241,920.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 379,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 40.24%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 20. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Letter to the editors of the Boston Atlas on slavery and its political ramifications, 1842. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 208. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 237. ADDAMS, CHARLES. Original drawing "Now Remember-act casual." $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 4. SMITH, ADAM. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Philadelphia, 1789. The first American edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 131. BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VON. Cinquieme Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll de Louis Van Beethoven. Oeuvre 67. First edition of the complete score. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 73. Chinese Export Painting. Album of twenty-three original Chinese natural history studies of flowers and insects. Likely Canton: circa 1850. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 241. GOREY, EDWARD. Original drawing "Cat Drawing Wallpaper." Signed in Pencil in lower right margin. $2,000 to $4,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 36. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph note signed instructing Edwin Stanton to meet with the important African American abolitionist and officer Martin Delany. [Washington:] 21 February 1865. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 112. JONSON, BEN. Workes. London: William Stansby, 1616; Together with Workes. London: Richard Meighen,1640-41. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 161. STURGIS, LEE. Salmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick. (Chicago:) Privately printed (for the author by Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1919. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
<center>iGavel Auctions Antiquarian and Other Books September 14 – October 12

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Athanasius. Illustrium Virorum Opuscula, Paris, 1500. $4,000 to $6,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Rheims, John Fogny, 1582. $3,000 to $5,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Stith, William. The First History of Virginia printed in America, [Williamsburg, 1747]. $2,500 to $3,500.

<center>iGavel Auctions Antiquarian and Other Books September 14 – October 12

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: S. Bonaventure. Commentarius in Secundum Librum Sententiarum Petri Lombardi, Venice, 1477. $2,000 to $4,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Juvenalis, Junii. Satyrae, with the commentary of Domitius Calderinus, Venice, 1475. $2,000 to $4,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera. Ed. with commentary of Christophorus Landinus, Florence, 1482. $2,000 to $4,000.

<center>iGavel Auctions Antiquarian and Other Books September 14 – October 12

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Scotus, Duns. Quaestiones in Quattuor Libros Sententiarum, 1476-1477. $2,000 to $4,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Polidori, John. The Vampyre, A Tale, Paris, 1819. $1,000 to $2,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin, Vol. I and II, 1852, and a Later Edition, 1885. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>iGavel Auctions Antiquarian and Other Books September 14 – October 12

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1877 [and] The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1885. $2,000 to $3,000.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Book of Hours, Illuminated Vellum, Calendar of Months, 15th century. $600 to $900.

iGavel Auctions, Sep. 14 – Oct. 12: Picturesque, America, Europe, Palestine, and Russia, 1872-1885. $400 to $600.
Swann Auction Galleries: C.F. Payne, Micawber—Imitating Norman Rockwell's "Triple self-portrait," acrylic, watercolor & colored pencil, 2002. Sold June 2021 for $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Jane Russell, archive of letters written during a whaling voyage, 1840s. Sold July 2021 for $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Guild of Women Binders, exhibition binding of A.F. Pollard’s Henry VIII, London, 1902. Sold July 2021 for $12,350.

Swann Auction Galleries: Robert Frost, Collected Poems, author’s presentation copy, signed, with entirety of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening inscribed, NY, 1930. Sold June 2021 for $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: James Joyce, Ulysses, deluxe limited issue, signed, London, 1936. Sold June 2021 for $21,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Mercator [family], [World and Continents], 5 double-page maps, Amsterdam, c. 1633. Sold June 2021 for $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: George Schlegel, New York, Taken from Central Park, hand-finished color-tinted lithograph, 1874. Sold June 2021 for $11,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, second edition, Basel, 1566. Sold April 2021 for $75,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht, illuminated manuscript, c. 1435-45. Sold April 2021 for $60,000.
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 30th September 2021

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Second Folio edition, the "Great She Bible", engraved More-Speed 1611 map of Canaan, Robert Barker, 1613-11. £7,000 to £10,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Galilei (Galileo). Opere, 2 vol., first collected edition, Bologna, Heirs of Dozza for Carlo Manolessi, 1656-1655. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Venetian choirbook.- Single leaf from a 13th century Venetian antiphonal, with large decorated initial, manuscript on vellum, Venice, [c.1260]. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 30th September 2021

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Petrarca (Francesco). Rerum vulrgarium fragmenta, decorated manuscript on paper, Italy, [second half of the 15th century]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: New York School of abstract expressionists.- Abbott (Mary Lee). [Sketch book of original artwork], [New York], 1945. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Contemporary colouring.- Nitzschewitz (Hermannus). Novum beatae Mariaevirginis psalterium, Zinna, Press of the Cistercian Monastery, 1493. £4,000 to £6,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 30th September 2021

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor: translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong, first edition in English, B[ishop]., 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Milton (John). Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times, first edition, state with "S" in "S. Pauls" in imprint, 1645. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Greene (Graham). The Power and the Glory, first edition, 1940. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts & Works on Paper 30th September 2021

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Crowley (Aleister). View of the Tyrrhenian Sea, probably from the hill behind the abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicily, charcoal, [1921]. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, 1953. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: China.- Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and Its People, 4 vol., first edition, 96 photographic plates, 1873-74. £15,000 to £20,000.

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