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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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Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Charles Loupot, Les Cigarettes Mekka, 1919. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Plinio Codognato, Cicli Fiat, circa 1910. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: L.N. Britton, Warning! Consider the Possible Consequences, c. 1917. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Leonardo Bistolfi, Première Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Modernes, 1902. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Leonetto Cappiello, Paquet Pernot / Biscuits Pernot, 1910. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Francesco Nonni, Font Meo / Acqua Minerale Naturale, 1924. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell, American Crescent Cycles, 1899. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Be a Tight Wad! Own Something! designer unknown, 1925. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Candido Aragonese de Faria, Chamonix–Mont–Blanc, c. 1910. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: W.E.J., Irishmen Avenge the Lusitania, c. 1915. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art Antique Engravings & Lithographs Works on Paper Accepting bids until August 7

Trillium, Aug. 7: Maitres Affiches by MUCHA - Papier a cigarettes Job. 202. $5,000 to $10,000.

Trillium, Aug. 7: De Bry - Map of the West Indies (including Florida, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Parts of Central & South America, Sea Monsters, Ships). $6,000 to $9,000.

Trillium, Aug. 7: Gould - Short-billed Toucan (Ramphastos Brevicarinatus). $5,000 to $8,000.

<center>Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art Antique Engravings & Lithographs Works on Paper Accepting bids until August 7

Trillium, Aug. 7: Redoute, Folio - Pale Iris - Iris flavescens. 375. $3,000 to $5,000.

Trillium, Aug. 7: Gillray - Light Expelling Darkness or The Sun of the Constitution. $200 to $500.

Trillium, Aug. 7: Gerard - Wild Hemp or Weed, Cannabis. 708. $150 to $450.

Trillium, Aug. 7: Shaw & Nodder - Head of The Dodo. 165. $100 to $300.
<center>Sotheby’s Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, Property of Frieda Hughes 9 to 21 July 2021

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Family photograph album ("The Hughes family Album"), 1957-1962. £30,000 to £50,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on "my own private doctrine", with a poem, 5 October 1956. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Pen and ink portrait of Ted Hughes, [1956]. £10,000 to £15,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, Property of Frieda Hughes 9 to 21 July 2021

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Joint autograph letter signed, to William and Edith Hughes, March 1960. £8,000 to £12,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Photographic portrait by David Bailey, inscribed by Plath, 1961, and another press photo. £800 to £1,200.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Tarot de Marseille. Deck of cards owned by Sylvia Plath. £4,000 to £6,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Pair of gold wedding rings. £6,000 to £8,000.

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