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Bonhams, Dec. 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Macbeth: A Tragedy. London, 1673. FIRST SEPARATE AND FIRST QUARTO EDITION. THE CHARLTON HESTON COPY. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. In Our Time. Paris, 1924. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL. Fanshawe, A Tale. Boston, 1828. FIRST EDITION OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: THOREAU, HENRY DAVID. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston, 1854. FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. London, 1685. THE FOURTH FOLIO, Brewster/Bentley issue. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: STEIG, WILLIAM. Original maquette and 58 finished drawings for The Agony in the Kindergarten, one of Steig's most important books. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: VERNE, JULES. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth. New York & London, 1872. FIRST EDITION, RARE AMERICAN ISSUE, with Scribner & Welford cancel title. $5,000 to $8,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 5: KING, STEPHEN. Carrie. New York, 1974. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. $1,200 to $1,800.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: APPLE MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE. 1983. The earliest known Macintosh with "Twiggy" drive, one of only two known working machines. $120,000 to $180,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: PLATO. Timaeus [AND] Critias [from Ficini's 1484 Opera]. A LANDMARK OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: LOVELACE, AUGUSTA ADA. Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London, 1843. FIRST EDITION, JOURNAL ISSUE, MOST IMPORTANT PAPER IN EARLY DIGITAL COMPUTING. $15,000 to $20,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: APPLE-1 COMPUTER. Signed by Steve Wozniak, used in development of Apple II. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 4: DARWIN, CHARLES. 1809-1882. On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection. London, 1859. FIRST EDITION. $80,000 to $120,000.
Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Churchill (Winston) & Others. 1944 Commonwealth Prime Ministers’ Conference, 27 April 1944. £8,000 to £12,000.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Joyce (James). Ulysses. First English edition, 1922. £800 to £1,200.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Belzoni (Giovanni Battista). Plates Illustrated of the Researches and Operations...in Egypt and Nubia, FIRST EDITION, 1821-1822. £14,375 inc Buyers Premium.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Astor (John Jacob). A collection of rare letters, 9 January 1812- 4 September 1837. £26,000 inc Buyers Premium.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, FIRST EDITION, first issue, 1997. £27,500 inc Buyers Premium.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Royal Family. Photograph of Queen Elizabeth, George VI, Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, signed, 1946. £3,640 inc Buyers Premium.

Chiswick Auctions Seeking Consignments. Collodi (Carlo). Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino, FIRST EDITION, 1883. £8,401 inc Buyers Premium.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Hartford: The American Publishing Company, 1876. $14,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: BATEMAN, JAMES. The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala. London: J. Ridgway & Sons for the author, [1837]-1843. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn: [For the author by Andrew and James Rome,] 1855. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: LEE, HARPER. Three “Seckatary Hawkins”-related books inscribed and signed by Harper Lee. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: POE, EDGAR ALLAN. The Raven. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845. $120,000 to $180,000.

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Auction Name: Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 11/29
Auction Date: 12/08/2019 - 12/08/2019
Sale Number: #120819
Total Lots: 48
Sold Lots: 0
Lots Sold: 0.00%
Unsold Lots: 48

Total Sales (EUR): 0.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 10,350.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 12,480.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: -0.38%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
32440555	Gezaghebber van St. Martin (Sint Maarten)	Wisselbrief (slavenbrief)	1864	Not Available	Unknown
32440675	Manuscript	blad uit een getijdenboek - ca	1450	Not Available	Unknown
32450969		Lifafe Tsidiq - Handwritten Coptic Prayer Book - late XX century		Not Available	Unknown
32456213	Johann Baptist Spaur	Autograph; Letter with a Communication from Milan	1846	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
32459715	Pierre Auguste Berhemy	Général de Murat a Naples. Lettre autographe	1820	Not Available	Unknown
32459955	Alexandre Dumas fils	Lettre autographe signée	1888	EUR 400.00 - 450.00	Unknown
32460281	Léo Ferré	Lettre autographe signée	1978	EUR 660.00 - 730.00	Unknown
32473401	(Dutch East Indies) Fmr. Lieutenant Governor General Jean Chrétien Baud	Manuscript; Signed 14 page letter to Governor General Mr. P. (Pieter) Merkus	1843	Not Available	Unknown
32492403	Islamic Manuscript	Maghrebi traditional Arabic Koranic writing - without date (ca. 1800)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
32511761	Jacques Chirac, Président de la République	Lettres Signée avec Entete "Le Président de la République" à Auguste Lebreton	1998	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	Unknown
32512995	Camille Corot	Lettre Autographe Signée à son Eleve Jules Badin	1874	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	Unknown
32513843	Edouard Goerg	Lettre Autographe Signée à son Entete	1965	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
32522631	De Gouverneur van Curaçao en onderhoorigheden	Wisselbrief / Slavenbrief Curaçao	1863	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	Unknown
32524873	Namur court of justice	Manuscript; Complaining of non-payment of annuities (plus a recent genealogical and heraldry study)	1550	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Unknown
32529827	Cheikh Abou Ali al-Hassan ibn Masud al-Yusi	Arabe manuscript Ilm al-mantiq ??? ?????? ?????	1800	EUR 180.00 - 200.00	Unknown
26102043	Benito Mussolini	Autograph; Administrative/Military decree	1925	Not Available	Unknown
30064433	Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman bin Zakri and others	Explication from Sahih Bukhari ????? ??? ???? ??????? - without date (ca. 1800)		EUR 800.00 - 900.00	Unknown
30419399	Giulio Solitro	Manuscript; Tragedia	1837	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	Unknown
30585545	Ahmed Bin Zaini Dahlan Al Hassani	Manuscript of Arabic Grammar. Al-Azhari	1830	EUR 280.00 - 320.00	Unknown
30670819	De Gouverneur der Kolonie Suriname	Wisselbrief / Slavenbrief Suriname met zeldzaam Brits Foreign Bill zegel	1863	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	Unknown

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Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon $6,000,000 to $8,000,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon $6,000,000 to $8,000,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon $6,000,000 to $8,000,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon $6,000,000 to $8,000,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 18: The Birds of America; from Original Drawings by John James Audubon $6,000,000 to $8,000,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Currier & Ives, The Mississippi in Time of Peace, hand-colored lithograph, 1865. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Hartmann Schedel, Liber Cronicarum..., Nuremberg, 1493. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Claudius Ptolemaeus, Geographicae Enarrationis Libri Octo, Lyons, 1535. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Thomas Jefferys, The American Atlas, London, 1776-77. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: John Speed, A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World, 20 miniature maps, London, 1665. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Biblia Das ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft Durch D. Martin Luther Verteutscht, illustrated cartographic Bible, Basel, 1665. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Early Hawaiian-language school geography, Lahainaluna Seminary, 1840. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Cornelis de Jode, Africae Vera Forma, et Situs, Antwerp, 1593. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Maria Vincenzo Coronelli, America Settentrionale Colle Nuove Scoperte Sin All Anno, Venice, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Johann Christoph Volkamer, Nürnbergische Hesperides, Nuremberg, 1708-1714. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Johann Bayer, Uranometria, Omnium Asterismorum Continens Schemata..., 51 celestial charts, c. 1603. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Dec 17: Manuscript map of Commodore Perry’s Black Ship squadron at Edo Bay, with manuscript sketchbook, ink & watercolor, Japan, c. 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: [EINSTEIN, ALBERT]; JOHN GRAUDENZ [PHOTOGRAPHER]. Photographic portrait of Albert Einstein by John Graudenz, taken circa 1928. $15,000 to $25,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: ENIGMA M4. A fully operational four-rotor ("M4") Kriegsmarine Enigma Cipher Machine. Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Germany, Heimsoeth und Rinke, 1942. $300,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: FEYNMAN, RICHARD P. “Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman”. Adventures of a Curious Character. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1985. $15,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: An intact egg of the Aepyornis Maximus, or Elephant Bird. Pre-17th century, Madagascar. $35,000 to $45,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Palm frond with fish. Green River Formation, Wyoming, United States. Sabalites sp., and Diplomystus dentatus Cenozoic, Eocene (53-33 million years ago). $60,000 to $70,000.

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