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Auction Name: Prints & Drawings, Fine and Decorative Arts
Auction Date: 12/12/2020 - 12/12/2020
Sale Number: #227
Total Lots: 369
Sold Lots: 308
Lots Sold: 83.47%
Unsold Lots: 61

Total Sales (USD): 92,194.65
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 63,320.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 108,080.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 80,540.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 134,660.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 68.46%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
248	Elizabeth Catlett (American 1915-2012)	"Sharecropper"	1952	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 18,450.00
180	Norma Bassett Hall (American 1890-1957)	"Sleeping Pueblo"	ca. 1930	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 3,075.00
179	Norma Bassett Hall (American 1889-1957)	"Home of a Spanish Cobbler"	ca. 1940	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 2,214.00
209	Thomas Nason (American 1889-1971)	"Midsummer"	1942	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,476.00
216	Birger Sandzen (American 1871-1954)	"Afterglow'' (Greenough XXXX)-	1917	USD 400.00 - 700.00	USD 1,230.00
163	Mabel Dwight (American 1876-1955)	"Tourists in The Crypt at Chartres'' (Robinson and Pirog 20)-	1928	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,107.00
158	Asa Cheffetz (American 1896-1965)	"Summer Sun''; ''Abandoned Farmhouse'' & ''May Sunlight"	1928, 1938, 1941	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,045.50
200	Fred Machetanz (American 1908-2002)	"Wilderness Home"		USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 1,045.50
53	Raymond Loewy (French/American 1893-1986)	Portfolio- consisting of 7 lithographs in color and 1 serigraph and mixed media,	1979	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 984.00
513		21 Original Movie Posters,		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 984.00
155	Will Barnet (American 1911-2012)	"Mary'' (Cole 56)-	1938	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 922.50
20	Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594)	''Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iunioris,''	ca. 1613	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 922.50
201	Fred Machetanz (American 1908-2002)	"Ice Fall"		USD 300.00 - 600.00	USD 861.00
29	Henry Popple	"Nova Mappa Geographica Americae Septentrionalis"		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 738.00
221	Raphael Soyer (American 1899-1987)	"Dancers Resting'' (Cole 42)-	1936	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 738.00
514		4 Original Star Wars Movie Posters,		USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 676.50
168	Ernest Fiene (American 1894-1965)	"Riverboat Roundout"	1928	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 676.50
280		"Sacromonte Amecameca"		USD 60.00 - 120.00	USD 676.50
116		"Southern Scene"	1932	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 615.00
120		Untitled (Zion National Park)-	1940	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 615.00

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<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Rare 1778 Engraved map of Colonial Philadelphia after George Heap (1714-1752) and Nicholas Scull (1687-1761). $10,000 to $12,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Author signed and inscribed THE FOUNTAINHEAD, stated First Edition, by Ayn Rand, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York, 1943. $2,000 to $2,400.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engraving, "Yellow-billed Magpie, Stellers Jay, Ultramarine Jay and Clark's Crow," Plate Number CCCLXII. $1,800 to $2,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) autograph letter, signed, as President, to Nathan Reid detailing Jackson’s intervention on behalf of Reid's grandson. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Edward Steichen (Luxembourg/American, 1879-1973) portfolio of photographs, "The Early Years 1900-1927, 12 Hand-Gravure Prints" #41/1000, printed in 1981. $1,400 to $1,600.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, TLS, one-page typed letter on The White House, Washington, D.C., stationary to John Marshall Butler. $1,400 to $1,600.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two Pre-Civil War slave related letters, including one written by Mariah, a female domestic slave of James Vincent Musgrove (1814-1890) to her daughter. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two author signed and inscribed Ayn Rand related books, including one Rand signed WE THE LIVING, London 1940 edition. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: PLAN DE LA VILLE DE MEMPHIS (ETATS-UNIS) 40,000 HABITANTS pen and ink with watercolor hand drawn drainage system map, circa 1870. $700 to $900.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Scarce Mezzotint portrait of Thomas Pownall, Colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1757-1760) and South Carolina (1760). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: VIEW OF NORFOLK FROM COSPORT, VIRGINIA, John Hill, engraver, after John Shaw (U.K., 1776-1832). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: THE BURNING OF THE MERCHANT'S EXCHANGE, NEW YORK CITY -THE GREAT FIRE OF DECEMBER, 1835. Scarce color lithograph, a 1909 reissue of the original 1836 print. $500 to $700.
<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Schedel (Hartmann). Liber Chronicarum, first edition, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493. £30,000 to £50,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Greek Orthodox Church].- Menaion, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in Greek letters, [Eastern Mediterranean], [c. 1400]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: American Revolution.- Loyalist's cow powder horn, engraved with the cypher "GR" for George III surmounted by a crown, an inscription, and on reverse an engraving of the "North River" [Hudson River], 1777. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Illuminated prayer book.- Maria Carcer y Trigueros... Santa Misa y Oraciones, illuminated manuscript in Spanish, on paper, [c. 1850]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Hardy (Thomas). The Mayor of Casterbridge, 2 vol., first edition in book form, original cloth, 1886. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Austen (Jane)]. Emma: A Novel, first edition, Printed for John Murray, 1816. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Brontë (Charlotte). Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Cruikshank (George). The Road to the Derby, one of two proof copies, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1882. £600 to £800.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Meunier (Charles, binder).- Gruel (Leon). Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l'Amateur de Reliures, 2 vol., Paris, 1887.-1905. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Burne-Jones (Sir Edward). The Work of Edward Burne-Jones, edited by Philip Burne-Jones, one of 200 copies, [c.1900]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Nazraeli Press.- Six by Six, 36 vol. [a complete set], one of 100 sets, each with signed photograph, Portland, Or., 2010-16. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Freycinet. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £6,000 to £8,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph F. Kernan, College Football, oil on canvas, The Saturday Evening Post cover, 1932. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph C. Leyendecker, Golfer Lighting a Cigarette, oil on canvas, c.1920. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Howard Chandler Christy, In the Field, charcoal & watercolor, published in Scribner’s, 1902. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: N.C. Wyeth, Standish Reading, pen & ink, for The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1920. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Johnanna Stewart Mapes, A Fairy Book, conté crayon, for St. Nicholas Magazine, 1907. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Arnold Lobel, pen & ink, for The Frog & Toad Coloring Book, 1981. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Antonio Lopez, Today’s Fashions, study for The New York Times, 1981. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Charles Schulz, “I’ll have to go back to the house…I forgot my rubbers…” pen & ink, original 4-panel Peanuts comic, 1960. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Constantin Alajalov, Family Tree, watercolor and gouache, cover for The New Yorker, 1938. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.

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