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<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15

<center>Christie’s Valuable Books and Manuscripts December 15
<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of hours of Jean Boutin]. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, use of Rome, in Latin and French. France, early 15th century. From €50,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Pontifical illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin. Southern France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, in Latin and French. France, late 15th century. From €40,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Officium B. Mariae Virginis. Illuminated manuscript on parchment, use of Rome, in Latin and Italian. 1482. From €40,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Book of Hours]. Manuscript on parchment, in French. Amiens, 14th century. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Verdi, Giuseppe. 9 handwritten lines signed by Luisa Miller, with a dedication 'to Monsieur Felix Le Couppey, Paris 24 Jan. 1852'. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: French Renaissance binding, produced in Lyon or Paris in the second half of the 16th century. Rhetoricorum secundus tomus in Gryphius' edition of 1548. From €800.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Gesner, Conrad. Vogelbuch Darinn die art, natur und eigenschafft aller vöglen. Zurigo, Froschauer, 1581, 1583, 1585, 1589. From €10,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Dalmatia]. Berlinghieri, Francesco. Tabula quinta de Europa. Florence, Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna, [before September 1482]. From €8,000.

<center>Aste Bolaffi Rare Books and Autographs December 16, 2021

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: Giampiccoli, Giuliano. Jacobo Comiti Duratio […] Tabulas a Marco Ricci Auctore, Julianus Giampiccoli incidit. Venezia, Teodoro Viero, 1775. €30,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Piazzetta]. Pitteri, Marco. Studj di pittura gia dissegnati da Giambatista Piazzetta ed ora con l'intaglio di Marco Pitteri. Venezia, Giovanni Battista Albrizzi, 1760. From €4,000.

Aste Bolaffi, Dec. 16: [Printing and the Mind of Man]. Palladio, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venezia, Domenico de' Franceschi, 1570. From €14,000.
<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: De Wit’s composite atlas with magnificent full original color. $125,000 to $150,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the Civil War. $200,000 to $250,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Waugh Oil Painting, 70 Degrees North; The Polar Bear. $400,000 to $600,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquatint, Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. $75,000 to $90,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Blaeu terrestrial table globe, 1602. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Audubon aquautint, Ruby-Throated Humming Bird. $35,000 to $45,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Bessa original watercolor of a bouquet of flowers. $75,000 to $125,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: John Gould's only work devoted to American birds. $15,000 to $20,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Wyld & Malby pair of terrestrial & celestial globes, 1833. $50,000 to $75,000.

<center>Arader Galleries Live Auction December 11, 2021

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Leutze map of the world oil painting. $70,000 to $100,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Caula, the finest 18th century drawing of Lison. $25,000 to $35,000.

Arader Galleries, Dec. 11: Scolari / Blaeu map of Germania, 1650. $15,000 to $22,000.
<center>Sotheby’s Zang Tumb Tuuum: la révolution futuriste Online Auction 30 November – 7 December

Sotheby’s, Nov. 18: The "Official Edition" of the United States Constitution and the First Printing of the Final Text of the Constitution, 1787. $15,000,000 to $20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. I Paroliberi Futuristi. 1914-1915. 8 p. Unique corrected proofs, for an anthology that remained unpublished. €40,000 to €60,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Studenti in Lettere. Università. 1915. Seminal work, featured in 3 historical futurist exhibitions. €20,000 to €30,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Cangiullo, Francesco. Chiaro di luna. Circa 1915. Collage and gouache on paper. €15,000 to €20,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 30 – Dec. 7: Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso. Manicure. Faire les ongles à l'Italie. Circa 1915. A fantastic parody of an advertising poster. €20,000 to €30,000.

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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 10/30
Auction Date: 11/06/2020 - 11/06/2020
Sale Number: #110620
Total Lots: 130
Sold Lots: 101
Lots Sold: 77.69%
Unsold Lots: 29

Total Sales (EUR): 20,799.38
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 13,610.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 16,970.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 22,060.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 27,440.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 75.80%

Top twenty by sale price

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Der Sturm. 1922. Sold October 2021 for € 13,000.

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Sold October 2021 for € 18,000.

Cozzani Ettore e altri, l’Eroica. Tutto il pubblicato. Sold October 2021 for € 11,000.

Newton Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. 1714. Sold October 2021 for € 7,500.

Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli. 1767-1776. Sold April 2021 for € 26,000.
<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, hand-colored aquatint, 1828. $80,000 to $100,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Francisco Henrique Carls, Album de Pernambuco e seus Arrabaldes, 53 plates, Recife, circa 1873. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Capt. Thomas Davies, group of five engraved topographical scenes of North American waterfalls, London, 1768. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center> Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases Natural History & Color Plate Books December 9, 2021

Swann, Dec. 9: William R. Morley, Morley’s Map of New Mexico, New Mexico, 1873. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann, Dec. 9: Paul Hariot, Le Livre d’Or des Roses, Paris, 1903. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Dec. 9: D. Miguel Geli, album of finely hand-drawn studies for nineteenth-century Spanish forts and military bunkers, circa 1830. $1,200 to $1,800.
<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Ortelius (Abraham). Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, folio, Antwerp, 1570, First Edition (2nd Issue), 53 double-page maps, contemporary hand colouring. €40,000 to €60,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: An original engraved facsimile copy of the Declaration of Independence of 4 July 1776, issued by order of Congress on 4 July 1823 in a limited edition of 200 copies on fine parchment. €20,000 to €30,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Joyce (James). Ulysses. Shakespeare & Co., Rue de l’Odeon, Paris 1922. No. 559 of 1000 Copies of the First Edn.,, one of 750 Copies on handmade paper. €10,000 to €15,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Malton (James) [1761-1803]. A fine quality set of twenty-five hand coloured aquatint Views of Dublin, as published for A Picturesque and Descriptive View of the City of Dublin. €6,000 to €7,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: 'Bloody Sunday.' An original Admission Ticket to Croke Park, Great Challenge Match (Football), Tipperary v. Dublin, Sunday, November 21,1920. Pink card, 3 ins x 4 ¼ ins. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Joyce (James). Haveth Childers Everywhere - Fragment from Work in Progress, Paris & N.Y., 1930, First Edn., Signed and Limited No. 50 (100) Copies. €4,000 to €6,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Edward Lyons, Irish (1726-1801). Genealogy: The FitzGerald's Arms of Carton House, Kildare, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Yeats (William Butler). Poems. Cuala Press, D. 1935, stiff blue paper covers, unlettered as issued, coloured initials and ornaments hand-drawn by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. One of 300 copies. €2,000 to €3,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: A fine and important collection of Ulster Wit. Belfast Political Scrapbook, 19th century. €1,500 to €2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors' Sale December 7th & 8th, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Rare Views of the Giant's Causeway. Coloured Prints: Drury (Susanna) [1698-1770]. A rare pair of original Engraved Prints. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apsostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism, L., 1682, First Edn. €800 to €1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 7-8: Aringhi (Pauli). Roma Subterranea Novissima, 2 vols. lg. folio Rome (Typis Vitalis Mascardi) 1651. €350 to €750.
<center>One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Entertainment and Sports Auction December 9th

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: SITTING BULL SIGNED PHOTO (The Finest in Existence).

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: The Beatles Signed Photo Card and the Make-Up Sponge Used During the Historic February 1964 Ed Sullivan Performance.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Extremely Rare John Wesley Hardin Signature from a Texas Cattle Brand Book, early 1870s.

<center>One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Entertainment and Sports Auction December 9th

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Albert Einstein "refugee intellectuals of the Hitler persecution.”

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: LYNDON B. JOHNSON Personally Owned & Worn STETSON HAT.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Sigmund Freud Typed Letter Signed in English "I am still on the road to health, but I have not arrived."

<center>One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Entertainment and Sports Auction December 9th

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Nixon’s All Time Baseball All Star Team and the Reporter that helped change the 1972 Presidential Election!

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Incredible signed ''Atomic Energy for Military Purposes'' -by Enrico Fermi & Robert Oppenheimer and- Also Signed by Four Other Manhattan Project Scientists Who Developed the First Atomic Bomb.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Samuel Adams, Signer of Declaration Of Independence, Signed Military Appointment.

<center>One of a Kind Collectibles Auctions Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Entertainment and Sports Auction December 9th

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Orville Wright & Glenn Martin Signed Photograph.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Thomas Jefferson, a Magnificent Large Signature.

One of a Kind Collectibles, Dec. 9: Robert E. Lee ALS, “Suffering people of the South … blessing of God.”
<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 47. Roosevelt, Theodore. Photograph inscribed to Morris J. Hirsch. May 7th 1918. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 178. Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York: [Printed for the author], 1955. First edition in the first issue binding. $70,000 to $100,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 38. Mather, Cotton. Magnalia Christi Americana; or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. London: Printed for Thomas Parkhurst, 1702. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 55. Taylor, Zachary. Autograph letter signed as President-Elect. Baton Rouge: January 15, 1849. $5,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 203. Picasso, Pablo. Verve Vol. V, Nos. 19-20. Paris: Editions Verve, 1948. Inscribed on the title page by Picasso. $1,500 to $2,500.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps December 9

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 211. Domergue, Jean-Gabriel. L'Ete a Monte Carlo. Lithographed poster, Lucien Serre & Cie, Paris, circa 1937. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 105. Manuscript Illumination attr. to Neri da Rimini. Large excised initial "N" from a choirbook, extensively historiated. [Likely Rimini: first quarter of the 14th century]. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 40. McKenney, Thomas L. and Hall, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Philadelphia: Rice, Rutter & Co., 1870. $3,00

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 222. Searle, Ronald. [Pets--a dog, cats and a parrot-- surrounded by books, and inspecting a globe, perhaps planning global domination]. Original drawing, 17 3/8 x 13 1/2 inches. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 98. Faden, William; Scull, Nicholas and George Heap. A Plan of the City and Environs of Philadelphia, Survey'd by N. Scull and G. Heap. London: William Faden, 12 March 1777. $3,000 to $5,000.
Bonhams, Dec. 15: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Autograph Letter Signed ("B. Franklin"), to Benjamin Vaughan asserting the primacy of American independence in negotiating the Treaty of Paris, Passy, July 11, 1782. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. Autograph Letter Signed ("B. Franklin") to David Hartley addressing Hartley's final issues with the recently completed ratification of the Treaty of Paris, Passy, June 2, 1784. $70,000 to $100,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: MASON & DIXON. A hand-colored contemporary manuscript map titled in cartouche, "A Map of that Part of AMERICA where a degree of LATITUDE was measured for the ROYAL SOCIETY, by Chas Mason & Jer: Dixon," c.1768. $8,000 to $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. Autograph Manuscript Signed ("WB Yeats"), a fair copy of "When Helen Lived" for John Preece headed ("For John Preece"), framed. $5,000 to $7,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: "LINCOLN SEATED." KECK, CHARLES, sculptor. 1875-1951. Patinated bronze, 1950. Louise Taper Collection. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S FINAL HOURS. BURNS, J., painter. Death-Bed of Abraham Lincoln. Oil on canvas, 1866. Collection of Louise Taper. $8,000 to $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: FILSON, CHARLES PATTERSON, painter. 1860-1937. Portrait of Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: A MATZOS BOX PRESENTED BY THE MANISHEVITZ BROTHERS TO WARREN G. HARDING. Louise Taper Collection. $2,000 to $3,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: LEWIS CARROLL. Original albumen print photograph, approximately 6 7/8 x 8 3/4 inches, Chelsea, London, October 7, 1863, of the Rossetti Family at home, one of only three known examples of the full image. $50,000 to $70,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Verses ... Dedicated to Her Mother. Privately printed, 1847. First edition of her first book, printed at her grandfather's press, THE ROSSETTI FAMILY COPY. $15,000 to $20,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: CHRISTINA ROSSETTI. Original drawing of snowdrops in purple pencil, sent by CGR to Lucy Rossetti, inscribed "I doubt whether you will make out my copy from nature," 1887. $800 to $1,200.

Bonhams, Dec. 15: DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, et al. The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art. Fine copy in a Doves binding by Cobden Sanderson. $12,000 to $18,000.

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