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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

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
41819139	Jehova-bijbel	Biblia, of de gantsche H. Schrift des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments	1755	EUR 750.00 - 850.00	EUR 4,251.00
41924661		Galleria Giustiniana Del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani	1631/1757	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,090.00
41975203	Butkens	Trophées du Duché de Brabant	1726/1724	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 845.84
41979185	Anónimo	L’Office de la Semaine Sante, à l’usage de la Maison du Roy	1741	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 817.50
41812289	Don Gianrinaldo Carli-Rubbi	Delle monete e dell'istituzione delle zecche d'Italia	1754/1760	EUR 800.00 - 900.00	EUR 790.25
41975663	Nicolaas Despars	Chronyke van Vlaenderen	1736/1726	EUR 550.00 - 650.00	EUR 654.00
41999241	Richard Pococke	Beschryving van het Oosten - (deel 2 in 2 delen)	1779/1780	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 621.30
41566431		Nieuwe en nauwkeurige byzonderheeden aangaande het gevecht op de Doggersbank	1781	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 490.50
41878417	Christoph Weigel	Biblia Ectypa	1700	EUR 350.00 - 400.00	EUR 426.19
41737011	Hervormde Kerk IJsselmonde	Biblia, Dat is de Gantsche H. Schrifture	1761	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 414.20
40230257	Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli - Melchiorre di Bella	Siciliae Veteres Nummi + Auctarium + Auctarium secundum	1781	EUR 350.00 - 450.00	EUR 403.30
42073253	N.N.	Biblia Sacra Vulgatae Editionis Sixti V Pont. Max. Ivssv recognita atque edita (...)	1715	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 392.40
41327861	Carsten Niebuhr	Beschryving van Arabie, uit eigene waarnemingen en in 't land zelf verzamelde narigten	1774	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 392.40
42014435	Jan Wagenaar	Amsterdam in zyne Opkomst, Aanwas, Geschiedenissen, Voorregten, Koophandel, Gebouwen	1760/1767	EUR 375.00 - 475.00	EUR 359.70
42064667	Klaas Gietermaker	Zeevaart of de kunst der Stuurlieden	1725	Not Available	EUR 359.70
41976663	Ripia, Juan de la	Práctica de la administración y cobranza de las rentas reales…	1723	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 348.80
42088439	Petrus Opmeer / Jan van de Velde (II), naar Jacob Matham	Het Nederlands Catholyk Martelaars-boek (...) [EN] Naader bewijs (...) - met alle 34 kopergravures!	1701/1700	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 337.90
41874973	Jean Bernard Basedow / Daniel Chodowiecki / Johann Schellemberg	Kupfersammlung zu J. B. Basedows Elementarwerke für die Jugend und ihre Freunde	1774	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 311.74
41692821	Flavius Josephus / Jacob Basnage	Vervolg op Flavius Josephus of algemene historie der Joodsche Naatsie, (...)	1727/1726	EUR 350.00 - 400.00	EUR 310.65
41542869	Johann Philipp Colonius	Systema arithmeticum speciosum, das ist: ein [...] vollkommenes Rechenbuch.	1748	Not Available	EUR 283.40

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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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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

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