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<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Illuminated manuscript.- Psalter, Use of Liège, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, Southern Netherlands (Liège), [c.1270]. £70,000 to £90,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Troy.- Early English provenance.- Columna (Guido de). Historia destructionis Troiae, first edition, one of only four known books from this press, [The Netherlands, ?Utrecht], [c.1477-1479]. £25,000 to £35,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Shute (John). The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture, first edition, 1563; bound with Palladio's Quattro Libri dell'Architettura, 1570. £20,000 to £30,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Martin (John). Paradise Lost: By John Milton, first edition in the original 12 parts, Imperial Quarto issue, Septimus Prowett, 1825-26. £12,000 to £16,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Sagittarius and a medieval town scene with peat barges on a canal as merchants meet and talk and another man cuts wood, Netherlands or Western Germany [perhaps Cologne], 1460-70. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Stoker (Bram). Dracula, first edition, later issue, Graham Greene's copy, Westminster, Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. £8,000 to £12,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Gillray (James). The Plumb-pudding in danger: -or- State Epicures taking un Petit Souper, etching with hand-colouring, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Darwin (Charles). Autograph Letter signed to his cousin Reginald Darwin, 1879, announcing his intention to have translated and add a preface to Ernst Krause's sketch of Dr Erasmus Darwin's life. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: By the Congress of the United States of America. Manifesto. "These United States, having been driven to hostilities by the oppressive and tyrannous measures...,” bound with others, 1778. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 1st December 2022

Forum, Dec. 1: Polar.- Benham (Daniel). Sketch of the Life of Jan August Miertsching, Interpreter of the Esquimaux Language to the Arctic Expedition on Board H.M.S. "Investigator", Captain M'Clure, first edition, 1854. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Woman artist.- Unthank (Mary, née Williams). An album of 120 watercolours of views from Italy, Switzerland, France and England; with associated manuscript travel diary, 1860s-1870s. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Dec. 1: Gill (Eric).- Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, number 159 of 225 copies on hand-made paper, Golden Cockerel Press, 1927. £3,000 to £4,000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books December 8, 2022

Swann December 8: Friedrich Justin Bertuch, Bilderbuch für Kinder, Weimar, 1792, 1798, 1802, 1805, 1822. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann December 8: Sebastian Münster, Novae Insulae XXVI Nova Tabula, Basel, 1552. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann December 8: Sebastian Münster & Hans Holbein, Typus Cosmographicus Universales, Basel, 1532. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann December 8: Franz Unger, Die Urwelt in Ihren Verschiedenen Bildungsperioden, 16 tinted lithographed plates, Weigel, 1858. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann December 8: Charles Varle, Wiliam Warner & Andrew Hanna, Plan of the City of Environs of Baltimore, Baltimore, 1801. $8,000 to $12,000.
<center>Gonnelli Auction House HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS “From the grand Tour in Italy to the journey to the East” 1st of December 2022

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari, Alphonse Bernoud, Album with 15 photographs of Florence and Siena, 1860 - 1865. Starting Price: €1.500,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari, Lucca. Church of San Michele, 1856. Starting Price: €1.500,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Tommaso Cuccioni, Roma. Colosseo, 1854 - 1855. Starting Price: €800,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Antonio Fortunato Perini, Venezia. Ca’ D’Oro, 1853 – 1855. Starting Price: €1.000,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lot of 51 photographs by Studio Incorpora: landscapes and views of Sicily, 1885 - 1890. Starting price: €1.200,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lehnert & Landrock. View of the Tunisian desert, 1904 - 1914. Starting price: €300,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Lehnert & Landrock. Tunisia. Night landscape with nomads at the shores of a lake. Starting price: €400,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Vittorio Sella, Aiguille du Midi, from the Col du Midi, 1881. Starting price: €1.000,00.

Gonnelli Dec. 1st: Fratelli Alinari. Florence. Giotto's Bell Tower, 1858 - 1860. Starting price: €1.500,00.
<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 28th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: Latin Book of Hours, Paris/Bretagne around 1400. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: B. Bordone, Isolario, 1534. Est: € 7,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: K. Moser, Fürst von Metternich-sche Richardsquelle, 1899. Est: € 30,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 28th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: Hortus sanitatis, Gart der Gesundheit, 1485. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: Le Cabinet du Roi, 1666-82. Est: € 15,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: Die Aktion, 1913-18. Est: € 80,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 28th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: H. Schedel, Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten, 1493. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: M. E. Bloch, Naturgeschichte der Fische, 1782-95. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: W. Ting, 1 cent life, 1964. Est: € 4,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 28th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: F. de Montalboddo, Newe unbekanthe landte, 1508. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: W. L. Buller, Birds of New Zealand, 1873. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 28: J. Miro in Monument à Christophe Colomb et à Marcel Duchamp, 1971. Est: € 4,000

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 10/30
Auction Date: 11/08/2020 - 11/08/2020
Sale Number: #110820
Total Lots: 35
Sold Lots: 31
Lots Sold: 88.57%
Unsold Lots: 4

Total Sales (EUR): 10,357.18
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 4,937.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 5,683.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 5,649.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 6,549.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 158.15%

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<center>Sotheby’s The Library of Henry Rogers Broughton, 2nd Baron Fairhaven Part II 29 November 2022

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Nicolas Robert. Florilegium, 15 very fine watercolours of flowers on vellum, 1643. £150,000 to £250,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Chinese School. Dessins Originaux Chinois, 9 volumes, early nineteenth century. £60,000 to £90,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli, Florence, 1767-1776, 5 vols, fine contemporary calf gilt. £60,000 to £80,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Priscilla Bury. A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, London, 1831, modern red half morocco. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Nov. 29: Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. Icones plantarum rariorum, Vienna, 1781-[95], 3 vols, contemporary half calf. £30,000 to £50,000.
<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom. 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. £140,000 to £180,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Joyce's Modern Masterpiece, in its one-and-hundredth Year. Joyce (James). Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare & Co. 1922. £15,000 to £25,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7:A Request from Mr. Joyce. Joyce (James). Autograph Letter Signed to 'Dear Mr [Thomas] Pugh,' dated 6.8.1934. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Dun Emer Press: Yeats (Wm. Butler). Stories of Red Hanrahan, 8vo Dundrum 1904. Signed by Author. £1,000 to £1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Binding: Specimens of Early English Poets, 8vo Lond. (For Edwards, Pall Mall) 1790. £500 to £700.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Harry Clarke: Walter (L. D'O.) The Years at the Spring, An Anthology of Recent Poetry. 4to New York (Brentano's) 1920. Special signed limited edition. £1,500 to £2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Kipling (Rudyard). Works, including Writings, Novels, Poems etc. Bombay Edition, 31 vols. roy 8vo Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1913-1938. Signed by Author. £1,500 to £2,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Dunraven (Edwin, Third Earl of). Notes on Irish Architecture, Ed. by Margaret Stokes, 2 vols. lg. folio Lond. 1875-1877. Castle Hackett copy. £1,500 to £2,400.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Kirby (Wm.) & Spence (Wm.) An Introduction to Entomology, 4 vols. 8vo Lond. 1822. With hand-coloured plates. £200 to £300.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s Christmas Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale 6th and 7th December

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Heaney (Seamus). Death of a Naturalist, 8vo Lond. (Faber & Faber) 1966 First Edition - Third Impression. Signed, & inscribed on title page 'Seamus Heaney’. £800 to £1,200.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 6-7: Glasgow Printing: Homer - Iliad and Odyssey, 4 vols. in 2, Glasgow (Robert & Andrew Foulis) 1756-1758. £1,0000 to £1,500.
ALDE, Dec. 6: PRINCE, RICHARD (1949). Adult Comedy Action Drama, Zürich-Berlin-New York, 1995. €14,000 to €15,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: AVEDON, RICHARD (1923-2004). An Autobiography, New York, Rando, House, 1993. €2,500 to €3,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GRINDAT, HENRIETTE (1923-1986), ALBERT-EDGAR YERSIN (1905-1984) AND FRANCIS PONGE (1899-1988). A la rêveuse matière, Lausanne, 1963. €4,500 to €5,000.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GRINDAT, HENRIËTTE (1923-1986), ALBERT CAMUS (1913-1960) AND RENÉ CHAR (1907-1988). Postérité du soleil, Genève, 1965. €2,200 to €2,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: GROEBLI, RENÉ (1927). Die Muschel...hommage au féminin…, Zurich, 1984. €2,200 to €2,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: KLEIN, WILLIAM (1928-2022). Tokyo, Paris, 1964. €500 to €600.

ALDE, Dec. 6: KURATA, SEIJI (1945-2020). Flash up. Street Photo Random Tokyo 1975-1979, Tokyo, 1980. €500 to €600.

ALDE, Dec. 6: MCGINLEY, RYAN (1977). The kids are alright, 2000. €6,000 to €6,500.

ALDE, Dec. 6: SHERIF, MAURICE (1951). Lumière Métallique, Paris, 2008. €400 to €500.

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