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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>Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Books and Manuscripts 26 January 2021

<center>Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Books and Manuscripts 26 January 2021

<center>Il Ponte Casa d'Aste Books and Manuscripts 26 January 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>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.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - bidstart 11/13
Auction Date: 11/24/2020 - 11/24/2020
Sale Number: #112420
Total Lots: 28
Sold Lots: 24
Lots Sold: 85.71%
Unsold Lots: 4

Total Sales (EUR): 7,040.31
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 4,620.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 5,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 6,370.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 7,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 90.26%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
42303845	Dante	La Divina Comedia	1569	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,035.50
42471733	Pietro Andrea Mattioli / Francesco Calzolari	Compendium de plantis omnibus...	1571	EUR 750.00 - 900.00	EUR 966.83
42508405	Marcus Tullius Cicero	De officiis, Laelius, sive de amicitia, Cato maior, sive de senectute	1482	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,250.00	EUR 926.50
42370321		L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera Omnia & Manaei Senecae Rhetoris	1526	EUR 400.00 - 450.00	EUR 381.50
42296561		Page from the Divine Comedy	1490	Not Available	EUR 373.87
42518905	Pingone Emanuele Filiberto	Inclytorum Saxoniae Sabaudiaeq Principum Arbor Gentilitia	1581	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 370.60
42475853	Antonio Agostini	I discorsi del S. Don Antonio Agostini sopra le medaglie et altre anticaglie...	1592	EUR 450.00 - 550.00	EUR 348.80
42503933	Paolo Giovio	Dialogo dell’imprese militari et amorose di Monsignor Giovio	1574	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 348.80
42493355	Paridis Crassi	De cerimoniis cardinalium et episcoporum	1564	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 327.00
13255009	Phillip Dobereiner	Ein Edels Schatzbüchlein der Göttlichen Liebe	1564	EUR 220.00 - 400.00	EUR 272.50
42502911	Aldo Pio Manuzio	Grammaticarum Institutionum Libri IV	1575	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 261.60
42570339	Ducato di Toscana	Nuova Riforma e bandi della Gabella della Farina Famiglia Medici	1561	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 261.60
42366183		Codicis Domini Iustiniani Sacratissimi Principis... & Institutionum D.N. Justiniani sacratissimi...	1567	Not Available	EUR 201.65
42217999	Flavius Josephus	Boecken, te weten vanden ouden ioodschen gheschiedenissen twintich	1594	Not Available	EUR 163.50
42523413	Livy Titus (59 B.C.-17 A.D.). Romische Historie - Hand coloured	Romische Historie - 2nd Punic War - Roman Empire - Scipio & Hannibal - Nabis at Lacedemonia - 1514	1514	Not Available	EUR 132.98
42523625	Master of Gruninger Workshop	Virgil Aeneid: Italy, Volcano Etna, Grave of Polydorus, Winds	1502	Not Available	EUR 123.17
42112095	Manuscript	Tours - Rouen, blad uit een getijdenboek - ca.	1430	Not Available	EUR 109.00
42527453	Hans Asper (1499-1571) - Large folio - Franks and Burgundians	Chlodemer I, Theuderic I, Childebert I, and Clotaire I - Kingdom of Orléans - First Edition - 1548	1548	Not Available	EUR 93.74
41246403	Manuscript	Antiphonary	1550	Not Available	EUR 81.75
41529363	Manuscript	blad uit een getijdenboek - ca.	1450	Not Available	EUR 81.75

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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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