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<center>Arader Galleries January Auction January 23, 2021

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: AUDUBON, John James. Carolina Parrot, Plate 26. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. $125,000 to $175,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: AUDUBON, John James. Fish Hawk or Osprey, Plate 81. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. $145,000 to $175,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: AUDUBON, John James. Brown Pelican, Plate 421. London: Robert Havell, 1827-1838. $75,000 to $100,000.

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Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: DE BRY, Johann Theodore, attributed to. Pair of Watercolor studies of Tulips. $40,000 to $60,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: FUERTES, Louis Agassiz. Alaskan Brown Bear. Watercolor and gouache on board. $10,000 to $15,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: HILL, Thomas. Big Trees. Oil on canvas. c. 1903. $40,000 to $60,000.

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Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Macropodidae or Family of Kangaroos. London: by the author, August 1st 1841-May 1st 1842. $40,000 to $60,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America. London: Richard and John E. Taylor for the Author, [1844]-1850. $15,000 to $20,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: JANSSONIUS, Joannes. Atlantis majoris quinta pars, orbem maritimum seu omnium marium… Amsterdam: Joannes Janssonius, 1652. $50,000 to $80,000.

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Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: DONCKER, Hendrik. De Zee-Atlas ofte Water-Waereld, vertoonende alle de Zee-Kusten van het bekende deel des Aerd-Bodems. Amsterdam: Henrick Doncker, [1658-1665]. $80,000 to $120,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: BURR, David. Map of the City and County of New York with the Adjacent Country. Engraved map with original hand color. Ithaca, NY: Stone & Clark, 1839. $9,000 to $12,000.

Arader Galleries, Jan. 23: CURRIER, Nathaniel and IVES, James Merritt. The City of New York. Lithograph with original hand color. New York: Currier & Ives, 1884. $15,000 to $20,000.
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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Auction Info

Auction Name: The Korju Collection of Australiana
Auction Date: 11/29/2020 - 11/29/2020
Sale Number: #112920
Total Lots: 238
Sold Lots: 188
Lots Sold: 78.99%
Unsold Lots: 50

Total Sales (AUD): 358,962.73
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 177,950.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 235,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 217,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 288,300.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 124.51%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
108	LIARDET, W.F. Evelyn.	View of Melbourne, Port Phillip.	1844	AUD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	AUD 29,950.00
69	GILL, S.T.	[Colonial sketches].	[1853]	AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	AUD 17,970.00
143		THE PORT PHILLIP PATRIOT AND MELBOURNE ADVERTISER.	1841	AUD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	AUD 17,970.00
115	MACLURE & MACDONALD, lithographers.	Map of Port Philip [sic], 1839.	[1839].	AUD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	AUD 15,574.00
35	CLARK & CO., Colonial booksellers.	Melbourne, Port Phillip.	circa 1840.	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 14,975.00
67	GILL. S.T.	Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers as they are.	1852	AUD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	AUD 14,256.20
186		THE TIMES.	1789	AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00	AUD 13,178.00
103	KERR, William, compiler.	Kerr’s Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory for 1841.	1841	AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 11,980.00
104	KERR, William, compiler.	Kerr’s Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory for 1842.	1842	AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 11,980.00
226	LEDYARD, John.	A journal of Captain Cook’s last voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and in quest of the north-west passage between Asia and America; performed in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, and 1779.	1783	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 8,865.20
107		A LETTER FROM PAPA.	circa 1843-44.	AUD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	AUD 8,026.60
40	[COOK]. WEBBER, John.	The Death of Cook.	1784	AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 6,708.80
146	[PORT PHILLIP]. BOWEN, Thomas.	A companion for the prisoner; being a selection of sermons, exhortations and other religious instructions; compiled for the use of imprisoned offenders.	1828	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 6,589.00
188	TUCKEY, James Hingston.	An account of a voyage to establish a colony at Port Philip [sic] in Bass’s Strait on the south coast of New South Wales, in His Majesty’s Ship Calcutta in the years 1802-3-4.	1805	AUD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	AUD 6,589.00
131	[NEW ZEALAND]. BRAGGE, James, TAIT, John, and others, photographers.	Album of circa 1880 containing 68 albumen prints,		AUD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	AUD 5,990.00
150	[PORT PHILLIP].	Expedition from Van Diemen’s Land to Port Phillip in 1835.	1883	AUD 200.00 - 300.00	AUD 4,792.00
230	PROUT, John Skinner.	Tasmania illustrated.	1844 but 1846.	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 4,552.40
145		THE PORT PHILLIP PATRIOT ALMANAC AND DIRECTORY FOR 1847.	1847	AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	AUD 4,312.80
98	JENOLAN CAVES.	Photographs of the Jenolan Caves, New South Wales.	1887	AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	AUD 4,073.20
148	[PORT PHILLIP].	Another example of the ‘Plan of Dutigalla, Port Phillip and Bass’ Strait’; framed and glazed.		AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	AUD 4,073.20

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<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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