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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>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 12/4
Auction Date: 12/15/2020 - 12/15/2020
Sale Number: #121520
Total Lots: 45
Sold Lots: 37
Lots Sold: 82.22%
Unsold Lots: 8

Total Sales (EUR): 12,309.37
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 8,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 10,125.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 11,425.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 14,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 87.30%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
43249995	Georgius Agricola	De ortu et causis subterraneorum; De natura...; De Natura Fossilium; Bermannus, sive de Re Metallica	1546	EUR 4,400.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 4,687.00
43195467	Aristotele	Habes hoc in codice lector Aristotelis libros de Generatione	1521	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 708.50
43235137	Manuscript - Psalter - psalm 58 en 59 - met provenance 18e eeuw - Engeland	Tegen de schurken in machtsposities	1375	EUR 175.00 - 275.00	EUR 501.40
43254099	Joannes Justus Lanspergius	Eyn Schatzboechlyn der Gottlicher Lieffden	1532	EUR 275.00 - 375.00	EUR 436.00
43090367	Stefano Guazzo	Dialoghi piacevoli del Sig. Stefano Guazzo	1590	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 425.10
43196769	Aurelio Agostino d'Ippona	Sermoni a li eremiti del divo Aurelio Augustino Ipponense	1567	EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 381.50
42883643	Manuscript	Page from a Dutch Book of Hours - ca.	1450	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 370.60
43146531	Francesco I de' Medici (In name of)	Bando contro a Banditi, Ribelli, Assassini et Homicidiari pubblicati nella Città di Fiorenza	1576	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 348.80
43053867		Two sided leaf of a ca. 1450s bible in Old English. With two prints of Adam and Eve.	1450	Not Available	EUR 329.18
42543021	Petro a Fonseca	Institutionele Dialecticarum libri octo	1572	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 327.00
43268571	D. Iacorum Billium	Sancti Ioannis Damasceni Opera Multo Quam Unquam	1577	Not Available	EUR 312.83
43224305	Master of Gruninger Workshop	Virgil Aeneid: Battle of Troy and the Trojan Horse - 1502	1502	Not Available	EUR 286.67
43257253	Francesco Guicciardini & Tommaso Porcacchi	La historia d'Italia di m. Francesco Guicciardini	1590	Not Available	EUR 261.60
43147505	Cosimo I de' Medici (in name of)	Legge dell'Illustrissimo Duca di Fiorenza In Beneficio dello Spedale Degli Innocenti	1553	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 239.80
43091163	Marco Antonio Maioragio	Commentarius in dialogum De Partitione Oratoria Ciceronis	1587	EUR 250.00 - 350.00	EUR 218.00
42955421	San Giovanni Crisostomo	Quartus Tomus Operum D. Ioannis Chrysostomi, Archiepiscopi Constantinopolitani	1558	EUR 175.00 - 200.00	EUR 201.65
43132837	Publio Terenzio Afro	"Terentius, in quem triplex edita est P. Antesignani Rapistagnensis commentatio."	1560	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 196.20
43225943	Hübner, J.	Neu-vermehrtes und verbessertes Reales Staats-Zeitungs- und Conversations-Lexicon.	1745	Not Available	EUR 192.93
43263521	Versierd getijdenboekblad - Manuscript - Middel-Nederlands - Nederland nabij Duitse grens	Ave Maria	1490	Not Available	EUR 158.05
43049715	Justinianus	Codices DN Justiniani lib.XII	1589	Not Available	EUR 154.78

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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.
<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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