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Auction Name: Fine Autographs and Artifacts: Featuring Social Activists - bidstart 12/18
Auction Date: 01/13/2021 - 01/13/2021
Sale Number: #600
Total Lots: 836
Sold Lots: 608
Lots Sold: 72.73%
Unsold Lots: 228

Total Sales (USD): 1,099,248.75
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 663,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 970,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 890,550.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,288,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 85.29%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
11		Malcolm X Typed Letter Signed		USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	USD 52,633.75
592		Nirvana Signed 'Nevermind' Album		USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 38,910.00
504		F. Scott Fitzgerald Autograph Letter Signed and Signed Photograph		USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 37,987.50
170		Nikola Tesla Twice-Signed Check		USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 28,501.25
876	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed	1959	Not Available	USD 27,977.50
190		Al Capone Document Signed		USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 27,500.00
503		F. Scott Fitzgerald Signed First Edition of The Vegetable		USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 25,000.00
502		Ralph Waldo Emerson Autograph Letter Signed		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 21,888.75
150		Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and Harvey Firestone Signed Photograph		USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 21,587.50
452		Paul Gauguin Autograph Letter Signed		USD 18,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 20,096.25
515		Herman Melville: First Edition of Moby-Dick		USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,737.50
4		Frederick Douglass Autograph Letter Signed		USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 19,730.00
10		Martin Luther King, Jr. Typed Letter Signed		USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 17,370.00
575		Beatles Signed Program		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 16,443.75
709		Bruce Lee Document Signed		USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 15,000.00
146		Benjamin Franklin Document Signed		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 14,948.75
187		Native American: Wounded Knee Massacre Eyewitness Account Letter		USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 13,752.50
185		David Crockett Signed Free Frank		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 11,993.75
574		Beatles Signed Photograph		USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 11,363.75
37		Abraham Lincoln Document Signed		USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 10,796.25

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Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 20. Mrs S. C. Belnos. The Sundhya or the Daily Prayers of the Brahmins, 1st edition, 1851. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 20. Sir Harry Darell. China, India, Cape of Good Hope and Vicinity, 1st edition, 1852. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 20. Scots Magazine, 61 volumes, 1739-1800. With important maps of North America. £1,500 to £2,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, 1st edition, 1953. £10,000 to £15,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Virginia Woolf. Really and Truly, 1915. Autograph confessions book. £4,000 to £6,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Evelyn Waugh. Vile Bodies, 1st edition, 1930. £3,000 to £4,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. J. R. R. Tolkien. Autograph letter signed on Old English, with corrected typescript. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Lewis Carroll. The Hunting of the Snark, 1st edition, 1876. Presentation copy. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Essex House Press. Poems of William Shakespeare, 1899. One of 450 copies. £1,000 to £1,500.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Lafcadio Hearn. A Japanese Miscellany, 1st edition, 1901. Presentation copy. £1,000 to £1,500.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas, 1st UK edition, 1873. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, Jan 21. Charles Dickens. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1st edition, 1844. Original cloth binding. £800 to £1,200.
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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.

<center>Arader Galleries January Auction January 23, 2021

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.

<center>Arader Galleries January Auction January 23, 2021

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.

<center>Arader Galleries January Auction January 23, 2021

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.
<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

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