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Auction Name: Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 12/25
Auction Date: 01/03/2021 - 01/03/2021
Sale Number: #10321
Total Lots: 23
Sold Lots: 19
Lots Sold: 82.61%
Unsold Lots: 4

Total Sales (EUR): 4,768.75
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 1,430.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 1,645.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 3,295.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 3,920.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 121.65%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
43640141	Fidel Castro Ruz ( 1926-2016 ). Con C.O.A.	Fotografía Dedicada y Firmada por Fidel Castro, La Habana, Cuba.	1965	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,111.80
43782219	Albert Schweitzer	Hôpital du Dr. Schweitzer Lambaréné - Afrique Equatoriale Francaise	1933	Not Available	EUR 780.44
43549847	J. K. Rowling	Harry Potter - Signed Hogwarts Express postcard/bookplate	2003	Not Available	EUR 392.40
43795433	onbekend	Tover- Wichelboek Pustaha	1900	Not Available	EUR 310.65
43835601	Mussolini Benito / Vittorio Emanuele III Savoy King of Italy	Autograph; Officiali Military Decree Loss of Military Ranks	1928	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 294.30
43801349	Hussein of Giordania	Autograph: Signed Original Letter with Envelope of Husayn of Giordania	1974	EUR 280.00 - 320.00	EUR 283.40
43699491	[king George III]	Vellum Indenture Deed of Gift Pentloe Mill in Essex - Joseph Stammers	1802	Not Available	EUR 276.86
43800363	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Letter to French Poet Théophile Briant (1891-1956)	1947	Not Available	EUR 201.65
43778033	[King George II]	Vellum Indenture Release of 7 Tenements & Land Situate in New Sarum in the County of Wiltshire	1757	Not Available	EUR 168.95
43714681	H.H. Caplan ; Bob Creaps	Encyclopedia of artists' signatures symbols & monograms	1999	EUR 200.00 - 225.00	EUR 163.50
43820129	Manuscript	Tours - Rouen, sheet from a Book of Hours c.a.	1430	Not Available	EUR 152.60
43841427	David Hockney	Selfportrait for the National Portrait Gallery, framed	2000	Not Available	EUR 143.88
43771597	[King George II]	Indenture Release of Property and Lands in the Manor and Lordship of Tregavethan in Cornwall	1732	Not Available	EUR 119.90
43803709	Unknown	Rare Manuscript Egyptology Pyramids 1906 Wallis Budge	1906	Not Available	EUR 105.73
43801235	Sidonie Gabrielle Colette	Manuscript Invitation Signed	1940	Not Available	EUR 74.12
43798663	Busson	Quittances	1644	Not Available	EUR 68.67
43815785	Clyde Tolson (J.Edgar Hoover assistant)	Autographed Signed Letter	1955/1954	Not Available	EUR 62.13
43834019	Unknown	Parchment leaf with 11 splendid initials	1400	Not Available	EUR 47.96
43349919	Jean Amblard	Huwelijksakte	1804	Not Available	EUR 9.81
43638319	Unknown	Ethiopian Coptic Bible	1820	EUR 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold

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<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
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.
<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.

<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.

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