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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>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STEINBECK, John (1902-1968). The Pastures of Heaven. New York: Brewer, Warren & Putnam, 1932. $10,000 to $15,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: FITZGERALD, F. Scott (1896-1940). Tender is the Night. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: STOKER, Bram (1847-1912). Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company, 1897. $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: GOLDING, William (1911-1993). Lord of the Flies. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HEMINGWAY, Ernest (1899-1961). The Torrents of Spring. New York: Scribner's, 1926. $3,000 to $4,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HUXLEY, Aldous (1894-1963). Brave New World. London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: WELLS, H.G. The Time Machine, an Invention. New York: Henry Holt, 1895. $3,000 to $4,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: DAHL, Roald (1916-1990). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Literature from a Private New Orleans Collection March 19, 2021

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: HERBERT, Frank (1920-1986). Dune. Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1965. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: The Viking Press, 1962. $2,000 to $3,000.

Hindman Auctions, Mar. 19: VONNEGUT, Kurt, Jr. (1922-2007). Slaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade. New York: Seymour Lawrence Delacorte Press, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.
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<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Verlag, Luzern, Publishers: The Book of Kells, the most precious illuminated manuscript of the early Middle Ages, now reproduced, the FIRST AND ONLY COMPLETE FINE ART FACSIMILE EDITION. €5,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Rowling (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone, 8vo, L. (Bloomsbury) 1997, First Deluxe Edn., Signed by the Author on title page. €4,000 to €5,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Gilbert (John T.) Account of Facsimiles of National Manuscripts of Ireland, from the earliest extant specimens to A.D. 719. €2,000 to €3,000.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin [-Ireland], 5 vols. lg. 4to D. 1909 - 1913. Limited Editions. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols., roy 8vo, L. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949, Limited Edn., No. 185 (of 375 copies). Signed. €1,500 to €2,000.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Crone (John S.)ed. The Irish Book Lover, A Monthly Review of Irish Literature and Bibliography. Vol. I No 1 August 1909 - Vol. XXXII No. 6, September 1957. €1,250 to €2,000.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Yeats (John Butler) An original self-portrait Sketch, Signed and dated April 1919, N[ew] York. €1,200 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Photograph Album. Entitled ''A Souvenir of the Visit to Jeypore Samasthanam of His Excellency the Right Hon'ble Viscount Goschen of Hawkhurst… 14th December 1927''. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Pistolesi (Erasmo) Il Vaticano, 8vols. large atlas, folio Rome (Tipografia della Societa..) 1829. €500 to €600.

<center>The Collectors’ Sale March 3, 2021

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Chagall (Marc)illus., Legmarie (Jean) comp., The Jerusalem Windows, folio N.Y. (George Braziller) 1962. €400 to €500.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Bullitt (Thos. W.) My Life at Oxmoor, Life on a Farm in Kentucky before the War. Roy 8vo Louisville, Kentucky, 1911. Privately Printed No. 86 of 100 Copies Only. €300 to €400.

Fonsie Mealy, Mar. 3: Popish Plot: Oates (Titus) The Popes Whore House or The Merchandise of The Whore of Rome, folio L. 1679. First Edn. €100 to €150.
Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Dorothea Lange, Migrant Mother (horizontal), silver print, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Group of 32 WWII-era identification badges for manufacturing & military-related companies, 1940-50s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, albumen print, 1869. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Arnold Genthe, Portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, silver print, circa 1908. $1,000 to $1,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Edward Curtis, Oasis in the Badlands, toned platinum print, 1905. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Francis Frith, three volumes, approximately 140 photographs, 1860-70s. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Eugène Atget, 20 Photographs, gold-toned silver prints by Berenice Abbott, 1898-1927. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: Neil Leifer, Muhammad Ali, chromogenic print, 1965. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 11: A group of approximately 50 Photomatic selfies of the same man taken over a period of time, 1940s. Estimate $1,500 to $2,500.

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