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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
<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.

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Auction Name: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 1/1
Auction Date: 01/08/2021 - 01/08/2021
Sale Number: #10821
Total Lots: 67
Sold Lots: 56
Lots Sold: 83.58%
Unsold Lots: 11

Total Sales (EUR): 12,937.21
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 6,710.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 8,150.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 8,985.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 11,050.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 117.08%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
44005545	Varios autores	Statuti della Sac. Religione di S. Gio. Gerosolimitano	1718	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,351.60
44002911	Frederik Ruysch	Thesaurus anatomicus primus [-octavus] / Het eerste [-achtste] anatomisch cabinet	1709/1701	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,199.00
44047247	Papa Pio Guiseppe Antonio Guattani	Monumenti antichi inediti ovvero notizie sulle antichità e belle arti di Roma (6 vols. bound in 2)	1784/1787	EUR 1,100.00 - 1,250.00	EUR 757.55
43760503	[David Martin]	Historie des Ouden en Nieuwen Testaments	1722	Not Available	EUR 599.50
43324321	G. van Doeveren	Specimen Observationum Academicarum ad Monstrorum histoariam, anatomen, pathologiam (...)	1765	EUR 550.00 - 650.00	EUR 479.60
43901415	J. Richardson / J. Stinstra	Clarissa, of de Historie van eene Jongejuffer. Waarin de Gewigtigste Belangen des Gemeenen Leevens	1758/1752	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 436.00
44010061	Jan Wagenaar	Vaderlandsche historie, vervattende de geschiedenissen der nu Vereenigde Nederlanden..etc	1782	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 403.30
44020867	Monastery	Glemaia Psalmbook (??????)	1797	Not Available	EUR 403.30
43933155	Vilna typography (?????????? ?????????)	Zvetnik (???????)	1703	Not Available	EUR 370.60
43014617	Titus Lucretius Carus / Romein de Hooghe	De werken van T. Lucretius Carus van het heelal	1701	EUR 220.00 - 250.00	EUR 359.70
44023849	Boccace	Il Decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccacci	1665	Not Available	EUR 348.80
44029539	Joost van den Vondel	Publius Ovidius Nasoos Heldinnebrieven [Gebonden met:] Palamedes [En:] Hekeldichten	1716/1736	Not Available	EUR 316.10
44079919	Abraham a Sancta Clara kloosternaam van Johann Ulrich Megerle	Narrinnen-spiegel : vertoonende natuurelyk en figuurelyk den aardt, levenswyze	1718/1723	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 310.65
44063243	Samuel Johnson / Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi	Letters to and from the Late Samuel Johnson ... To which are added Some Poems Never Before Printed	1788	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 295.39
43899385	A. van Haemstedium / J. Gysius / Claas Bruin	De Historie der Martelaren	1747	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 294.30
44064339	[Carlos III y su Real Consejo]	Ordenanza de S.M. para el servicio y cuerpo de ingenieros de Marina a bordo de los navíos de guerra	1772	EUR 450.00 - 500.00	EUR 292.12
39417315	Pieter Le Clercq	Het leven van Fredrik Hendrik, Prins van Oranje	1737	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 283.40
43747747	Jacobus Bosch	De Ware Hope en Verwagtinge Israëls - De Geest van Jacobus Bosch - Trouhertige Waarschouwing	1747/1751	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 218.00
43978327	Giambattista Beccaria	Dell'Elettricismo artificiale	1793	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 218.00
44071901	Tacito	Opere Tradotte in volgare fiorentino da Bernardo Davanzati	1790	EUR 170.00 - 200.00	EUR 218.00

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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
<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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