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<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Only 25 June to 8 July 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Macbeth: A Tragedy. Acted at the Dukes-Theatre. London: printed for William Cademan, 1673. $60,000 to $90,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD. Panorama of San Francisco, from California-St. Hill. [San Francisco:] Morse's Gallery, 1877. $15,000 to $25,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: BRUNUS ARETINUS, LEONARDUS. De bello Italico adversus Gothos gesto. Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1471. $12,000 to $18,000.

<center>Bonhams Fine Books and Manuscripts Online Only 25 June to 8 July 2020

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: HILL, JOHN. Compleat Body of Gardening. London: printed for T. Osborne; T. Trye; S. Crowder and Co.; and H. Woodgate, 1757. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: GASPAR DE PORTOLA. Document Signed Twice ("Gaspar de Portola," & "M. Portola"), 29 pp, Puebla, Mexico, December 10, 1780. $8,000 to $12,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: VINGTIEME SIECLE. A complete set of the second series of Vingtieme Siecle (XXe Siecle), together with all fourteen special numbers. $8,000 to $12,000.

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Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO. Autograph Letter Signed ("F.D.R.") as President, Washington, [1941], to Norman Davis, on White House stationery. $6,000 to $8,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: HAYEK, FRIEDRICH AUGUST. Autograph Manuscript, "Discipline of Civilisation." $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ADAMS, HANNAH; ADAMS, THOMAS "BOOK". Daubuz, Charles. A Perpetual Commentary On The Revelation Of St. John. London: Printed for Benj. Tooke, 1720. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: EMPEROR NORTON. Photograph signed ("Norton I"), albumen print carte-de-visite. $4,000 to $6,000.

Bonhams, Jun. 25 – Jul. 8: ROBERTS, DAVID. Egypt and Nubia from Drawings Made on the Spot ... with Historical Descriptions by William Brockendon. London: F.G. Moon, 1846-9. $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann Auction Galleries July 9: John James Audubon, Great Blue Heron, hand-colored aquatint and engraved plate, 1834. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Joshua Fry & Peter Jefferson, A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia, Dalrymple edition, 1755. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: John James Audubon, The Birds of America, sign & inscribed to Brantz Mayer, 1840-44. $18,000 to $22,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Vincenzo Maria Coronelli & Jean Baptiste Nolin, Paris, 1688. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Henri Abraham Chatelain, Atlas Historique, 7 volumes, Amsterdam, 1705-1720. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Johann Baptist Homann, Atlas Mapparum Geographicarum..., Nuremberg, circa 1750s. $12,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Lowell Mason, Musical Exercises for Singing Schools, Boston, 1838. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries July 9: Alexander Wilson, American Ornithology, 9 volumes, Philadelphia, 1808-14. $6,000 to $9,000.
<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the Eric C. Caren Collection Part 8 Online July 6 - 21, 2020

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Albert Einstein, typed letter signed, explaining the nature of his personal atheism and belief in God. $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: George Washington. Autograph letter signed to Bryan Fairfax, looking forward to the Treaty of Paris, 5 February 1783. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Alfred Swaine Taylor. Early “photogenic drawing,” photograph of a fern, dated 2 December 1839. $10,000 to $15,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the Eric C. Caren Collection Part 8 Online July 6 - 21, 2020

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: "Departure of Mr. Lincoln—Parting Address" in the Weekly Illinois State Journal, Vol. XXX, No. 1541, Springfield, February 13, 1861. $4,000 to $6,000

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Benjamin Harrison document signed certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a black Revolutionary soldier. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Front page printing of the Articles of Confederation in the New-Jersey Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 22. Trenton, April 29, 1778. $4,000 to $6,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the Eric C. Caren Collection Part 8 Online July 6 - 21, 2020

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: George Washington Funeral Procession Broadside. Boston, January 6, 1800. $5,000 to $7,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Philippe Laroque, printed score for “The Heroe of New Orleans Battle.” Philadelphia, 1815. $3,000 to $5,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Report of the Battle of Queenston Heights, the first major battle in the War of 1812, in Supplement to the Quebec Gazette, 24th October 1812. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the Eric C. Caren Collection Part 8 Online July 6 - 21, 2020

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, On Tuesday the Eighteenth Day of November, 1760. London, 1760. $2,000 to $3,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Elegy on the Death of James Lawrence, Esq. late Commander of the U.S. Frigate Chesapeake. [Boston]: A. Bowen, 1813. $2,000 to $3,000.

Sotheby’s, Jul. 6 to 21: Benjamin Lincoln's Commission as Major General, signed by John Hancock, 19 February 1777. $30,000 to $50,000.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: 125 FINE PHOTOGRAPHS
Auction Date: 02/07/2008 - 02/07/2008
Sale Number: #2135
Total Lots: 164
Sold Lots: 94
Lots Sold: 57.32%
Unsold Lots: 70

Total Sales (USD): 924,240.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 660,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 968,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,064,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 1,551,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 59.56%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Latin Book of Hours, around 1480. Est: € 30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Northern journeys - Collection of around 120 works, 17th-19th century.

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: J. Joyce, Ulysses, 1922. Est: € 8,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Florilegium, Fleurs du Printemps et de l‘Este, around 1630. Est: € 35,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: T. R. Malthus, An essay on the principle of population, 1798. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: E. Cerillo, Dipinti murali di Pompei, 1886. Est: € 2,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: Bulla aurea, 1485. Est: € 40,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: A. Verschaffelt, Iconographie des Camellias, 1848-60. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: M. Duchamp & A. Breton, Le surréalisme en 1947, 1947. Est: € 16,000

<center> Ketterer Rare Books Auction on July 6th

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: M. E. Chevreul, De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, 1839. Est: € 5,000

Ketterer Rare Books, July 6: F. Léger & P. Éluard, Liberté j‘écris ton nom, 1953. Est: € 15,000
<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Very scarce autograph letter, signed, by Emily Tennessee Donelson, wife of Andrew Jackson Donelson, who served as First Lady / White House Hostess to President Andrew Jackson from 1828 to about 1834. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Thirteen Edward Wells maps plus title page from his rare atlas, A NEW SET OF MAPS BOTH OF ANCIENT AND PRESENT GEOGRAPHY. $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: L.B. Folger and C. Kallenback: MEMPHIS - BIRD'S EYE VIEW - SUPPLEMENT TO THE APPEAL. Scarce lithograph on paper. $800 to $1,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Large NASA-Space Race era archive of material related to Colonel Michael J. Vaccaro, director of administration of the Marshall Space Flight Center of Huntsville, Alabama. $800 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: 1836 slavery related document signed by President Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson Jr., and Andrew Jackson Donelson. $800 to $1,100.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Roger Sherman Signed CT Land Grant, 1757. $600 to $700.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Letter archive related to the Randolph family of Virginia, including Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jefferson Randolph, Lewis Meriwether Randolph – the grandson of President Jefferson. $400 to $500.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Louisiana, as formerly claimed by France, now containing part of British America to the East in Spanish America to the West of Mississippi map, by Thomas Kitchin, 1765. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Andrew Jackson manuscript document, unsigned, containing notes on several Tennessee legal cases, including one regarding a slave, circa 1790-96. $350 to $450.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Summer Sale July 11 & 12, 2020

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: VA Civil War Photo, Alexander Gardner – Timothy O'Sullivan. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Military Archive, WWI/WWII French Soldier Paul Didier. $400 to $450.

Case Antiques, Jul. 11 – 12: Early Virginia Map, B. Tanner, J. Reid, 1796. $300 to $400.

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