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Auction Name: BOOKS FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE LATE DR. JOHN TANGE
Auction Date: 03/23/2009 - 03/24/2009
Sale Number: #39
Total Lots: 799
Sold Lots: 772
Lots Sold: 96.62%
Unsold Lots: 27

Total Sales (AUD): 515,528.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 276,510.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD): 426,010.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 282,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (AUD): 436,780.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 118.03%

Top twenty by sale price

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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