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Auction Name: CHILDREN'S BOOKS & MODERN FIRST EDITIONS
Auction Date: 12/16/2010 - 12/16/2010
Sale Number: #S290
Total Lots: 656
Sold Lots: 536
Lots Sold: 81.71%
Unsold Lots: 120

Total Sales (GBP): 304,660.08
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 181,630.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 258,025.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 203,370.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 289,875.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 105.10%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: DARWIN, Charles Robert. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1859. [With] autograph note signed. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D'ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works ... now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London: Privately Printed], 1926. $60,000 to $80,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies… London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, R. Chiswell, and R. Bentley, 1685. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America… [1839-] 1840-1844. -- AUDUBON, John James and John BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. 1849-1854. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: OGILBY, John, trans. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus]. America: being the latest, and most Accurate Description of the New World… London: Printed by the Author, 1671. $30,000 to $40,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London: printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651. $20,000 to $30,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal, containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plant which are now used in the Practice of Physick… London: John Nourse, 1739. $15,000 to $20,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. London: Printed by S. Simmons ... to be sold by T. Helder, 1669. $12,000 to $18,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: MALCOLM X. Typed letter signed ("Malcolm X"), to Alex Haley. Cairo, Egypt, 18 September 1964. " 1 page, 8vo. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. Autograph letter signed (“JRRT”). To George Sayer, Oxford, 7 August 1952. 2 pages, 8vo, creased; morocco folding case. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Autograph manuscript signed ("Frank Lloyd Wright"), entitled "To the Countryside." N.p. [Taliesin?], [June 1926]. 2 pages, 4to, creased. $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Paul George Lawler, San Francisco – Hawaii Overnight, 1939. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Around the World, North German Lloyd, designer unknown, circa 1910. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Michael Rudolf Wening, Siam, circa 1920s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Sigismunds Vidbergs, Spend Your Holidays at the Wonderful Seaside of Riga, circa 1925. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Jean Dupas, “Where is this Bower Beside the Silver Thames?” 1930. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Charles-Léonce Brossé, Meeting d’Aviation, Nice, 1910. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: John Held Jr., Nantucket, 1925. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Seaverns W. Hilton, Lewis and Clark, Northern Pacific, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Fred Powis, Jasper, Canadian National Railways. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Arader Galleries October Sale October 10, 2020

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: LA HARPE, Jean-Baptiste Benard de. 'CARTE NOUVELLE DE LA PARTIE DE L'OUEST DE LA LOUISIANNE'. $800,000 to $1,200,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: AUDUBON, John James. Great Blue Heron, Plate 211. $250,000 to $350,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph. Watercolor for plate 456: Bromella ananas (Cultivated Pineapple). $450,000 to $550,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: COOK, Captain James. A set of the three voyages comprising... London: 1773-1785. $40,000 to $60,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: KEY, Adrien Thomaszoon. Abraham Ortelius. Oil on Panel. $400,000 to $450,000.
<center>Doyle Fine Literature September 30

Doyle, Fine Literature: WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. First Edition. $150,000 to $250,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: MILNE, A.A. and SHEPARD, E.H. Now We Are Six. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell to Arms. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Lolita. First American Edition. $5,000 to $8,000.

<center>Doyle Fine Literature September 30

Doyle, Fine Literature: RAND, AYN. Atlas Shrugged. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: STEINBECK, JOHN. To a God Unknown. First Edition. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Fine Literature: WELLS, H.G. The Works of H.G. Wells. $4,000 to $6,000.

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