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Auction Name: Books and Maps
Auction Date: 06/06/2010 - 06/06/2010
Sale Number: #1022
Total Lots: 291
Sold Lots: 253
Lots Sold: 86.94%
Unsold Lots: 38

Total Sales (EUR): 115,948.75
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 90,820.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 120,470.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 134,075.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 175,410.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 66.10%

Top twenty by sale price

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Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Charles Loupot, Les Cigarettes Mekka, 1919. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Plinio Codognato, Cicli Fiat, circa 1910. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: L.N. Britton, Warning! Consider the Possible Consequences, c. 1917. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Leonardo Bistolfi, Première Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Modernes, 1902. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Leonetto Cappiello, Paquet Pernot / Biscuits Pernot, 1910. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jul 15: Jessie Tarbox Beals, archive of signed photographs, 15 silver prints, c. 1930. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Francesco Nonni, Font Meo / Acqua Minerale Naturale, 1924. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Frederick Winthrop Ramsdell, American Crescent Cycles, 1899. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Be a Tight Wad! Own Something! designer unknown, 1925. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: Candido Aragonese de Faria, Chamonix–Mont–Blanc, c. 1910. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Aug 5: W.E.J., Irishmen Avenge the Lusitania, c. 1915. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Sotheby’s Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, Property of Frieda Hughes 9 to 21 July 2021

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Family photograph album ("The Hughes family Album"), 1957-1962. £30,000 to £50,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Typed letter signed, to Ted Hughes, on "my own private doctrine", with a poem, 5 October 1956. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath. Pen and ink portrait of Ted Hughes, [1956]. £10,000 to £15,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Your Own Sylvia: Sylvia Plath’s letters to Ted Hughes and other items, Property of Frieda Hughes 9 to 21 July 2021

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. Joint autograph letter signed, to William and Edith Hughes, March 1960. £8,000 to £12,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Photographic portrait by David Bailey, inscribed by Plath, 1961, and another press photo. £800 to £1,200.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Tarot de Marseille. Deck of cards owned by Sylvia Plath. £4,000 to £6,000.

Sotheby’s, 9 – 21 July: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Pair of gold wedding rings. £6,000 to £8,000.
<center>Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art Antique Engravings & Lithographs Works on Paper Accepting bids until July 31

Trillium, July 31: Cleveley, Jukes, & Cook - View of Charlotte Sound, New Zealand. $3,000 to $5,000.

Trillium, July 31: Peron - Platypus. $300 to $600.

Trillium, July 31: Loon & Pitt - Map of the World published 1680 - Orbis Terrarum nova et accuratissima tabula. $5,000 to $8,000.

Trillium, July 31: Maitres de l'Affiche by MUCHA - La Dame aux Camelias. $4,000 to $6,000.

<center>Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art Antique Engravings & Lithographs Works on Paper Accepting bids until July 31

Trillium, July 31: Cause - Peony, Crocus, Dog's Tooth Violet. $400 to $800.

Trillium, July 31: Redoute, Folio - Lemmonnier's Iris - Iris Monnieri. $2,000 to $4,000.

Trillium, July 31: Audubon, Imperial Folio - Common American Deer. $6,000 to $12,000.

Trillium, July 31: Gould - Cuvier's Toucan (Ramphastos Cuvieri). $5,000 to $8,000.
ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul. FROG TEACHER LEADING ELF PUPILS ... Watercolour, c.1920.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: SATO, Gyro. [GENDAI RYOKI SENTAN ZUKAN]. Tokyo : Shinchosa, 1931.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: CARROLL, Lewis. ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. London : Macmillan and Co., 1868.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: FLEMING, Ian and MILLER, Albert. CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. New York : Random House, 1968.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: PHOENIX. Adelaide : Adelaide University Union, 1939.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: BOWEN, Emmanuel. A complete map of the Southern Continent. London : 1744.

ANZAAB Highlights Catalogue: NORTHFIELD, James. AUSTRALIA. Melbourne : Northfield Studios and J.E. Hackett, c.1935
<center>The Transatlantic Book Fair July 22-27, 2021

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: SHAKESPEARE, William. Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. Published according to the true originall copies. London, Tho Cotes, for Robert Allot, 1632.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: STAHL, Augusto. Panorama of Rio de Janiero. c.1859. 3-part albumen print panorama (266 x 1186mm.).

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: WILDE, Oscar. Lady Windermere's Fan. London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1893. Presentation copy.

<center>The Transatlantic Book Fair July 22-27, 2021

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: DE TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis. De la Democratie en Amerique. Paris: Pagnerre, 1850. Thirteenth Edition. Presentation copy.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: CHAUDRON, A[delaide] de V[endel]. Chaudron’s Spelling Book. Mobile (AL): S.H. Goetzel, 1865.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: SAINT CHER, Hugh of. Commentary on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, with the Abridgement of the Sentences. Eastern France, illuminated manuscript., first half of the fifteenth century.

<center>The Transatlantic Book Fair July 22-27, 2021

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: LANE, Thomas. The Crystal Palace. London, 1851.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: B[ULWER], J[ohn]. Anthropometamorphosis: man transform’d: or, the artificiall changling historically presented… London: William Hunt, 1653.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de. Oeuvres de M. de Voltaire. Dresden, George-Conrad Walther (i.e. Leipzig, Breitkopf), 1748-1750.

<center>The Transatlantic Book Fair July 22-27, 2021

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: HAWKING, Stephen & Leonard Mlodinow. The Grand Design. London: Bantam Books, 2011.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: FIELDS, James T. Yesterdays with Authors. With fine manuscript letter by Charles Dickens, and autograph letters from Forster, Landor, Mitford and others.

Transatlantic Book Fair, Jul. 22-27: Kit, the Arkansas Traveller Broadside. Chromolithograph.

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