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Auction Name: FINE PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Auction Date: 07/09/2002 - 07/09/2002
Sale Number: #9405
Total Lots: 227
Sold Lots: 227
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 531,473.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 299,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 445,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 299,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 445,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 119.38%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Ronald Reagan. Series of 37 letters to Senator George Murphy, and related material, 1968-90. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Chaim Weizmann. Autograph letter signed, to General Sir Gilbert Clayton, 6 September 1918. £20,000 to £30,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Sir Winston Churchill. Autograph letter signed, to Pamela, Lady Lytton, 1942. £20,000 to $30,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Oscar Wilde. Five autograph letters signed, to Alsager Vian, 1887. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Napoleon I. Letter signed to Admiral Ganteaume, ordering the invasion of England, 22 August 1805. £10,000 to £15,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Horatio, Viscount Nelson, and Emma Hamilton. Two autograph letter signed, to Catherine and George Matcham, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Frances Palmer, Battle of Buena Vista, chromolithograph, New York, 1847. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, the earliest publication concerned solely with chocolate, first edition, Madrid, 1631. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Romans Bernard, An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, engraving, 1776. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, English edition, London, 1770. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: William Soule, Lodge of the Plains Indians, albumen print, 1872. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Manuscript document to enforce New York’s “Agreement of Non-Importation” during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty, New York, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Clarence Mackenzie, Drummer Boy of the 13th Regiment of Brooklyn, salt print with applied color, 1861. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Moses Lopez, A Lunar Calendar, first Jewish calendar published in America, Newport, RI, 1806. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: The Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, 1830. $30,000 to $40,000.
Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 54. Fanciful engraving of earth's interior with magma core and errupting volcanoes (1682). $1500 to $1800.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 165. Rare state of Jefferys' influential map of New England in contemporary color (1755). $8000 to $9500.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 177. Mouzon's foundation map of the Carolinas (1775). $10000 to $13000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 183. Very rare first state of De Fer's map of the Lower Mississippi Valley (1715). $20000 to $25000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 253. Scarce Scottish edition based on Ellicott's plan of Washington, D.C. (1796). $2400 to $3000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 313. Stunning view of Philadelphia by John Bachmann (1850). $3250 to $4250.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 338. Rare Civil War map based on Bucholtz map of Virginia (1862). $9500 to $12000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 667. First map to accurately show Luzon in Philippines (1590). $6000 to $7500.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 682. Rare map of Shanghai International Settlement published just after WWI (1918). $7000 to $9000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 738. Coronelli's superb map of the Pacific showing the Island of California (1697) Est. $2400 - $3000

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 743. A cornerstone piece in the mapping of Australia and New Zealand (1726) Est. $6000 - $7500

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 781. An uncommon signature during Jefferson's Governorship of Virginia (1779) Est. $9500 - $11000

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