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<center>Gonnelli: Auction 46 Books Autographs & Manuscripts Oct 3rd-5th 2023

Gonnelli: Tilson - Zanotto, Il vero tema. 2011. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Munari, Storia di un filo. Starting price 400 €

Gonnelli: Debord, Contre le cinéma. 1964. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Futurism books and ephemera

Gonnelli: Travel books

Gonnelli: Medicine books

Gonnelli: Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-1805. Starting price 52.000 €

Gonnelli: Carrera, Il gioco de gli scacchi. 1617. Starting price 3200 €

Gonnelli: Vergilius, Opera. 1515. Starting price 800 €
<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Charles Monroe Schulz, The Peanuts gang, complete set of 13 drawings, ink, 1971. Sold June 15 — $50,000.

Swann: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Family Archive of Photographs & Letters. Sold June 1 — $60,000.

Swann: Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York, 1949. Sold March 30 — $50,000.

Swann: William Shakespeare, King Lear; Othello; [and] Anthony & Cleopatra; Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Sold May 4— $185,000.

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Swann: William Samuel Schwartz, A Bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin, oil on canvas, circa 1938. Sold February 16 — $32,500.

Swann: Lena Scott Harris, Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants, hand-colored silver prints, circa 1930s. Sold February 23 — $37,500.

Swann: Suzanne Jackson, Always Something To Look For, acrylic & pencil on linen canvas, circa 1974. Sold April 6 — $87,500.

Swann: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, complete with 50 printed collotype plates, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold June 15 — $68,750.
<center>Case Auctions Fall Fine Art & Antiques Auction October 6-7, 2023

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: John Speed 1676 Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Chesapeake Bay. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Andrew Jackson Coffin Handbill and Political Cartoon. $800 to $900.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Three Andrew Jackson Bank War Cartoons, incl. Way to Arabay. $800 to $900.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Three Andrew Jackson period Political Cartoons inc. Petticoat Affair. $500 to $600.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Cdre. Jesse D. Elliott ALS and Sarcophagus Print, Andrew Jackson & USS Constitution elated. $500 to $600.

<center>Case Auctions Fall Fine Art & Antiques Auction October 6-7, 2023

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Presidential Autographs & Portrait Prints incl. Eisenhower Photo, 18 items. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Group of three Robert E. Lee Cabinet Card Photographs, Miley Studio. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Eight Fugitive Writer related books incl. Andrew Lytle, R.P. Warren, J.C. Ransom, Allen Tate. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Group Early Southern and Civil War Era Sheet Music. $300 to $350.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Henry Miller, Insomnia or the Devil at Large; Signed; Loujon Press 1970. $500 to $600.
<center>Australian Book Auctions Voyages, Natural History &c. October 4, 2023 9:00 AM Australian Western Time

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: PURCHAS, Samuel (circa 1577-1626). HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES…, London, 1625-1626. First edition. $40,000 to $60,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: GOULD, John. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, Volume IV. Folio, 104 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. London, 1848. $20,000 to $30,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: REICHENOW, Dr. Ant. VOGELBILDER AUS FERNER ZONEN, abbildungen und beschreibungen der Papageien. Kassel, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 hand-finished chromolithograph plates. $3,000 to $5,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: WALLIS, E. WALLIS’S ELEGANT AND INSTRUCTIVE GAME exhibiting the Wonders of Nature, in Each Quarter of the World. Handcoloured view, 26 numbered scenes. $400 to $600 AUD.

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: GREENAWAY, Kate. ALMANACK FOR 1883 [and following years]. Twenty-two volumes, including six duplicates in variant bindings. $1,400 to $1,800 AUD.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Bibliophile Sale (Godalming)
Auction Date: 05/05/2011 - 05/05/2011
Sale Number: #35809
Total Lots: 374
Sold Lots: 306
Lots Sold: 81.82%
Unsold Lots: 68

Total Sales (GBP): 78,738.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 54,395.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 77,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 66,820.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 95,480.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 82.47%

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<center>Christie’s Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz London and online auction 15–29 September

Christie’s, Explore now: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. £100,000–150,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. £70,000–100,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Agatha Christie (1890–1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932. £40,000–60,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. £30,000–50,000
<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross October 12, 2023

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [BYRD]. VEER, Willard Van der and Joseph T. RUCKER, cinematographers. The 35mm motion picture Akeley camera that filmed the Academy Award-winning documentary “With Byrd at the South Pole”. $30,000 to $50,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [SHIRASE, Nobu, his copy]. RYUKEI, Yano. Young Politicians of Thebes: Illustrious Tales of Statesmanship. Tokyo(?), 1881-84. $15,000 to $20,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909 [dummy copy of the supplement to: The Heart of the Antarctic]. London, 1909. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [USS BEAR]. The original auxiliary deck wheel from the famed USS Bear, 1874-1933. “PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SHIP IN THE HISTORY OF THE COAST GUARD” (USCG). $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: HENSON, Matthew. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. With a forward by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. New York, [1912]. $3,000 to $4,000.
<center>Sotheby’s Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Magnificent Books and Bindings 11 October 2023

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. $300,000 to $400,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura, manuscript on paper, [Rome, ca. 1638–1641], a very fine pre-publication manuscript. $250,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Paradis, Ung petit traicte de Alkimie, [Paris, before 1540], contemporary morocco by the Pecking Crow binder for Anne de Montmorency. $300,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Capocaccia, Giovanni Battista, A wax relief portrait of Pius V, in a red morocco book-form box by the Vatican bindery, Rome, 1566–1568. $250,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Serlio, Il terzo libro; Regole generali, Venice, 1540, both printed on blue paper and bound together by the Cupid's Bow Binder. $400,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Tiraboschi, Carmina, manuscript on vellum, [Padua, c. 1471], the earliest surviving plaquette binding. $280,000 to $350,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library The Aldine Collection A–C 12 October 2023

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Anthologia graeca, Venice, Aldus, 1503, printed on vellum, Masterman Sykes-Syston Park copy. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1528, contemporary Italian morocco gilt, Accolti-Landau copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1545, contemporary morocco for Thomas Mahieu, Chatsworth copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Venice, Aldus, 1502, printed on vellum, illuminated, Renouard-Vernon-Uzielli copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, Aldus, 1499, Gomar Estienne binding for Jean Grolier, Spencer copy. $400,000 to $600,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Crinito, Libri de poetis Latinis, Florence, Giunta, 1505, Cupid's Bow Binder for Grolier, Paris d'Illins-Wodhull copy. $250,000 to $300,000.
<center>Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin Rare Books, Prints, Historical Photography 29 September 2023

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Jan Theodor de Bry. Anthologia magna sive Florilegium novum. 1626. 9,000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: John Locke. Epistola de tolerantia ad Clarissimum Virum T.A.R.P.T.O.L.A. 1689. 9000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: F. T. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella, Carrà, a.o. Collection of 35 Futurist manifestos. 1909-1933. 7000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Johann Elert Bode, Rare engraved celestial globe. (1804). 6000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Sebastian Brant (ed.). Tertia pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali et morali. 1498. 5000 €

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