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Auction Name: Printed Books & Maps
Auction Date: 02/24/2004 - 02/24/2004
Sale Number: #10889
Total Lots: 652
Sold Lots: 0
Lots Sold: 0.00%
Unsold Lots: 652

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ALDE, Feb. 26: Leon TOLSTOÏ. Anna Karenina. Moscou, 1878. First and full edition of the Russian novel, in the author’s language. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Mark TWAIN. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade). New York, 1885. First American edition. Est. 5 000 / 6 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Walt WHITMAN. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York, 1856. Second edition gathering 32 poems. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Karen BLIXEN. Out of Africa. Londres, 1937. First edition in the UK, before Danish translation and American release. Est. 1 500 / 2 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Ernest HEMINGWAY. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. First edition with $2.50 on the dust and A on the copyright page. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition published by Sylvia Beach. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Dubliners. Londres, 1914. First edition. Nice copy in publisher’s cardboard. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Franz KAFKA. 8 novels in German first edition, published in München, Leipzig and Berlin 1916-1931. Est. from 300 / 400 to 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: David Herbert LAWRENCE. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence, 1928. Privately printed first edition. Est. 4 000 / 5 000 €

John STEINBECK. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. First edition. Nice copy with $2.75 on the cover. Est. 1 000 / 1 200 €
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 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Harriet Tubman Cabinet Card by H.S. Squyer, Auburn, NY, 1892. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Scarce Events of the Tulsa Disaster, First Edition, 1922. $4,000 to $6,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Unpublished CDV of Frederick Douglass by Benjamin F. Smith, 1864. $3,000 to $5,000

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 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: California Imprint of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Broadside, 1864. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: John C.H. Grabill Cabinet Card of Buffalo Soldier Wearing Buffalo Coat, ca 1886. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, 2nd Cookbook Published by African American. $6,000 to $8,000

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 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Frederick Douglass Walking Stick, 1888. $3,000 to $5,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Only Known Slave Narrative Published Independently in California, Life and Adventures of James Williams. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare First Edition of History of Black Literature, Abbé Grégoire De La Littérature des Nègres. $2,500 to $3,000

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 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: African American Soldier and Medal of Honor Winner Christian A. Fleetwood CDV, PLUS. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries Pennant, 1910 Reno, Nevada. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Joe Gans Photograph at 1906 Goldfield, Nevada Fight by Percy Dana. $600 to $800
Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility: A Novel, By a Lady, 3 volumes, London, 1811. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Virginia Woolf, Kew Gardens, limited edition, signed by Woolf & Bell, London, 1927. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: [Arabian Nights], Calcutta II version, 4 volumes, Calcutta & London, 1839-1842. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Princess Diana, 6 ALS to Harper’s Bazaar editor, anticipating Christie’s sale of her dresses for charity, 1995-97. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Jane Austen, Emma, first edition, London, 1816. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Hirohito & Nagako, Emperor & Empress of Japan, 2 photographs signed, showing Nagako in kimono & obi bearing the imperial seal. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Princess Diana, 6 autograph letters signed to Harper’s Bazaar editor Elizabeth Tilberis, anticipating Christie’s announcement of a sale of her dresses for charity, 1995-97. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Sarojini Naidu, complete galley proof of The Broken Wing signed with several holograph pages & an autograph letter signed to writer Edmund Gosse, 1916. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Fernando Pessoa, Mensagem, first edition, presentation copy, signed & inscribed, Lisbon, 1934. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Graham Greene, The Basement Room, first edition, Greene’s personal copy, signed with annotations throughout, London, 1935. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Abraham Lincoln, partly-printed document signed, call for troops issued during America’s first national draft just days before the NYC draft riots, 1863. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Feb 20: Les Chansons de Bilitis by Pierre Louÿs, illustrated by George Barbier & F.L. Schmied, Paris, 1922. $8,000 to $12,000.
Bonhams, Mar. 6: Helvelius. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Francis Aston, Royal Society Secretary, noting his feud with Robert Hooke, 5 pp total, 1685. $70,000 to $100,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Newton, Isaac. Autograph manuscript on God, 4 pp, c.1710, "In the beginning was the Word...."?$100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. First edition, first issue. Untrimmed copy in contemporary boards. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Lincoln, Abraham. Signed photograph, beardless portrait with Civil War provenance. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: IMPEACHMENT. Original engrossed copy of the first Andrew Johnson impeachment resolution vote. $120,000 to $180,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Mucha, Alphonse. 11 original pencil drawings for?Andelicek z Baroku, "Litte Baroque Angel," Prague, 1929. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Einstein, Albert. Annotated Galley Proofs for The Meaning of Relativity. 1921. $25,000 to $35,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Silverstein, Shel. Original maquette for The Giving Tree, 34 original drawings. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Roth, Philip. Typed Manuscript with substantial autograph corrections for an unpublished sequel to The Breast. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Taupin, Bernie. Autograph Manuscript, the original draft of lyrics for Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," 2 pp, 1973. $100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: HARVEY, WILLIAM. De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus Anatomica Exercitatio. Padua: 1643. $12,000 to $18,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: CESALPINO, ANDREA. Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. Venice: 1571. $30,000 to $40,000.

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