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<center>Sotheby's The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection 26 May - 12 June

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "Cool Hand Luke" | Paul Newman Academy Award® Nomination Plaque. USD$2500 - $3500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "Hud" | Bound presentation script incorporating photographic stills. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "The Long, Hot Summer" | Movie Poster. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: Joseph Heller | "Catch-22," inscribed to Woodward & Newman by author. USD$500 - $800

<center>Sotheby's The Joanne Woodward & Paul Newman Collection 26 May - 12 June

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: George H. W. Bush | Typed Letter Signed, Issuing a "Pardon" to Paul Newman. USD$1500 - $2000

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: William Jefferson Clinton | Inscribed Color Photograph. USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: Ken Kesey | Typed letter to “Paulnewman,” asking for further compensation for "Sometimes a Great Notion". USD$1000 - $1500

Sotheby’s, May 26 – Jun. 12: "They Might Be Giants" | Costume sketches by Edith Head. USD$1000 - $2000
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 14/15 Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Chinese School. Album of Chinese rice paper paintings of St Helena and Napoleon, circa 1830s/1840s. £700 to £1,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Speed (John). The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine..., 1676. £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Laroon (Marcellus). The Cryes of the City of London drawne after the Life, 1st edition, 1688. £1,000 to £1,500.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 14/15 Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Thomas Sedgley binding. The Holy Bible, London, 1701, large folio. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Kipling (Rudyard). The Sussex Edition of the Complete Works in Prose and Verse, 1937-1939. £5,000 to £8,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Dodgson (Charles). Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1886, presentation copy. £500 to £800.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 14/15 Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: German tarot cards. Napoleon tarock, Leipzig: Johann Gottfried Herbert, circa 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Milne (A.A.). The House at Pooh Corner, 1928, inscribed limited deluxe edition of 20. £15,000 to £20,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Peter Pan. A unique 13.5m (44ft) long needlework nursery frieze, by Helen Stebbing M.R.S.T., 1936. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers June 14/15 Printed Books, Maps, Playing Cards & Games, English Literature, Private Press & Illustrated Books

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Peak (Bob, 1928-1992). U.S.A, a mural produced for Trans World Airlines (TWA), 1971. £200 to £400.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice: a novel, 3 volumes, 2nd edition, London: T. Egerton, 1813. £8,000 to £12,000.

Dominic Winter, June 14/15: Hughes (Ted). Crow, 1st edition, London: Faber and Faber, 1970, signed presentation copy. £400 to £600.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries Fine Books, Autographs & Illustration Art: At Auction June 15, 2023

Swann June 15: J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, first American editions, finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery, Boston, 1954-56. $9,000 to $12,000.

Swann June 15: John Carleton Atherton, Fall Bounty, oil on board, cover design for The Saturday Evening Post, 1943. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann June 15: George Washington, Endorsement Signed, “G:Washington,’ as President of the Potomac Company, 1787.

Swann June 15: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, complete with 50 collotype plates, one of 300 copies, Vienna, 1918. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann June 15: Pancho Villa, Autograph Letter Signed, to the governor of Chihuahua soliciting help in persuading authorities to release him from prison, Mexico City, 1912. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann June 15: Charles Monroe Schulz, The Peanuts gang, Complete set of 13 drawings, 1971. $8,000 to $12,000.

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Auction Name: Firearms Ephemera - Online bidstart 5/17
Auction Date: 05/29/2012 - 05/29/2012
Sale Number: #315
Total Lots: 99
Sold Lots: 77
Lots Sold: 77.78%
Unsold Lots: 22

Total Sales (USD): 6,010.40
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 6,275.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 11,840.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 8,995.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 16,790.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 35.80%

Top twenty by sale price

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Bonhams, June 22: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN ON SMALLPOX. Some Account of the Success of Inoculation... 1759. $10,000-$15,000

Bonhams, June 22: GAUTIER D'AGOTY. Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle... 1745-6. 20 hand-colored plates. $8000-$12000

Bonhams, June 22: ILLUMINATED SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY, manuscript on vellum, 14th century. $4000-$6000

Bonhams, June 22: PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN AUTOGRAPH MEDICAL MANUSCRIPT OF JOHN MORGAN, 1760-1. $30,000-$50,000

Bonhams, June 22: RARE CIVIL WAR CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS BY WINSLOW HOMER. Life in Camp. 1864. $8000-$12000

Bonhams, June 22: AMELIA EARHART'S SUBSTANTIALLY ANNOTATED COPY OF THE PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR. 1927. $8000-$12,000

Bonhams, June 22: DAVID BEN-GURION ON ISRAEL'S DESIRE FOR PEACE BUT NEED FOR STRENGTH. 1956. $2000-$3000

Bonhams, June 22: CONTEMPORARY AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL MANUSCRIPT AND LYRICS FOR "JERUSALEM OF GOLD." $60,000-$80,000

Bonhams, June 22: FIRST EDITION OF HEMINGWAY'S FIRST BOOK IN UNRESTORED JACKET. $20,000-$30,000

Bonhams, June 22: TOLKIEN LETTER DESCRIBING HIS OWN HOBBITNESS AND THE CREATION OF LORD OF THE RINGS. $10,000-$15,000

Bonhams, June 22: NAPOLEON LETTER SIGNED PROCLAIMING HIS ASCENSION AS EMPEROR. $40,000-$60,000

Bonhams, June 22: MAN RAY. Facile. 1935. First edition, 12 photographic plates. $2000-$3000

Bonhams, June 22: WIENER WERKSTÄTTE TOYS. 17 linocut plates of toys from the workshop of Jossef Hoffman. $4000-$6000
<center>Forum Auctions A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 15th June 2023

Forum, June 15: Hobbes (Thomas). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-Wealth, first edition, first issue, 1651. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, June 15: [Burton (Robert)] "Democritus Junior". The Anatomy of Melancholy, first edition, Oxford, Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, 1621. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, June 15: Fletcher (Giles). Of the Russe Common Wealth, first edition, Printed by T[homas] D[awson] for Thomas Charde, 1591. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Forum Auctions A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 15th June 2023

Forum, June 15: Shakespeare source book.- Fraunce (Abraham). The Lawiers Logike, exemplifying the praecepts of Logike by the practise of the common Lawe, first edition, 1588. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, June 15: Fireworks.- Babington (John.) Pyrotechnia or, A discourse of artificiall fire-works…, 2 parts in 1 vol., first edition, Thomas Harper for Ralph Mab, 1635. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, June 15: Gardening.- [Bonnefons (Nicolas de)]. The French Gardiner instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-Trees and Herbs for the Garden, translated by John Evelyn, third edition, 1675. £3,500 to £4,500.

<center>Forum Auctions A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 15th June 2023

Forum, June 15: Witchcraft.- F. (H.) A true and exact Relation Of the severall Informations, Examinations, and Confessions of the late Witches…, first edition, 1645. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, June 15: Science.- Boyle (Robert). The Origine of Formes and Qualities (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy), first edition, Oxford, H. Hall for Ric: Davis, 1666. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, June 15: Massinger (Philip). The Unnaturall Combat. A Tragedie, first edition, Printed by E.G. for John Waterson, 1639. £2,000 to £3,000.

<center>Forum Auctions A fourth selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 15th June 2023

Forum, June 15: Plastic Surgery.- Read (Alexander). Chirurgorum Comes: or the Whole Practice of Chirurgery, first edition, Printed by Edw. Jones, for Christopher Wilkinson, 1687. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, June 15: Hall (Edward). The Union of the two noble and illustre famelies of Lancaster & Yorke…, [by Richard Grafton], 1550. £2,200 to £2,500.

Forum, June 15: Cosmetics.- Jeamson (Thomas). Artificiall Embellishments. Or Arts Best Directions How to Preserve Beauty or Procure it, first edition, Oxford, Printed by William Hall, 1665. £1,000 to £1,500.

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