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Auction Name: Literature, Manuscripts, Travel & Natural History
Auction Date: 10/18/2012 - 10/18/2012
Sale Number: #35986
Total Lots: 623
Sold Lots: 454
Lots Sold: 72.87%
Unsold Lots: 169

Total Sales (GBP): 375,516.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 217,120.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 305,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 277,460.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 388,680.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 96.61%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Sotheby’s The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana April 13, 2021

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: The first book-form printing of the Declaration of Independence. $250,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Paine, Thomas) The American Crisis. Number I. "These are the times that try men's souls." $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: First printing of the Treaty of Paris, with distinguished contemporary provenance. $60,000 to $80,000.

<center>Sotheby’s The Passion of American Collectors: Property of Barbara and Ira Lipman Highly Important Printed and Manuscript Americana April 13, 2021

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: Washington, George. Letter signed as first President-Elect. Washington prepares to embark "again on the ocean of publick affairs." $100,000 to $150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Hamilton, Alexander). Manuscript document. The launch of one of the most consequential careers in American public life. $180,000 to $250,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Lexington & Concord). A Bloody Butchery, by the British Troops… $70,000 to $100,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 13: (Yorktown Campaign—Jean-Nicolas Desandrouins). A Yorktown Campaign map from the personal archive of the Comte de Rochambeau. $200,000 to $300,000.
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.
<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Lyscosthenes, Conrad. Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, Basilea: Henricus Petrus, c. 1557, first edition, folio. $5,000 to $7,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Collection of Ethiopic Religious Texts, in Ge'ez , illuminated manuscripts on vellum, c. 1700-20th c. (5 pcs.) $5,000 to $7,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Augustinus, Aurelius Sanctus. De Civitate Dei, Venice: Bonetus Locatellus per Octavianus Scotus, 9 Febbraio, 1486, 4to. $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie Gabriel Comte de. Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, Paris, J.J. Blaise, 1782-1809-1822, first edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Rufinus, Tyrannius (c. 345-411). Expositio in symbolum apostolorum, [Cologne, Ulrich Zel, c. 1472], first edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Magnus, Albertus. Summa de eucharistiae sacramento, Ulm: Johann Zainer, 1474. $3,000 to $5,000.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Strabo. Rerum geographicarum libri septemdecim. A Guilielmo Xylandro Augstano magna cura recogniti…, Basel, Henricpetri, (August 1571). $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Riou, Stephen (1720-1780). The Grecian Orders of Architecture. Delineated and Explained from the Antiquities of Athens, London, 1768. $3,000 to $5,000.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Mair, Paul Hektor. Geschlechter Buch...der...Statt Augspurg, Frankfurt am Maim, Sigmund Feyerabend, 1580. $1,800 to $2,500.

<center>Neal Auction Company Spring Estates 2021 April 16-18

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Polybius (c. 200-118 B.C.). Historiarum libri priores quinque, Basel: Johann Herwagen, 1549. $1,200 to $1,800.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. Columna Antoniniana Marci Aurelii Antonini Augusti rebus gestis insignis Germanis simul..., Rome, [1672]. $1,000 to $1,500.

Neal Auction Co., Apr. 16: Ecclesiasticae Historiae, Eusebii Pamphili...Eiusdem de vita Constantini...Socratis..., Paris, Robert Estienne, 1544. $800 to $1,200.
<center>Gonnelli Auction House Books and Graphics 19th, 20th and 21st April 2021

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21 Books from XVI to XX Century

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20 Atlases and Maps<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Veneto and Venice, a Selection of Books from the XVI to XX century

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 20 Rossini Gioachino, Baguette de chef d'orchestre appartenuta a Gioachino Rossini, dono del Comune di Passy. 1500 €

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Manetti Saverio, Storia naturale degli uccelli trattata con metodo. Cinque volumi. 1767. 18.000 €

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 21 Poe Edgar Allan, Double assassinat dans la rue morgue. Illustrations de Cura. 1946.

<center>Gonnelli: Apr. 19-21 Books from XVI to XX Century

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