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<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps November 24

Doyle, Rare Books: STEVE JOBS / WOZNIAK. Signed Lid for Apple II computer & related materials. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: [TESLA, NIKOLA] MARTIN, THOMAS COMMERFORD. Inscribed. The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla... $6,000 to $9,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: TOCQUEVILLE, ALEXIS DE. Democracy in America. First American editions of both volumes. $4,000 to $6,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps November 24

Doyle, Rare Books: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. Two typed letters signed to Professor Julian Hugo Bonfante, with associated materials. $6,000 to $9,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: Attr. to BENING, ALEXANDER (SANDER). Pair of arch-topped miniatures (of the Adoration and the Deposition respectively), likely extracted from a Book of Hours. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: LEESER, ISAAC. The Law of God. First edition of the first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English. $3,000 to $5,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps November 24

Doyle, Rare Books: [RACKHAM, ARTHUR] WALTON, IZAAK. The Compleat Angler; or the Contemplative Man's Recreation... $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: LICHTENSTEIN, ROY. Drawings and Prints. First printing with a small drawing in color depicting three lemons initialed by Lichtenstein. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: Rare set of 12-inch Bardin globes on stands. $6,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, Rare Books: MONTAIGNE, MICHEL EYQUEM DE [JOHN FLORIO, trans.]. The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses of Lo:... $25,000 to $35,000.
<center>Gonnelli December 1st Antique and modern prints, drawings and paintings

<center>Gonnelli December 2nd Photographs, autographs, musical works and manuscripts

<center>Gonnelli December 3rd Books from XV to XX Century

<center>Gonnelli December 3rd Mathematics books

<center>Gonnelli December 3rd Art books from Salvador Dalí & others
<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 30th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1490. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: P. Goos, Le Grand Miroir de la Mer, 1669. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: L. Feininger, Letter with woodcuts, 1920. Est: € 25,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 30th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: Latin Bible manuscript, 12th century. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: M. E. Bloch, Naturgeschichte der Fische, 1782-95. Est: € 40,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: M. Chagall, Daphnis & Chloé, 1961. Est: € 90,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 30th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: L. J. Waghenaer, Speculum nauticum, 1586. Est: € 180,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: P. J. de Pannemaeker, Collection of orig. watercolors, 1878-1887. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: G. Klimt, Das Werk, 1918. Est: € 15,000

<center>Ketterer Rare Books Auction on November 30th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: Livro dos prestimonios, Manuscript, 1665. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 30: J. Miró in J. Cassou, Vingt-deux poémes, 1978. Est: € 8,000
<center>Sotheby’s Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts 24 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2020 Online

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: F. Schubert. Autograph letter to his brother Ferdinand, 4 pages, Zseliz, 1818. £80,000 to £120,000.

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: L. v. Beethoven. Fine autograph letter to his librettist Friedrich Treitschke, about their planned opera, 1815. £70,000 to £90,000.

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: Hermann Hesse, Highly important series of 62 letters and postcards to Stefan Zweig, 1903-1938. £60,000 to £80,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Music, Continental Books and Medieval Manuscripts 24 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2020 Online

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: Book of Hours, Use of Reims, illuminated manuscript on vellum [France, late 15th century]. £40,000 to £60,000.

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: Armenian gospel book, illuminated manuscript on vellum, seventeenth century, tooled calf binding. £7,000 to £10,000.

Sotheby’s, 24 Nov. – 1 Dec.: C. Goldoni. Ten autograph letters signed to the Genoese nobleman Cristoforo Spinola, Venice 1742-1743. £7,000 to £9,000.

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Collection Books
Auction Date: 10/29/2012 - 10/29/2012
Sale Number: #3532
Total Lots: 58
Sold Lots: 43
Lots Sold: 74.14%
Unsold Lots: 15

Total Sales (EUR): 3,289,875.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 998,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 1,436,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 1,085,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 1,562,600.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 210.54%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana, Part II December 3, 2020

Cowan’s, Dec 3: All-Negro Comics Issue #1, 1947. $4,000 to $6,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: Early Memoir of a Black Hairdresser, 1859. $3,000 to $4,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: First Edition Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African, 1782. $2,500 to $3,500.

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana, Part II December 3, 2020

Cowan’s, Dec 3: Bessie Coleman Aero News Vol. 1 Issue 1, May 1930, Signed by William J. Powell. $2,000 to $3,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: Book of Poetry and Music by Formerly Illiterate Author Thomas Young, 1897. $6,000 to $8,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: Cabinet Card of 24th Infantryman, Tombstone, Arizona Territory, circa 1882. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana, Part II December 3, 2020

Cowan’s, Dec 3: James Baldwin Portrait by Carl Van Vechten, 1955. $3,500 to $4,500.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: The Pacific Appeal Newspaper, San Francisco, 1877. $3,000 to $5,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: Only Known Copy Spreading Joy, Uplift History of African Americans in Los Angeles, 1937. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana, Part II December 3, 2020

Cowan’s, Dec 3: 1940 Los Angeles The Official Central Avenue District Directory. $2,000 to $3,000.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: GRÉGOIRE, Henri (French, 1750-1831). An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes, First American Edition, 1810. $1,500 to $2,500.

Cowan’s, Dec 3: 1893 Indian Territory Album with Images of Tacky Grayson. $4,000 to $6,000.
<center>Antikvariat Bryggen Collectible Books: Spanning 500 Years Online until 23 November

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: HOMER. Batrachomyiomachia, Paris, 1507. [EARLY & RARE EDITION!]. €3,600 to €5,400.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Nordic] JACOB RIETER & JOHANNES SENN. Danske Nationale Klædedragter. [Danish National Costumes, very rare plate book]. €3,600 to €4,500.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [History / Maps] JACQUES BONGARS. Gesta dei per Francos [Crusader history & rare maps]. Exceptional provenance! €2,700 to €3,600.

<center>Antikvariat Bryggen Collectible Books: Spanning 500 Years Online until 23 November

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Travel – China ] - NIEUHOF & MONTANUS. An embassy from the East-India Company, 1673 /1671. €2,700 to €3,600.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Art & Plate Books] MATISSE, Signed, 1947. Repli. [Linocuts, woodcuts & lithograps]. €1,800 to €2,700.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: JONATHAN SWIFT. Gulliver’s Travels, 1726 1st edition [Teerink “B”]. PROVENANCE: Sir Francis Burdett. €2,700 to €3,600.

<center>Antikvariat Bryggen Collectible Books: Spanning 500 Years Online until 23 November

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: RUDYARD KIPLING. The Jungle Book [and] The Second Jungle Book, 1st editions, 1894-1895. €1,800 to €2,700.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Prophecies / Predictions]. Mirabilis Liber, app. 1533. [PELLICAN-edition]. €1,800 to €2,700.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Nordic] DAHLBERG. Suecia Antiqva et Hodierna, app. 1667-1716, [Sweden - 352 plates]. €1,800 to €2,700.

<center>Antikvariat Bryggen Collectible Books: Spanning 500 Years Online until 23 November

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Theology] GISBERTUS VOETIUS. Selectarum Disputationum Theologicarum I-V, 1648- 1669. [With the plates]. €1,350 to €2,250.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [Theology] GISBERTUS VOETIUS. Politicae Ecclesiasticae, 1663- 1676. [complete 3 parts in 4 vols.]. €1,350 to €2,250.

Antikvariat Bryggen, now to 23 Nov: [History] FROBEN, Basel, 1545-1559. [Colombus’ discovery of America, Alexander the Great, Roman Empire with numerous full page wood cuts]. €1,350 to €1,800.
Swann Auction Galleries: Oscar Wilde, “The secret of life is in Art,” autograph quotation dated and signed, 1882. Sold for $15,600.

Swann Auction Galleries: Manhattan Gay Scene Guide 1969, Summer Edition, Mattachine Book Service. Sold for $3,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Toyen, pen & ink illustration from Marquis de Sade: Justina cili prokletí ctnosti, 1932. Sold for $26,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Antonio Lopez, 9 men’s fashion studies, graphite, 1974. Sold for $6,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Harvey Milk, 2 autograph letters signed, to Pat Mormon, during US Navy service, 1954. Sold for $2,210.

Swann Auction Galleries: Daniel Abraham, original art for Stonewall Romances, pen, ink & gouache, 1979. Sold for $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: David Wojnarowicz, Untitled (Genet with Dog), mixed media collage. Sold for $27,500.

Swann Auction Galleries: Susie Gaynes & Amy E. Bartell, March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 1987. Sold for $1,188.

Swann Auction Galleries: Paris is Burning, photo offset poster by Anne Dutlinger, signed by film director Jennie Livingston, 1991. Sold for $1,500.

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