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Auction Name: Library of Gerrit Komrij, Part 2
Auction Date: 11/27/2012 - 11/27/2012
Sale Number: #57b
Total Lots: 591
Sold Lots: 361
Lots Sold: 61.08%
Unsold Lots: 230

Total Sales (EUR): 88,362.25
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 57,380.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 83,380.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 99,220.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 144,550.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 61.13%

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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.
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<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.

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<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Ronald Reagan. Series of 37 letters to Senator George Murphy, and related material, 1968-90. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Chaim Weizmann. Autograph letter signed, to General Sir Gilbert Clayton, 6 September 1918. £20,000 to £30,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Sir Winston Churchill. Autograph letter signed, to Pamela, Lady Lytton, 1942. £20,000 to $30,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Oscar Wilde. Five autograph letters signed, to Alsager Vian, 1887. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Napoleon I. Letter signed to Admiral Ganteaume, ordering the invasion of England, 22 August 1805. £10,000 to £15,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Horatio, Viscount Nelson, and Emma Hamilton. Two autograph letter signed, to Catherine and George Matcham, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.

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