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Auction Name: Books, Maps, Manuscripts, and Historical Photographs
Auction Date: 03/19/2013 - 03/19/2013
Sale Number: #20751
Total Lots: 234
Sold Lots: 199
Lots Sold: 85.04%
Unsold Lots: 35

Total Sales (GBP): 784,659.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 424,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 630,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 529,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 779,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 100.66%

Top twenty by sale price

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Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan. 25: DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321). Commedia. Venezia: Vindelino da Spira, 1477. Estimate: € 40.000 - 60.000.

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan. 25: DALI, Salvador (1908-1989) - William SHAKESPEARE (1564-1616). Romeo e Giulietta. Milan: Rizzoli, 1975. Estimate: € 25.000 - 35.000.

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan. 25: MALVASIA, Cornelio; MONTANARI, Geminiano. Ephemerides novissimae motuum coelestium. Modena: Cassiani, 1662. Estimate: € 8.000 - 12.000.

Il Ponte Casa d’Aste, Jan. 25: JANSSONIUS, Johannes. Atlantis majoris quinta pars, Orbem maritimum [Novus Atlas, volume V: carte marittime]. Amsterdam: Janssonius, 1650. Estimate: € 12.000 - 18.000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries A Record Breaking Season

Swann: The Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, NY, 1830. Sold Sept. 30 — $112,500.

Swann: Vincent Van Gogh, Homme à la Pipe: Portrait du Docteur Gachet, Evening, etching, 1890. Sold Nov. 2 — $161,000.

Swann: Edward Ruscha, Stains, title page, one of 70, signed, 1969. Sold Nov. 9 — $112,500.

Swann: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, hand colored aquatint, 1828. Sold Dec.9 — $137,000.

Swann: Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen, watercolor, gouache, pen & ink, 1910. Sold Dec. 16 — $125,000.
<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers 26 January 2022 Printed Books & Maps, The Sinclair Hood Library of Archaeology, The Charles Tomlinson Poetry Library

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Biggs (Thomas, Hope, Theodore C & Fergusson, James). Architecture at Ahmedabad, The Capital of Goozerat, 1st edition, London: John Murray, 1866. £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Daniell (Thomas and William). Oriental Scenery. One Hundred and Fifty Views of the Architecture, Antiquities and Landscape Scenery of Hindoostan, 6 parts, 1812-16. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Hamilton (Sir William & Pierre Francois Hugues d'Hancarville). Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon.ble Wm Hamilton, volumes I & II only (of 4), Naples, 1766-67. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers 26 January 2022 Printed Books & Maps, The Sinclair Hood Library of Archaeology, The Charles Tomlinson Poetry Library

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Moore (Lieutenant Joseph & Captain Frederick Marryat). Eighteen Views taken at & near Rangoon, [1825]. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Williamson (Captain Thomas & Howitt, Samuel). Oriental Field Sports; Being a Complete, Detailed and Accurate Description of the Wild Sports of the East; 1st edition, London, 1807. £5,000 to £8,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Knoop (Johann Hermann). Pomologia, dat is Beschryvingen en Afbeeldingen van de beste zoorten van Appels en Peeren, Fructologia …, 3 volumes in 1, Leeuwarden: A Ferwerda and G. Tresling, [1758]. £1,000 to £1,500.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers 26 January 2022 Printed Books & Maps, The Sinclair Hood Library of Archaeology, The Charles Tomlinson Poetry Library

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: North America. Wyld (James), Map of the Colony of British Columbia and the British & American Territory West of the Rocky Mountains, Including Vancouvers Island and the Gold Fields, 1858. £1,500 to £2,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Pocket Globe. A Correct Globe with the New Discoveries, circa 1785. £2,000 to £3,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Wales. Morden (Robert), Twelve 'playing card maps' of Wales, circa 1676. £1,000 to £1,500.

<center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers 26 January 2022 Printed Books & Maps, The Sinclair Hood Library of Archaeology, The Charles Tomlinson Poetry Library

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Society of Dilettanti. Antiquities of Ionia, 5 volumes: 1821, 1797, 1840, 1881 & 1915. £3,000 to £5,000.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Churchill (Winston Spencer). The People's Rights, 1st edition, 1st issue, London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1910]. £1,000 to £1,500.

Dominic Winter, Jan. 26: Paz (Octavio). Blanco, 1st edition, limited numbered edition, Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz, 1967. £500 to £800.
<center>Sotheby’s Fine Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana Online Now through January 25, 2022

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Audubon, John James. The "Wild Turkey" manuscript — capturing one of the nation's most iconic symbols of unity. $250,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: (Flag) — Commemorative Thirteen-Star Flag. Pre-Civil War, Thirteen-Star Flag of the United States, from the collection of Charles Kuralt. $15,000 to $25,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. First edition, presentation copy, and a former mystery. $30,000 to $50,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Audubon, John James. The "Wild Turkey" manuscript — capturing one of the nation's most iconic symbols of unity. $250,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. A strikingly fresh first edition of Salinger's essential novel. $20,000 to $25,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. “America's second Declaration of Independence” — signed by Whitman. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: [Dylan, Bob]. Some of the earliest known professional portraits. $10,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Now to Jan. 25: Y-Worth [Yarworth], William. Cerevisiarii Comes: Or, the New and True Art of Brewing… A rare and early English work on the art of brewing. $5,000 to $7,000.
Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: RUTH BADER GINSBERG’S PERSONAL COPY OF THE 1957-58 HARVARD LAW REVIEW, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY HER.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S TEXTBOOK FOR HER “CIVIL PROCEDURE” CLASS AT HARVARD, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY HER.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: RUTH BADER GINSBURG’S TEXTBOOK FOR COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL CLASS ON JURISPRUDENCE, HEAVILY ANNOTATED BY HER.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: HONORARY DOCTORATE AWARDED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG BY SMITH COLLEGE, 1994.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A COPY OF JUSTICE GINSBURG’S ARTICLE, “WOMEN IN THE FEDERAL JUDICIARY,” SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE JUSTICE TO SENATOR NANCY KASSEBAUM.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A COPY OF SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR’S ARTICLE, “THEY OFTEN ARE HALF-OBSCURE: THE RIGHTS OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE LEGACY OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES,” PRESENTED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A DELUXE EDITION OF ANTONIN SCALIA’S MAKING YOUR CASE: THE ART OF PERSUADING JUDGES, FROM AN EDITION OF 2000, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A FIRST EDITION OF SONIA SOTOMAYOR’S MY BELOVED WORLD, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A FIRST EDITION OF AL GORE’S “THE ASSAULT ON REASON,” SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: BELOVED BY TONI MORRISON, SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO RUTH AND MARTIN GINSBURG.

Bonhams, Jan. 19 – 27: A FIRST EDITION OF GLORIA STEINEM’S “MY LIFE ON THE ROAD,” SIGNED AND INSCRIBED TO RUTH BADER GINSBURG.

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