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Auction Name: On the Waterfront - Books and Prints
Auction Date: 10/24/2014 - 10/24/2014
Sale Number: #61695
Total Lots: 50
Sold Lots: 34
Lots Sold: 68.00%
Unsold Lots: 16

Total Sales (USD): 3,138.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 4,890.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 7,210.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 5,770.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 8,610.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 36.45%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: DARWIN, Charles Robert. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: W. Clowes and Sons for John Murray, 1859. [With] autograph note signed. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: [FINE PRESS & LIVRE D'ARTISTE]. -- [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works ... now newly imprinted. Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: LAWRENCE, Thomas Edward. Seven Pillars of Wisdom, a triumph. [London: Privately Printed], 1926. $60,000 to $80,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: SHAKESPEARE, William. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies… London, Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, R. Chiswell, and R. Bentley, 1685. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: AUDUBON, John James. The Birds of America… [1839-] 1840-1844. -- AUDUBON, John James and John BACHMAN. The Quadrupeds of North America. 1849-1854. $60,000 to $80,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: OGILBY, John, trans. [MONTANUS, Arnoldus]. America: being the latest, and most Accurate Description of the New World… London: Printed by the Author, 1671. $30,000 to $40,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: HOBBES, Thomas. Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill. London: printed for Andrew Crooke, 1651. $20,000 to $30,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: BLACKWELL, Elizabeth. A Curious Herbal, containing Five Hundred Cuts of the most useful Plant which are now used in the Practice of Physick… London: John Nourse, 1739. $15,000 to $20,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. London: Printed by S. Simmons ... to be sold by T. Helder, 1669. $12,000 to $18,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner Live and Online October 8, 2020 / 10am CT

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: MALCOLM X. Typed letter signed ("Malcolm X"), to Alex Haley. Cairo, Egypt, 18 September 1964. " 1 page, 8vo. $6,000 to $8,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. Autograph letter signed (“JRRT”). To George Sayer, Oxford, 7 August 1952. 2 pages, 8vo, creased; morocco folding case. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Oct. 8: WRIGHT, Frank Lloyd. Autograph manuscript signed ("Frank Lloyd Wright"), entitled "To the Countryside." N.p. [Taliesin?], [June 1926]. 2 pages, 4to, creased. $4,000 to $6,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Paul George Lawler, San Francisco – Hawaii Overnight, 1939. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Around the World, North German Lloyd, designer unknown, circa 1910. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Michael Rudolf Wening, Siam, circa 1920s. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Sigismunds Vidbergs, Spend Your Holidays at the Wonderful Seaside of Riga, circa 1925. $1,200 to $1,800.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Jean Dupas, “Where is this Bower Beside the Silver Thames?” 1930. $15,000 to $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Charles-Léonce Brossé, Meeting d’Aviation, Nice, 1910. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: John Held Jr., Nantucket, 1925. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Seaverns W. Hilton, Lewis and Clark, Northern Pacific, 1920. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 15: Fred Powis, Jasper, Canadian National Railways. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center>Arader Galleries October Sale October 10, 2020

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: LA HARPE, Jean-Baptiste Benard de. 'CARTE NOUVELLE DE LA PARTIE DE L'OUEST DE LA LOUISIANNE'. $800,000 to $1,200,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: AUDUBON, John James. Great Blue Heron, Plate 211. $250,000 to $350,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph. Watercolor for plate 456: Bromella ananas (Cultivated Pineapple). $450,000 to $550,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: COOK, Captain James. A set of the three voyages comprising... London: 1773-1785. $40,000 to $60,000.

Arader Galleries, Oct. 10: KEY, Adrien Thomaszoon. Abraham Ortelius. Oil on Panel. $400,000 to $450,000.
<center>Doyle Fine Literature September 30

Doyle, Fine Literature: WHITMAN, WALT. Leaves of Grass. First Edition. $150,000 to $250,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: MILNE, A.A. and SHEPARD, E.H. Now We Are Six. $10,000 to $15,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell to Arms. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: NABOKOV, VLADIMIR. Lolita. First American Edition. $5,000 to $8,000.

<center>Doyle Fine Literature September 30

Doyle, Fine Literature: RAND, AYN. Atlas Shrugged. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Fine Literature: STEINBECK, JOHN. To a God Unknown. First Edition. $1,500 to $2,500.

Doyle, Fine Literature: WELLS, H.G. The Works of H.G. Wells. $4,000 to $6,000.

<center>We Invite You to Consign! Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 25 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Chagall (Marc). Cirque, one of 270 copies on Arches signed by the artist, 38 lithographs, 23 colour, Paris, Tériade Éditeur, 1967. £100,000 to £150,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Sangorski (Alberto).- Poe (Edgar Allan). Annabel Lee and Other Poems, illuminated manuscript in gold and colours, bound in turquoise morocco tooled in gilt and inlaid with 35 jewels, [c.1928]. £50,000 to £70,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Darwin (Charles) and Alfred R. Wallace. “On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties...,” contained in Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, 1859. £12,000 to £18,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 25 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Ornament.- Basque metalwork.- Zuloaga (Eusebio) and Workshop. Collection of twenty-three original ornament designs for damascening, [19th century]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Arms and Armour.- Rugendas.- Der Harnisch Von Seinem Entstehen Bis Zu Seinem Wiedervergehen In Bildern Dargestelt Und Gezeichnet, [1714 and later]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Webster (John). A Monumental Columne, erected to the liuing memory of the euer-glorious Henry, late Prince of Wales, rare first edition, Printed by N[icholas]. O[kes]. for William Welby, 1613. £6,000 to £8,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 25 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Donne (John). Poems, by J.D. with elegies on the Authors Death, first edition, Printed by M[iles]. F[lesher]. for Iohn Marriot, 1633. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Brangwyn (Frank). Venice, oil on canvas, [c. 1908]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Sewell (Anna). Black Beauty: his Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse, first edition, original cloth, [1877]. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 25 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Gray (John Edward). Gleanings from the Knowsley Menagerie and Aviary at Knowsley Hall, first edition, one of c.100 copies privately printed for the author, 1850. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: George III (King). Warrant signed "George R" for the payment of £60,634 granted for the North American Provinces to the Province of Massachusetts Bay, D.s., manuscript, [c. 1761-62]. £2,000 to £2,500.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 25: Mecca, Medina & Damascus.- 2 manuscript plans of Mecca and El Medinah and a map of Damascus, 3 detailed pen and ink drawings with 3pp. of manuscript notes, [late 19th century]. £1,000 to £1,500.

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