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Auction Name: Books and Ephemera - Day 1
Auction Date: 05/28/2015 - 05/28/2015
Sale Number: #1358
Total Lots: 709
Sold Lots: 508
Lots Sold: 71.65%
Unsold Lots: 201

Total Sales (GBP): 46,357.28
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 29,120.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 36,430.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 41,340.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 51,580.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 89.87%

Top twenty by sale price

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Bonhams, Mar. 6: Helvelius. Two Autograph Letters Signed to Francis Aston, Royal Society Secretary, noting his feud with Robert Hooke, 5 pp total, 1685. $70,000 to $100,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Newton, Isaac. Autograph manuscript on God, 4 pp, c.1710, "In the beginning was the Word...."?$100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. First edition, first issue. Untrimmed copy in contemporary boards. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Lincoln, Abraham. Signed photograph, beardless portrait with Civil War provenance. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: IMPEACHMENT. Original engrossed copy of the first Andrew Johnson impeachment resolution vote. $120,000 to $180,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Mucha, Alphonse. 11 original pencil drawings for?Andelicek z Baroku, "Litte Baroque Angel," Prague, 1929. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Einstein, Albert. Annotated Galley Proofs for The Meaning of Relativity. 1921. $25,000 to $35,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Silverstein, Shel. Original maquette for The Giving Tree, 34 original drawings. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Roth, Philip. Typed Manuscript with substantial autograph corrections for an unpublished sequel to The Breast. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: Taupin, Bernie. Autograph Manuscript, the original draft of lyrics for Elton John's "Candle in the Wind," 2 pp, 1973. $100,000 to $150,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: HARVEY, WILLIAM. De Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus Anatomica Exercitatio. Padua: 1643. $12,000 to $18,000.

Bonhams, Mar. 6: CESALPINO, ANDREA. Peripateticarum Quaestionum Libri Quinque. Venice: 1571. $30,000 to $40,000.
ALDE, Feb. 26: Leon TOLSTOÏ. Anna Karenina. Moscou, 1878. First and full edition of the Russian novel, in the author’s language. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Mark TWAIN. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's comrade). New York, 1885. First American edition. Est. 5 000 / 6 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Walt WHITMAN. Leaves of Grass. Brooklyn, New York, 1856. Second edition gathering 32 poems. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Karen BLIXEN. Out of Africa. Londres, 1937. First edition in the UK, before Danish translation and American release. Est. 1 500 / 2 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Ernest HEMINGWAY. A Farewell to Arms. New York, 1929. First edition with $2.50 on the dust and A on the copyright page. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Ulysses. Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition published by Sylvia Beach. Est. 3 000 / 4 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: James JOYCE. Dubliners. Londres, 1914. First edition. Nice copy in publisher’s cardboard. Est. 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: Franz KAFKA. 8 novels in German first edition, published in München, Leipzig and Berlin 1916-1931. Est. from 300 / 400 to 2 000 / 3 000 €

ALDE, Feb. 26: David Herbert LAWRENCE. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence, 1928. Privately printed first edition. Est. 4 000 / 5 000 €

John STEINBECK. The Grapes of Wrath. New York, 1939. First edition. Nice copy with $2.75 on the cover. Est. 1 000 / 1 200 €
<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Harriet Tubman Cabinet Card by H.S. Squyer, Auburn, NY, 1892. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Scarce Events of the Tulsa Disaster, First Edition, 1922. $4,000 to $6,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Unpublished CDV of Frederick Douglass by Benjamin F. Smith, 1864. $3,000 to $5,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: California Imprint of President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation Broadside, 1864. $10,000 to $15,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: John C.H. Grabill Cabinet Card of Buffalo Soldier Wearing Buffalo Coat, ca 1886. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, 2nd Cookbook Published by African American. $6,000 to $8,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Frederick Douglass Walking Stick, 1888. $3,000 to $5,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Only Known Slave Narrative Published Independently in California, Life and Adventures of James Williams. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Rare First Edition of History of Black Literature, Abbé Grégoire De La Littérature des Nègres. $2,500 to $3,000

<center>Cowan’s Auctions The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana February 20, 2020

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: African American Soldier and Medal of Honor Winner Christian A. Fleetwood CDV, PLUS. $8,000 to $10,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Jack Johnson vs. Jim Jeffries Pennant, 1910 Reno, Nevada. $2,000 to $4,000

 Cowan’s, Feb. 20: Joe Gans Photograph at 1906 Goldfield, Nevada Fight by Percy Dana. $600 to $800
Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Francis Scott Key, Star Spangled Banner, first printing, c. 1814-16. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. “O. Henry,” archive of drawings made to illustrate a lost mining memoir, c. 1883-84. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: [Bay Psalm Book], printed for Hezekiah Usher of Boston, Cambridge, c. 1648-65. $50,000 to $75,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, 1830. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Noticia estraordinario, probable first announcement in Mexico City of the fall of the Alamo, 1836. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Patrick Gass, first edition of earliest first-hand account of the Lewis and Clarke expedition, Pittsburgh, 1807. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Diploma from the Princeton Class of 1783, commencement attended by Washington & Continental Congress. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Sprague Light Cavalry! color-printed broadside, NY, 1863. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: The Lincoln & Johnson Union Campaign Songster, Philadelphia, 1864. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Lucy Parsons, labor organizer, albumen cabinet card, New York, 1886. $800 to $1,200.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Daniel L.F. Swift, journal as third mate on a Pacific Whaling voyage, 1848-1850. $3,000 to $4,0000.

Swann Auction Galleries Mar 10: Two photos of Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon, silver prints, 1901. $1,500 to $2,500.

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