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Auction Name: Books and Maps
Auction Date: 11/17/2015 - 11/17/2015
Sale Number: #1547b
Total Lots: 246
Sold Lots: 191
Lots Sold: 77.64%
Unsold Lots: 55

Total Sales (EUR): 152,543.75
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 115,660.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 143,370.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 148,670.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 185,330.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 82.31%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts November 12-13, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. Nicholas Machiavel's Prince. Also, The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca… Translated by Edward Dacres. London, 1640. $25,000 to $35,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: FILSON, John. The Discovery, Settlement and present State of Kentucke: and An Essay towards the Topography, and Natural History of that important Country… Wilmington, Del.: James Adams, 1784. $20,000 to $30,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: ELUARD, Paul. Un poeme dans chaque livre. Paris: Louis Broder, 1956. $20,000 to $30,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts November 12-13, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: LEWIS, James Otto. [Aboriginal Port Folio. Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1835-1836]. $15,000 to $25,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: [ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS]. BOOK OF HOURS, use of Rome, in Latin. [Southern Netherlands (Ghent or Bruges), c.1460]. $8,000 to $12,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: MORE, Thomas, Sir. The Workes ... wrytten by him in the Englysh tongue. Edited by William Rastell. London, 1557. $8,000 to $12,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts November 12-13, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORRIS, William. Love is Enough. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897. $5,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: LINCOLN, Abraham. Autograph endorsement signed as President (“A. Lincoln”), 24 February 1863. $4,000 to $6,000.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: WASHINGTON, George. Address panel with autograph free frank signed ("G:o Washington"), as Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, 5 August 1777. $3,000 to $5,000.

<center>Hindman Auctions Fine Books and Manuscripts November 12-13, 2020

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: GOREY, Edward. The Beastly Baby. N.p.: The Fantod Press, 1962. $1,000 to $1,500.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: FROST, Robert. Photographic reproduction signed and inscribed ("Robert Frost”), to R.V. Thornton, 1955. $1,000 to $1,500.

Hindman Auctions, Nov. 12-13: GOREY, Edward. The Bug Book. New York: Looking Glass Library, 1959. $500 to $700.
Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice, 3 volumes, first edition, London, 1813. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: John Hancock, Uncommon Privateer Commission, signed as President of Continental Congress, 1777. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Frank Lloyd Wright, photograph signed & inscribed. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Abraham Lincoln, document signed conscripting troops for first national draft in U.S., 1863. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility, 3 volumes, first edition, London, 1811. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Charles Dickens, American Notes for General Circulation, first edition, inscribed to Richard Henry Dana, Jr., London, 1842. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest & Money, first edition, London, 1936. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Alexandre Raymond, L’Art Islamique en Orient, 2 volumes, first editions, Péra-Constantinople, 1922-24. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Nov 17: Igor Stravinsky, autograph musical quotation signed, 3 bars from Perséphone, 1936. $1,500 to $2,500.
Christie’s, Nov 3 : REGAMEY, Felix (1844-1906). Unique drawing showing Verlaine and Rimbaud in London, September 1872. €70,000 to 100,000

Christie’s, Nov 3 : LABORDE, Alexandre de (1773-1842). Voyage pittoresque et historique de l’Espagne. Paris : 1806-1820. €20,000 to 30,000

Christie’s, Nov 3 : BOCCACE, Jean (1313-1375). Il Decamerone… Venise : Gabriele Giolito di Ferrari, 1542. € 12,000 to 15,000

Christie’s, Nov 3 : LAMBERT, Yvon (1936). Full collection of writings from Une rêverie émanée de mes loisirs. Paris : 1992 - 2018. €50,000 to 70,000

Christie’s, Nov 3 : JOUVE, Paul (1878-1973) -- KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936). La Chasse de Kaa. Paris : Javal & Bourdeaux, 1930. €2,000 to 3,000

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