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<center>Oct. 1 - SETTING OUT What is a collecting interest? How does it take shape? Where do I go…Who can I trust?

<center>Oct. 8 - YOU’RE A COLLECTOR How should I take stock of what I have? Once I have, what do I do?

<center>Oct. 15 - LATE STAGE COLLECTING What’s the role of time? What is ‘emotional blowback’? How is my collection valued?
<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.

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<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.
<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.

Auction Reports

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Auction Info

Auction Name: Fine Art and Antiques - Books, Prints
Auction Date: 09/26/2015 - 09/26/2015
Sale Number: #69
Total Lots: 36
Sold Lots: 30
Lots Sold: 83.33%
Unsold Lots: 6

Total Sales (USD): 20,192.38
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 18,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 27,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 21,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 31,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 64.31%

Top twenty by sale price

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<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>Forum Auctions A further selection of 16th and 17th century English books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 24 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Plutarch. The lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea, first edition of this translation, 1579. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: [Allott (Robert, editor)]. Wits Theater of the little World, first edition, 1599. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions A further selection of 16th and 17th century English books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 24 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Execution of Quakers in Boston.- Stephenson (Marmaduke). A Call from Death to Life, first edition, 1660. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Boyle (Robert). The sceptical chymist: or Chymico-physical doubts & paradoxes…, 2 parts in 1 vol., second edition, 1680. £3,500 to £4,500.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Atlases.- Morden (Robert). [Geography Rectified: or, A Description of the World], [c.1688]. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Forum Auctions A further selection of 16th and 17th century English books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 24 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Bread.- Penkethman (John). Artachthos or a New Booke declaring the Assise or Weight of Bread, 1638. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Anatomy.- Collins (Samuel). A Systeme of Anatomy, treating of the Body of Man, Beasts, Birds, Fish, Insects, and Plants, 2 vol., first edition, 1685. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Wine.- [Ames (Richard)]. The Bacchanalian Sessions; or The Conten' tion of Liquors: With a Farewel to Wine, first edition, 1693. £2,000 to £3,000.

<center>Forum Auctions A further selection of 16th and 17th century English books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library 24 September 2020

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Witchcraft.- Bekker (Balthasar). The World Bewitch'd; or, An Examination of the Common Opinions Concerning Spirits, vol. 1 (all published), first English edition, 1695. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Great Plague and Great Fire of London prophesied.- Lilly (William). Monarchy or No Monarchy in England, first edition, 1651. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 24: Swimming.- Thevenot (Melchisédec). The Art of Swimming. Illustrated by Proper Figures. With Advice for Bathing, first edition in English, 1699. £1,500 to £2,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: John Richard, sketchbook kept by soldier-artist during last months of Civil War, 55 drawings, 1865. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Guest register for Catskill Mountain House, with signatures of many notable guests, 1839-43, 1846-52. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Manuscript confirmation of arms & nobility, Esquivel y Vargas family, Salvatierra, Guanajuato, Mexico, 1731. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Elizabeth Shoumatoff, 3 watercolor studies for famous “Unfinished Portrait” of FDR, 1945. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Sa Ga Yean Qua Rash Tow, Coning Vande Maquas alias Coning Brant, engraving by Pieter Schenck, Netherlands, c.1710s. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Stamp from the Stamp Act of 1765, embossed, “II Shillings VI Pence.” $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: The Law of God, five volumes, first edition, first Jewish translation of the Pentateuch into English, 1845-46. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Diary of James W. Bentley, a cavalry officer protecting settlers on the Overland Trail, 1865. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 24: Pedro de Arenas, Vocabulario manual de las lenguas castellana y mexicana, complete first edition, Mexico, 1611. $12,000 to $18,000.

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