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Auction Name: Rare Books, Prints and Photographs
Auction Date: 11/27/2015 - 11/27/2015
Sale Number: #106
Total Lots: 1358
Sold Lots: 680
Lots Sold: 50.07%
Unsold Lots: 678

Total Sales (EUR): 387,771.30
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 322,535.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 322,535.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 648,315.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 648,315.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 59.81%

Top twenty by sale price

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<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Ronald Reagan. Series of 37 letters to Senator George Murphy, and related material, 1968-90. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Chaim Weizmann. Autograph letter signed, to General Sir Gilbert Clayton, 6 September 1918. £20,000 to £30,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Sir Winston Churchill. Autograph letter signed, to Pamela, Lady Lytton, 1942. £20,000 to $30,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Collection of a Connoisseur: History in Manuscript, Part 2 27 April 2021

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Oscar Wilde. Five autograph letters signed, to Alsager Vian, 1887. £15,000 to £20,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Napoleon I. Letter signed to Admiral Ganteaume, ordering the invasion of England, 22 August 1805. £10,000 to £15,000.

Sotheby’s, through Apr. 27: Horatio, Viscount Nelson, and Emma Hamilton. Two autograph letter signed, to Catherine and George Matcham, 1805. £6,000 to £8,000.
<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps Timed auction, April 29

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1032. RATZER, BERNARD. Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. $40,000 to $60,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1011. [BROADSIDE]. Life, Last Words and Dying Confession, of Rachel Wall... $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1055. BEATON, CECIL. Scrapbook prepared by Cecil Beaton over the period 1935-1944, with some later inclusions. $800 to $1,200.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps Timed auction, April 29

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1051. ADDAMS, CHARLES. Original drawing "I hope the power doesn't go out until after Masterpiece Theatre." $15,000 to $20,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1037. The Campaign Speeches of Nixon of Kennedy, inscribed to William Safire by Richard Nixon and secretarially for John Kennedy. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1036. Celebration of the Commencement of Work on Rapid Transit Railroad. March 24th 1900, one o'clock, City Hall Park, New York. $200 to $300.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 1005. 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers signed baseball including Jackie Robinson. $3,000 to $5,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Frances Palmer, Battle of Buena Vista, chromolithograph, New York, 1847. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma, the earliest publication concerned solely with chocolate, first edition, Madrid, 1631. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Romans Bernard, An Exact View of the Late Battle at Charlestown, June 17th, 1775, engraving, 1776. $40,000 to $60,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: A Short Narrative of the Horrid Massacre in Boston, English edition, London, 1770. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: William Soule, Lodge of the Plains Indians, albumen print, 1872. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Manuscript document to enforce New York’s “Agreement of Non-Importation” during the heyday of the Sons of Liberty, New York, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Clarence Mackenzie, Drummer Boy of the 13th Regiment of Brooklyn, salt print with applied color, 1861. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: Moses Lopez, A Lunar Calendar, first Jewish calendar published in America, Newport, RI, 1806. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Apr 15: The Book of Mormon, first edition, Palmyra, 1830. $30,000 to $40,000.
<center>Doyle Stage & Screen Auction April 28

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 12. OKLAHOMA! Celeste Holm's vocal score for Oklahoma! inscribed by Richard Rodgers. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 20. WILSON, DOOLEY. Fine inscribed photograph to Celeste Holm with Casablanca reference. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 79. Original production script of the Broadway musical CATS with notes written by Claude Tessier. $600 to $900.

<center>Doyle Stage & Screen Auction April 28

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 139. STEPHEN SONDHEIM. Autographed musical manuscript signed for "Broadway Baby" from Follies. $500 to $800.

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 180. Cecil Beaton. Headdress for Liza at the Ball, from My Fair Lady, circa 1962. $700 to $900.

Doyle, Stage & Screen: Lot 177. Cecil Beaton. Set Design for The Gainsborough Girls, 1951. $2,000 to $3,000.
Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 54. Fanciful engraving of earth's interior with magma core and errupting volcanoes (1682). $1500 to $1800.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 165. Rare state of Jefferys' influential map of New England in contemporary color (1755). $8000 to $9500.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 177. Mouzon's foundation map of the Carolinas (1775). $10000 to $13000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 183. Very rare first state of De Fer's map of the Lower Mississippi Valley (1715). $20000 to $25000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 253. Scarce Scottish edition based on Ellicott's plan of Washington, D.C. (1796). $2400 to $3000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 313. Stunning view of Philadelphia by John Bachmann (1850). $3250 to $4250.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 338. Rare Civil War map based on Bucholtz map of Virginia (1862). $9500 to $12000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 667. First map to accurately show Luzon in Philippines (1590). $6000 to $7500.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 682. Rare map of Shanghai International Settlement published just after WWI (1918). $7000 to $9000.

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 738. Coronelli's superb map of the Pacific showing the Island of California (1697) Est. $2400 - $3000

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 743. A cornerstone piece in the mapping of Australia and New Zealand (1726) Est. $6000 - $7500

Old World Auctions (April 28): Lot 781. An uncommon signature during Jefferson's Governorship of Virginia (1779) Est. $9500 - $11000

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