• Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Alken (Henry). Sporting Notions, first edition, T.McLean, 1832-33. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Bardi (Lorenzo). Nuova Raccolta delle piu interessanti Vedute della Citta di Firenze…, Florence, Lorenzo Bardi, [c.1840]. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Crawfurd (John). Journal of an Embassy from the Governor-General of India to the Court of Ava..., first edition, 1829. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Dawe (George, engraver). The Life of a Nobleman, first edition, Geo. Henderson, [c.1825]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: [Doyle (John)], "H.B.". Political Sketches &c., 10 vol. including The Descriptive Key to H.B., Thomas McLean, [1829-51]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Eben (Adolphus Christian Frederick, Baron von) and Nicolaus Heideloff. Modèles de l'Uniforme Militaire Adopté dans l'Armée Royale de Suède, Rudolph Ackerman, 1808. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Geissler (J.G.G.) and Friedrich Hempel. Mahlerische Darstellungen der Sitten, Gebrauche und Lustbarkeiten bey den Russischen, Tartarischen…, 4 parts in 1, Leipzig and Paris, [1804]. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Hunt (Charles). Portraits of Winning Horses...of the Derby, Oaks, & St. Leger, from the Year 1842 to 1849…, Rock Brothers & Payne, 1849. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Kunike (Adolf Friedrich). Zwey hundert und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes…, Vienna, Leopold Grund, 1826. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Lasinio (Carlo). [Matrimony], Florence, 1790. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Reinhardt (Joseph). A Collection of Swiss Costumes, in Miniature, second English edition, James Goodwin, [1828]. £800 to £1,200.
    Forum Auctions, Mar. 27: Wengen (Gottfried Durst von). Die Öffentliche Maskerade Bamberg am Fastnachts-Montage 1833…, Bamberg, [1833]. £2,000 to £3,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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1 #1848 Keys Fine Arts Auctioneers Pictures and Prints January 24, 2020 January 24, 2020 40 20 50.00% GBP 1.256 730.00 930.00 3,040.00 1,080.00 1,416.79 35.53%
2 #12420 Stair Auctioneers and Appraisers Americana - Books, Prints January 24, 2020 January 24, 2020 25 21 84.00% USD 1.0 6,850.00 10,425.00 12,900.00 8,456.25 8,456.25 65.55%
3 #573 RR Auction RR Auction: The Paloger Collection of John F. Kennedy Memorabilia, Historic Photographs + Original Negatives; bidstart Lot 1 12/20 January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 72 35 48.61% USD 1.0 279,000.00 279,000.00 2,929,000.00 374,187.50 374,187.50 12.78%
4 #63163 De Baecque and Associes Antiquarian Books January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 258 198 76.74% EUR 1.13 64,620.00 91,790.00 189,410.00 128,907.77 142,734.04 68.06%
5 #12320 One Of A Kind Collectibles Rare Collectibles: Autographs, Documents, Photos, etc. January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 210 179 85.24% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 100,680.00 100,680.00
6 #12320 Alaska Auction Books, Prints - online only bidstart 1/7 January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 52 34 65.38% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 5,119.23 5,119.24
7 #3338B Skinner Fine Prints and Multiples, Fine Photographs January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 156 123 78.85% USD 1.0 102,950.00 150,450.00 299,150.00 219,139.00 219,139.00 73.25%
8 #ITG2004 Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers Online Timed Only - American Historical, Political, and Collectible Ephemera January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 210 187 89.05% USD 1.0 5,985.00 12,645.00 14,520.00 25,594.00 25,594.00 176.27%
9 #693 PBA Galleries Literature and Fine Press Books January 23, 2020 January 24, 2020 412 350 84.95% USD 1.0 157,710.00 249,500.00 328,400.00 185,604.00 185,604.00 56.52%
10 #1053 Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper January 22, 2020 January 23, 2020 243 205 84.36% GBP 1.256 251,850.00 363,100.00 514,650.00 480,663.50 629,985.91 93.40%
11 #63162 De Baecque and Associes Modern Books January 22, 2020 January 24, 2020 310 259 83.55% EUR 1.13 89,540.00 134,410.00 150,450.00 203,455.57 225,277.63 135.23%
12 #12220 Purcell Auctioneers Antiques and Collectables -Books and Prints, Advertising Signs January 22, 2020 January 23, 2020 133 92 69.17% EUR 1.13 4,735.00 7,805.00 11,675.00 5,276.40 5,851.78 45.19%
13 #12220 Tooveys Prints, Maps and Posters January 22, 2020 January 23, 2020 99 76 76.77% GBP 1.256 9,380.00 14,720.00 22,810.00 15,017.19 19,583.85 65.84%
14 #12220 Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers Antiquarian and Collectable Books Auction January 22, 2020 January 23, 2020 301 288 95.68% GBP 1.256 15,135.00 22,175.00 22,815.00 29,862.63 39,139.39 130.89%
15 #12220 Alaska Auction Books, Prints - online only bidstart 1/7 January 22, 2020 January 23, 2020 44 34 77.27% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 7,758.48 7,758.48
16 #12120 Tooveys Postcards, Cigarette Cards; Photographs, Autographs, & Ephemera January 21, 2020 January 22, 2020 138 128 92.75% GBP 1.256 10,435.00 16,775.00 17,495.00 28,984.85 37,693.79 165.68%
17 #142003 Heritage Auctions US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 1/14 January 21, 2020 January 23, 2020 912 905 99.23% USD 1.0 151,405.00 216,685.00 220,145.00 169,398.40 169,398.40 76.95%
18 #282003 Heritage Auctions Weekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 1/14 January 21, 2020 January 22, 2020 202 201 99.50% USD 1.0 30,795.00 42,715.00 43,315.00 28,569.40 28,569.40 65.96%
19 #1052 Forum Auctions Editions and Works on Paper January 21, 2020 January 23, 2020 252 193 76.59% GBP 1.256 625,100.00 874,800.00 1,248,800.00 949,622.50 1,238,397.91 76.04%
20 #471 Il Ponte Books and Manuscripts January 21, 2020 January 22, 2020 237 215 90.72% EUR 1.13 159,230.00 241,880.00 276,230.00 363,925.00 403,669.66 131.75%
21 #2004 Bruun Rasmussen Prints January 20, 2020 January 22, 2020 93 50 53.76% EUR 1.13 21,035.00 24,120.00 42,610.00 23,721.25 26,311.83 55.67%
22 #62582 Vermot de Pas History and Regions of France January 20, 2020 January 23, 2020 578 134 23.18% EUR 1.13 31,170.00 39,230.00 125,470.00 52,214.40 57,907.69 41.62%
23 #11920 Clars Auction Gallery Fine Art - Prints January 19, 2020 January 21, 2020 38 33 86.84% USD 1.0 30,450.00 46,750.00 50,400.00 46,666.25 46,666.25 92.59%
24 #152003 Heritage Auctions Sunday Pre-War Baseball Collectibles - online bidstart 1/5 January 19, 2020 January 21, 2020 347 346 99.71% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 119,366.00 119,366.00
25 #162003 Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 1/12 January 19, 2020 January 21, 2020 550 524 95.27% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 58,705.40 58,705.40
26 #122003 Heritage Auctions Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 1/13 January 19, 2020 January 21, 2020 1102 1099 99.73% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 396,803.60 396,803.60
27 #11820 Clars Auction Gallery Fine Art - Prints, Books January 18, 2020 January 21, 2020 152 127 83.55% USD 1.0 19,425.00 35,800.00 41,250.00 46,134.50 46,390.50 111.84%
28 #11820 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper January 18, 2020 January 20, 2020 200 175 87.50% USD 1.0 77,350.00 144,500.00 172,050.00 34,105.50 34,105.50 19.82%
29 #11720 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - Internet bidstart 1/10 January 17, 2020 January 20, 2020 162 146 90.12% EUR 1.13 6,950.00 8,760.00 18,560.00 16,336.92 18,152.04 88.02%
30 #575 RR Auction Olympics - online bidstart 1/9 January 16, 2020 January 20, 2020 146 70 47.95% USD 1.0 272,450.00 348,650.00 637,400.00 328,057.50 328,057.50 51.47%
31 #50021 Heritage Auctions The David Hall T206 Collection Part III Sports Card Catalog Auction January 16, 2020 January 20, 2020 570 570 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 542,915.40 542,915.40
32 #11620 University Archives Relics, Autographs, Photos & Ephemera January 16, 2020 January 21, 2020 284 244 85.92% USD 1.0 682,140.00 853,780.00 1,071,780.00 845,502.50 845,502.50 78.89%
33 #44865 Leland Little Auctions Modern Art and Design - Prints January 16, 2020 January 18, 2020 72 71 98.61% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 23,222.40 23,222.40
34 #87 Kestenbaum and Company "K2" Online Sale: Hebrew and Judaic Printed Books January 16, 2020 January 18, 2020 276 164 59.42% USD 1.0 30,000.00 45,300.00 75,730.00 69,087.50 69,087.50 91.23%
35 #11520 Brunk Auctions Books January 15, 2020 January 18, 2020 59 57 96.61% USD 1.0 44,500.00 70,400.00 71,200.00 63,601.00 63,601.00 89.33%
36 #11320 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - Internet bidstart 1/3 January 13, 2020 January 20, 2020 40 32 80.00% EUR 1.13 3,670.00 4,400.00 7,170.00 7,235.42 8,039.35 100.91%
37 #4781 Revere Auctions Online Only: Fine Books, Maps, and Manuscripts January 13, 2020 January 18, 2020 463 430 92.87% USD 1.0 116,535.00 181,090.00 198,170.00 229,705.00 229,805.00 115.91%
38 #11220 Catawiki B. V. Autographs and Manuscripts - Internet bidstart 1/3 January 12, 2020 January 20, 2020 47 35 74.47% EUR 1.13 6,030.00 7,470.00 11,500.00 6,829.94 7,588.83 59.39%
39 #11120 North American Auction Company New Year's Collectors Sale January 11, 2020 January 21, 2020 73 62 84.93% USD 1.0 28,200.00 64,300.00 91,200.00 15,633.30 15,756.30 17.14%
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