• 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.
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
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  • 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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No Sale Number Auction House Sale Name Date of Auction Archived Date Total Lots Lots Sold % Lots Sold CURR Exch. Rate Low Est. Lots Sold High Est. Lots Sold High Est. All Lots Total Sales Total Sales In $ % Total Sales / High Est.
1 #19755 Christies Robert Motherwell Prints from the Dedalus Foundation - bidstart 9/22 October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 43 37 86.05% USD 1.0 116,300.00 177,700.00 207,700.00 212,625.00 212,625.00 102.37%
2 #100820 Dominic Winter Book Auctions Antiques & Textiles, A Private Collection of Vintage Automobilia & Motoring History October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 53 52 98.11% GBP 1.256 9,180.00 14,050.00 14,150.00 37,062.00 48,082.11 261.92%
3 #100820 Leland Little Auctions Asian Arts & Modern Art & Design - prints October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 82 82 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 24,101.50 24,101.50
4 #L20229 Sothebys Private Collection of Fine Japanese Prints - bidstart 9/28 October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 50 33 66.00% GBP 1.256 249,000.00 359,000.00 610,000.00 392,112.00 508,703.78 64.28%
5 #100820 Neal Auction Company UNRESERVED @Neal - LA State & Mobile Museums October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 66 54 81.82% USD 1.0 5,435.00 8,680.00 10,010.00 7,493.75 7,493.75 74.86%
6 #116ML Galerie Bassenge Modern Literature and Art Documentation October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 759 373 49.14% EUR 1.13 165,970.00 165,970.00 354,390.00 216,067.95 255,487.16 60.97%
7 #2175 Forum Auctions Online Sale: Maps and Atlases October 08, 2020 October 09, 2020 181 148 81.77% GBP 1.256 39,410.00 57,050.00 74,280.00 109,829.00 142,485.94 147.86%
8 #108658 Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers Classic Sale - Books, Prints October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 61 53 86.89% EUR 1.13 8,840.00 12,220.00 13,510.00 45,251.70 53,477.60 334.95%
9 #IT171 Potomack Company Between the Wars: Works on Paper October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 51 44 86.27% USD 1.0 29,700.00 52,650.00 56,250.00 41,093.75 41,093.75 73.06%
10 #593 RR Auction Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 9/12 October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 909 565 62.16% USD 1.0 714,000.00 1,054,600.00 2,185,200.00 1,020,250.00 1,020,250.00 46.69%
11 #116LT Galerie Bassenge Literature and Autographs October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 695 387 55.68% EUR 1.13 223,970.00 223,970.00 385,160.00 292,533.20 351,814.89 75.95%
12 #26609 Bonhams Prints and Multiples October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 283 195 68.90% GBP 1.256 291,700.00 416,900.00 558,600.00 563,461.25 732,096.14 100.87%
13 #100720 Alaska Auction October Auction - Prints October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 30 29 96.67% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 2,971.03 2,971.02
14 #100720 Dominic Winter Book Auctions Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Travel & Exploration, Science & Medicine October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 451 373 82.71% GBP 1.256 149,030.00 222,290.00 256,040.00 328,788.00 426,550.76 128.41%
15 #100720 Purcell Auctioneers Irish Interest Book & Ephemera Auction October 07, 2020 October 09, 2020 593 552 93.09% EUR 1.13 26,540.00 45,010.00 51,150.00 45,462.00 53,725.97 88.88%
16 #8014 Heritage Auctions Photographs October 06, 2020 October 08, 2020 356 239 67.13% USD 1.0 898,500.00 1,371,500.00 2,210,000.00 936,393.75 936,393.75 42.37%
17 #2041b Bruun Rasmussen Books October 06, 2020 October 08, 2020 137 125 91.24% DKK 0.165 489,000.00 633,800.00 696,200.00 831,937.50 131,636.65 119.50%
18 #116WB Galerie Bassenge Valuable Books October 06, 2020 October 09, 2020 866 462 53.35% EUR 1.13 535,100.00 535,100.00 786,000.00 726,345.00 862,096.26 92.41%
19 #142040 Heritage Auctions US Currency Weekly Online - Bidstart 9/29 October 06, 2020 October 08, 2020 638 625 97.96% USD 1.0 100,380.00 347,260.00 352,505.00 119,279.80 119,279.80 33.84%
20 #282040 Heritage Auctions World Currency Weekly - Internet bidstart 9/27 October 06, 2020 October 08, 2020 159 159 100.00% USD 1.0 24,940.00 37,410.00 37,410.00 42,300.40 42,300.40 113.07%
21 #71668 Dorotheum Prints and Multiples - Prints October 06, 2020 October 08, 2020 270 212 78.52% EUR 1.13 0.00 0.00 0.00 620,904.00 732,804.50
22 #2041a Bruun Rasmussen Prints October 05, 2020 October 06, 2020 91 81 89.01% DKK 0.165 248,700.00 269,700.00 317,200.00 288,187.50 45,561.23 90.85%
23 #122040 Heritage Auctions Comics, Animation, & Art Weekly Online - bidstart 9/27 October 04, 2020 October 06, 2020 988 982 99.39% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 465,743.40 465,743.40
24 #162040 Heritage Auctions Movie Posters Weekly - Bidstart 9/27 October 04, 2020 October 06, 2020 502 499 99.40% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 65,021.40 65,021.40
25 #1477 Carlsen Gallery A Most Important Antique Auction October 04, 2020 October 06, 2020 35 22 62.86% USD 1.0 6,075.00 14,050.00 23,350.00 12,887.50 12,887.50 55.19%
26 #152040 Heritage Auctions Sports Collectibles Weekly - Bidstart 9/20 October 04, 2020 October 05, 2020 229 229 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 149,409.80 149,409.80
27 #108421 Mirabaud-Mercier Auctioneers Sports October 03, 2020 October 06, 2020 179 160 89.39% EUR 1.13 40,540.00 57,360.00 61,720.00 49,132.35 57,944.97 79.61%
28 #100320 North American Auction Company Early October American Indian & Western Sale October 03, 2020 October 09, 2020 104 77 74.04% USD 1.0 18,800.00 38,500.00 55,900.00 15,552.00 20,385.90 27.82%
29 #100320 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper October 03, 2020 October 05, 2020 200 189 94.50% USD 1.0 71,900.00 142,050.00 146,850.00 37,631.00 37,631.00 25.63%
30 #50034 Heritage Auctions Michael Jordan & Basketball Icon Sports Catalogue October 03, 2020 October 05, 2020 376 369 98.14% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 4,264,660.80 4,264,660.80
31 #7237 Heritage Auctions European Comic Art Also Featuring Comics and Animation Signature Auction October 03, 2020 October 05, 2020 633 610 96.37% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,596,346.00 1,596,346.00
32 #790 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Prints and Multiples October 02, 2020 October 06, 2020 141 133 94.33% USD 1.0 671,100.00 998,900.00 1,074,900.00 1,360,704.00 1,360,704.00 126.59%
33 #107721 Ader Books - October 02, 2020 October 06, 2020 309 236 76.38% EUR 1.13 28,735.00 38,470.00 53,850.00 60,441.00 71,408.88 112.24%
34 #12602 Brunk Auctions Premier and Emporium Auction October 02, 2020 October 06, 2020 45 44 97.78% USD 1.0 154,300.00 227,900.00 230,900.00 400,745.00 400,745.00 173.56%
35 #93020 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1800) - bidstart 9/18 September 30, 2020 October 05, 2020 105 88 83.81% EUR 1.13 3,945.00 4,950.00 11,250.00 7,701.94 9,083.40 68.46%
36 #93020 University Archives Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, and Books September 30, 2020 October 08, 2020 357 325 91.04% USD 1.0 535,470.00 653,470.00 1,018,120.00 636,362.85 636,362.85 62.50%
37 #92920 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 9/18 September 29, 2020 October 05, 2020 46 31 67.39% EUR 1.13 17,570.00 22,970.00 33,370.00 20,439.68 24,105.89 61.25%
38 #92820 Catawiki B. V. Old and Rare Books (Pre-1700) - bidstart 9/18 September 28, 2020 October 05, 2020 60 60 100.00% EUR 1.13 10,300.00 13,240.00 13,240.00 11,370.88 13,410.44 85.88%
39 #92720 Catawiki B. V. Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 9/18 September 27, 2020 October 05, 2020 50 38 76.00% EUR 1.13 5,290.00 6,260.00 18,780.00 7,188.55 8,477.96 38.28%
40 #92620 Catawiki B. V. Photography - bidstart 9/18 September 26, 2020 October 05, 2020 23 9 39.13% EUR 1.13 16,200.00 18,900.00 86,200.00 17,222.00 20,311.05 19.98%
41 #A194b Koller Auctions Old Master Prints September 25, 2020 October 06, 2020 34 32 94.12% CHF 1.063 43,300.00 59,300.00 60,500.00 92,750.00 101,241.99 153.31%
42 #91120 Neal Auction Company Fall Estates Auction September 11, 2020 October 09, 2020 88 69 78.41% USD 1.0 79,200.00 120,300.00 135,950.00 127,784.00 127,784.00 93.99%
  • 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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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