Potomack Company: January Classic Sale, IT175, Alexandria

Auction Details

Auction Date: 01/21/2021 - 01/21/2021

Page Size: 9 items in 1 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1000	REMBRANDT VAN RIJN (DUTCH, 1606-1669)	ABRAHAM'S SACRIFICE, 1655		1655	USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 34,375.00
1008	ALBRECHT DURER (GERMAN, 1471-1528)	ECCE HOMO, BEARING OF THE CROSS, and CRUCIFIXION from THE ENGRAVED PASSION			USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 2,125.00
1009	UNIDENTIFIED ARTIST AFTER ALBRECHT DURER (GERMAN, 1566)	THE VIRGIN SEATED ON A GRASSY BANK, 1566		1566	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 375.00
1010	AFTER GIOVANNI BATTISTA PIRANESI (ITALIAN, 1720-1778)	TWO ETCHINGS FROM "VEDUTE DI ROMA"			USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 343.75
1011	AFTER JEAN-ANTOINE WATTEAU (FRENCH, 1684-1721)	THE FOUR SEASONS			USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 625.00
1073	FRANCOIS DE CUVILLIES (FRENCH, 1695-1768)	TWELVE ARCHITECTURAL ENGRAVINGS IN TWO FRAMES			USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
1124	JOHN JAMES CHALON (BRITISH, 1778-1854)	SIX PLATES from 'COSTUME OF PARIS: THE INCIDENTS TAKEN FROM NATURE"	London	1820	USD 200.00 - 300.00	Not Sold
1168	VALENTINE GREEN AFTER JOHN TRUMBULL (BRITISH, 1739-1813)	GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON			USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 468.75
1169		GROUP OF FIVE SILHOUETTES, A LITHOGRAPH AND A FRAKTUR			USD 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Schedel (Hartmann). Liber Chronicarum, first edition, Nuremberg, Anton Koberger for Sebald Schreyer and Sebastian Kammermeister, 1493. £30,000 to £50,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Greek Orthodox Church].- Menaion, manuscript in Greek, on paper, in Greek letters, [Eastern Mediterranean], [c. 1400]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: American Revolution.- Loyalist's cow powder horn, engraved with the cypher "GR" for George III surmounted by a crown, an inscription, and on reverse an engraving of the "North River" [Hudson River], 1777. £5,000 to £7,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Illuminated prayer book.- Maria Carcer y Trigueros... Santa Misa y Oraciones, illuminated manuscript in Spanish, on paper, [c. 1850]. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Hardy (Thomas). The Mayor of Casterbridge, 2 vol., first edition in book form, original cloth, 1886. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: [Austen (Jane)]. Emma: A Novel, first edition, Printed for John Murray, 1816. £7,000 to £10,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Brontë (Charlotte). Jane Eyre. An Autobiography, 3 vol., first edition, Smith, Elder and Co., 1847. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Cruikshank (George). The Road to the Derby, one of two proof copies, Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1882. £600 to £800.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Meunier (Charles, binder).- Gruel (Leon). Manuel Historique et Bibliographique de l'Amateur de Reliures, 2 vol., Paris, 1887.-1905. £3,000 to £4,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28 January 2021

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Burne-Jones (Sir Edward). The Work of Edward Burne-Jones, edited by Philip Burne-Jones, one of 200 copies, [c.1900]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Nazraeli Press.- Six by Six, 36 vol. [a complete set], one of 100 sets, each with signed photograph, Portland, Or., 2010-16. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Jan. 28: Australasia.- Péron (Francois) and Freycinet. Voyage de Découvertes aux Terres Australes, 5 vol. including Atlas, second edition, Paris, 1824. £6,000 to £8,000.
Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph F. Kernan, College Football, oil on canvas, The Saturday Evening Post cover, 1932. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Joseph C. Leyendecker, Golfer Lighting a Cigarette, oil on canvas, c.1920. $7,000 to $10,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Howard Chandler Christy, In the Field, charcoal & watercolor, published in Scribner’s, 1902. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: N.C. Wyeth, Standish Reading, pen & ink, for The Courtship of Miles Standish, 1920. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Johnanna Stewart Mapes, A Fairy Book, conté crayon, for St. Nicholas Magazine, 1907. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Arnold Lobel, pen & ink, for The Frog & Toad Coloring Book, 1981. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Antonio Lopez, Today’s Fashions, study for The New York Times, 1981. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Charles Schulz, “I’ll have to go back to the house…I forgot my rubbers…” pen & ink, original 4-panel Peanuts comic, 1960. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Jan 28: Constantin Alajalov, Family Tree, watercolor and gouache, cover for The New Yorker, 1938. Estimate $3,000 to $4,000.
<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Rare 1778 Engraved map of Colonial Philadelphia after George Heap (1714-1752) and Nicholas Scull (1687-1761). $10,000 to $12,000.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Author signed and inscribed THE FOUNTAINHEAD, stated First Edition, by Ayn Rand, published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, New York, 1943. $2,000 to $2,400.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851) hand-colored aquatint engraving, "Yellow-billed Magpie, Stellers Jay, Ultramarine Jay and Clark's Crow," Plate Number CCCLXII. $1,800 to $2,200.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) autograph letter, signed, as President, to Nathan Reid detailing Jackson’s intervention on behalf of Reid's grandson. $1,800 to $2,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Edward Steichen (Luxembourg/American, 1879-1973) portfolio of photographs, "The Early Years 1900-1927, 12 Hand-Gravure Prints" #41/1000, printed in 1981. $1,400 to $1,600.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, TLS, one-page typed letter on The White House, Washington, D.C., stationary to John Marshall Butler. $1,400 to $1,600.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two Pre-Civil War slave related letters, including one written by Mariah, a female domestic slave of James Vincent Musgrove (1814-1890) to her daughter. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Two author signed and inscribed Ayn Rand related books, including one Rand signed WE THE LIVING, London 1940 edition. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: PLAN DE LA VILLE DE MEMPHIS (ETATS-UNIS) 40,000 HABITANTS pen and ink with watercolor hand drawn drainage system map, circa 1870. $700 to $900.

<center>Case Antiques Two-Day Winter Auction Jan. 30 & 31, 2021

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: Scarce Mezzotint portrait of Thomas Pownall, Colonial Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1757-1760) and South Carolina (1760). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: VIEW OF NORFOLK FROM COSPORT, VIRGINIA, John Hill, engraver, after John Shaw (U.K., 1776-1832). $600 to $700.

Case Antiques, Jan. 30-31: THE BURNING OF THE MERCHANT'S EXCHANGE, NEW YORK CITY -THE GREAT FIRE OF DECEMBER, 1835. Scarce color lithograph, a 1909 reissue of the original 1836 print. $500 to $700.
<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

<center>Christie’s Paul Destribats: Une Bibliothèque des Avant-gardes Part III 2-3 and 4 February 2021

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