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<center><b>Potter & Potter Auctions<br>Fine Books & Manuscripts,<br>including Americana<br>February 16, 2023</b><b>Potter & Potter, Feb. 16:</b> [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. <i>The Works…now newly imprinted.</i> Edited by F.S. Ellis. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896. $100,000 to $125,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Feb. 16:</b> [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879–1955)]. –– ORLIK, Emil (1870–1932), artist. Lithograph signed (“Albert Einstein”). N.p., 1928. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Feb. 16:</b> TOLKIEN, John Ronald Reuel. <i>[The Lord of the Rings trilogy:] The Fellowship of the Ring.</i> 1954. –– <i>The Two Towers.</i> 1954. –– <i>The Return of the King.</i> 1955. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Feb. 16:</b> CLEMENS, Samuel Langhorne ("Mark Twain") and Charles Dudley WARNER. <i>The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.</i> Hartford and Chicago, 1873. $6,000 to $8,000.<b>Potter & Potter, Feb. 16:</b> LOVECRAFT, Howard Phillips. <i>Beyond the Wall of Sleep.</i> Collected by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1943. $2,000 to $3,000. -
<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> [Black Sun Press] Proust, Marcel, 47 Unpublished Letters from Marcel Proust to Walter Berry, Paris: The Black Sun Press, 1930. $400 to $600.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963), <i>Spring and All,</i> first edition, Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923. $400 to $600.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Washington, George (1732-1799), Autograph Letter Signed. $10,000 to $15,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849), Autograph Letter Signed. $30,000 to $50,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862), Autograph Manuscript. $3,000 to $5,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> [Paris Commnue], Photograph album. $1,500 to $2,500.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Fleming, Ian (1908-1964), <i>Casino Royale,</i> first edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. $3,000 to $4,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Audubon, John James and the Rev. John Bachman, <i>The Quadrupeds of North America,</i> New York: V.G. Audubon, 1849, 1851, 1854. $4,000 to $6,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Lewis, C.S. (1898-1963), <i>The Voyage of the Dawn Treader,</i> first edition, London: Geoffrey Bles Ltd, 1952. $600 to $800.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> [Bhagavad Gita] Wilkins, Charles, trans., <i>The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon…,</i> first edition, London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785. $700 to $1,000.<b>Bonhams Skinner, Jan. 23 – Feb. 2:</b> Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, <i>Faust: Eine Tragodie von Goethe,</i> Hammersmith: Printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson & Emery Walker at the Doves Press, 1906-1910. $800 to $1,200. -
<b><center>University Archives<br>Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia<br>February 1, 2023</b><b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Thomas Paine ALS Confirming Christmas Eve Attack Likely Based on Anti-Christianity, “The account you heard of a man firing into my house is true.” $24,000 to $35,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> George Washington Gives a Horse and Guns to His Loyal Guard 10 Days Before Resigning as Commander-in-Chief. $20,000 to $30,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> John Hancock ALS, “General Howe is bent on coming here” - Troops, Martha Washington, & 1777 Continental Congress, to Wife Dolly! $20,000 to $30,000.<b><center>University Archives<br>Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia<br>February 1, 2023</b><b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Abraham Lincoln Boldly and Fully Signs Appointment of Consul Who Would Facilitate Bond Sales in Europe Financing Civil War. $6,000 to $7,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> The Rarest of Dual Signed Kennedy Items! 1963 Christmas Card with "Blessed Christmas" Removed at the Last Minute for Kennedy's Jewish Friends. $15,000 to $20,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> George Gershwin Signed Contract for 1st Production of <i>Porgy and Bess,</i> Also Signed by Dubose Heyward & Ira Gershwin, Historic! $15,000 to $20,000.<b><center>University Archives<br>Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia<br>February 1, 2023</b><b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Einstein Signed, “Two years after the fall of the German Goyim” 1st Ed. of <i>Mein Weltbild.</i> $12,000 to $14,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Walt Disney <i>Fantasia</i>-Era Boldly Signed TLS Re: "Special Effects Department," PSA Certified Authentic & With Phil Sears COA. $6,000 to $7,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> 1996-97 Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls Home Game-Worn Jersey Showcasing "Light" Evident Use, MEARS A5. $6,000 to $7,000.<b><center>University Archives<br>Rare Manuscripts, Books & Sports Memorabilia<br>February 1, 2023</b><b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Wayne Gretzky’s 1994 All-Star Used Game Jersey, Inscribed to Former MLB Player! $4,500 to $5,500.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> <i>The Astronauts</i> Signed by All 7 Mercury Astronauts! $4,000 to $5,000.<b>University Archives, Feb. 1:</b> Fabulous Edison, Firestone, Burroughs Signed Journal With 44 Original Photos, Very Rare. $4,000 to $5,000. -
<b>Il Ponte, Jan. 31:</b> BLAEU, Joannes and Martinus MARTINI - <i>Theatrum orbis terrarum, sive Novus Atlas. Pars sexta. Novus Altas Sinensis.</i> Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1655. €8.000 to €12.000.<b>Il Ponte, Jan. 31:</b> ORTELIUS, Abraham - <i>Theatrum orbis terrarum.. Nomenclator ptolemaicus.</i> Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1579. €10.000 to €15.000.<b>Il Ponte, Jan. 31:</b> PIRANESI, Giovanni Battista - <i>Carceri d'invenzione.</i> [Rome: G.B. Piranesi, second half of the 18th century]. €20.000 to €30.000.
Winter Associates: November 7, 2022 Auction, 559, Plainville, CT
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- 11/07/2022 - 11/07/2022
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | Three lithographs of Native Americans form McKenney and Hall’s “Indian Tribes of North America”, | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 352.00 | |||
| 30 | W. J. L. (Bill) Gibbons (Canadian 1914 - 1994 ) | Portfolio case containing five black and white photos of Native Americans, "The Patriarch", "Four Score and Seven" "Mine Eyes have seen" "The Past to the Future" and "A Stoney Indian" | USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 224.00 | ||
| 38 | John Webber (English, 1751- 1793) | 18th C. Engraving "A Man of the Sandwich Islands, in a Mask", | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 192.00 | ||
| 51 | Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900 - 1988), | "Moving Shadows", | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 96.00 | ||
| 53 | Luigi Lucioni (American, 1900 - 1988), | "Pomfret Church" | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 96.00 | ||
| 58 | John Stobart (American, b. 1929) | "San Pedro" | USD 125.00 - 300.00 | USD 256.00 | ||
| 67 | Hand-colored Baptismal certificate, Pennsylvania Dutch, for Benjamin Hummel | USD 100.00 - 175.00 | USD 64.00 | |||
| 132 | Tamara Hoernes-Kasimir (Austria/United States, 1887- 1972), | “Paris-Montmartre" (Artist at Easel), | Oakland CA | USD 100.00 - 175.00 | USD 96.00 | |
| 134 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), | "Soupe a Trois Sous", | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 480.00 | ||
| 136 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903), | “La Marchande de Moutard “, | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 384.00 | ||
| 155 | Jean-Francois Raffaelli | "La Neige", | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 157 | William Hogarth (British, 1697-1764), | "Self-portrait Painting the Comic Muse” | USD 125.00 - 250.00 | USD 160.00 | ||
| 159 | William Samuel Schwartz (American, 1896-1977), | “Melancholy” (Portrait of the Artist’s Wife and her Grandfather), | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 224.00 | ||
| 164 | Paul César Helleu (French, 1859 - 1927) | "Jeune Femme Endormie fur Un Canape Louis XVI", | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 576.00 | ||
| 167 | Alphonse Mucha (Czech 1860-1939), | "Forgive Us Our Trespasses", from the work "Le Pater", | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 640.00 | ||
| 168 | Conrad Felixmuller (German, 1897 - 1977), | "Self-Portrait in City Landscape (Dresden)" | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 576.00 | ||
| 185 | Jack Youngerman (American, b. 1926), | five silkscreens, "Untitled", | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 416.00 | ||
| 198 | Will Barnet (American, 1911-2012), | "The Bannister", | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 544.00 | ||
| 202 | Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893-1983), | "Homage à Masson (Mourlot, # 1111)", | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 4,160.00 | ||
| 222 | Vintage Greyhound lines double-sided porcelain sign | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,408.00 | |||
| 226 | Vintage Piedmont (smokes) porcelain sign, cobalt blue background, white text and yellow accents | USD 100.00 - 175.00 | USD 128.00 | |||
| 232 | Arthur Heintzelman (American, 1891-1965), | Two etchings including: "Self-Portrait -The Artist”, | USD 125.00 - 250.00 | USD 96.00 | ||
| 236 | Eyvind Earle (American 1916 - 2000), | "Above the Sea", | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 512.00 | ||
| 237 | Eyvind Earle (American 1916 - 2000) | serigraph on paper, stylized landscape, in bold greens, blues and blacks, with red accent, a large tree branch appears in the foreground top left, | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 704.00 | ||
| 239 | EPHEMERA: 150+ Stereographic views, late 19th/ early 20th C., | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 1,664.00 |
