• 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.
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Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana Total Sales (USD) 5,218,500.00
Auction Date December 05, 2017 - December 05, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,367,300.00
Sale Number #14998 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,954,800.00
Total Lots 251
Sold Lots 174 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 5,127,800.00
% of Lots Sold 69.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 7,522,400.00
Unsold Lots 77 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

1823 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 432,500.00
179 [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955).]

Albert Einstein’s telescope.

late 19th century. USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 432,500.00
199

The 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Daniel Nathans

1978 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 372,500.00
8

YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN– Manuscript map, "No 1 Carte générale de l'Isle de New York et des Environs...No 2.

c.1781-1782. USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 275,000.00
20 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed ("Go:Washington" and "GW" in postscript), to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, Newburgh 14 December 1782.

1782 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 275,000.00
98 SMITH, John (1580-1631)

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An° 1584 to this present 1624.

1624 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 162,500.00
206

BIBLE – COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOT, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin.

1514-17. USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 137,500.00
38 CALIFORNIA. [NEVE, FELIPE DE (1724-1784).]

Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias.

1784 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 106,250.00
1

LORD DUNMORE'S WAR – Manuscript, "Journal of the Expedition down the River Ohio Under the Command of his Excellency John Earl of Dunmore Lieutenant and Governor General of his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia 1774," Virginia

1774 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 93,750.00
197 LINSCHOTEN, Ian Huygen van (1563-1611)

His Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes.

1598 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 93,750.00
65 LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and CLARK, William (1770-1838)

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6.

1814 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 87,500.00
158

RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS – Kniga Zertsalo tainstv i kontsa vsemirnogo The Mirror of Sacraments and the End of the World, in Church Slavonic, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER Baltic region, c.1818.

c.1818. USD 90,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 87,500.00
16 WASHINGTON, George Washington (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed ("Go:Washington"), to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, Philadelphia, 4 January 1782.

1782 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 81,250.00
121 ELIOT, George (1819-1880)

Middlemarch.

1871 - 1872. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 81,250.00
11

SIEGE OF YORKTOWN – Manuscript, "Journal du Siege de york", n.p., c.

1781 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 75,000.00
103 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

Letter signed ("Go Washington") to Colonel Christopher Greene, "Head Qrs."

1780 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 75,000.00
140 SALINGER, Jerome D. (1919-2010)

A collection of 21 typed and autograph letters signed (most as “Jerry," 1 in type “Hanso Kupperman," 1 “JDS") with 1 autograph postcard (unsigned), all to Toody Maher

1979-1996. USD 55,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 68,750.00
59 KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963), KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994)

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington 1789 to John F. Kennedy 1961

1961 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 62,500.00
217 LE HAY, Jacques (c.1645-c.1713) and FERRIOL, Charles de (1637-1722)

Recueil de cent estampes représentant differentes nations du Levant.

1714 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 62,500.00
221 GUTENBERG, Johann. –

BIBLIA LATINA.

1455 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 62,500.00
251 XIONG JIE (late 13th-c.) and XIONG GANGDA (late 13th-c), editors.

Xinbian yindian xingli qunshu jujie Newly Compiled Collected Works and Nature and Principle, with Pronunciation Guide and Sentence-by-Sentence Information.

after 1434-1450. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 62,500.00
120 DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-1870)

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

1844 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 60,000.00
10

SIEGE OF YORKTOWN – Manuscript, "Journal du Siege d'york en Virginie", "Fait au Camp D'york," 20 October 1781.

1781 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 52,500.00
159

MEXICAN ILLUMINATED MISSAL – Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and Spanish.

1702 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 51,250.00
6 Washington, George (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed (“Go:Washington") as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, New Windsor

1781 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,000.00
  • 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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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
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