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Auction Name Books, Autographs and Prints Total Sales (EUR) 248,016.00
Auction Date December 14, 2017 - December 14, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 140,470.00
Sale Number #148b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 179,760.00
Total Lots 372
Sold Lots 182 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 217,060.00
% of Lots Sold 48.92% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 284,990.00
Unsold Lots 190 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 87.03%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
468 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Le Antichità Romane

1756 EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 EUR 65,000.00
558 Fotografie - Oriente

Stato Maggiore della R.a Nave "Rapido" Album, 260 x 350 mm,

1886-1888 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
690 Eluard, Paul

Solidarité. Poème de Paul Eluard.

1938 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 15,000.00
697 Fontana, Lucio

Documenti e personaggi 1: Manifiesto Blanco 1946

1976 EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,500.00
621 Russia - Pluchart, Alexandre

Collection de vues de Saint-Petersbourg et de ses environs, Dessineés d'aprés nature, par divers Artistes

1823 - 1822 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,100.00 EUR 6,000.00
649 Arte Concreta

12/ stampe a mano /arte concreta

1948 EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,250.00
655 Bartolini, Luigi

Sante e cavalle

1943 EUR 1,900.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
647 Arte Astratta

Art d'Aujourd'hui - Maîtres de l'Art Abstrait - Album I

1953 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 4,250.00
476 Roma - Cassini, Giovanni

Nuova raccolta delle megliori vedute antiche e moderne di Roma

1775 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,750.00
762

Paroles peintes I

1962 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
769 Picasso, Pablo - Neruda, Pablo

Toros. 15 lavis inedits. Poeme de Pablo Neruda.

1969 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,750.00
606 Pinelli, Bartolomeo

Nuova raccolta di cinquanta costumi pittoreschi incisi all'acqua forte

1816 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,500.00
712 Giacometti, Alberto - Vitali, Lamberto

Quarantacinque disegni di Alberto Giacometti

1963 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,500.00
768 Picasso, Pablo - Dominguin, Luis Miguel

Toros y Toreros

1961 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,125.00
440 Mazzola, Girolamo Francesco Mariadetto il Parmigianino

Raccolta di disegni originali di Fra.co Mazzola detto il Parmigianino

1772 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,000.00
688 Disegni - Sartorio, Aristide Giulio

Bozzetti per Christus

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,000.00
648 Arte Astratta italiana

arte astratta. Italia 1955

1955 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,750.00
770 Picasso, Pablo - Roy, Claude

La guerre et la paix

1954 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
694 Fautrier, Jean - Ponge, Francis

L'Asparagus

1963 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
737 Matisse, Henri

Poèmes de Charles d'Orléans. Manuscrits et illustrés par Hanri Matisse

1959 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,500.00
756 Novelli, Gastone

Viaggio in Grecia

1966 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,500.00
745 Mirò, Joan - Hirtz, Lise

"Il était une petite pie?" . 7 chansons et 3 chansons pour Hyacinthe avec 8 dessins en couleur par Joan Mirò

1928 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,375.00
530 Araldica - Tettoni, Leone e Saladini, Francesco

Teatro araldico ovvero Raccolta Generale delle armi ed insegne delle più illustri e nobili casate …

1841-1851 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,250.00
618 Roma - Thomas, Antoine Jean Baptiste

Un an a Rome et dans ses environs

1823 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,250.00
763

Paroles Peintes II

1965 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • 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.
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