• 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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Michael Treloar: Books, Photographs & Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Photographs & Manuscripts Total Sales (AUD) 48,895.05
Auction Date November 04, 2018 - November 04, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 64,660.00
Sale Number #3 High Estimate of Lots Sold (AUD) 88,050.00
Total Lots 453
Sold Lots 231 Low Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 172,200.00
% of Lots Sold 50.99% High Estimate of All Lots (AUD) 233,750.00
Unsold Lots 222 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 20.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
212 SPENCER, (Sir Walter) Baldwin (editor)

Report on the Work of the Horn Scientific Expedition to Central Australia. [Volume 1: Introduction, Narrative, Summary of Results, Supplement to Zoological Report, Map. Volume 2: Zoology. Volume 3: Geology and Botany. Volume 4: Anthropology].

1896 AUD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 AUD 5,825.00
444 WILLSHIRE, William Henry

The Aborigines of Central Australia, with a Vocabulary of the Dialect of the Alice Springs Natives.

1888 AUD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 AUD 1,514.50
23 ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON, J.

Atlas Classique et Universel de G\u00e9ographie Ancienne et Moderne, contenant les D\u00e9couvertes et les Divisions les plus Nouvelles dans les Cinq Parties du Monde, pour servir \u00e0 la Lecture des Voyages, des Ouvrages Historiques, et des Meilleurs T

1847 AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 1,165.00
105 CROWLEY, Aleister

The Diary of a Drug Fiend.

1922 AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 AUD 1,165.00
308

OZ [Magazine]. A broken run of 27 issues.

1963 to 1968 AUD 200.00 - 300.00 AUD 932.00
261 LYNDE, Fred C.

Descriptive Illustrated Catalogue of the Sixty-Eight Competitive Designs for the Great Tower for London.

1890 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 873.75
262 McCOY, Frederick

Natural History of Victoria. Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria; or, Figures and Descriptions of the Living Species of All Classes of the Victorian Indigenous Animals. Decades I, II, IV, VI, VII, VIII, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV, XVII, XVIII, and XIX [fourt

1878 to 1889 AUD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 AUD 873.75
131

Ern Malley's Journal. Volume 1, Number 1, November 1952 to Volume 2, Number 1, May 1955. [Published sporadically, and edited by Max Harris, John Reed and Barrie Reid].

1952 to 1955 AUD 150.00 - 200.00 AUD 757.25
67 BROWN, John Ednie

The Forest Flora of South Australia.

1882 to 1890 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 699.00
151 FORSHAW, Joseph M. and William T. COOPER

Australian Parrots.

[1980 and 1981] AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 699.00
285 MORRIS, Frank T.

Six limited edition volumes on Australian birds by Frank Morris are offered as one lot. The collection comprises 'Birds of Prey of Australia' (1973); 'Pigeons and Doves of Australia' (1976); 'Finches of Australia - a Folio' (1976); 'Birds of the Australia

1973 to 1979 AUD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 AUD 699.00
390 STUART, John McDouall

Explorations in Australia. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the years 1858 ... [to] 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea. Edited from Mr Stuart's manuscript by William Hardman.

AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 535.90
379 SPENCER, Sir Baldwin and Francis James GILLEN

The Arunta. A Study of a Stone Age People.

1927 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 489.30
22 ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam

Travels in the Regions of the Upper and Lower Amoor and the Russian Acquisitions on the Confines of India and China. With Adventures among the Mountain Kirghis; and the Manjours, Manyargs, Toungouz, Touzemtz, Goldi and Gelyaks: the Hunting and Pastoral Tr

1860 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 466.00
429 WARD, Ebenezer

The South-Eastern District of South Australia. Its Resources and Requirements.

AUD 800.00 - 900.00 AUD 466.00
430 WARD, Lynd

Vertigo. A Novel in Woodcuts.

1937 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 466.00
21 ATKINSON, Thomas Witlam

Oriental and Western Siberia. A Narrative of Seven Years' Explorations and Adventures in Siberia, Mongolia, the Kirghis Steppes, Chinese Tartary, and Part of Central Asia.

1858 AUD 500.00 - 600.00 AUD 442.70
75 BYRON, Robert

The Road to Oxiana.

1937 AUD 700.00 - 800.00 AUD 419.40
38 BASEDOW, Herbert

The Australian Aboriginal.

1929/ 1925 AUD 100.00 - 150.00 AUD 396.10
231 KABERRY, Phyllis M.

Aboriginal Woman, Sacred and Profane. [A Study of the Aboriginal Women of Australia (cover sub-title)].

1939 AUD 400.00 - 500.00 AUD 396.10
30 BAIKOV, Nikolai Apollonovich

Big Game Hunting in Manchuria. Adapted from the Russian by Serge Ivanoff and Gertrude Mack.

1936 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 372.80
1 COLLIVER, Captain Eustace James and Lieutenant Brian Harold RICHARDSON

The Forty-Third. The Story and Official History of the 43rd Battalion AIF.

1920 AUD 600.00 - 700.00 AUD 349.50
55 BLIGH, William

Voyage \u00e0 la Mer du Sud ... avec une Relation de la R\u00e9volte \u00e0 bord son Vaisseau, etc. Traduit de l'Anglais par F. Soules.

1792 AUD 600.00 - 800.00 AUD 349.50
137

A Japanese shunga hand scroll featuring a series of 16 hand-painted erotic scenes.

AUD 400.00 - 600.00 AUD 349.50
147 [FLINDERS, Matthew]. INGLETON, Geoffrey C.

Matthew Flinders. Navigator and Chartmaker.

1986 AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 AUD 349.50
  • 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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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