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Auction Name Editions and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 883,710.00
Auction Date September 25, 2019 - September 25, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 594,550.00
Sale Number #1048 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 856,700.00
Total Lots 467
Sold Lots 271 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,135,150.00
% of Lots Sold 58.03% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,609,550.00
Unsold Lots 196 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
466 Banksy (b.1974)

Girl With Balloon

2004 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 52,000.00
307 Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Ingrid Bergman. The Nun (Feldman & Schellmann 314)

1983 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 45,500.00
307A Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

The Star (Feldman & Schellmann II.258)

1981 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 32,500.00
465 Banksy (b.1974)

Di-Faced Tenner (Pink)

2004 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 28,600.00
17 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate, 1633.

1633 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 20,800.00
461 Banksy (b.1974)

Napalm (Can't Beat the Feeling)

2006 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 20,800.00
246 Bridget Riley (b.1931)

Untitled (Fragment 2)

1965 GBP 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 GBP 20,150.00
180 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (after)

Grand MaternitŽ

1963 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 19,500.00
463 Banksy (b.1974)

Rude Copper

2002 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 19,500.00
91 Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

Now the King Loved Science and Geometry (Mourlot 45)

1948 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 16,900.00
137 Paul Gauguin (1848-1903)

Portrait de StŽphane MallarmŽ (Mongan/Konrfeld/Joachim 12 II Ba)

1891 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
312 Francis Bacon (1909-1992)

L'Oriestie de Eschyle (Sabatier 16)

1981 GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,600.00
287 Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997)

Salute to Aviation (Cortlett 63)

1968 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 13,000.00
462 Banksy (b.1974)

CND Soldiers

2005 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 13,000.00
460 Banksy (b.1974)

Grannies

2006 GBP 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 GBP 12,350.00
186 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Minotaure Contemplant Amoureusement Une Dormeuse (Bloch 261)

1933 GBP 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 11,700.00
458 Banksy (b.1974)

HMV

2004 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,400.00
459 Banksy (b.1974)

Golf Sale

2004 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,400.00
18 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross: Second Plate

1633 GBP 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 GBP 9,750.00
68 Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889-1946)

La CitŽ, Paris (Black 114)

1926-1927 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 9,750.00
69 Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1896-1946)

Survivors at Arras (Black 22)

1917 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,100.00
133 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

After 50 years of Surrealism (Field 74-8A-L; M&L 665-676d)

1974 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 9,100.00
396 Paula Rego (b.1935)

Girl Reading

2002 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 9,100.00
179 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Marchand de Tableaux

circa 1940 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,450.00
235 David Hockney (b.1937)

The Fires of Furious Desire (Scottish Arts Council 5, Tokyo 5)

1961 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 8,060.00
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    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
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    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.
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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
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