• 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.
    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.
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    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.
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    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
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    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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PBA Galleries: Fine and Rare Books

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine and Rare Books Total Sales (USD) 135,730.00
Auction Date July 23, 2020 - July 23, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 141,300.00
Sale Number #705 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 221,900.00
Total Lots 252
Sold Lots 175 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 211,900.00
% of Lots Sold 69.44% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 328,700.00
Unsold Lots 77 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.29%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
175 Franklin, Benjamin

Experiments and Observations on Electricity made at Philadelphia in America... To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. The Whole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one Volume, and Illustrated with Coppe

1769 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 19,200.00
33 Dickens, Charles

[Great Expectations] as published in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal

1860-61 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
200 Fergusson, James

The Rock-Cut Temples of India. Illustrated by Seventy-Four Photographs Taken on the Spot by Major Gill

1864 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,600.00
166 Feynman, Richard Phillips

Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character...as told to Ralph Leighton

[1985] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,400.00
79 Kipling, Rudyard

The Jungle Book

1899 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,100.00
3 Bierce, Ambrose

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce

1909-11 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,900.00
37 Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby [with] signed card by Hablot K. Browne in receipt of payment for his illustrations for Nicholas Nickleby

1838-1839 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
75 Hemingway, Ernest

Across the River and Into the Trees

1950 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
153 Darwin, Charles

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

1861 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,600.00
54 Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Buried Alive, or Ten Years of Penal Servitude in Siberia

1881 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,700.00
5 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson, and The Journal of His Tour to the Hebrides. Illustrated with Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

1885 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,920.00
146 Twiss, Richard

Chess

1787 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,920.00
237 Serafini, Luigi and Franco Maria Ricci

Codex Seraphinianus

1981 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
109 Stevenson, Robert Louis

A Child's Garden of Verses

1885 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,800.00
171 Ruskin, John

[Works, i.e.] The Complete Works of John Ruskin

1903-1912 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
221 Charles, R.H., editor

The Book of Enoch [&] The Book of the Secrets of Enoch

1893 & 1896 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,680.00
59 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles

1902 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
123 Viva

Superstar: A Novel - Presentation copy with Polaroid stills

1970 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
238 Shakespeare, William

The Tragedy of Cymbeline - 15 leaves from the second folio

[1632] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,320.00
30 Dickens, Charles

Autograph letter signed by Charles Dickens declining a fundraising subscription for the Saint Martin's Library framed with lithograph portrait of the author

1841 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,200.00
139 Brant, Sebastian and Jacob Locher

Stultifera navis mortalium, in qva fatvi affectvs, mores, conatvs atqve stvdia, quibus vita hæc nostra, im omni hominum genere, scatet, cunctis sapientiæ cultoribus depinguntur, & uelut in speculo ob oculos ponuntur. Liber salutaribus doctrinis & admoniti

1572 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,200.00
2 Beckett, Samuel

The North. With Three Original Etchings By Avigdor Arikha

1972 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,140.00
50 Dickens, Charles

Rejection letter from Charles Dickens declining a submission for publication in Household Words

1856 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,140.00
111 Twain, Mark

The Writings of Mark Twain, Definitive Edition

1922 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,140.00
113 Updike, John

Four inscribed volumes by John Updike

Various dates USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,140.00
  • 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
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