• 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
  • 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
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    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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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 6/19

Auction Reports

Auction Name Old and Rare Books (Pre-1600) - Internet bidstart 6/19 Total Sales (EUR) 10,724.51
Auction Date June 30, 2020 - June 30, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 8,325.00
Sale Number #63020 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,800.00
Total Lots 34
Sold Lots 28 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 18,675.00
% of Lots Sold 82.35% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 21,780.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 49.24%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
38402763 Egnatio Danti and Proclus Diadochus

La sfera proclo liceo [bound with} Trattato dell'vso della sfera

1573 EUR 1,650.00 - 1,850.00 EUR 1,635.00
38359931 Bolzani, Valeriano

Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris aegyptiorum literis commentarii Ioannis Pierii Valeriani Bolzanii

1567 EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,362.50
38264029 Thomas Aquinas

Sancti Thome de Aquino super epistolas Sancti Pauli Comentaria preclarissima

1498 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 1,308.00
38413741 Ex officina Christofori Plantini

Andreas Alciatus - Omnia[...] emblemata.

1577 EUR 1,350.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 817.50
37978653 Villani (Giovanni)

Croniche ... nelle quali si tratta dell' origine di Firenze

1537 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 763.00
38335989 Cornelius Nepos

De Vita Catonis Senioris. Sextus Aurelius. De Vitis Caesarum. Benvenutus Imolensis De Eadem Re

1504 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 708.50
38426335 Giovanni Tonso

De Vita Emmanuelis Philiberti Allobrogum Ducis, Et Subalpinorum Principis, Libri Duo.IOANNIS TONSI P

1596 Not Available EUR 664.90
38368423 Jeronimo, Santo; Cornelis Schulting

Confessio Hieronymiana, ex omnibus Germanis B. Hieronymi operibus optima fide collecta,

1585 Not Available EUR 458.89
38372763 HERODO (HERODOTE) TO ALICARNASEO

Delle Guerre de Greci et de Persi

1533 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 384.77
38353023 Boccaccio

Della Geneologia De Gli Giovanni Boccaccio

1564 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 328.09
38407761 Terentius Afer Publius / Fabrini Giovanni

Il Terentio Latino

1548 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.00
38419251 Émond Auger

Catechismus , id est Catholica christinae iuventutis institutio [...]

1569 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 280.13
38434471 Jelle Samshuijzen

Catalogue of a collection of 225 old watermarks 15th - 19th Century

2018 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 196.20
38282173 PLUTARQUE

Plutarchi Chaeronensis Paralela [Vies des hommes illustres]

1572 Not Available EUR 179.85
38308877 THOMAE LINACRI BRITANI

De emendata structura latini sermonis ..libri sex.

1557 Not Available EUR 175.49
38461213 P. Terenzio Afro

Comoediae Ex vetustissimis libris & versuum ratione a Gabriele Faerno emendatae

1572 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 172.22
38259487 C.Plinius Caecilius Secundus

Novocomensis epi- stolarum libri decem

1547 Not Available EUR 144.97
38465881 (French Atelier)

Manuscript; One illuminated leaf from a book of hours - XV century

Not Available EUR 122.08
38290543 Lodovico Domenichi

Detti, Et Fatti De Diversi Signori Et Persone Private, I Quali Communemente Si Chiamano Facetie

1562 Not Available EUR 119.90
38328529 Apollodori Atheniensis

Grammatici Bibliotheces

1599 Not Available EUR 119.90
38287461 Christophorus Longolius

Epistolarum libri IIII. Tullianae videlicet eloquentiae ad ungem expressa imago

1540 Not Available EUR 98.10
38436397 Master of Gruninger Workshop

Virgil Aeneid: Italy, Volcano Etna, Grave of Polydorus, Winds

1502 Not Available EUR 91.56
38372667 Sebastiano Serlio

Villa Design, Italy & plan. Quarto leaf with hand coloured woodcuts

1584 Not Available EUR 59.95
38433461 Gesner, Conrad

Fish: Barbel, Barbulus & Catfish. Folio with 2 hand coloured woodcut & descriptive text on one leaf

1557 Not Available EUR 58.86
38372531 Giorgio Liberale (1527–79); W. Meyerpeck

Bay, Laurel Bush, Avocado [Persea] - Folio woodcut on verso and recto of one leaf

1565 Not Available EUR 49.05
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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: 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
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