• 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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    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
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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.
    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.
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    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.
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    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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Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Scottish Topography from the David Wilson Library

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Scottish Topography from the David Wilson Library Total Sales (GBP) 320,860.60
Auction Date November 11, 2020 - November 12, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 149,220.00
Sale Number #111120 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 220,950.00
Total Lots 600
Sold Lots 553 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 171,470.00
% of Lots Sold 92.17% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 253,750.00
Unsold Lots 47 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 126.45%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
142 Edward (Duke of Windsor, 1894-1972)

Edward (Duke of Windsor, 1894-1972). A highly important Typed Letter Signed, Paris, 13 March 1939

1939 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 8,680.00
224 Hobbes (Thomas).

Hobbes (Thomas).

1651 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 6,960.00
11 Mercator (Gerard) - Ptolemaeus (Claudius).

Mercator (Gerard) - Ptolemaeus (Claudius). Geographiae libri octo, 1605

1605 GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,240.00
3

Canada. Drawings by Enooesweetok of the Sikosilingmint Tribe of Eskimo, 1st edition, 1915

1915 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 5,280.00
168 Pole (Reginald, 1500-1558).

Pole (Reginald, 1500-1558). Rare Letter Signed, Carpentras, 16 April 1539

1539 GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 GBP 5,208.00
188

Krakow Deed. A diploma giving citizenship of the city of Krakow in Poland

1630 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 3,968.00
166 Philip (Prince, 1921-),

Philip (Prince, 1921-), Duke of Edinburgh. Autograph Letter Signed, ‘Philip’, 8 March [1954]

1954 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 3,720.00
75 Jameson (Robert).

Jameson (Robert). Mineralogy of the Shetland Islands, 1st edition, 1798, & 13 others, geology

1798 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 3,600.00
1 Ali (Shahamat).

Ali (Shahamat). The Sikhs and Afghans, 1st edition, 1847, & 3 others on India & Afghanistan

1847 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 3,360.00
242

Pamphlets & Broadsides. A collection of 17th-19th century pamphlets & broadsides etc.

17th-19th century GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,880.00
256 [Tasso, Torquato].

Tasso (Torquato). Godfrey of Bulloigne, London, 1600, ex libris John Bowle (1725-1788)

1600 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,760.00
100 Torfaeus (Thormodus).

Torfaeus (Thormodus). Orcades seu Rerum Orcadensium Historiae, 1st edition, Copenhagen, 1697

1697 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,400.00
158 Jenner (Edward, 1749-1823),

Jenner (Edward, 1749-1823). A George III silver snuff box by IB, Birmingham 1795

1795 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,356.00
245 [Pepys, Samuel].

Pepys (Samuel). Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy, 1690

1690 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,220.00
143 Abdication of Edward VIII.

Edward VIII's Abdication. Important letter from Samuel Hoare, 10 December 1936

GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,108.00
208 Chapman (George, translator).

Chapman (Chapman). The Crowne of Homers Workes, Batrachomyomachia, 1st edition, 1624

1624? GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,040.00
239 Milton (John).

Milton (John). Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books, 2nd edition, 1674

1674 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,980.00
7 Fullerton (James Alexander).

Fullerton (J. A.). Views in the Himalaya and Neilgherry Hills, 1st edition, 1848

1848 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,920.00
206 Blackstone (William).

Blackstone (William). Law Tracts, 2 volumes, 1st edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1762

1762 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,860.00
253

Spanish Poetry. 3 volumes, 1634-1806

1634-1806 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,860.00
340 Langton (Robert)

Antiquarian. A collection of mostly 19th century reference

1891 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,860.00
373 Thomson (William)

Mathematics. A large collection of 19th & early 20th century mathematics reference & related

1882 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,800.00
62 Farrer (James).

Farrer (James). Notice of Runic Inscriptions in the Orkneys, 1st edition, 1862, & 19 others

1862 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 1,740.00
355 Hunter (Joseph).

Hunter (Joseph). Hallamshire, 1st edition, 1819, & numerous others

1819 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,740.00
2 (Hartley, David).

American Revolution - (Hartley, David). Letters on the American War, 6th edition(?), 1779

1779 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,680.00
  • 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
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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
    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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