• 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.
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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.
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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.
  • Forum Auctions
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    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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    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.
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    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.
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    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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Stockholms Auktionsverk: Books, Maps and Manuscripts

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Maps and Manuscripts Total Sales (SEK) 2,554,654.20
Auction Date June 16, 2021 - June 16, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 1,257,800.00
Sale Number #61621 High Estimate of Lots Sold (SEK) 1,538,000.00
Total Lots 173
Sold Lots 149 Low Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 1,508,800.00
% of Lots Sold 86.13% High Estimate of All Lots (SEK) 1,844,500.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 138.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6164

ANDRÉES POLAREXPEDITION - AXEL STAKES TWO PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN DIARY 1896 and 1897.

1896 and 1897. SEK 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 SEK 551,250.00
6170

THE ANDRÉE POLAR EXPEDITION 1897 - UNIQUE ALBUM WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY AXEL STAKE.

SEK 150,000.00 - 175,000.00 SEK 147,000.00
6124

Swedish botany.

1802-43 SEK 45,000.00 - 50,000.00 SEK 85,750.00
6165 ANDRÉE, SALOMON AUGUST (1854-1897).

2 personally signed letters of recommendation (on one sheet) for Axel Stake, dated Stockholm 18 February 1897 and the port of Virgo Spitsbergen 11 July 1897

1897 SEK 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 SEK 85,750.00
6167 (STAKE, AXEL) et al.

Andrées Polar Expedition 1897

without year. SEK 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 SEK 73,500.00
6168 CAPTAIN ERIK FLODIN (d. 1714) -

THE BATTLE AT TONNING WATERCOLES AND MINIATURES.

SEK 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 SEK 73,500.00
6156 TAUBE, EVERT (1890-1976).

The dance on Sunnanö.

SEK 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 52,675.00
6054 (STAGNELIUS, ERIK JOHAN).

Lilies and Saron.

1821 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 49,000.00
6152 DUMAS PÉRE, ALEXANDRE.

Autograph manuscript, "Les Français à Naples".

SEK 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 SEK 49,000.00
6125 GUNNERUS, JOHAN ERNST - SCHØNNING, GERHARD - SUHM, PETER FREDERIK (publisher).

Det Trondhiemske Selskabs Skrifter. Part 1-4 (part 5 is missing).

1761-1768. SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 44,100.00
6030 BURNER, SOPHIAE ELISABETH.

In numerous languages / times and occasions, poetic poems were written ... By her herself again öfwersedde.

1713 SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 39,200.00
6053 (GUSTAV III).

Gustaf Adolph and Ebba Brahe, heroic drama first performed on Drottningholm on September 11, 1783

1784 SEK 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 34,300.00
6072 MATISSE.

Verve. Artistic and literary review.

1958 SEK 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 SEK 34,300.00
6169 NILS BIELKES JORDABÖKER.

2 handwritten land registers (cash books), 1711-1733

SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 31,850.00
6071 TRANSTRÖMER, TOMAS.

Poems from Runmarö.

2001 SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 29,400.00
6142 FORSIUS, SIGFRID ARON.

Prognoseis astrologicæ, eller Stiernornas och förmörkelsers significhande i gement, kartelighen aff theres figurers signification, och the gamble astrologers aphorismis sammanfattadhe til tiyo åhr, thet är ifrå anno 1611. intil 1620: ... / aff Sigfrido Ar

1609 SEK 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 SEK 29,400.00
6020 BIBLE OF FREDRIK II.

Biblia Det er den gantske Hellige Scrifft, paa Danske, igien offuerseet oc Prentet effter Salige oc höglofflige ihukommelse, Kong Friderichs den II.

SEK 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 SEK 26,950.00
6123 CLERCK, CARL.

Swedish spiders in their main genus are divided and under some and sixty special species described ... Aranei Svecici, ...

1757 SEK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 SEK 26,950.00
6088 LARSSON, CARL (1853-1919).

From Stockholm to Messina - illustrated travel diary.

1886 SEK 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 SEK 24,500.00
6175 STIERNSVÄRD, GUSTAF MAURITZ (ed.).

PORTRAIT POSTERS FROM THE LAST STATE OF PARLIAMENT.

1867?. SEK 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 SEK 24,500.00
6148 MÅNSSON, JOHAN.

Founded notification of the faarwatn in the Baltic Sea, with cows, land surveys, stretches, coasts, inlets, harbors, rescues, bays, coves, fjords, sound & c.

1725 SEK 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 SEK 22,050.00
6160

APOTEKET MORIANEN - PRESCRIPTION OF MEDICINES FOR ROYAL PAGE.

SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 22,050.00
6012 STRINDBERG, AUGUST (1849-1912).

2 handwritten and signed letters to the daughter Greta, addressed to the actress Greta Strindberg, Teatern, Halmstad and ditto Teatern in Edsbyn (Dalarna).

1909 SEK 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 SEK 20,825.00
6024 (BERGIUS, BENGT).

Small things for fun and pastime. I-VIII.

1757, 56-57. SEK 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 SEK 20,825.00
6025 (DALIUS, SWEN BRYNGELSON.

A little new cantilen-book hwar vthi are some divine praises, christ-liuflige congratulations, faithful-guilty patriots' congratulations ...

1681.. SEK 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 SEK 19,600.00
  • 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
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