• 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
    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.
  • 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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Cotswold Auction Company: Books, Medals, Militaria and Collectables

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Medals, Militaria and Collectables Total Sales (GBP) 58,596.60
Auction Date June 08, 2021 - June 08, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 19,470.00
Sale Number #10182 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 32,425.00
Total Lots 220
Sold Lots 188 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 63,200.00
% of Lots Sold 85.45% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 97,790.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
120 Wheatley, Phillis

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr John Wheatley of Boston, New England" 

1773 GBP 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 20,130.00
39 Matthew, Richard

The Unlearned Alchymist His Antidote or A more full and ample explanation of the Use, Virtue and Benefit of my Pill......... Mr Richard Mathew's Pill .....recorded in writing in his own hand 1659...."

1663 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 2,257.00
151 Le Carre, John

The Honourable Schoolboy"

1977 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,952.00
140 Private Press, The Ashendene Press 

Les Amours Pastorales de Daphnis et Chloe, translated by J Amyot, edited by Paul-Louis Courier

1933 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 1,769.00
162 Fine bindings -  Churchill, W. S. 

The Second World War"

GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,464.00
2 Fullarton A

Companion Atlas to the Gazetteer of the World"

1860 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 1,281.00
170 Conrad, Joseph 

Works .." 

1924/26 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 1,098.00
155 Atkyns Sir Robert Knt.

The Ancient and Present State of Glocestershire"

1768 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 976.00
161 Earlam Richard (engraver)

A Collection of Prints after the Sketches and Drawings of the late Celebrated Giovanni Battista Cipriani Esq. R.A. 

1789 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 976.00
30 Sylvanus Urban  [ Edward Cave ] ( the first person to use the word  'magazine' meaning 'store house' for a periodical )   

"The Gentleman's Magazine"

1762, 1770, 1772 and 1778 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 915.00
6 Quin Edward

An Atlas of Universal History;  in a series of maps..."

1857 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 829.60
169 Kipling, Rudyard

The Writings in Verse and Prose"

1897, 1937 GBP 200.00 - 400.00 GBP 829.60
29 Piccolomini

Rituum Ecclesiasticorum"

1516 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 793.00
117 Wyld, James (1790-1836)

A General Atlas containing maps, illustrating some important periods in ancient history and distinct maps of the several empires, kingdom and states in the world ...,

1820 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 634.40
33 Van Veen ( Otto)

Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata... ,

1612, GBP 200.00 - 250.00 GBP 610.00
32 Johannes David

Veridicus Christianus" 

1601 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 585.60
77 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Abenteur im Wunderland, illustrated by John Tenniel,

1869 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 585.60
121 Pullman, Philip

His Dark Materials, 10th Anniversary 1995-2005, 'Northern Lights', 'The Subtle Knife' and 'The Amber Spyglass'

2005 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 463.60
128A

Agatha Christie crime collection reprints,

1969 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 463.60
401

Military ephemera 'Army Form I I224 Army Blood Transfusion Service', 'Compassionate Leave from Overseas-all Ranks in the army' dated 1985,…

1985 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 427.00
20 Camden (William)

Britannia Sive Florentissimorum regnorum, Angliae, Scotiae, Hiberniae et Insularum adiacentium ex intima antiquitate chorographica descriptio...., 

1600 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 390.40
21 Stothard, Thomas 

Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man"

1799 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 390.40
18 Lamb, Charles

Tales from Shakepeare  Designed for the Use of Young Persons"

1807 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 366.00
28 Hughes, John and Kennett, White (ed)

A Complete History of England...."

1706 GBP 100.00 - 200.00 GBP 366.00
35 HUMPHREYS H. N.

Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart... from MS in the British Museum & the Bibliotheque Royale....".

1844/45 GBP 250.00 - 350.00 GBP 366.00
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
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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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