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Bonhams: Fine Books and Manuscripts, featuring the Library of Roman Vishniac

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Auction Name Fine Books and Manuscripts, featuring the Library of Roman Vishniac Total Sales (USD) 978,972.75
Auction Date April 12, 2022 - April 12, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 481,450.00
Sale Number #27556 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 732,550.00
Total Lots 172
Sold Lots 146 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 856,550.00
% of Lots Sold 84.88% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,340,650.00
Unsold Lots 26 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.02%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
156 SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. 1440-1514.

Liber chronicarum [in German: Das Buch der Croniken und Geschichten].

1493 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 82,275.00
45

An illustrated alchemical manuscript on paper, in German, "Ver Rechten Alchemy,"

15th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 75,975.00
6 DOSTOEVSKY, FYODOR. 1821-1881.

Photograph signed and inscribed [in Russian] to Alexander Herzen, albumen print carte-de-visite full length portrait by M.B. Tulinov,

1861 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 57,075.00
138 MUNDINUS (DI LUZZI, MONDINO). MELLERSTADT, MARTINUS, editor. c.1455-1513.

Anathomia Mundini emendata per doctorem melerstat.

1493 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 48,255.00
107 KEPLER, JOHANNES.

Tabulae Rudolphinae, quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continentur.

1627 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 44,475.00
99 HOOKE, ROBERT.

Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. .

1667 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 29,325.00
66 BRUNSCHWIG, HIERONYMUS.

Liber pestilentialis de venenis epidemic. Das buch der vergift der pestilentz.

1500 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 28,050.00
1

Rare presentation album containing 50 large albumen photographs of the building of the Peking-Hankow railroad, "Compagnie Impériale des Chemins de Fer Chinois et Société d'Etude de Chemins de Fer en Chine. Ligne de Pékin-Hankow, Années 1899-1905,"

c.1906 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,500.00
98 HEVELIUS, JOHANNES.

Selenographia: sive Lunae descriptio; atque Accurata, Tam Macularum eius, addita est, lentes expoliendi nova ratio.

1647 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,675.00
91 GUERICKE, OTTO VON.

Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica, de vacuo spatio.

1672 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 19,125.00
44

Rosarium philosophorum, secunda pars alchimiae de lapide philosophico vero modo

1550 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 17,850.00
54

A sammelband including:
1. REGIOMONTANUS, JOHANNES. 1436–1476. Tabul[a]e Directionum... Cum plerisq[ue] additionibus: ac novis tabellis: quin [et] Gaurici compendiolo. Edited by Luca Gaurico.

1524 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 16,575.00
106 KEPLER, JOHANNES.

Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo nuper ad mortales misso a Galilaeo Galilaeo.

1611 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,300.00
53

Illustrated Astrological Manuscript in Cyrillic, with numerous astrological charts, 14 handcut and illustrated volvelles, 18th-century, 149 x 94 mm, 297 leaves, written recto and verso, red and black ink on paper, printed folding table inserted in front (

1725 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 14,025.00
68 BRY, JOHANN THEODOR DE and JACQUES LE MOYNE.

Brevis Narratio eorum quae in Florida Americae provincia Gallis acciderunt ...

1609, 1591. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,025.00
100 HORTUS SANITATUS.

Ortus Sanitatis. De herbis & plantis. De Animalibus & reptilibus.

1511 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,750.00
142 MÜNSTER, SEBASTIAN.

Cosmographey, oder beschreibung aller lander ... jetzunder biss auff das M.D.LXIIII. jar vyl gemehret.

1564 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,750.00
92 HAECKEL, ERNST, attrib.

Late nineteenth-century album of 20 watercolors and 5 pen-and-ink drawings of landscapes in Bali, Sumatra and Southeast Asia, identified in an unknown hand as the work of Ernst Haeckel, 195 x 260 (sheet size), watercolors vary, each captioned descriptivel

Late nineteenth-century USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,475.00
131 LYCOSTHENES, CONRAD (CONRAD WOLFFHART).

Prodigiorum Ac Ostentorum Chronicon.

1557 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,475.00
150 POGANY, WILLY.

14 costume designs for The Thunderbird, one-act Aztec ballet choreographed by Michel Fokine with libretto by his wife Vera Fokina, performed in the revue Get Together, opened at the New York Hippodrome, September 3, 1921, watercolor, gouache and silver pa

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,475.00
140 MÜLLER, OTTO FRIEDRICH.

Zoologia Danica seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae rariorum ac minus notorum descriptiones et historia.

1788-1806. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,965.00
84 FUCHS, LEONHARD.

Historia Stirpium Commentarii insignes.

1542 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,837.50
105

Tractatus de Judaeorum et Christianorum communione et conversatione.

not after 1474. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,837.50
71 CASTELL, WILLIAM.

A Short Discoverie Of the Coasts and Continent of America.

1644 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,200.00
165 TOPSELL, EDWARD.

The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents ... whereunto is now added, the Theater of Insects ... by T. Muffet.

1658 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,562.50
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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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
  • 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
  • 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.
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