• 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.
  • 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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    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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    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.
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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, Travel & Exploration, British Topography

Auction Reports

Auction Name Printed Books, Maps & Documents, Travel & Exploration, British Topography Total Sales (GBP) 275,598.00
Auction Date May 11, 2022 - May 11, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 117,130.00
Sale Number #51122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 174,750.00
Total Lots 417
Sold Lots 388 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 127,680.00
% of Lots Sold 93.05% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 190,750.00
Unsold Lots 29 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 144.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
345 Raverat (Gwen 1885-1957).

An album of 155 wood engravings by Gwen Raverat

1909-28 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 20,400.00
346 Raverat (Gwen, 1885-1957).

An album of 74 wood engravings by Gwen Raverat

1912-1919 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 12,000.00
347 Raverat (Gwen, 1885-1957).

An album of 81 wood engravings by Gwen Raverat

1939-1950 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 9,000.00
67 [Barker, Thomas].

The Country-mans Recreation, or the Art of Planting, Grassing, and Gardening in Three Books... Hereunto is Likewise Added the Art of Angling, 4 parts in one volume,

1654 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 7,200.00
80

New Naturalist series. A complete run of The New Naturalist series, numbers 1-143

1945-2021 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
74 Moore (Thomas).

The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland ..., edited by John Lindley, Nature-Printed by Henry Bradbury, [2nd edition]

1855-1857 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,320.00
103

Prima Europe Tabula, Petrus de Turre,

[1490] GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,720.00
38 Thomson (John).

A New General Atlas, consisting of a series of geographical designs on various projections, exhibiting the form and component parts of the Globe; and a collection of maps and charts, delineating the natural and political divisions of the empires, kingdoms

1817 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,600.00
338 Northwick (John Rushout, 2nd Baron, 1770-1859).

Manuscript catalogue of Greek coins and medals,

circa 1800-1810 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,600.00
367 Bronte (Charlotte, Emily and Anne).

Novels of the Sisters Bronte, edited by Temple Scott, 12 volumes,

1924 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 3,600.00
370 Churchill (Winston Spencer).

The River War. An historical account of the reconquest of the Soudan, edited by Col. F. Rhodes, 2 volumes, 1st edition

1899 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 3,480.00
87 Salvin (Francis Henry and William Brodrick).

Falconry in the British Isles, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged

1873 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,880.00
78

New Naturalist series. 131 volumes, a broken run

1945-2014 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 2,760.00
210 [Michaelis, Nicolaus].

Argumenta communia ad inferendum sophistice una quaque pro positionem esse veram et esse falsam

circa 1494 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 2,640.00
312 Napoleon.

Napoleon. Original Journals of the Eighteen campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte; comprising all those in which he personally commanded in chief, 2 volumes

1817 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 2,520.00
365 Austen (Jane).

The Novels [The Letters...] of Jane Austen, 12 volumes, Winchester edition

1911-12 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,280.00
6 Bruce (James).

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, and 1773, 5 volumes, 1st edition

1790 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 2,160.00
79

New Naturalist series. A complete run of the limited edition issues from the New Naturalist series, numbers 106-143

2010-2021 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,160.00
385 Turgeniev (Ivan).

The Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff, translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood, 16 volumes

1905 GBP 500.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,160.00
391

Vogue, a broken run of 84 volumes,

GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 1,920.00
318 Noailles (Marquis de).

The Life and Memoirs of Count Molé, 2 volumes

1923 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,860.00
32 Shackleton (Ernest).

South, The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition 1914-1917, 1st edition, 1st impression

1919 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 1,800.00
86 [Ray, John].

Catalogus plantarum circa Cantabrigiam nascentium [-Index plantarum agri Cantabrigiensis], 2 parts in 1 volume, 1st edition

1660 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,800.00
332 Cheron (Elisabeth Sophie, 1648-1711, & Ursula de la Croix).

[Pierres Antiques gravées tirées des pirincipaux cabinets de la France]

circa 1710-14 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,740.00
82 Rashleigh (Philip).

Specimens of British Minerals, selected from the cabinet of Philip Rashleigh, of Menabilly, in the county of Cornwall... with general descriptions of each article, the second part (of two)

1802 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 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
    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.
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