• 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
  • 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.
    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.
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Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 849,135.00
Auction Date May 26, 2022 - May 26, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 414,000.00
Sale Number #1100 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 585,900.00
Total Lots 394
Sold Lots 328 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 508,100.00
% of Lots Sold 83.25% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 718,550.00
Unsold Lots 66 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 118.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
250 Cockburn (Maj. Gen. James Pattison, 1779-1847), After.

[Six Landscape of Quebec City and Six Views of Niagara Falls], 2 suites in 1 vol., comprising a total of 12 aquatints

1833 GBP 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 GBP 162,500.00
304 Gould (John)

The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition,

1862-1873. GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 47,500.00
34

Magna Carta.- An exact copy of King John's Great Charter of 1215, transcribed from the fire damaged but legible manuscript in the Cottonian Library, British Library, J. Pine

1733 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 31,200.00
25 Mary I (Queen of England)

Letter signed "Marye the Quene" to Lord Paget, signed at head, titled at head "By the King and Quene"

1556 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 24,700.00
214 Woolf (Virginia)

Mrs Dalloway, first edition,

1925 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 18,750.00
159 Du Maurier (Daphne)

Rebecca, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess

1938 GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
177 Greene (Graham)

The Confidential Agent, first edition

1939 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
188 Joyce (James)

Ulysses, one of 1000 copies on handmade paper,

1922 GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 12,500.00
212 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, first edition, first impression

1937 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,875.00
205 Rowling (J.K.)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, first paperback edition, first printing

1997 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
330 Stubbs (George)

The Anatomy of the Horse, first edition, first issue,

1766 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,625.00
143 Wilde (Oscar)

The Importance of Being Earnest, first trade edition, signed by the author, number 74 of 1000 copies

1899 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 10,000.00
158 Du Maurier (Daphne)

Jamaica Inn, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to her governess

1936 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
301 Dresser (Henry Eeles)

A History of the Birds of Europe, including all the Species inhabiting the Western Palaearctic, 9 vol. including supplement, first edition,

1871-96. GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 8,125.00
355 Lower (Richard)

Tractatus de Corde item De Motu & Colore Sanguinus et Chyli in cum Transitu, first edition,

1669 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 6,875.00
237 Morris (William)

The Story of the Glittering Plain, one of 250 copies, original limp vellum with ties

1894 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
389 Galilei (Galileo)

Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating to Mechanicks and Local Motion..., second edition in English,

1730 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 6,250.00
81 Urbigerus (Baro)

Aphorismi Urbigerani, or Certain Rules, Clearly Demonstrating the Three Infallible ways of Preparing the Grand Elixir or Circumlatum Majus of the Philosophers, first English edition,

1690 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 6,000.00
185 Joyce (James)

Dubliners, first edition,

1914 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,625.00
213 Tolkien (J.R.R.)

[The Lord of the Rings], 3 vol., first editions, first impressions, vol. 3 signed by the author

1954 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,625.00
302 Dresser (Henry Eeles)

The Monograph of the Meropidae, or Family of the Bee-Eaters,

1884-6. GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 5,625.00
31 Bonar (John)

[Sermons] & Communion Sermons, 2 vol., manuscripts

1701 & 1725 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
65

Shakespeare source book.- Prepositas his Practise, a Work-very necessary to be used for the better preservation of the Health of Man, Translated out of Latin into English by L. M.

1588 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,250.00
332 Johnson (Theophilus)

Personal Recollections of the Zoo: During a period of Fifty Years, 2 vol.,

1905 GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 5,000.00
109

Jamaica.- Slavery.- Royal Gazette (The) vol.3 only,

1781 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 4,750.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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