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Tooveys: Prints, Maps and Posters

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Auction Name Prints, Maps and Posters Total Sales (GBP) 29,438.02
Auction Date April 13, 2022 - April 13, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 8,310.00
Sale Number #41322 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 13,120.00
Total Lots 134
Sold Lots 91 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 12,110.00
% of Lots Sold 67.91% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 19,080.00
Unsold Lots 43 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 154.29%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
126 Gary Hodges

'Elephants Africains'

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 3,237.00
2 Edward Langley (publisher)

'The Metropolis Displayed, or, Langley's Faithful Guide through London and places adjacent, in every direction from St Paul's Cathedral'

circa1824 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 1,618.50
17 James Wyld (publisher)

'New Plan of London'

circa1852 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,618.50
130 Gary Hodges

'African Elephants'

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,618.50
23 G.W. Bacon & Co. (publisher)

'Bacon's New Plan of Hammersmith from the New Ordnance Survey'

circa1890s GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 1,369.50
132 Gary Hodges

'Baby African Elephant Suckling'

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 1,369.50
14 James Fraser (publisher)

'Fraser's Panoramic Plan of London'

circa1831 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,058.25
6 Edward Mogg (publisher)

'Mogg's Strangers Guide to London, Exhibiting all the various Alterations & Improvements to the Present Time, extended to Greenwich & Blackwall'

circa1836 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 996.00
72 Francis Bacon

'Bacon Grand Palais' (Poster for the Exhibition)

circa1972 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 996.00
131 Gary Hodges

'Polar Bear swimming'

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 871.50
128 Gary Hodges

'The Charge'

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 809.25
105 Pierre Mariette, after Stefano Della Bella

The Infant St John the Baptist

17th century GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 747.00
13 W. & A.K. Johnston (publishers)

'Commercial Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection from the Latest and Best Authorities'

GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 622.50
127 Gary Hodges

'Arctic Slumber' (Polar Bear)

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 522.90
63 William Belch (publisher)

'Going out as Midshipman'

early 19th century GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 498.00
129 Gary Hodges

'Jaff' (Study of a Collie Dog)

20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 498.00
54 William Lionel Wyllie

H.M.S. Victory, a pair of early 20th century etchings

early 20th century GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 473.10
9 Kell Bros (printers)

'Plan of the Parish of Croydon in the County of Surrey'

circa1868 GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 423.30
12 George Frederick Cruchley (publisher)

'Cruchley's New Plan of London Shewing all the New and Intended Improvements to the Present Time'

circa1851 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 398.40
1 Charles Smith (publisher)

'Smith's New Plan of London, Westminster & Southwark, 1831'

circa1831 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 373.50
18 George Philip & Son Ltd (publisher)

'Philips' New Large Print Map of the County of London'

GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 373.50
7 George C. Ashmead (publisher)

'Plan of Bristol and its Suburbs, reduced from the original survey of the late J. Plumley, with additions by Geo. C. Ashmead'

circa1833 GBP 60.00 - 100.00 GBP 348.60
91 Louis Icart

Pink Slip/L'Essayage

circa1939 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 348.60
11 James Wyld (publisher)

'A New Map of the County of Sussex'

circa1831 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 323.70
94 After Louis Icart

Fair Model/Premiêre Rose

ate 20th century GBP 150.00 - 250.00 GBP 323.70
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    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.
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    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.
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    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    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.
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    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.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
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    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
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    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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