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    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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    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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    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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    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, 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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Swann Galleries: Early Printed Books

Auction Reports

Auction Name Early Printed Books Total Sales (USD) 1,160,717.00
Auction Date October 13, 2022 - October 13, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 607,350.00
Sale Number #2617 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 884,400.00
Total Lots 278
Sold Lots 229 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 740,750.00
% of Lots Sold 82.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,074,100.00
Unsold Lots 49 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 108.06%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
173 Chaucer, Geoffrey

Britwell Handlist

1542 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 106,250.00
256 Shakespeare, William

Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the True Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays Never before Printed in Folio.

1685 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 87,500.00
124 Shakespeare, William

King Lear

1655 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 57,500.00
168 Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of Don-Quichote [Quixote]. The First [and Second] Part.

1620 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 55,000.00
161 Cervantes, Miguel de

Don Quixote

1607; 1616 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 42,500.00
258 Spenser, Edmund

The Faerie Queene, Second Part.

1590-[1596]. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 37,500.00
162 Cervantes, Miguel de

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

1605 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 32,500.00
216 Meliadus de Leonnoys.

Tristan & Iseult

1528 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 27,500.00
200 Gower, John

Decameron.

1532 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 23,750.00
205 Homer trans. George Chapman

The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. Never before in any Language Truely Translated.

circa 1611 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 23,750.00
170 Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha.

1612 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 22,500.00
227 Ortúñez de Calahorra, Diego & Pedro de la Sierra.

Castilian Romances of Chivalry in the Sixteenth Century

1585-1586 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,000.00
149 Berners, Juliana

The Boke of Saint Albans

1496 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 18,750.00
261 Velleius Paterculus's Animadversionibus.

Libri Ethicorum

1591 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 17,500.00
171 Cervantes, Miguel de

Persiles

1619 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 16,250.00
220 Milton, John

Arguments

1668 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,250.00
228 Ovid trans. Christopher Marlowe

All Ovids Elegies: 3. Bookes. By C.M. Epigrams by J[ohn] D[avies].

circa 1640. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,000.00
247 Rabelais, François trans.

Hippocratis ac Galeni Libri Aliquot, ex Recognitione Francisci Rabelaesi, Medici.

1532 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 13,750.00
187 Donne, John

Deaths Duell.

1632 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 12,500.00
214 Marvell, Andrew

Miscellaneous Poems.

1681 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
167 Cervantes, Miguel de

The History of Don-Quichote [Quixote]. The First [and Second] Part.

1620 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,250.00
201 Guevara, Antonio de

Libro Aureo de Marco Aurelio.

1529 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 11,250.00
150 Bourne, William

The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times

1578 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,400.00
197 English Incunabula Leaves, Four Examples, 1482-1498.

The Golden Legende

1482-1498. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,000.00
221 Milton, John

Poems both English and Latin.

1645 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,000.00
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    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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    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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    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.
  • 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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