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Il Ponte, Sep. 21: ZEILER, Martin - Topographiae Italiae. Francoforte: Mattheus Merian, 1688. €3,500 to €4,500.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: HAMILTON, William, Sir -- HANCARVILLE, Pierre-Francois HUGUES - Collection of Etruscan, Greek and Roman Antiquities from the Cabinet of the Hon. William Hamilton. Napoli: Francois Morelli, 1766-67. €38,000 to €48,000.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: [ASTRONOMIA] - Manoscritto astronomico. Italia: 1650. €1,000 to €1,500.

Il Ponte, Sep. 21: DALI, Salvador - Biblia Sacra vulgatae editionis. Edizione “Ad Personam” Milano: Rizzoli, 1967. €40,000 to €60,000.
Swann Auction Galleries: C.F. Payne, Micawber—Imitating Norman Rockwell's "Triple self-portrait," acrylic, watercolor & colored pencil, 2002. Sold June 2021 for $3,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Jane Russell, archive of letters written during a whaling voyage, 1840s. Sold July 2021 for $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Guild of Women Binders, exhibition binding of A.F. Pollard’s Henry VIII, London, 1902. Sold July 2021 for $12,350.

Swann Auction Galleries: Robert Frost, Collected Poems, author’s presentation copy, signed, with entirety of Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening inscribed, NY, 1930. Sold June 2021 for $20,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: James Joyce, Ulysses, deluxe limited issue, signed, London, 1936. Sold June 2021 for $21,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Mercator [family], [World and Continents], 5 double-page maps, Amsterdam, c. 1633. Sold June 2021 for $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: George Schlegel, New York, Taken from Central Park, hand-finished color-tinted lithograph, 1874. Sold June 2021 for $11,250.

Swann Auction Galleries: Nicolaus Copernicus, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, second edition, Basel, 1566. Sold April 2021 for $75,000.

Swann Auction Galleries: Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht, illuminated manuscript, c. 1435-45. Sold April 2021 for $60,000.
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Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Second Folio edition, the "Great She Bible", engraved More-Speed 1611 map of Canaan, Robert Barker, 1613-11. £7,000 to £10,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Galilei (Galileo). Opere, 2 vol., first collected edition, Bologna, Heirs of Dozza for Carlo Manolessi, 1656-1655. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Venetian choirbook.- Single leaf from a 13th century Venetian antiphonal, with large decorated initial, manuscript on vellum, Venice, [c.1260]. £6,000 to £8,000.

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Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Petrarca (Francesco). Rerum vulrgarium fragmenta, decorated manuscript on paper, Italy, [second half of the 15th century]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: New York School of abstract expressionists.- Abbott (Mary Lee). [Sketch book of original artwork], [New York], 1945. £5,000 to £7,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Contemporary colouring.- Nitzschewitz (Hermannus). Novum beatae Mariaevirginis psalterium, Zinna, Press of the Cistercian Monastery, 1493. £4,000 to £6,000.

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Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor: translated out of Spanish into English by Bartholomew Yong, first edition in English, B[ishop]., 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Milton (John). Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin, Compos'd at several times, first edition, state with "S" in "S. Pauls" in imprint, 1645. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Greene (Graham). The Power and the Glory, first edition, 1940. £6,000 to £8,000.

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Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Crowley (Aleister). View of the Tyrrhenian Sea, probably from the hill behind the abbey of Thelema, Cefalù, Sicily, charcoal, [1921]. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, 1953. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 30: China.- Thomson (John). Illustrations of China and Its People, 4 vol., first edition, 96 photographic plates, 1873-74. £15,000 to £20,000.

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Auction Name: RARE BOOKS With NO RESERVE NO BUYERS PREMIUM!
Auction Date: 09/19/2021 - 09/19/2021
Sale Number: #91921
Total Lots: 106
Sold Lots: 106
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (USD): 20,083.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 56,574.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 116,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 56,574.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 116,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 17.28%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
63	TWAIN, Mark	The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	1876	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 1,550.00
74	TWAIN, Mark	The adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer's comrade); scene: the Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to fifty years ago	1885	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 860.00
88	STOKER, Bram	Dracula	ca. 1912	USD 599.00 - 1,200.00	USD 610.00
59	VERNE, Jules	The tour of the world in eighty days	1874	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 530.00
13	MARSHALL, John	The Life of George Washington : commander in chief of the American forces, during the war which established the independence of his country, and first president of the United States	1804-1807	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 510.00
62	DEFOE, Daniel	The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner : Written by himself. Carefully reprinted from the original edition. With an introductory memoir	1876	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 465.00
9	LUTHER, Martin [Holy Bible transl.]	Biblia, die ganze Heilige Schrifft : Alten und Neuen Testaments	1747	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 415.00
72	SALE, George [transl.]	The Koran : commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed	1884	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 405.00
86	SCOTT, Walter	The Waverley novels	1892-1900.	USD 950.00 - 2,000.00	USD 345.00
60	LEE, Frederick George	Glimpses of the supernatural, being facts, records and traditions relating to dreams, omens, miraculous occurrences, apparitions, wraiths, warnings, second-sight, witchcraft, necromancy	1875	USD 399.00 - 800.00	USD 310.00
90	WHITMAN, Walter	Leaves of Grass	. 1900	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 305.00
50	CARPENTER, Francis B.	Six months at the White House with Abraham Lincoln : the story of a picture	1866	USD 550.00 - 1,200.00	USD 300.00
4	VERANI, Cajetani Felice	R. p. d. Cajetani F.Verani theologia universa speculativa dogmatica, et moralis, in qua selecta tum veterum, tum recentiorum theologorum platica	1700	USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00	USD 290.00
83	TWAIN, Mark	Merry Tales	1892	USD 550.00 - 1,200.00	USD 285.00
101	DISNEY, Walt Studios	The ‘Pop-up’ Mickey Mouse	1933	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 275.00
75	ALIGHIERI, Dante	The vision; or, Hell, purgatory, and paradise, of Dante Alighieri	1888	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 265.00
11	AMES, Fisher	An oration on the sublime virtues of General George Washington : pronounced at the Old South Meeting-house in Boston, before His Honor the lieutenant-governor, the council, and the two branches of the Legislature of Massachusetts, at their request, on Sat	1800	USD 550.00 - 1,200.00	USD 255.00
79	DORE, Gustave	The Bible Gallery. Illustrated by Gustave Dore.	1890	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 240.00
84	TWAIN, Mark.	The £1,000,000 bank note: and other new stories	©1893	USD 499.00 - 1,000.00	USD 235.00
105	EMERSON, Caroline D	Mickey sees the U.S.A.	1944	USD 399.00 - 800.00	USD 235.00

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<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 20. ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY. Letter to the editors of the Boston Atlas on slavery and its political ramifications, 1842. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 208. HEMINGWAY, ERNEST. A Farewell To Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First edition. $2,000 to $3,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 237. ADDAMS, CHARLES. Original drawing "Now Remember-act casual." $5,000 to $7,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 4. SMITH, ADAM. An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations. Philadelphia, 1789. The first American edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 131. BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VON. Cinquieme Sinfonie en ut mineur: C Moll de Louis Van Beethoven. Oeuvre 67. First edition of the complete score. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 73. Chinese Export Painting. Album of twenty-three original Chinese natural history studies of flowers and insects. Likely Canton: circa 1850. $2,000 to $3,000.

<center>Doyle Rare Books, Autographs & Maps September 23, 2021

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 241. GOREY, EDWARD. Original drawing "Cat Drawing Wallpaper." Signed in Pencil in lower right margin. $2,000 to $4,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 36. LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Autograph note signed instructing Edwin Stanton to meet with the important African American abolitionist and officer Martin Delany. [Washington:] 21 February 1865. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 112. JONSON, BEN. Workes. London: William Stansby, 1616; Together with Workes. London: Richard Meighen,1640-41. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Rare Books, Autographs & Maps: Lot 161. STURGIS, LEE. Salmon Fishing on Cain River, New Brunswick. (Chicago:) Privately printed (for the author by Ralph Fletcher Seymour), 1919. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Rosellini (Ippolito). I Monumenti dell Egitto e Della Nubia, Plate Volumes 1, 11 & 111, 3 vols. Elephant folio. €50,000 to €80,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Curtis (William), 1746 - 179, & other Editors. The Botanical Magazine: or, The Flower Garden Displayed. London 1793 - 1982-83. Together 184 vols. [with] other botanical material. €30,000 to €40,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Berkeley (George). A Treatise Concerning the principles of Human Knowledge, wherein the chief Causes of Error and Difficulty in the Sciences… Part I, Dublin, 1710 Rare First Edn. €15,000 to €20,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Ruskin (John). A large finely executed Pencil Drawing, captioned Oxford Cathedral, The Choir, & Signed 'J. Ruskin Ch. Ch. 1838. €15,000 to €20,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Sir Edward L. Lutyens. Howth Castle Plans: A Series of 10 Original Architects Drawings and Sketches, Alterations and Additions for J.C. Gaisford St. Lawrence, County Dublin, Ireland. €8,000 to €12,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Newman (Rev. Fr. John Henry, later Cardinal, now Saint) A very good collection of 24 A.L.S. to [Thomas] Gaisford of the Gaisford St. Lawrence family of Howth Castle. €10,000 to €15,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Manuscript Atlas: Hodges, Smith & Co. The Estate of the Rt. Hon. the Earl of Howth Situate in the County of Dublin, lg. atlas folio Dublin (Hodges, Smith & Co.) 1863. €4,000 to €6,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Anon. Herbolario Volgare: nel quale se dimostra conoscer le herbe et le sue vrtu… Sm. 8vo Venice (Gio Maria Palamides) 1539. €3,000 to €4,000.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Baron (Caesar). Annales Ecclesiastici. [With] Annalium Ecclesiasticorum Caesaris Baronii... Apparatus. [With] Index Universalis Rerum Omnium [and one other]. 38 vols total. €1,500 to €2,000.

<center>Fonsie Mealy’s The Library of Howth Castle September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Log Books of Three British Warships. Three folio Volumes, containing meticulously arranged logs of the voyages of Royal Navy Ships from 1876 – 1881. €1,200 to €1,800.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Walpole (Robert). Memoirs Relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, lg. 4to Lond. 1817. €1,000 to €1,500.

Fonsie Mealy’s, Sep. 22-23: Bosio (Antonio). Roma Sotteranea, Opera Postuma. Large thick folio Rome (Guglielmo Facciotti) 1632. €1,000 to €1,500.

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