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Source : Britwell Court 1916

Source Title	Americana from the Renowned Britwell Court Library...
Description	In the summer of 1916, the then owner of the Britwell Court Library, Mr. S. R. Christie-Miller, sent a small portion of his material to Messrs Sotheby in London to be catalogued for sale. It was a period of high competition and enthusiasm in the rare book business and both Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach and George D. Smith expressed interest in buying the collection privately. Mr. Smith, then acting on behalf of Henry E. Huntington, bought the entire catalogue contents for what is said to have been 40,000 pounds. Mr. Huntington soon after selected material from this group and sent the balance to auction At Anderson Galleries, in New York, as Sale No. 1269, "Selections and Duplicates, Part III From Mr. H. E. Huntington's Library - Extraordinary Collection of Americana - comprising the principal part of the famous Christie-Miller Collection.
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Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Silver Binding.- [Torah], German 13 Loth silver binding, hinged clasp, 12mo, Sulzbach, 1805. £2,500 to £3,500.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Picasso (Pablo). Minotaure vaincu, plate 89 from La Suite Vollard, etching, dated 29 May 1933, pencil, plate 190 x 265 mm, Paris, A. Vollard, 1939. £5,000 to £6,000.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Dali (Salvador) & Alighieri (Dante). La Divina Commedia, 6 vols, NUMBER 478 of 2,900 copies, 100 numbered colour lithograph plates by Salvador Dalì, folio, Verona, 1963-1964. £3,000 to £4,000.

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Miniature Sepher Torah Nevi'im U'Kethuvim, prepared by Menachem M. Scholz, original cloth, housed within original gilt tooled metal case, with magnifying glass inset, 33x25 mm, Warsaw, c. 1880. £1,200 to £1,800.

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Scarfe (Gerald). ‘Men of Snow’ [Tony Blair, William Hague & 'Robin' Cook], original ink, watercolour & gouache drawing, signed, 600 x 435 mm, n.d. with 2 others (3). £800 to £1,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Francklyn (Gilbert), Paine (Thomas). Rights of Man…, FIRST EDITION [and] Rights of Man. Part the Second…, Printed for J. S. Jordan, 1791-92, [and 1 other]. £700 to £1,000

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Chagall (Marc). Le Jeu des Acrobates (Acrobats at Play), HORS COMMERCE PROOF, lithograph, from The Lithographs of Chagall, 320 x 240 mm, André Sauret, 1963. £1,800 to £2,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: [Harris (John)]. The History of The Old Woman who had Three Sons Jerry, James, and John…, 12mo, J. Harris, 1815. £200 to £300

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Royal Binding.- Staël-Holstein (Germaine de). De la littèrature considerée dans ses rapports avec les institutions sociales…, 2 vols, second edition, Crapelet, Paris, [1801]. £400 to £600

Chiswick Auctions: Books & Illustrated Art including Cartoons. March 28, 2019

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Ancient History.- La Baune (Jacques de). Panegyrici Veteres, Paris, 1676. [with] Wesseling (Petrus, ed.). Vetera Romanorum itineraria… £800 to £1,200

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Edward (Gibbon). History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire… Multiple editions and languages [English and French]. £300 to £400

Chiswick Auctions, Mar 28: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis, FIRST EDITION, 2 vols in 3. 119 hand-coloured plates of 454. £500 to £700
Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: The Negro Travelers' Green Book, edited by Victor H. Green, New York, 1958. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious & Moral, London, 1773. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: David Ruggles, The Mirror of Liberty, first issue of the first magazine edited by an African American, New York, 1838. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, draft typescript, inscribed by the playwright, circa 1958. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Pair of letterpress broadsides for Ira Aldridge’s historic first 2 performances at London’s Theatre Royal, 1833. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Archive of letters to John Augustine Washington III at Mount Vernon, many of which discuss the lives of enslaved persons, 1837-61. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Important archive of letters and photographs of Charles White and his spouse, Frances B. White, 1956-60. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Papers of educator Sister Makinya Sibeko-Kouate, one of the leading popularizers of Kwanzaa, 1940-1975. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Stock certificate of the Negro Factories Corporation, signed by Marcus Garvey, 1920. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Benjamin Banneker, Bannaker’s Maryland . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1796, Baltimore, 1795. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: Frederick Douglass, previously unknown carte-de-visite by Samuel M. Fassett, Washington DC, 1878. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries, Mar 28: First Annual Report of the New York Committee of Vigilance, New York, 1837. $3,000 to $4,000.
Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. March 29 & 30, 2019

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: QUAST, Pieter Jansz. - [A Quack doctor on a market square.] €3.500 to €4.500

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: "Il Callotto resuscitato. Oder Ne¸ eingerichtes Zwerchen Cabinet." €6.000 to €7.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: MELLISS, Mrs. John Charles - 135 compositions of which 66 used to illustrate John Melliss' work on Saint Helena. €9.000 to €10.000

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. March 29 & 30, 2019

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: LUCA, Ghérasim. - Apostroph' apocalypse. Eaux-fortes de Wifredo Lam. €3.000 to €4.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Les Roses. Décrites par C.A. Thory. €3.000 to €4.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: CORONELLI, Vincenzo - A magnificent pair of globes, terrestrial and celestial. €175.000 to €250.000

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. March 29 & 30, 2019

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: BLAEU, Joan - Le Grand Atlas, ou Cosmographie Blaviaene, en laquelle est exactement descritte la Terre, la Mer, et le Ciel. €170.000 to €250.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: GOULD, John - A century of birds from the Himalaya mountains. €10.000 to €12.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: LEVAILLANT, François - Histoire naturelle des perroquets. €50.000 to €70.000

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. March 29 & 30, 2019

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: MAXIMILIAN III JOSEPH - Patent of nobility. €800 to €1.000

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: Manuale parochiale sacerdotum. €800 to €1.200

Arenberg Auctions, Mar 29 & 30: LONGUS - Les amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. €1.250 to €1.500
Bonhams, Mar 12: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass. First edition, first issue, SIGNED in block letters by Whitman. 1855. $200,000 to $300,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Isaac Newton's copy of John Greave's Pyramidographia, London, 1646. $50,000 to $70,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Colonel John Mosby. Robert E. Lee's autograph letter to Samuel Cooper reporting on Mosby's exploits, with Cooper's autograph note ordering his appointment to Major.

Bonhams, Mar 12: Gyula Halasz Brassai. Large archive of autograph and typed letters, over 260, to his family including his wife Gilberte, 1947-1978. $40,000 to $60,000

Bonhams, Mar 12: Archive of drawings and letters from Harper Lee to Charles Carruth, including an inscribed first edition of To Kill a Mockingbird. $20,000 to $30,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: VESALIUS, ANDREAS. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. $300,000 to $500,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: HARVEY, WILLIAM. 1578-1657. De motu cordis & sanguinis in animalibus Anatomica Exercitatio. Leiden: Joannis Maire, 1639. $25,000 to $35,000

Bonhams, Mar 11: BERENGARIO DA CARPI, GIACOMO. 1460-1530. Isagogae breves perlucide ac uberrimae in Anatomiam humani corporis. Bologna: Benedictus Hectoris, 15 July 1523. $15,000 to $25,000

Bonhams NY, Mar 11: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN. 1706-1790. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, made at Philadelphia in America… London, 1769. $10,000 to $15,000

Bonhams NY, Mar 11: BENIVIENI, ANTONIO. 1443-1502. De abditis nonnullis ac mirandis morborum et sanationum causis.Florence: Filippo Giunta, 1507. $8,000 to $12,000
Koller Auctions: Books & Autographs. March 26, 2019

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Jacques Gamelin. Nouveau recueil d'osteologie et de myologie, dessine d'apres nature... 2 parts in 1 vol., large folio, 82 copper plates. CHF 12,000 to 18,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Melchior Pfintzing. Die geverlicheiten und einsteils geschichten des loblichen streytparen... 118 woodcut engravings, first edition. CHF 30,000 to 50,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Book of hours. Handwritten Latin text on vellum. With 17 large miniatures, Flanders, c.1460. CHF 70,000 to 90,000

Koller Auctions, Mar 26: Maria Sibylla Merian. Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium, 72 copper plates, Den Haag, 1726. CHF 60,000 to 90,000

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