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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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Total Records in AED	493

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks, first edition, first issue, London, 1704. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Johannes Jacobus Canis, De modo studendi in utroque iure, first edition, Padua, 1476. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Pope Clemens V, Constitutiones, Nuremberg, 1482. $2,500 to $3,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Nicolaus Panormitanus de Tudeschis, Lectura super V libris Decretalium, Basel, 1480-81. $5,000 to $7,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Michael Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity, complete set, first editions, London, 1832-56. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: William Gilbert, Tractatus sive physiologia nova de magnete, Sedini, 1628. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: John Bulwer, Philocophus, first edition of the first book in English on the deaf, London, 1648. $1,000 to $2,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: James Cook, complete set, 9 volumes, London, 1773-84. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Oct 24: Nicolaus Bertrand, Opus de Tholosano[rum] Gestis ab Urbe Condita, with the earliest known view of the city of Toulouse, 1515. $2,000 to $3,000.
<center> Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: RATZER, Bernard. Plan of the City of New York in North America, surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767. London: Jefferys and Faden, “Jan.y” 12, 1776. $80,000 to $120,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. COCKERELL, Sydney C. Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century. Hammersmith: The Kelmscott Press, 1897 [issued 1898]. $20,000 to $30,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. KEATS, John. Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of Saint Agnes and Other Poems. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: The Golden Cockerel Press, 1928. $6,000 to $8,000

<center> Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [GRANT, Ulysses S.— GRANT, Julia, First Lady]. Carved Applewood and 18-karat Gold Jewelry Suite, Browne & Spaulding, Jewelers, New York City, 1865. $20,000 to $30,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [LINCOLN ASSASSINATION]. GARDNER, Alexander. Incidents of the War |Sic Semper Sicariis [caption title]. Washington, D. C.: Philip & Solomons, 1865. $5,000 to $7,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: A COMPLETE COLLECTION of 115 titles published in R. R. Donnelley's Lakeside Classics series. Chicago, 1903-2017. COMPLETE RUN OF THE LONGEST-RUNNING CONTINUOUS SERIES OF BOOKS IN THE WORLD. $5,000 to $7,000

<center> Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Fine Books and Manuscripts Including Americana November 6, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: GLEIZES, Albert. METZINGER, Jean. Du Cubisme. Paris, 1947. LIMITED EDITION, number 19 of 20 copies on papier d'Auvergne. $3,000 to $4,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [THE LITTLE REVIEW]. ANDERSON, Margaret, ed. POUND, Ezra, ed. HEAP, Jane, ed. The Little Review. Vol. I, No. 1 through Vol. XII, No. 2. 1914-1929. $3,000 to $4,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [MOUNTENEY, Leonard, binder]. LOUŸS, Pierre. Songs of Bilitis. Chicago: Argus Books, 1931. $2,000 to $3,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 6: [HANCOCK, John]. Partly-printed U.S. Loan-Office Transfer Certificate issued on behalf of Hancock. Sgn’d on recto by William Imlay, as Commissioner of Loans of Connecticut. 28 February 1793. $2,000 to $3,000
Bonhams, Oct. 23: SMITH, CHRISTOPHER WEBB. 1793-1871. Indian Ornithology. [Patna, India]: 1828. $50,000 to $80,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DUPRÉ, LOUIS. 1789-1837. Voyage à Athènes et à Constantinople, ou Collection de portraits, vues et costumes grecs et ottomans. Paris: Dondey-Dupré, 1825. $60,000 to $90,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ADAMS, JOHN. Autograph Letter Signed ("J Adams"), [to Dr. Perkins?] while recovering from his small pox inoculation, [late-April, 1764]. $30,000 to $50,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUSTEN, JANE. Autograph Letter Signed ("J. Austen"), to her sister Cassandra, 4 pp, "Thursday – after dinner," [September 16, 1813,] Henrietta St. $80,000 to $120,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories. New York & Philadelphia: J.J. Audubon & J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DODWELL, EDWARD. 1767-1832. Views in Greece. London: Rodwell and Martin, 1821. $20,000 to $30,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: JAMES, JESSE. Autograph Letter Signed ("Jesse W. James"), to Mr. Flood demanding Flood retract spurious accusations, 3 pp, June 5, 1875. $200,000 to $300,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: DE CORDOBA, JACOB. Map of the State of Texas. New York, 1866. $15,000 to $20,000

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ARNOLD, BENEDICT. Autograph bookseller's receipt for Dr. John Dickinson, Signed ("B. Arnold"), February 1767. $3,000 to $5,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EINSTEIN, ALBERT. 4 Typed Letters Signed ("A Einstein") to Cleveland E. Dodge offering early reports on the meetings of the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. Typed Letter Signed ("Dwight D. Eisenhower") to General Henri Giraud written from a secret bunker in Gibraltar on the eve of Operation Torch, November 4 [but 6], 1942. $10,000 to $15,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: Early Broadside Printing of the GADSDEN PURCHASE, Puebla, August 16, 1854. $2,000 to $3,000.

Bonhams, Oct. 23: ALLEN, ETHAN. Autograph Letter Signed to Crevecouer during the Constitutional Debates in Congress, 2 pp, August 29, 1787. $30,000 to $50,000.
<center>Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Library of a Midwestern Collector November 5, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: DARWIN, Charles. On the Origin of Species. London John Murray, 1859. FIRST EDITION. THE VERY FINE MELLON-GARDEN COPY. $120,000 to $180,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: ECKERT, J. P, H. H. GOLDSTINE, and J. G. BRAINERD. Description of the ENIAC and comments on electronic digital computing machines. N.p., 1945. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY GOLDSTINE. $5,000 to $7,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: EUCLID. Elementa geometriae. Translated from the Arabic by Adelard of Bath. Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 25 May 1482. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

<center>Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Library of a Midwestern Collector November 5, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: [HAMILTON, Alexander, James MADISON and John JAY]. The Federalist: A Collection of Essays… New York: John and Andrew M'Lean, 1788. FIRST EDITION. $60,000 to $80,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: GALILEI, Galileo. Dialogo...Dove ne i congressi di quattro giornate si discorre sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano. Florence, 1632. FIRST EDITION. $30,000 to $40,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: JOYCE, James. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY JOYCE. $120,000 to $180,000

<center>Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Library of a Midwestern Collector November 5, 2019

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: KEYNES, John Maynard. The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money. London: Macmillan, 1936. FIRST EDITION. $5,000 to $7,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: NEWTON, Isaac, Sir. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London: Joseph Streater for the Royal Society, 1687. FIRST EDITION. $150,000 to $250,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: ROWLING, J. K. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. London: Bloomsbury, 1997. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY ROWLING. $80,000 to $120,000

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Nov. 5: SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. London: for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. FIRST EDITION. $70,000 to $90,000

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