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<center>Potter & Potter Auctions Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross October 12, 2023

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [BYRD]. VEER, Willard Van der and Joseph T. RUCKER, cinematographers. The 35mm motion picture Akeley camera that filmed the Academy Award-winning documentary “With Byrd at the South Pole”. $30,000 to $50,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [SHIRASE, Nobu, his copy]. RYUKEI, Yano. Young Politicians of Thebes: Illustrious Tales of Statesmanship. Tokyo(?), 1881-84. $15,000 to $20,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: SHACKLETON, Ernest H. The Antarctic Book. Winter Quarters 1907-1909 [dummy copy of the supplement to: The Heart of the Antarctic]. London, 1909. $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: [USS BEAR]. The original auxiliary deck wheel from the famed USS Bear, 1874-1933. “PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS SHIP IN THE HISTORY OF THE COAST GUARD” (USCG). $10,000 to $15,000.

Potter & Potter, Oct. 12: HENSON, Matthew. A Negro Explorer at the North Pole. With a forward by Robert Peary. Introduction by Booker T. Washington. New York, [1912]. $3,000 to $4,000.
<center>Gonnelli: Auction 46 Books Autographs & Manuscripts Oct 3rd-5th 2023

Gonnelli: Tilson - Zanotto, Il vero tema. 2011. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Munari, Storia di un filo. Starting price 400 €

Gonnelli: Debord, Contre le cinéma. 1964. Starting price 150 €

Gonnelli: Futurism books and ephemera

Gonnelli: Travel books

Gonnelli: Medicine books

Gonnelli: Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des perroquets. 1801-1805. Starting price 52.000 €

Gonnelli: Carrera, Il gioco de gli scacchi. 1617. Starting price 3200 €

Gonnelli: Vergilius, Opera. 1515. Starting price 800 €
$Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.$

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Asia.- Mandeville (Sir John). Tractato bellissimo delle piu maravigliose cose & piu motabile che sitrovino nelle parte delmondo, Florence, [Lorenzo Morgiani], [?1505] or possibly, 1496-99. £40,000 to £60,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Arabic ms.- Ghazaliyaat Kan'at al-Arabi [Divan of Poetry written in Arabic], illuminated manuscript in Arabic, Safavid Persia (probably Isfahan), [second quarter of 16th century]. £12,000 to £16,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Foxe (John). Actes and monuments of these latter and perillous dayes, touching matters of the Church…, first edition, dwellyng ouer Aldersgate, [20th March, 1563]. £15,000 to £20,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Barrie (J.M.) Peter Pan or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up, first play edition, signed presentation inscription from the author "To my dear Jane Pan", 1928. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Gillray (James). John Bull taking a Luncheon: -or- British Cooks, cramming Old Grumble-Gizzard, with Bonne-Chére, etching with hand-colouring, 1798. £1,500 to £2,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Middle East.- Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt & Nubia, 6 vol. bound as 4, first edition, 1842-49. £12,000 to £18,000.

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Greenwood (C. & J.) Map of London made from an Actual Survey in the Years 1824, 1825 & 1826..., first edition, engraved map, 1827. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light…, first edition, 1704. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Smith (Percy John Delf). Collection of 19 original preliminary drawings for "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", circa 1914-1918; together with 11 drypoints from "Twelve Drypoints of the War 1914-1918", 1925. £15,000 to

<center>Forum Auctions Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper 28th September 2023

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Guild of Women Binders.- Watts (Alaric A.) Lyrics of the Heart: with other poems, in a stunning richly gilt green crushed morocco by the Guild of Women Binders, Longman, 1851. £12,000 to £18,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Cosway binding.- Dodgson (Charles Lutwidge). "Lewis Carroll". Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in a Cosway binding with miniatures by Miss C.B. Currie, 1868. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum Auctions, Sep. 28: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, first impression, 1953. £18,000 to £22,000.
<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: Charles Monroe Schulz, The Peanuts gang, complete set of 13 drawings, ink, 1971. Sold June 15 — $50,000.

Swann: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Family Archive of Photographs & Letters. Sold June 1 — $60,000.

Swann: Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book, New York, 1949. Sold March 30 — $50,000.

Swann: William Shakespeare, King Lear; Othello; [and] Anthony & Cleopatra; Extracted from the First Folio, London, 1623. Sold May 4— $185,000.

<center>Swann Auction Galleries View Our Record Breaking Results

Swann: William Samuel Schwartz, A Bridge in Baraboo, Wisconsin, oil on canvas, circa 1938. Sold February 16 — $32,500.

Swann: Lena Scott Harris, Group of approximately 65 hand-colored botanical studies, all apparently California native plants, hand-colored silver prints, circa 1930s. Sold February 23 — $37,500.

Swann: Suzanne Jackson, Always Something To Look For, acrylic & pencil on linen canvas, circa 1974. Sold April 6 — $87,500.

Swann: Gustav Klimt, Das Werk von Gustav Klimt, complete with 50 printed collotype plates, Vienna & Leipzig, 1918. Sold June 15 — $68,750.

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JeromeP8 April 01, 2003

Bookseller descriptions are covered by law. Descriptive material is owned
and protected. What you are suggesting with the 'sale' of the description
passing with the sale of the book is wrong!

diivinedbl February 01, 2003

Dear Bruce,

You were kind enough to email me when I tried to sign up for a trial
subscription on the ad you ran in Booksource Monthly which I subscribe to.

I just received another email from you. Congratulations on passing the one
thousand mark for subscribers.

Bottom Line: whoever figures out how to set up, what I think you're trying
to set up, will not only make a financial fortune but will do for the book
world what the New York stock exchange did for the capital markets almost
two hundred years ago and what the Nasdaq further did in the last decade.

Namely, to provide a universal and open and widely used medium for both auction and negotiated exchange of goods.

Up until now the bookworld continues in it's quirky, semi-subteranean world of operating in the secretive, ill-informed murky shadows of a third world bazar of haphazardly ferreting out buyers, sellers and information in the most obfuscated methods imaginable.

You're on the right track but you still have a helluva lotta work to do and there are twenty other people all trying to do the same thing.

As as a buyer and collector of books all I can say is that abebooks has the format but I think they're going to drop the ball. They
remind me of Commodore Computers twenty years ago or maybe Amiga. Same with E-Bay. Both had the beginnings of a magnificent platform but not able, for whatever reasons of corporate lack of foresight, to see the
bigger picture.

Are you the Steve Jobs of books? I certainly hope so. I hope, and know, that out there one of you is going to figure it out.

As I see your problem now, you have the vision but you're getting bogged
down pretty quick now in HOW you're putting it into effect. And please, though it's wonderful you now have a thousand subscribers, don't delude
yourself, as abebooks and e-bay have, into thinking that because you're finally making some money and creating a niche that you've answered to and found out the real solution to the big picture and are genuinely filling
that need.

Stay with it, keep soliciting ideas, keep revising the plan and tweeking it. I think, while aesthetically pleasing to look at, your web-site is missing a lot of 'meat' that's needed to fuel this puppy of an idea that your nurturing.

Well, I care about books and so took the time because you seem to really on some level be able to grasp what's needed in this book market so hope you found my comments if not helpful then at least interesting.

If I may be of further help, please let me know... all the best to you in
your endeavors, I hope you create what we all need.......and I hope this
e-mail makes it to you.

Kind regards,

Bill Brazz

e-mail at: divinedbld@comcast.net

hhurt December 03, 2002

To: catchall@americanaexchange.com

Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 09:56:40 -0800

Subject:

Dear Ms. Tallmer--

Thank you for the article on e-Bay. Let me add an experience that I've
had that surely is not unique. On three occasions that I have documented,
I have received what appeared to be good-faith queries from individuals
asking me to provide scans of high-end books. I have done so. Then
normal back-and-forth discussions have ensued about possible discounts,
questions about the books' condition, shipping, etc. In the cases noted,
I have then seen the scans of my items (absolutely identified by small
mars on the books in the scans) appear for sale on e-Bay at starting
prices far above my asking price. Clearly, the e-Bay seller was offering
my books and then, if he had a successful buyer, he would then consummate
the purchase from me. (The e-Bay seller's name in each case was seemingly
unrelated to the person I thought I was dealing with.) At first, this
angered me as simply wrong. In each case, I ceased negotiations with the
fake buyer. My complaints to e-Bay were received indifferently. I did
begin to watch the patterns of what appeared to be similar sales (always
very high-end books) and realized that the practice was certainly not
isolated.

In any case, as a bookseller I find e-Bay a good place to buy certain
books, but I've never tried to sell anything--except through these
operators I've just described.

Thanks again for your article.

Henry Hurt.

Shadetree Rare Books

Al November 15, 2002

Good Day,

Please sign me up for a year. The temporary trail period has already produced Lewis and Clark books at upcoming auctions that I would have not found otherwise.

Happy Trails,

Al

George December 01, 2014

I look forward every month to reading AE Monthly. Why lessen the enjoyment by including leftist political orthodoxy into otherwise delightful articles.

The latest offender::

"He continued through life to support political candidates who were focused on helping the needy, rather than those who sought to reduce taxes on the wealthy…"

—The Greatest Book Collector Dies at 100

Had the collector's forebears been of like mind, the collection receiving accolades likely would never have been formed.

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<center>Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin Rare Books, Prints, Historical Photography 29 September 2023

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Jan Theodor de Bry. Anthologia magna sive Florilegium novum. 1626. 9,000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: John Locke. Epistola de tolerantia ad Clarissimum Virum T.A.R.P.T.O.L.A. 1689. 9000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: F. T. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella, Carrà, a.o. Collection of 35 Futurist manifestos. 1909-1933. 7000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Johann Elert Bode, Rare engraved celestial globe. (1804). 6000 €

Jeschke Jádi, Sep. 29: Sebastian Brant (ed.). Tertia pars huius operis in se continens glosam ordinariam cum expositione lyre litterali et morali. 1498. 5000 €
<center>Christie’s Charlie Watts: Literature and Jazz London and online auction 15–29 September

Christie’s, Explore now: F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940). The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. £100,000–150,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930). The Hound of the Baskervilles: Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1902. £70,000–100,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Agatha Christie (1890–1976). The Thirteen Problems. London: for the Crime Club Ltd. by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1932. £40,000–60,000

Christie’s, Explore now: Dashiell Hammett (1894–1961). The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. £30,000–50,000
<center>Case Auctions Fall Fine Art & Antiques Auction October 6-7, 2023

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: John Speed 1676 Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Chesapeake Bay. $1,000 to $1,200.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Andrew Jackson Coffin Handbill and Political Cartoon. $800 to $900.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Three Andrew Jackson Bank War Cartoons, incl. Way to Arabay. $800 to $900.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Three Andrew Jackson period Political Cartoons inc. Petticoat Affair. $500 to $600.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Cdre. Jesse D. Elliott ALS and Sarcophagus Print, Andrew Jackson & USS Constitution elated. $500 to $600.

<center>Case Auctions Fall Fine Art & Antiques Auction October 6-7, 2023

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Presidential Autographs & Portrait Prints incl. Eisenhower Photo, 18 items. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Group of three Robert E. Lee Cabinet Card Photographs, Miley Studio. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Eight Fugitive Writer related books incl. Andrew Lytle, R.P. Warren, J.C. Ransom, Allen Tate. $400 to $500.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Group Early Southern and Civil War Era Sheet Music. $300 to $350.

Case Auctions, Oct. 7: Henry Miller, Insomnia or the Devil at Large; Signed; Loujon Press 1970. $500 to $600.
<center>Australian Book Auctions Voyages, Natural History &c. October 4, 2023 9:00 AM Australian Western Time

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: PURCHAS, Samuel (circa 1577-1626). HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES…, London, 1625-1626. First edition. $40,000 to $60,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: GOULD, John. THE BIRDS OF AUSTRALIA, Volume IV. Folio, 104 fine handcoloured lithographed plates. London, 1848. $20,000 to $30,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: REICHENOW, Dr. Ant. VOGELBILDER AUS FERNER ZONEN, abbildungen und beschreibungen der Papageien. Kassel, 1878-1883. Folio, 33 hand-finished chromolithograph plates. $3,000 to $5,000 AUD

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: WALLIS, E. WALLIS’S ELEGANT AND INSTRUCTIVE GAME exhibiting the Wonders of Nature, in Each Quarter of the World. Handcoloured view, 26 numbered scenes. $400 to $600 AUD.

Australian Book Auctions, Oct. 4: GREENAWAY, Kate. ALMANACK FOR 1883 [and following years]. Twenty-two volumes, including six duplicates in variant bindings. $1,400 to $1,800 AUD.
<center>Sotheby’s Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library Magnificent Books and Bindings 11 October 2023

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. $300,000 to $400,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Leonardo da Vinci, Trattato della pittura, manuscript on paper, [Rome, ca. 1638–1641], a very fine pre-publication manuscript. $250,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Paradis, Ung petit traicte de Alkimie, [Paris, before 1540], contemporary morocco by the Pecking Crow binder for Anne de Montmorency. $300,000 to $350,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Capocaccia, Giovanni Battista, A wax relief portrait of Pius V, in a red morocco book-form box by the Vatican bindery, Rome, 1566–1568. $250,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Serlio, Il terzo libro; Regole generali, Venice, 1540, both printed on blue paper and bound together by the Cupid's Bow Binder. $400,000 to $500,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 11: Tiraboschi, Carmina, manuscript on vellum, [Padua, c. 1471], the earliest surviving plaquette binding. $280,000 to $350,000.

<center>Sotheby’s Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library The Aldine Collection A–C 12 October 2023

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Anthologia graeca, Venice, Aldus, 1503, printed on vellum, Masterman Sykes-Syston Park copy. $150,000 to $200,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1528, contemporary Italian morocco gilt, Accolti-Landau copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Castiglione, Il libro del cortegiano, Venice, Aldus, 1545, contemporary morocco for Thomas Mahieu, Chatsworth copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Cicero, Epistolae familiares, Venice, Aldus, 1502, printed on vellum, illuminated, Renouard-Vernon-Uzielli copy. $200,000 to $300,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, Aldus, 1499, Gomar Estienne binding for Jean Grolier, Spencer copy. $400,000 to $600,000.

Sotheby’s, Oct. 12: Crinito, Libri de poetis Latinis, Florence, Giunta, 1505, Cupid's Bow Binder for Grolier, Paris d'Illins-Wodhull copy. $250,000 to $300,000.

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