• Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    27th March 2024
    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.
    Forum Auctions
    Colour Plate Books from the Library of Norman Bobins
    Part 2
    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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD

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1 #2502 Swann Galleries Autographs March 21, 2019 March 22, 2019 259 225 86.87% USD 1.0 189,280.00 286,570.00 336,670.00 300,442.00 300,442.00 89.24%
2 #25419 Bonhams The Medical and Scientific Library of W. Bruce Fye - Online, bistart 3/12 March 21, 2019 March 22, 2019 340 222 65.29% USD 1.0 108,000.00 160,150.00 231,550.00 277,537.00 277,537.00 119.86%
3 #16954 Christies Prints and Multiples March 21, 2019 March 22, 2019 198 168 84.85% GBP 1.312 2,234,400.00 3,367,000.00 3,973,000.00 3,931,000.00 5,149,610.00 98.94%
4 #2094 Forum Auctions Online Sale: Maps and Atlases March 21, 2019 March 22, 2019 155 118 76.13% GBP 1.312 35,230.00 52,170.00 72,210.00 65,962.50 86,410.97 91.35%
5 #L19144 Sothebys Made in Britain - Prints, Photographs March 20, 2019 March 21, 2019 109 102 93.58% GBP 1.312 480,600.00 733,900.00 795,300.00 1,050,626.00 1,397,332.58 132.10%
6 #25910 ALDE Modern Bindings and Modern Illustrated Books March 20, 2019 March 21, 2019 298 219 73.49% EUR 1.119 135,970.00 180,240.00 361,420.00 277,250.00 313,292.32 76.71%
7 #191912 Heritage Auctions Monthly Photographs Online - bidstart 2/27 March 20, 2019 March 21, 2019 62 52 83.87% USD 1.0 34,100.00 53,800.00 66,800.00 34,674.75 34,674.75 51.91%
8 #25644 Bonhams FINE JAPANESE PRINTS, INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE BERTRAM AND RUTH MALENKA March 20, 2019 March 21, 2019 184 183 99.46% USD 1.0 699,100.00 1,024,500.00 1,034,500.00 1,903,383.00 1,903,383.00 183.99%
9 #1912b Bruun Rasmussen Books and Manuscripts March 19, 2019 March 21, 2019 136 126 92.65% EUR 1.119 69,130.00 84,550.00 92,850.00 93,965.00 106,180.42 101.20%
10 #141912 Heritage Auctions Tuesday Internet Currency Auction - bidstart 3/12 March 19, 2019 March 21, 2019 489 488 99.80% USD 1.0 78,707.00 111,868.00 112,588.00 84,308.20 84,308.20 74.88%
11 #281912 Heritage Auctions Weekly World Currency Internet Auction - Online bidstart 3/12 March 19, 2019 March 21, 2019 161 159 98.76% USD 1.0 24,220.00 32,950.00 33,250.00 29,719.20 29,719.20 89.38%
12 #1912 Bruun Rasmussen Prints March 18, 2019 March 20, 2019 93 85 91.40% EUR 1.119 30,580.00 35,275.00 39,930.00 38,427.50 43,423.03 96.24%
13 #151911 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Sports Collectibles - Internet bidstart 2/17 March 17, 2019 March 20, 2019 176 170 96.59% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 60,667.60 60,667.60
14 #121911 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Comics - bidstart 3/10 March 17, 2019 March 20, 2019 1025 1025 100.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 402,291.20 402,291.20
15 #161911 Heritage Auctions Sunday Internet Movie Posters - Internet bidstart 3/10 March 17, 2019 March 18, 2019 504 495 98.21% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 0.00 50,086.00 50,086.00
16 #31719 Clars Auction Gallery Fine Art - Prints March 17, 2019 March 20, 2019 54 42 77.78% USD 1.0 34,300.00 55,300.00 73,400.00 41,531.25 41,531.25 56.58%
17 #31719 National Book Auctions Davy Chemistry, Books-on-Books, Americana, etc. March 17, 2019 March 21, 2019 72 72 100.00% USD 1.0 6,980.00 16,300.00 16,300.00 5,152.38 5,152.50 31.61%
18 #59601 Vermot de Pas Comic Strips, Original Boards, Japanese Animation March 16, 2019 March 18, 2019 615 456 74.15% EUR 1.119 58,210.00 73,850.00 116,110.00 92,106.00 104,079.76 79.33%
19 #7198 Heritage Auctions Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction March 16, 2019 March 18, 2019 908 649 71.48% USD 1.0 966,539.40 2,450,057.60 2,861,957.60 1,236,777.75 1,236,777.75 43.21%
20 #31619 Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper March 16, 2019 March 18, 2019 171 154 90.06% USD 1.0 40,700.00 90,950.00 101,050.00 23,083.50 23,083.50 22.84%
21 #31619 Clars Auction Gallery Fine Art - Prints and Books March 16, 2019 March 20, 2019 137 107 78.10% USD 1.0 18,900.00 32,300.00 44,450.00 30,550.80 30,550.80 68.73%
22 #31519 Marc van de Wiele Auctions Spring Auction - Books and Prints March 15, 2019 March 20, 2019 1093 769 70.36% EUR 1.119 293,310.00 417,540.00 598,490.00 528,606.25 597,324.59 88.32%
23 #625 Leslie Hindman Auctioneers The Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett, Part II March 15, 2019 March 18, 2019 292 292 100.00% USD 1.0 132,900.00 196,920.00 196,920.00 221,467.00 221,467.00 112.47%
24 #546 RR Auction Music - Internet bid start 3/7 March 14, 2019 March 18, 2019 761 456 59.92% USD 1.0 483,100.00 697,100.00 1,456,900.00 697,937.50 697,937.50 47.91%
25 #717 Soler Y Llach Books, Manuscripts and Collecting March 14, 2019 March 20, 2019 851 399 46.89% EUR 1.119 0.00 0.00 0.00 165,315.60 186,969.35
26 #73 AntiquarianAuctions.com Rare Books - Internet Bidstart 3/7 March 14, 2019 March 20, 2019 506 156 30.83% USD 1.0 43,040.00 51,985.00 173,095.00 38,026.00 38,026.00 21.97%
27 #213 Nye & Company Auctioneers Timed Backyard Auction - Books and Prints March 14, 2019 March 18, 2019 72 52 72.22% USD 1.0 1,768.00 2,720.00 3,810.00 2,753.75 2,753.75 72.28%
28 #3852 Artcurial Prints and Illustrated Books March 14, 2019 March 18, 2019 242 160 66.12% EUR 1.119 240,500.00 348,200.00 559,400.00 439,947.00 497,140.11 78.65%
29 #85869 FRAYSSE & Associés Collection of Mr. X - Portulan map March 14, 2019 March 20, 2019 1 1 100.00% EUR 1.119 5,000.00 8,000.00 8,000.00 28,060.00 31,707.80 350.75%
30 #31419 Neal Auction Company Animation Art - Online Only March 14, 2019 March 20, 2019 104 103 99.04% USD 1.0 31,050.00 49,750.00 49,875.00 24,289.28 24,289.28 48.70%
31 #212 Nye & Company Auctioneers Timed Auction, Session 2: Fine Art Prints March 13, 2019 March 18, 2019 7 0 0.00% USD 1.0 0.00 0.00 4,450.00 0.00 0.00 0.00%
32 #31319 Grays Auctioneers Fine Art - Prints March 13, 2019 March 20, 2019 131 82 62.60% USD 1.0 20,900.00 33,700.00 64,060.00 30,116.55 30,116.55 47.01%
33 #707 JA Stargardt Autographenhandlung Autographs March 12, 2019 March 18, 2019 733 622 84.86% EUR 1.119 1,054,630.00 1,054,630.00 1,205,110.00 1,708,911.40 1,931,069.89 141.81%
34 #1196 Robert Siegel Galleries United States Postal History March 11, 2019 March 18, 2019 998 941 94.29% USD 1.0 743,000.00 1,036,150.00 1,069,950.00 1,216,857.30 1,216,857.30 113.73%
35 #31019 National Book Auctions Books-on-Books, Antique, Art, Cartography, etc. March 10, 2019 March 21, 2019 57 57 100.00% USD 1.0 5,740.00 12,950.00 12,950.00 4,376.88 4,377.01 33.80%
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    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
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