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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts Online - bidstart 6/7 Total Sales (USD) 1,255,000.00
Auction Date June 21, 2019 - June 21, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 778,000.00
Sale Number #n10087 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,138,700.00
Total Lots 263
Sold Lots 159 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,713,400.00
% of Lots Sold 60.46% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,652,800.00
Unsold Lots 104 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
212 MELVILLE, HERMAN

THE WHALE.

1851 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 137,500.00
192 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, JAMES MADISON, AND JOHN JAY

THE FEDERALIST. A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS, WRITTEN IN FAVOUR OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION,…

1788 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 87,500.00
238 SPRINGSTEEN, BRUCE

“THUNDER ROAD” WORKING MANUSCRIPT,

CA. 1975 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 62,500.00
101 For benefit of mission projects of St Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral

BIBLE IN LATIN A LEAF FROM THE GUTENBERG BIBLE.

1455 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 56,250.00
108

BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT (TYNDALE’S VERSION) [THE NEWE TESTAMENT OF OUR SAUIOUR JESU CHRISTE …

1552 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 40,000.00
159 [CHINA]

ALBUM OF 67 ORIGINAL WATERCOLORS (UNSIGNED).

[N.D] CA. 1835 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 32,500.00
185 GERSHWIN, GEORGE

AUTOGRAPH MUSIC MANUSCRIPT OF LEAVIN’ FOR DE PROMISE’ LAN’ FROM THE OPERA PORGY AND BESS, ACT ONE SCENE TWO FROM THE OPERA PORGY AND BESS, ACT ONE SCENE TWO

USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 30,000.00
104

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (TAVERNER’S VERSION) [THE MOST SACRED BIBLE, WHICHE IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURE, CONTEYNING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENT, …

1539 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 25,000.00
243 WARHOL, ANDY; AND SUZIE FRANKFORT

WILD RASPBERRIES.

1959 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 23,750.00
109

BIBLE IN ENGLISH. NEW TESTAMENT (TYNDALE’S VERSION) [THE NEWE TESTAMENT OF OURE SAUIOUR IESUS CHRISTE. …

1553 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,500.00
231 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

JULIUS CAESAR. A TRAGEDY AS T IS NOW ACTED AT THE THEATRE ROYAL.

1684 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
178 FEYNMAN, RICHARD

“ZORTHIAN’S WIFE.”

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
195 HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON

Autograph manuscript signed twice ("F. de Humboldt" and Humboldt), in French, titled Memoire raisonné sur la Saline de Zipaquirá, 47 pages (including autograph title),

1801 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,250.00
227 SCHULZ, CHARLES

ORIGINAL FOUR-PANEL PEANUTS DAILY COMIC STRIP SIGNED BY SCHULZ The daily strip for 22 October 1958

1958 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
228 SCHULZ, CHARLES

ORIGINAL FOUR-PANEL PEANUTS DAILY COMIC STRIP SIGNED BY SCHULZ The daily strip for 24 October 1958

1958 USD 15,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,250.00
107

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (COVERDALE’S VERSION) THE WHOLE BYBLE. THAT IS THE HOLY SCRIPTURE OF THE OLDE AND NEWE TESTAMENT F …

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,000.00
199 KEATS, JOHN

POEMS.

1817 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 20,000.00
229 SCHULZ, CHARLES

ORIGINAL FOUR-PANEL PEANUTS DAILY COMIC STRIP SIGNED BY SCHULZ The daily strip for 26 December 1974

1974 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 18,750.00
247 WASHINGTON, GEORGE

COLUMBIA’S LEGACY; OR, WASHINGTON’S VALUABLE ADVICE TO HIS FELLOW CITIZENS, PUBLISHED BY HIM AT THE PERIOD OF ANNOUNCING HIS INTENTION OF RETIRING FROM PUBLIC LIFE AT THE EXPIRATION OF THE PRESENT CONSTITUTIONAL TERM OF THE

1796 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 18,750.00
246 WASHINGTON, GEORGE

THREE-LANGUAGE SHIP'S PAPER SIGNED TWICE ("GO: WASHINGTON") AS FIRST PRESIDENT AND SIGNED TWICE BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE ("TH: JEFFERSON")

1794 USD 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,500.00
105

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (THE GREAT BIBLE) [THE BYBLE IN ENGLYSHE OF THE LARGEST AND GREATEST VOLUME, …

1541 Folio (14 5/8 x 10 in.; 372 x 256 mm). USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,250.00
106

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (MATTHEW’S VERSION) [THE BYBLE, THAT IS TO SAY ALL THE HOLY SCRIPTURE: …

1549 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,000.00
154 [BURNS, ROBERT]

ALEXANDER ROSS HELENORE, OR THE FORTUNATE SHEPHERDESS, A POEM, IN THE BROAD SCOTCH DIALECT...

1778 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,750.00
179 FEYNMAN, RICHARD

SURELY YOU’RE JOKING MR. FEYNMAN! ADVENTURES OF A CURIOUS CHARACTER. AS TOLD TO RALPH LEIGHTON. AS TOLD TO RALPH LEIGHTON.

1985 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 13,750.00
120

BIBLE IN ENGLISH (KING JAMES VERSION) THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTEYNING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW: …

1613 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,500.00
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    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
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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