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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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Christies: In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides

Auction Reports

Auction Name In Praise of America: Important American Furniture, Folk Art, Silver, Prints and Broadsides Total Sales (USD) 2,204,625.00
Auction Date January 21, 2021 - January 22, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,265,000.00
Sale Number #18947 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,776,000.00
Total Lots 38
Sold Lots 31 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,324,000.00
% of Lots Sold 81.58% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,865,000.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 118.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
315 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

A CONTEMPORARY BROADSIDE EDITION OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

1776 USD 600,000.00 - 800,000.00 USD 990,000.00
302 PAUL REVERE

THE BLOODY MASSACRE PERPETRATED IN KING STREET, BOSTON, ON MARCH 5TH 1770, BY A PARTY OF THE 29TH REGT.

1770 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 412,500.00
311 EZEKIEL RUSSEL

BLOODY BUTCHERY BY THE BRITISH TROOPS, OR, THE RUNAWAY FIGHT OF THE REGULARS

1775 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 212,500.00
290 WILLIAM HUBBARD

THE PRESENT STATE OF NEW-ENGLAND - WITH THE "WINE HILLS" MAP

1677 USD 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 87,500.00
327 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), WILLIAM HOME LIZARS (1788-1859) AND ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Iceland or Jer Falcon (Plate CCCLXVI) Gyrfalcon, Falco rusticolus

1837 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 62,500.00
314 CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

A DECLARATION BY THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED COLONIES OF NORTH-AMERICA ... SETTING FORTH THE CAUSES AND NECESSITY OF THEIR TAKING UP ARMS

1775 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,000.00
308 HENRY DAWKINS

LIBERTY TRIUMPHANT OR THE DOWNFALL OF OPPRESSION

C. 1774 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 43,750.00
291 AFTER JOHN VERELST

ETOW OH KOAM, KING OF THE RIVER NATION; AND TEE YEE HO GA ROW EMPEROUR OF THE SIX NATIONS

1710 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 40,000.00
307 JOHANN MARTIN WILL

THE BOSTONIANS IN DISTRESS

C. 1774-1783 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 40,000.00
295 THOMAS JOHNSTON

QUEBEC, THE CAPITAL OF NEW-FRANCE

1759 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
303 JONATHAN MULLIKEN, AFTER PAUL REVERE

THE BLOODY MASSACRE PERPETRATED IN KING STREET

C. 1770 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 32,500.00
326 AFTER JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (1785-1851), WILLIAM HOME LIZARS (1788-1859) AND ROBERT HAVELL (1793-1878)

Great American Hen & Young. Vulgo, Female Wild Turkey (Plate VI) Meleagris gallopavo

1827 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 30,000.00
305 AFTER FRANICS EDWARD ADAMS

A NEW METHOD OF MACARONY MAKING

1774 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
292 AFTER JOHN VERELST

TOMO CHACHI MICO, ODER KÖNIG VON YAMACRAN, UND TOOANAHOWI SEINES BRUDERS DES MICO ODER KÖNIGES VON ETICHITAS SOHN

C. 1734 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,250.00
306 PHILLIP DAWE

THE BOSTONIAN'S PAYING THE EXCISE MAN OR TARRING AND FEATHERING

1774 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,000.00
322 ABEL BOWN

U.S. FRIGATE CONSTITUTION, OF 44 GUNS

C. 1812 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 13,750.00
323 ANDREW DULUC

FIRST VIEW OF THE BATTLE OF PATAPSCO NECK

1814 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
312 ROBERT AITKEN

A CORRECT VIEW OF THE LATE BATTLE AT CHARLESTOWN

1774, 1775 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,000.00
297 WILLIAM COOPER

GENTLEMEN, WE, THE FREEHOLDERS AND OTHER INHABITANTS OF BOSTON

1772 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
300 EDWARD FISHER

B. FRANKLIN OF PHILADELPHIA

1762 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,750.00
318 GEORGE WASHINGTON

A DISCHARGE FOR A CONTINENTIAL SOLDIER

1783 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,125.00
316 SAYER & BENNETT

CAPT. PAUL JONES SHOOTING A SAILOR WHO HAD ATTEMPTED TO STRIKE HIS COLOURS IN AN ENGAGEMENT

1780 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,875.00
301 BENJAMIN WILSON

THE REPEAL, OR THE FUNERAL OF MISS AME=STAMP

1766 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,250.00
304 PAUL REVERE

THE BOSTON MASSACRE, PERPETRATED ON MARCH THE 5TH, 1770

1772 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,625.00
293 PETER PELHAM

COTTONUS MATHERUS - THE FIRST AMERICAN MEZZOTINT

1727 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,000.00
  • Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    20 March 2024
    Koller, Mar. 20: DADA - Der Zeltweg. Redaktion: Flake, Serner, Tzara. Zürich, 1919. CHF 5,000 – 8,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jespers, Floris - Peeters, Jan. Kinderlust. Antwerpen, J. F. Bogaerts & R. R. Dodson, [1923]. CHF 2,000 – 3,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: FARBENLEHRE - Chevreul, M. E. De la Loi du contraste simultané des couleurs et de l'assortiment des objets colorés. Paris, 1839. CHF 4,000 – 5,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: BOTANIK - Schrank, Franz de Paula von. Flora Monacensis, seu plantae sponte circa Monachium nascentes. München, 1811-1818. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: French Bible manuscript. Latin manuscript on parchment. With 81 illuminated, ornamental and figurative initials. Paris, c. 1250. CHF 90,000 – 120,000
    Koller Auctions
    Books & Autographs
    20 March 2024
    Koller, Mar. 20: Gradual for the use of a Dominican convent. Latin manuscript on parchment, with Flemish rubrics in black and red. Mecheln (?), c. 1520. CHF 25,000 – 40,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Calendar. French manuscript on parchment. With 12 large colored thorn leaf initials on a gold background. Paris, c. 1380/1390. CHF 40,000 – 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Freud, Sigmund. Collection of 23 handwritten letters to Alphonse Maeder in Zurich. In addition to 4 letter drafts from Maeder to Freud. 2 February 1910 - 21 September 1913. CHF 50,000 – 80,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Jung, Carl Gustav. Collection of 26 autograph and 3 typescript letters and a postcard to Alphonse Maeder. 1911-1918. CHF 20,000 – 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 20: Nietzsche, Friedrich, philosopher. Handwritten letter signed to Richard Wagner. Basel, September 27, 1876. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
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