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Auction Name Original Comic Arts and Illustration Total Sales (EUR) 453,546.00
Auction Date November 27, 2021 - November 27, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 249,775.00
Sale Number #147 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 440,000.00
Total Lots 631
Sold Lots 377 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 496,250.00
% of Lots Sold 59.75% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 828,800.00
Unsold Lots 254 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
522 Erik Larsen

Spider-Man - Revenge of the Sinister Six, 1992

1992 EUR 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 31,200.00
585 Guido Crepax

Pronto...Valentina?!, 1979

1979 EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 21,600.00
67 Zdenek Burian

I primi uomini, 1971

1971 EUR 1,200.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 11,280.00
183 Albert Uderzo

Pinocchio e Asterix, 1986

1986 EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,800.00
546 Frank Robbins

What If? - What If the Invaders Had Stayed Together After World War Two?, 1977

1977 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 9,840.00
483 Bruno Napoli

Il libro della giungla (The Jungle Book), 1983

1983 EUR 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 8,880.00
545 Frank Robbins

The Invaders - War Comes to the Wilhelmstrasse, 1977

1977 EUR 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 7,200.00
436 Michele Rubino

Topolino 33, 1951

1951 EUR 5,800.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,960.00
237 Vittorio Giardino

Rapsodia ungherese, 1982

1982 EUR 4,500.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 6,600.00
432 Don Rosa

Zio Paperone - La corona dei re crociati, 2001

2001 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,480.00
485 Bruno Napoli

Scontro di titani (Clash of the Titans), 1981

1981 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,240.00
625 Paolo Serpieri

Druuna - Morbus Gravis 2 (Delta), 1987

1987 EUR 2,900.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 5,400.00
177 Milo Manara

Pinocchio e la fata turchina, 1990

1990 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,280.00
265 Moebius (Jean Giraud)

Amo e Amo, 1997

1997 EUR 2,900.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 5,040.00
367 Magnus (Roberto Raviola)

Tex - La valle del terrore, 1996

1996 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,800.00
368 Magnus (Roberto Raviola)

Tex - La valle del terrore, 1996

1996 EUR 2,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,080.00
46 Giorgio Cavazzano

OK Quack, 1981

1981 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,840.00
293 Sergio Toppi

Trento Film Festival della Montagna '86, 1986

1986 EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,600.00
419 Floyd Gottfredson

Mickey Mouse, 1967

1967 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,600.00
45 Giorgio Cavazzano

Capitan Rogers - I ladri di pelli, 1984

1984 EUR 2,900.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,480.00
182 Sergio Toppi

Pinocchio e Mangiafuoco, 1986

1986 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,480.00
420 Floyd Gottfredson

Mickey Mouse, 1969

1969 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,480.00
446 Al Taliaferro

Donald Duck, 1967

1967 EUR 1,900.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,360.00
147 Buriko (Antonio Burattini)

Topo Lino (Sorcettino), 1933

1933 EUR 900.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,240.00
219 Luigi Corteggi

Satanik - Nel profondo degli abissi, 1974

1974 EUR 350.00 - 600.00 EUR 3,120.00
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    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.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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