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Auction Name American Historical Ephemera & Photography Total Sales (USD) 119,065.00
Auction Date November 30, 2021 - November 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 75,175.00
Sale Number #961 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 120,650.00
Total Lots 361
Sold Lots 309 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,600.00
% of Lots Sold 85.60% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 140,400.00
Unsold Lots 52 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 84.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
868

[CIVIL WAR]. A large group of war-era pamphlets on topics including politics, battles, foreign relations, debt, and the draft, comprising:

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,750.00
841

[CIVIL WAR]. Confederate “Stars and Bars” flag.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,125.00
1027

[POSTERS]. A group of 3 Mather Work posters featuring wildlife, including examples by Willard Frederic Elmes. Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

1929 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,125.00
1020 DEPUY, Hal, artist.

Touchdown! Keeping clear of gangs keeps you clear of interference. You're Out To Win. Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,813.00
801

[REVOLUTIONARY WAR]. Declaration of Independence. N.d., [ca 19th century].

[ca 19th century]. USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,750.00
964

[FLAGS & PATRIOTIC TEXTILES]. 39-star American flag. 1889.

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 1,625.00
1024 ELMES, Willard Frederic, artist.

A group of 2 Mather Work posters featuring circus acts involving animals. Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

1929 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,625.00
1099

[NATIVE AMERICANS]. A group of pamphlets related to relocation and treaties of Native Americans, comprising:

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 1,500.00
867

[CIVIL WAR]. A group of books related to specific Civil War battles and campaigns, including Gettysburg, Vicksburg, Shiloh, Chancellorsville, the Wilderness, and Franklin, comrising:

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,375.00
1065

[JOHNSON, Lyndon B. (1908-1973).] A group of political items associated with the administration of President Lyndon B. Johnson and highlighted by a Tiffany & Co. box with presidential seal.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
1074

BIDDLE, John (1859-1936). Archive of items related to Distinguished Service Medal recipient General John Biddle and his army career

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,375.00
874

[CIVIL WAR - BOOKS.] A group of Civil War histories, comprising:

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 1,250.00
1110 BUEHMAN, photographer.

Stereoview of Apache Scouts.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,063.00
1023 LEE, JR., Henry, artist.

Strut Your Stuff! You've got the goods - step out and show 'em! Holding Back Holds You Back. Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 938.00
1022 DEPUY, Hal, artist.

Circle Chasers. It's the plan behind your work that puts the push behind your record. "First Time Right" Counts! Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
1039

[COLONIAL] Late 18th Century receipts, including the Indian Queen Tavern, and copies of the Pennsylvania Gazette.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
968

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. A group of 2 occupational daguerreotypes, incl. a lawyer and possible carpenter with his family.

USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 813.00
1010

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITURE]. A pair of daguerreotype portraits of mixed race subjects.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 813.00
1026

[POSTERS]. A group of 2 Mather Work posters, incl. ELMES, Willard Frederic, artist. Hungry! Spoiled work feeds the vulture of waste. Starve Him! Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
1028

[POSTERS]. Shoot! Putting it off gives the other fellow a chance to do it. Get the Credit Yourself. Chicago: Mather & Co., 1929.

1929 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 813.00
807

[CIVIL WAR]. INSLEY, Henry E. (1811-1894), photographer. Sixth plate daguerreotype of captain. [New York], ca late 1850s.

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 750.00
840

[CIVIL WAR - PHOTOGRAPHY]. A pair of ninth plate images of likely Confederate privates, comprising:

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 750.00
965

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY]. Quarter plate daguerreotype of large residence.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 750.00
977

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITURE]. A group of 7 daguerreotype and ambrotype portraits of men, many with interesting and unusual expressions and features, highlighted by full plate ambrotype of group of distinguished gents.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 750.00
978

[EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY - PORTRAITURE]. A group of 19 cased images featuring men, women, and children, including:

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 750.00
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    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
    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.
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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