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RR Auction: Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Internet bidstart 9/23

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Auction Name Fine Autographs & Artifacts - Internet bidstart 9/23 Total Sales (USD) 577,695.03
Auction Date October 12, 2016 - October 12, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 465,500.00
Sale Number #485 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 672,500.00
Total Lots 918
Sold Lots 575 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 917,600.00
% of Lots Sold 62.64% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,300,500.00
Unsold Lots 343 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.42%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
501 Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 30,626.23
38 Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Todd Lincoln ALS

1868 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 17,876.43
875 Ty Cobb

Ty Cobb ALS and SP

1958 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,083.43
186 John Hancock

John Hancock LS

1777 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,251.23
207 Henry Clay

Henry Clay ALS

1850 USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,781.63
239 Notables

Notables Archive

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,414.93
768 Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen Group Lot

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,233.63
39 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln DS

1862 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,174.83
227 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein SP

53 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,513.33
3 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison DS

1803 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,448.40
223 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin LS

1878 USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 6,341.83
40 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Endorsement

1862 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,198.50
229 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein ALS

1947 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,586.00
658 John Coltrane

John Coltrane Check

1967 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,519.85
431 Apollo 11

Apollo 11 SP

USD 4,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 5,131.53
2 John Adams

John Adams DS

1797 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,017.60
508 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir SP

1911 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,918.38
661 Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday SP

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,902.45
747 Prince

Prince SP

Circa 1985 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,788.53
238 Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud ALS

1930 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,657.45
4 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison DS

1808 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,560.68
195 Richard Henry Lee

Richard Henry Lee ALS

1769 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,560.68
680 Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix SP

1968 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,446.75
241 Cotton Mather

Cotton Mather Handwritten notes

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,145.40
559 Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde ALS

USD 2,800.00 - 3,200.00 USD 4,026.58
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • 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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