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Alexander Historical Auctions: Revolutionary War

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Auction Name Revolutionary War Total Sales (USD) 369,797.40
Auction Date December 10, 2016 - December 10, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 398,085.00
Sale Number #65 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 569,480.00
Total Lots 311
Sold Lots 204 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 594,735.00
% of Lots Sold 65.59% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 826,630.00
Unsold Lots 107 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
72

GENERAL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN'S SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI MEDAL

 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 103,275.00
73

BARON FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN'S GERMAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 27,337.50
239

AN AMERICAN MERCHANT AND PRIVATEER OWNER WRITES OF THE RETREAT FROM LEXINGTON AND CONCORD

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 14,580.00
25

JOHN HANCOCK

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,365.00
50

CONGRESS APPOINTS COMMISSIONERS TO NEGOTIATE AND SIGN TREATIES WITH THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,720.00
298

AMERICAN SILVER MOUNTED OFFICER'S SWORD

 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,505.00
76

ORNATE SHOE BUCKLES ATTRIBUTED TO GENERAL FRIEDRICH WILHELM VON STEUBEN

 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,897.50
229

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S HAIR RIBBON

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 7,897.50
75

GOLD-TOPPED WALKING STICK ATTRIBUTED TO GEN. WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON STEUBEN

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,075.00
248

BATTLE ORDERS PROTECTING LOWER WESTCHESTER FROM BRITISH INCURSIONS FROM NEW YORK

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 6,075.00
228

CHRISTOPHER GIST - EXPLORER WHO TWICE SAVED WASHINGTON'S LIFE

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,771.25
77

ORNATE SILK VEST ATTRIBUTED TO GEN. WILHELM FRIEDRICH VON STEUBEN

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,467.50
289

IDENTIFIED FRENCH-MADE MUSKET, USED BY AN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY CAVALRYMAN

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,467.50
292

BRITISH ROYAL FORESTER'S LIGHT DRAGOON'S PISTOL

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,467.50
55

DAVID WOOSTER AND TRYON'S RAID ON DANBURY

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,860.00
240

PENNSYLVANIA NEWSPAPER REPORTS ON BUNKER HILL

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,556.25
290

BRITISH BLUNDERBUSS

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 4,556.25
79

MEISSEN VASE WITH PORTRAIT OF VON STEUBEN

 USD 6,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,252.50
299

RIBBON HILT SCOTTISH BROAD SWORD

 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,948.75
202

THOMAS PRENCE

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,645.00
249

A CONNECTICUT SOLDIER REPORTS FOR SERVICE AT VALLEY FORGE, JANUARY, 1778

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,645.00
254

A SURGEON'S MATE RECEIVES WINTER CLOTHING AT VALLEY FORGE

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 3,645.00
268

2ND CONTINENTAL LIGHT DRAGOONS PAY ROSTER

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,645.00
320

KAISER WILHELM II PRESENTATION BOAR'S HEAD DESK SET

 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,645.00
257

THE AMERICANS CAPTURE A NEW 28-GUN BRITISH FRIGATE

 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,341.25
  • 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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