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Cowans Auctions: American History - Live Salesroom Auction

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Auction Name American History - Live Salesroom Auction Total Sales (USD) 594,963.75
Auction Date November 17, 2017 - November 17, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 387,800.00
Sale Number #7484 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 586,600.00
Total Lots 372
Sold Lots 317 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 557,100.00
% of Lots Sold 85.22% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 833,100.00
Unsold Lots 55 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.42%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
329

The American West, Extraordinary Album Containing Photographs of Mormon Elders, American Indians, Salt Lake City, Stage Stati

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 32,400.00
248

Mary Andrews Suffrage Collection, Incl. Carrie Chapman Catt ALS, Parade Jacket, Blouse, and "Justice" & "Morality" Sashes, Pl

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 26,400.00
3

French & Indian War, Manuscript Orderly Book, Recorded by Captain Nathaniel Perry, 1755-1756

1755 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 19,200.00
193

Exceptional Abolitionist Family CDV Album Containing Photographs of Slaves, Views of Port Royal, South Carolina, and Portrait

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 19,200.00
308

Exceptional Photo Album and Archive Documenting Rev. W.C. Roe's Mission to Fort Sill, Incl. Many Photographs of Geronimo, Qua

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 16,800.00
168

Photographic Pioneer Hamilton Lanphere Smith, Best Known for Patenting the Tintype, Personal Photograph Collection

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,600.00
112

General McClellan at Malvern Hill, Virginia, Posting the Battery, July 1, 1862, Watercolor and Goache by Alfred R. Waud

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 14,400.00
49

Very Rare Proclamation ... to the People of...Texas, July 1863, After the Fall of Vicksburg

1863 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,200.00
91

Confederate Pass Signed by Captain William C. Quantrill

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,600.00
67

Sketches of Camp Boone, The First Encampment of the Kentucky State Guard, 1860, Containing Original Salt Prints

1860 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,000.00
104

John W. Pitridge, 5th Vermont Volunteers, Civil War Correspondence Incl. Descriptions of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville

1861 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,400.00
100

Civil War, 7th Kentucky Infantry (Union), Set of Five Regimental Medical Record Ledgers

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,200.00
147

15 Texas Regiment Wall's Brigade, Confederate Flag

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,200.00
111

Battle at Savage Station, Virginia, June 1862, Civil War Pencil Sketch by Alfred R. Waud

1862 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,600.00
119

Colonel Delevan Bates Leading the 30th US Colored Infantry into Battle at the "Crater," Petersburg, Virginia, July 1864, Orig

1864 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,600.00
120

Raising the Flag Over the Old State House, Columbia, South Carolina, February 1865, Pen and Ink Sketch Attributed to Alfred R

1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,600.00
53

Democratic Workingman, Three Republican Propaganda Political Broadsides

1863 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,000.00
253

Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, Two Early Photographs of Engine No. 104 and Officials by Benham

2012 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,700.00
132

Battle of Carnifex Ferry, Patriotic Folk Art Carved Pipe

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 5,227.50
34

Confederate CDV Collection Compiled by CSA Mapmaker Albert Campbell, Incl. Davis, Lee, Jackson, McCulloch, & More

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,100.00
152

33-Star Flag Identified to Cedar Rapids, Iowa Settler

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,920.00
347

Carleton Watkins Set of 32 Yosemite Valley Photographs

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,800.00
371

Annie Oakley Cabinet Card by Wood

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,612.50
92

CSA Officer Peter B. Smith, 39th VA and 13th Battalion VA Light Artillery, Archive Featuring Discussions of Stonewall Jackson

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,500.00
282

Extraordinary Quarter Plate Tintype of Jesse Gray, Noted Indiana Frontiersman, Indian Fighter, and War of 1812 Veteran

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,500.00
  • 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
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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