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Auction Name The Richard Beagle Collection of Angling & Sporting Books, Part II Total Sales (USD) 144,300.00
Auction Date October 19, 2017 - October 19, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 142,650.00
Sale Number #627 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 221,400.00
Total Lots 426
Sold Lots 300 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 202,900.00
% of Lots Sold 70.42% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 314,750.00
Unsold Lots 126 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 45.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
166 West, Leonard

The Natural Trout Fly and Its Imitation

 [1912] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,600.00
94 Harrop, Rene, Ernest Schwiebert, Poul Jorgensen, and S.A. Neff, Jr.

The Book of Small Flies

 1983 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
88 Halford, Frederic M.

Dry Fly Entomology: A Brief Description of Leading Types of Natural Insects Serving as Food for Trout and Grayling with the 100 Best Patterns of Floating Flies and the Carious Methods of Dressing Them

 1897 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,200.00
158 Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a Discourse of Rivers, Fish-Ponds, Fish and Fishing Written by Izaak Walton and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream by Charles Cotton, with Original Memoirs a

 1836 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,200.00
75 Grey, Zane

Tales of Southern Rivers

 [1924] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
128 [Potter, Thomas McDaniels]

Adventures in Fishing by "Three-six"

 1924 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
24 Carpenter, Donald A.

Hunting Big Game in the Sierras of Chihuahua

 [1905] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,700.00
157 Volkman, Daniel G.

Memories of a Fishing Journey to New Zealand, Made in 1950 by Dean and Helen Witter, Alfred and Jane Swinerton, Dan and Beatrice Volkman; As Narrated in Letters to Family and Friends

 1950 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,700.00
30 Coleman, John B.

Hunting Big Game in Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Fifty Day in Uinta County with James S. Simpson

 [c.1928] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,400.00
133 Ronalds, Alfred

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology with Directions for Making the Artificial Representation of Each Fly; and a Few Observations and Instructions on Trout and Grayling Fishing

 1913 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,280.00
259 Muir, John

The Mountains of California - with a letter from the author

 1898 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
91 Halford, Frederic M

An Angler's Autobiography

 1903 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
71 Grey, Zane

Tales of Fishing the Virgin Seas

 1925 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,920.00
125 Overfield, T. Donald

G.E.M. Skues: The Way of a Man with a Trout

 1977 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
151 Taverner, Eric

Salmon Fishing

 1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
38 Deane, John

Camp Recollections

 [c.1911] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,680.00
53 Goddard, John and Brian Clarke

The Trout And The Fly: A New Approach

 [1980] USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,680.00
134 Ronalds, Alfred

The Fly-Fisher's Entomology. Illustrated by Coloured Representations of the Natural and Artificial Insect. And Accompanied by a few Observations and Instructions relative to Trout-and-Grayling Fishing.

 1836 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,680.00
67 Grey, Zane

The Shepherd of Guadaloupe

 1930 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,560.00
35 Davis, Edmund W.

Salmon-Fishing on the Grand Cascapedia

 1904 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
144 Schmookler, Paul M., editor

The Salmon Flies of Major John Popkin Traherne (1826-1901). Their Descriptions and Variations as Presented by George M. Kelson in The Fishing Gazette, Land and Water and The Salmon Fly

 [1993] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
324

Poster in Russian, "Sbilos!" [i.e. "Came true!"] with four images of war and its consequences, with citations from Josef Stalin

 1944 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
143 Schmookler, Paul and Ingrid V. Sils

Rare and Unusual Fly Tying Materials: A Natural History - Volume I, Birds; Volume II, Birds and Mammals

 [1994 & 1997] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
239 Kelly, William

An Excursion to California over the Prairie, Rocky Mountains, and Great Sierra Nevada. With a Stroll Through the Diggings and Ranches of that Country

 1851 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
258 Muir, John

Letters to a Friend

 1915 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,320.00
  • 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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