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Auction Name The Richard E. Bateman Collection on Celestial Mechanics with Rare Books & Manuscripts from various consignors Total Sales (USD) 173,574.00
Auction Date November 30, 2017 - November 30, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 163,910.00
Sale Number #630 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 253,300.00
Total Lots 353
Sold Lots 200 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 411,310.00
% of Lots Sold 56.66% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 628,700.00
Unsold Lots 153 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 27.61%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
71 Newton, Isaac

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica

 1726 USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 22,800.00
321 Wollstonecraft, Mary

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

 1792 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,600.00
191 Esquemeling, John [Alexadre Olivier]

Bucaniers of America: Or, A True Account of the Most remarkable Assaults Committed of Late Years Upon the Coasts of the West Indies, by the Bucaniers of Jamaica and Tortuga, Both English and French

 1684-1685 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,000.00
284 Noceda, Juan de & Pedro de San Lucar

Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala, Trabaxado por Varios Sujetos

 1754 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,100.00
52 Lagrange, Joseph Louis

Méchanique Analitique; par M. de La Grange, de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris

 1788 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 4,800.00
179 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

 1969 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,800.00
312 Fitzgerald, Edward, translator

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-poet of Persia

 1884 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
297 [Seabury, Samuel]

The Psalter or Psalms of David, Pointed as They are to be Sung or Said in Churches. With the Order for Morning and Evening Prayer Daily Throughout the Year.

 1795 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,200.00
16 Clairaut, Alexis Claude

Piece qui a remporté le prix de l'Academie imperiale des sciences de St. Petersbourg proposé en M. DCCL. Sur la question si toutes les inegalités, qu' on a observées dans le mouvement de la lune, s'accordent avec la theorie Newtonienne...

 1752 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,900.00
59 Laplace, Pierre Simon

Mécanique Céleste. By the Marquis de La Place. Translated, with a Commentary, by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D.

 1829-1839 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,600.00
136 Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher

Historical Sketch of Moscow: Illustrated by Twelve Views of Different Parts of that Imperial City, the Kremlin, &c.

 1813 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,600.00
183 Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz"

 1838 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
251 Sanchez de Castro, Jospeh Geronymo

Vida de la V. M. Sor Antonia de la Madre de Dios... Fundadora en el Convento de Santa Monica de la Puebla de los Angeles.

 1747 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
282 Encina, Francisco

Arte de la Lengua Zebuana [caption title]

 [1804] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,300.00
30 Euler, Leonhard

Theoria Motuum planetarum et cometarum. Continens methodum facilem ex aliquot observationibus orbitas cum planetarum tum cometarum determinandi...

 1744 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
33 Gauss, Carl Friedrich

Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientium

 1809 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
29 Euler, Leonhard

Theoria Motuum Lunae, nova methodo pertractata una cum Tabulis Astronomicis, unde ad quodvis tempus Loca Lunae expedite computari possunt...

 1772 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
213 Hobhouse, John Cam

A Journey through Albania and other Provinces of Turkey in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during the Years 1809 and 1810

 1813 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
269 Neruda, Pablo

Paesando Con Laforgue - original typed poem, signed

 1973 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,700.00
260 Milne, A.A.

Winnie-the-Pooh

 [1926] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
41 Halley, Edmond

Edmundi Halleii astronomi dum viveret regii Tabulæ astronomicæ

 1749 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,040.00
285 San Jose, Francisco de

Arte y Reglas de La Lengua Tagala

 1832 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
3 Alembert, Jean le Rond d'

Recherches sur la précession des equinoxes, et sur la nutation de l'axe de la terre dans le systême newtonien

 1749 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
27 Euler, Leonhard

Opuscula varii argumenti

 1746 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,800.00
137 Ackermann, Rudolph, publisher

A History of the University of Oxford, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings

 1814 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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