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Auction Name Books Total Sales (USD) 86,988.00
Auction Date September 14, 2017 - September 14, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 70,170.00
Sale Number #274 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 104,730.00
Total Lots 431
Sold Lots 352 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 89,110.00
% of Lots Sold 81.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 132,950.00
Unsold Lots 79 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 65.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
392

Topographical Map of the Original District... 1862

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,000.00
249

[THE HOLY BIBLE...] [1613 King James folio ed.]

USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,200.00
382

Ortelius. EPITOME THEATRI ORTELIANI. 1595.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
58

Inscribed by Patton: STATESMEN OF THE LOST CAUSE.

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,400.00
161

THE MASTER KEY. Inscr by L. Frank Baum to his son.

USD 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,400.00
316

3 vols in 1, consisting of engr. views of Vienna.

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
258

Quarta pars dni nicolai de lira... biblie. (1492).

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,280.00
178

Stephen King. IT. 2011. 174/750 signed.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,560.00
92

J.R.R. Tolkien. TLS. 14th June 1971.

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,320.00
98

3 travel diaries, 1854-1928: Caribbean, Europe...

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 1,140.00
102

27 Vols: Diaries, ledgers, 1800s-1900s.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 1,080.00
95

2 Latin vellum manuscript leaves: 1190, 1485.

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 900.00
101

3 travel manuscripts 1875-1934: PA, Europe, Russia

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 900.00
89

4 Books (1 inscribed by Robert F. Kennedy).

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 840.00
349

7 photogravures by Robert J. Flaherty.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 840.00
62

Alexander Burnes. ALS. 1840.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
116

Signed by Franklin Roosevelt: THE DEMOCRATIC BOOK

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 780.00
242

Neuhof. DIE GESANTSCHAFT DER OST-INDISCHEN... 1666

USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 720.00
259

Biblia Das Ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schriftt. 1582.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 720.00
262

Azaria Min Haedomi. ZE SEFER MAOR EINAYIM...

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 720.00
57

THIRTY SECONDS... Sgd by Doolittle, crew members.

USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 660.00
385

Heylyn. COSMOGRAPHIE. 6 Books 1. 1665, [1666]

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 660.00
114

THE STATE, 1898, w/ TLS by Woodrow Wilson.

USD 260.00 - 360.00 USD 570.00
263

Schumpeter. CAPITALISM, SOCIALISM, AND DEMOCRACY.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 570.00
97

3 Travel Diaries: Pacific Coast, Engineer, Europe.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 510.00
  • 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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