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National Book Auctions: Books and Ephemera - Children’s, Signed, Exploration, etc.

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Auction Name Books and Ephemera - Children’s, Signed, Exploration, etc. Total Sales (USD) 28,993.13
Auction Date September 23, 2017 - September 23, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 40,600.00
Sale Number #92317 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 95,500.00
Total Lots 366
Sold Lots 366 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 40,600.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 95,500.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 30.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7274 uncredited author Editor: Colonel R.H. Phillimore

Historical Records of The Survey of India: Volumes 1-4

1945 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,233.75
7070 Various Editor: Thomas Willis White

Southern Literary Messenger: Devoted to Every Department of Literature and the Fine Arts

1835-1851 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 646.25
7117

7V Large Format Art ART HISTORY Vintage Antique Islam & Muslim Art Alfred Stieglitz Rembrandt Oskar Schlemmer Kyo Origami Famous Prints Chinese Paintings

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 646.25
7226 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Don Quixote, the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha

1887 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 587.50
7002 Edgar Rice Burroughs

Tarzan the Magnificent

1939 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 558.13
7066 A.D. McCormick

An Artist in the Himalayas

1895 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 499.38
7336 Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

1855 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 499.38
7015 William Makepeace Thackeray

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

1869 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 411.25
7305 Fanny Bullock Workman

The Call of the Snowy Hispar: A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India

1910 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 411.25
7044

46Pcs Ellen Clapsaddle ANTIQUE CHRISTMAS POSTCARDS Chromolithograph Holiday Santa Claus Saint Nick Correspondence Gilt Cards

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 381.88
7075 Paul Siegvolck Translator: John S.

The Everlasting Gospel, Commanded to be Preached by Jesus Christ, Judge of the Living and the Dead, Unto All Creatures

1753 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 381.88
7001 Tom Clancy

THe Hunt for Red October

1984 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 323.13
7020

11V Decorative Antique Illustrated THE STUDIO MAGAZINE COMPILATIONS Leather Bindings Marbled Paper Boards 19th-Early 20th Century Raised Bands

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 323.13
7086

11V Science Fiction Fantasy VINTAGE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Tarzan & The Madman Pirates Of Venus The Gods Of Mars The Land That Time Forgot Canaveral Press

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 323.13
7004

8V Literature EASTON PRESS DELUXE LEATHER BINDINGS Author Signed Decorative Illustrations Road Kuralt Company Martin Father Trillin Young Milne Six Station Simak Jekyll Hyde Stevenson Potter

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
7040

9V Science Fiction Fantasy ANTIQUE TARZAN TITLES IN DUST JACKETS Edgar Rice Burroughs Son Of Tarzan Tarzan & The Ant Men Tarzan & The Lost Empire Return Of Tarzan

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
7126 Fanny Bullock Workman

In the Ice World of Himalaya: Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan

1901 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
7132 Baron Charles Hugel

Travels in Kashmir and the Panjab, containing a Particular Account of the Government and Character of the Sik-hs

1845 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 264.38
7144

5V First Edition COLLECTIBLE E.B. WHITE Author Signed Dust Jacket Second Tree New York Meat Fox Peacock Poetry Poems Collected Pastoral Corner

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
7288 uncredited author [] Editor: J. Dielmann

Frankfurter am Main Album

1845 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
7061 Max Weber

Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts

1926 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 235.00
7178 George Barbier

Les plus belles heures d'amour de Casanova

1923 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 235.00
7184 Jules Verne

Voyage Au Centre de La Terre

1910 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 235.00
7258 J. James Tissot

The Life of Our Lord Jesus Christ

1899 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 235.00
7343

8V Science Fiction Fantasy ANTIQUE EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS NOVELS In DUST JACKETS Western Adventure Mad Kid Outlaw Of Torn Jungle Girl War Chief

USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 235.00
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
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  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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    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
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
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