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Holabird Western Americana Collections: October Auction - Americana: Books, Ephemera

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Auction Name October Auction - Americana: Books, Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 46,059.50
Auction Date October 22, 2017 - October 22, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 45,580.00
Sale Number #49429 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 90,215.00
Total Lots 556
Sold Lots 364 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 76,815.00
% of Lots Sold 65.47% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 150,065.00
Unsold Lots 192 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 30.69%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4078

Large Cigar Store Indian from SF Store

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,278.00
4403

Historically Important Collection on the Creation of the Stewart Indian School under H. M. Yerington

 1887-1897 USD 600.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,356.00
4039

Two Nice Bodie Billheads

 1878 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,815.00
4385

Four Rawhide Photographs

 c1907 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 1,240.00
4369

Hugh H. Brown (Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad) Correspondences

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 868.00
4498

Afternoon in Hope Valley (Oil Painting)

 1998 USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 744.00
4381

1930 Train Wreck Photographs near Mina

 USD 240.00 - 500.00 USD 605.00
4413

Early Virginia City Crockwell Photograph Glass Negatives

 USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 605.00
4400

Main Street Seven Troughs Real Photo Postcard

 1912 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 514.25
4042

Rare Floriston, California Panoramic Photo

 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 453.75
4341

Carson City Mint Letter on Letterhead to the Honorable R. P. Keating

 1889 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 423.50
4367

Two 1907 Goldfield Hippodrome Theatre Programs

 1907 USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 403.00
4360

Long Distance Gilbert Panorama

 1925 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 393.25
4061

Major Savage (of Mariposa Battalion) Historic Porcelain Sign.

 USD 300.00 - 700.00 USD 372.00
4382

Photograph of Moving a Saloon Into or Out of Mina

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 363.00
4613

6 Different Chairman Mao Posters

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 363.00
4614

7 Different Mao Cultural Revolution Posters

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 363.00
4615

7 Mao Cultural Revolution Posters

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 363.00
4001

Very Rare Theodore Roosevelt Button

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 341.00
4017

3 Different Theodore Roosevelt Buttons

 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 341.00
4436

Nevada, a Narrative of the Conquest of a Frontier Land

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 341.00
4490

Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Diploma

 1909 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 341.00
4347

Eldorado Wood & Flume Company Stock Certificate

 1925 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 332.75
4013

2 Roosevelt Buttons

 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 310.00
4044

Grass Valley, CA Cabinet Card, Sled & Snow

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 310.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
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