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Holabird Western Americana Collections: October Auction - Dealer Specials: Americana, Ephemera, Stocks and Bonds

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Auction Name October Auction - Dealer Specials: Americana, Ephemera, Stocks and Bonds Total Sales (USD) 18,678.90
Auction Date October 23, 2017 - October 23, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 32,675.00
Sale Number #49430 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 61,450.00
Total Lots 416
Sold Lots 363 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 38,655.00
% of Lots Sold 87.26% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 72,505.00
Unsold Lots 53 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 25.76%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5171

Fulton Mining Company Stock Certificate (1853)

 1853 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 744.00
5091

Woodland Gold & Silver Mining Stock Certificates (18)

 c1860 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 235.60
5084

New Almaden Quicksilver Mines Corporation Certificates (15)

 1916 USD 80.00 - 100.00 USD 210.80
5388

Puget Sound Commercial Co. Stock Certificates (12)

 1877 USD 180.00 - 360.00 USD 210.80
5078

Phipps Quicksilver Mining Company Stock Certificates (80)

 USD 160.00 - 320.00 USD 198.40
5061

South Idaho Consolidated Mining and Milling Company Stock Certificates (15)

 1893-1894 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 186.00
5088

Vallejo City Water Company Stock Certificates (38) c.1870s

 1868 USD 300.00 - 1,200.00 USD 186.00
5187

Silver Cliff Mining and Tunnel Stock Certificates (36)

 1888 USD 350.00 - 600.00 USD 186.00
5403

100 Stock Certificates and Receipts

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 186.00
5011

VERY Naughty Christmas Wishes Cards

 c1920 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 161.20
5058

Five Different California Mining Stock Certificates

 1880 USD 120.00 - 200.00 USD 161.20
5186

Penn-Yan Mining Company Stock Certificates (12)

 1886 USD 350.00 - 600.00 USD 161.20
5233

Miners' Hope Tunnel Gold & Silver Mining Co. Stock Certificates (24)

 1869 USD 240.00 - 480.00 USD 148.80
5397

Searight Cattle Company Stock Certificates (8)

 1880's USD 80.00 - 160.00 USD 148.80
5400

New Foundland Gold Mining Company Stock Certificates (34)

 1800's USD 170.00 - 240.00 USD 148.80
5115

Unadilla Mining Company Stock Certificates (6)

 1880's USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 124.00
5121

Sheriff Gold Mining Company Stock Certificates (34)

 1890's USD 130.00 - 260.00 USD 124.00
5080

Pacific Guano Company Stock Certificates (13) c.1860s

 1858 USD 120.00 - 200.00 USD 117.80
5082

West Coast Distillery Co. Certificates (16)

 1870's USD 160.00 - 300.00 USD 117.80
5174

29 Falstaff Brewing Corporation Stock Certificates

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 117.80
5125

Big 4 Gold Mining Company Stock Certificates (7)

 1900-1901 USD 130.00 - 250.00 USD 114.95
5055

Eight California Gold Mining Stock Certificates

 1901 - 1914 USD 50.00 - 80.00 USD 111.60
5267

99 Tonopah Mining Company Stock Certificates

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 111.60
5236

Warren Silver Mining Company Stock Certificate (1865) (La Plata, Nevada Ghost Town)

 1865 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 102.85
5038

Tombstone Consolidated Mines Company Stock Certificates (5)

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 99.20
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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