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Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana

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Auction Name Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana Total Sales (USD) 5,218,500.00
Auction Date December 05, 2017 - December 05, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,367,300.00
Sale Number #14998 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,954,800.00
Total Lots 251
Sold Lots 174 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 5,127,800.00
% of Lots Sold 69.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 7,522,400.00
Unsold Lots 77 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 69.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.

 1823 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 432,500.00
179 [EINSTEIN, Albert (1879-1955).]

Albert Einstein’s telescope.

 late 19th century. USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 432,500.00
199

The 1978 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Daniel Nathans

 1978 USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 USD 372,500.00
8

YORKTOWN CAMPAIGN– Manuscript map, "No 1 Carte générale de l'Isle de New York et des Environs...No 2.

 c.1781-1782. USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 275,000.00
20 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed ("Go:Washington" and "GW" in postscript), to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, Newburgh 14 December 1782.

 1782 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 275,000.00
98 SMITH, John (1580-1631)

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning An° 1584 to this present 1624.

 1624 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 162,500.00
206

BIBLE – COMPLUTENSIAN POLYGLOT, in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin.

 1514-17. USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 137,500.00
38 CALIFORNIA. [NEVE, FELIPE DE (1724-1784).]

Reglamento para el Gobierno de la Provincia de Californias.

 1784 USD 70,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 106,250.00
1

LORD DUNMORE'S WAR – Manuscript, "Journal of the Expedition down the River Ohio Under the Command of his Excellency John Earl of Dunmore Lieutenant and Governor General of his Majesty's Colony and Dominion of Virginia 1774," Virginia

 1774 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 93,750.00
197 LINSCHOTEN, Ian Huygen van (1563-1611)

His Discours of Voyages unto ye Easte & West Indies. Devided into Foure Bookes.

 1598 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 93,750.00
65 LEWIS, Meriwether (1774-1809) and CLARK, William (1770-1838)

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6.

 1814 USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 87,500.00
158

RUSSIAN OLD BELIEVERS – Kniga Zertsalo tainstv i kontsa vsemirnogo The Mirror of Sacraments and the End of the World, in Church Slavonic, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER Baltic region, c.1818.

 c.1818. USD 90,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 87,500.00
16 WASHINGTON, George Washington (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed ("Go:Washington"), to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, Philadelphia, 4 January 1782.

 1782 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 81,250.00
121 ELIOT, George (1819-1880)

Middlemarch.

 1871 - 1872. USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 81,250.00
11

SIEGE OF YORKTOWN – Manuscript, "Journal du Siege de york", n.p., c.

 1781 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 75,000.00
103 WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799)

Letter signed ("Go Washington") to Colonel Christopher Greene, "Head Qrs."

 1780 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 75,000.00
140 SALINGER, Jerome D. (1919-2010)

A collection of 21 typed and autograph letters signed (most as “Jerry," 1 in type “Hanso Kupperman," 1 “JDS") with 1 autograph postcard (unsigned), all to Toody Maher

 1979-1996. USD 55,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 68,750.00
59 KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963), KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994)

Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington 1789 to John F. Kennedy 1961

 1961 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 62,500.00
217 LE HAY, Jacques (c.1645-c.1713) and FERRIOL, Charles de (1637-1722)

Recueil de cent estampes représentant differentes nations du Levant.

 1714 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 62,500.00
221 GUTENBERG, Johann. –

BIBLIA LATINA.

 1455 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 62,500.00
251 XIONG JIE (late 13th-c.) and XIONG GANGDA (late 13th-c), editors.

Xinbian yindian xingli qunshu jujie Newly Compiled Collected Works and Nature and Principle, with Pronunciation Guide and Sentence-by-Sentence Information.

 after 1434-1450. USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 62,500.00
120 DUMAS, Alexandre (1802-1870)

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

 1844 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 60,000.00
10

SIEGE OF YORKTOWN – Manuscript, "Journal du Siege d'york en Virginie", "Fait au Camp D'york," 20 October 1781.

 1781 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 52,500.00
159

MEXICAN ILLUMINATED MISSAL – Illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Latin and Spanish.

 1702 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 51,250.00
6 Washington, George (1732-1799)

Autograph letter signed (“Go:Washington") as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, to François-Jean de Beauvoir, Chevalier de Chastellux, New Windsor

 1781 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,000.00
  • 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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