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Auction Name Books and Ephemera - Antique, Fairbanks, Exploration, etc. Total Sales (USD) 16,467.63
Auction Date November 04, 2017 - November 04, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 27,970.00
Sale Number #110417 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 67,650.00
Total Lots 264
Sold Lots 264 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,970.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 67,650.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 24.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2209

Large Collection Vintage SOUTH/CENTRAL ASIA NEWSPAPERS PAMPHLETS DOCUMENTS Photographs Map UN Security Council Travel Exploration History

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 646.25
2239

11V Letters Travel Exploration HURLEY CORRESPONDENCE & CLIPPINGS Vintage Newsprint Handwritten Notes Sanskrit Kashmir Pakistan India Ladakh Baltistan

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 528.75
2234

Absurdist Art KISA KAWAKAMI PLUS MINUS BOX II 1985 Vintage Japanese Artist Modernism Architecture Avant-Garde Cutting Folding Seaming Weaving Structural Gridded Surrealism Visual Metaphor Nature Mondrian Malevitch Abstractionism

 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 440.63
2049

Large Collection Geography VINTAGE KASHMIR MAPS Exploration Travel Expedition Karakorum Jamuu Punjab India Pakistan US Aeronautical Watercolor Paintings Black & White

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 381.88
2193

6V 10Pcs MICHAEL HAGUE BOOKS & EPHEMERA Vintage Illustrator Artist Signed Dust Jacket Pop-Up Fantasy Adventure Children Young Adult Youth Wizard Oz Unicorns Queen Black Coast Letters Correspondence Holiday Birth Cards Fairy Tale Rootabaga Series Velveteen

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 323.13
2002 Montagu Sinclair Wellby

Through Unknown Tibet

 1898 <b> USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 293.75
2241

7V 13pcs Vintage Antique CHILDREN'S BOOKS COMICS & EPHEMERA Return To Oz Disney 1985 Film Still Screenplay Marvel DC Wizard Of Oz Land Of Oz

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 293.75
2135

Large Collection History Geography INDIAN KASHMIRI PAMPHLETS EPHEMERA Romance Paisley Shawl Global Folk Lore Religion Supernatural Elections Politics Government Military Economics Panjab Pakistan Travel Guide Himal Maps

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
2143 Teriade

Verve: Revue Artistique et Litteraire - Vol. VI, Nos 21 et 22

 Circa 1948 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
2116

9V Children's Picture Books ANTIQUE OZ SERIES Jack Pumpkinhead Little Dorothy & Toto Rinkitink Patchwork Girl Scarecrow & Tin Man Emerald City Of Oz

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 205.63
2124 Albert Gallatin Mackey, William James Hughan, William R. Singleton

The History of Freemasonry: Its Legends and Traditions, Its Chronological History - Albert Gallatin Mackey, James Hughan, William R. Singleton

 1906 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 205.63
2214

56V Kashmir India Pakistan TRAVEL EXPLORATION & HISTORY PAMPHLETS Folding Map Brochures Politics Sanskrit Archeology Nature Hunting Himalayas

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 205.63
2096 Maurice Sendak

The Cunning Little Vixen

 1985 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 176.25
2112 J. G. M. Ramsey

The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising its Settlement, as The Watauga Association, from 1769-1777; A Part of North Carolina, from 1777-1784; The State of Franklin, from 1784-1788; A Part of North Carolina, from 1788 to 17

 1853 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 176.25
2031

50V South Central Asia KASHMIR INDIA PAKISTAN PAMPHLETS Maps Politics History Propaganda Art Shawls Archeology War Military Freedom Or Fascism In Kashmir

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 164.50
2090

8V Irving Baum Webster ANTIQUE CHILDREN'S BOOKS Patchwork Girl Of Oz Dust Jacket John R Neill Everett Shinn Rip Van Winkle Fairy Tales Picture Books

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 164.50
2099 William Peter Blatty

The Exorcist

 1971 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 152.75
2210

11V Dali Surrealism French VINTAGE ART Dust Jacket Variete Verve Chagall Peintures Paris 1942 1945 Miro Erben Modernism Masson Delvaux Maze Sandoz Cellini Lissitzky

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 152.75
2122

4V Linotype Type Styles VINTAGE & ANTIQUE BOOKS ON BOOKS/PRINTING HISTORY Printing Machinery Materials Books & Their Makers In The Middle Ages

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 141.00
2144 William S. Burroughs

The Western Lands

 1987 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 141.00
2170 W. Gilmore Simms

The Life of Francis Marion - W. Gilmore Simms

 1844 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 141.00
2259

6V Rhode Island Providence NEW ENGLAND HISTORY & GENEALOGY Republished 1636-1700, 1700-1790, Genealogical Dictionary Farmer's Register

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 141.00
2001 Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer; Done into Modern English Verse by Frank Ernest Hill and Newly Revised for This Edition: With Miniatures by Arthur Szyk

 1946 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 129.25
2042 Clarence B. Moore

Journal of Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

 1894/1896 <b> USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 129.25
2060

8V Classic Juvenile Fiction ANTIQUE CHILDREN'S BOOKS Peter Pan & Wendy Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes Dream Days Wooden Willie Little Folks Astray

 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 129.25
  • 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.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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