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Profiles in History: The Sherlock Holmes Collection of Daniel Posnansky

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Auction Name The Sherlock Holmes Collection of Daniel Posnansky Total Sales (USD) 209,263.00
Auction Date December 19, 2017 - December 19, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 312,100.00
Sale Number #98 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 490,100.00
Total Lots 293
Sold Lots 270 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 395,000.00
% of Lots Sold 92.15% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 626,900.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 33.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
81 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Massive collection of (1,200+) vintage pirate editions.

1800s-1900s including Strange Secrets USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 9,600.00
39 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The Sign of Four. Collier Once a Week Library.

1891 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,200.00
206

Vincent Starrett's inscribed & signed uncorrected proof copy of The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

1933 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,480.00
172 Gillette, William.

Collection of (100+) vintage photographs, signed correspondence and ephemera.

ca.1800s-1900s USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
147 Detective Fiction.

Collection of (31+) vintage editions.

1800s-1950s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,600.00
240 Fletcher, Geoffrey S.

: signed original watercolor, (5) photographs - The Baker Street Irregulars.

1957 USD 1,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 3,300.00
38 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The White Company.

1891 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
40 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The White Company.

1891 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
44 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Vintage rare (3) first authorized editions of The Sign of Four.

1893 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,880.00
155 Dickens, Charles.

Collection of (20+) editions and material related to The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

1800s-1900s Collection of 20+ including 6 editions of The Mystery of Edwin Drood USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,880.00
195 Sherlock Holmes. Vincent Starrett.

Autograph manuscript of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Notes & Queries.

1924 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,880.00
12

Photograph of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in Viking regalia 1894 inscribed and signed.

1894 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,700.00
22 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Fine autograph letter signed, regarding changes to a play.

1920s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,700.00
42 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The Great Shadow.

1892 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,700.00
34 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

The Sign of Four.

1890 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 2,560.00
164 Sherlockiana.

Doll of William Gillette as Sherlock Holmes.

1899 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 2,400.00
213 Vincent Starrett, ed.

221B Studies in Sherlock Holmes.

1940 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 2,400.00
185 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Billy Wilder adapted screenplay for The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.

1970 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,304.00
53 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Vintage collection of (11) editions of The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

1911 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,108.00
16 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Two autograph letters signed ("A. Conan Doyle"), on the author’s stationery.

1903 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
252 Sherlockiana.

Christopher Morley Autograph Manuscript: Sherlock Holmes's Prayer.

no date USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,040.00
14 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Fine autograph letter signed ("A. Conan Doyle"), 20 June 1898 .

1898 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,984.00
21 Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan.

Fine autograph letter signed ("A C D."), to R.G.

1920s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
100 Beerbohm, Max.

Zuleika Dobson or an Oxford Love Story.

1911 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
228 Bangs, John Kendrick

Bangs, John Kendrick : Group of (12) First Edition works.

1896 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    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
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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