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Cowans Auctions: Fine Books, Including the Culpin World War I Art Collection

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Auction Name Fine Books, Including the Culpin World War I Art Collection Total Sales (USD) 71,187.00
Auction Date December 18, 2017 - December 18, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 63,450.00
Sale Number #121817 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 100,175.00
Total Lots 249
Sold Lots 206 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 81,975.00
% of Lots Sold 82.73% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 129,700.00
Unsold Lots 43 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.89%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
281 Roosevelt, Theodore.

Unique Association Copy of Signed Limited Roosevelt, African Gam

 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 9,840.00
173 Monardes, Nicolas Bautista.

Rare First English Edition of Monardes, Joyfull Newes, 1577, Woodcut Illustra

 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,000.00
133 Cahun, Claude. 

French Surrealism by Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, 1930 Limited Edition in Lovely Condition - Frenc

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,337.00
91 Washington, George.

Three Volumes of Washington's War Era Letters Published in New York in 17

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,040.00
117 Miller, Henry.

Rare 1st Printing, Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer, Obelisk Press Paris - 1934 in Restored Pictor

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,599.00
216 Phipps, Constantine John.

Report of Phipps' Voyage in 1773 In Search of a Passage to India Via the North Po

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,440.00
181 Beebe, William Charles.

William Beebe's Classic 4 Volume Work on "The Pheasants," Limited to 600 Sets, Signed and Inscribed

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,353.00
160 Meggendorfer, Lothar.

Classic Lothar Meggendorfer Movable Book Complete with 8 Chromolithograph Plates, C

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,169.00
217 Ross, Sir John.

Sir John Ross, Appendix to the Narrative of a Second Voyage, 1835 with 20 Full Page Insert

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,046.00
192

19th C. Vintage Album with 48 Sepia Toned Albumen Prints by Fratelli Alinari et. al. - Depict

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 923.00
124 Tolkien, J.R.R.

Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1st American Edition

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 800.00
47 Ernest Prater (English, 1864-1950),

Drawing for The Graphic Indian Troops Carrying a German Position

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
75

WWI Photo Albums and Scrapbooks with Hospital Association

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
207 Doddridge, Joseph.

Doddridge Notes on .... First Settlers of Western Country

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 780.00
189 Wise, Kelly (Editor).

Signed/Limited Edition by Lotte Jacobi with Signed Photo Print of Albert Einstein

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 738.00
63

Photo Albums of Godfrey A. Hoyland, RFA, DOW

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 720.00
273 Gregg, Josiah.

Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies in 2 Vols., 1844 1st - Western Americana Classic

 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 660.00
238 Macomb, John N.

Macomb and Newberry's Expedition From New Mexico to Colorado with Chromolithographic Illustrati

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 600.00
248 Remington, Frederic (1861-1909).

Frederic Remington 1st Edition with 35 Word Inscription, Signed

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 600.00
159 McGuffey, W.H.

McGuffey Fourth Reader Signed by Henry Ford

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 570.00
65

Photo Albums of the 5th East Surrey Regt. in India, Plus

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 554.00
64

Photo Albums of Mesopotamia, Plus

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 540.00
210

Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1788, To Ratify the Federal Constitution

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 540.00
259 Harman, S.W.

Famous Account by S.W. Harman of Judge Isaac C. Parker, "The Hanging Judge," Pub

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 510.00
237 Emory, W(illiam) H(emsley).

William H. Emory Expediton Missouri to Southern California, Published 1848 with Famous M

 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 480.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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