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Heritage Auctions: Legends of the West

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Auction Name Legends of the West Total Sales (USD) 613,662.50
Auction Date June 09, 2018 - June 09, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 268,800.00
Sale Number #6197 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 403,200.00
Total Lots 129
Sold Lots 126 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 271,360.00
% of Lots Sold 97.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 407,040.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 150.76%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
49263

George Armstrong Custer: A Marvelous Inscribed .22 Revolver Presented to Custer by the United States Volunteers in 1863.

 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 35,000.00
49169

The Poland Report from Standing Rock, July 24, 1876, Endorsed by Generals Sheridan and Sherman.

 1876 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,000.00
49172

Fabulous Buckram-Bound set of Goldin's "On the Little Bighorn with Gen. Custer" with Benteen Notations.

 1894 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,000.00
49136

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman: His Campaign Hat.

 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 26,250.00
49042

Capt. F. W. Benteen: His Lemaire Military Binoculars.

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 25,000.00
49124

Battle of Washita: Chief Black Kettle's Silver Ring.

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 25,000.00
49122

Crucifix Discovered in Sitting Bull's Hunkpapa Camp.

 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 20,000.00
49085

Document Signed in 1874 by Seventeen 7th Cavalry Troopers who Perished at Little Bighorn on June 25, 1876.

 1874 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,250.00
49020

George Armstrong Custer: A Superb Presentation Ink Well, Inscribed by Custer to Yellowstone Expedition Photographer William Pywell.

1873 USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 15,000.00
49100

John Sivertsen: Skeletal Remains from His Horse, along with the .45 Caliber Bullet Removed from the Horse's Skull.

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,000.00
49110

John Sivertsen: Thirteen Unfired Rounds Found Near His Effects.

 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 13,750.00
49116

Twenty-six Brass Uniform Buttons Found on the Reno Battlefield.

USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 13,750.00
49164

Lt. James J. Bradley, The First Witness to the Killing Field: His 7th Infantry Shoulder Knots.

 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 13,750.00
49135

William Tecumseh Sherman: His Shoulder Straps, 1872.

 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 12,500.00
49009

George Armstrong Custer: An Autographed Brady Carte de Visite.

 1864 USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 USD 11,250.00
49091

Little Bighorn Battlefield Pickups: The Only Crossed-Sabers Insignia Yet Found at Little Bighorn!

USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 11,250.00
49090

Brass Buckle and Keeper from a Trooper's Belt.

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 10,625.00
49112

John Sivertsen: Twelve Unfired Rounds Found Near His Effects.

USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 9,687.50
49084

Marked Spur Attributed to Corporal John Wild of Myles Keogh's "I" Company.

 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 8,437.50
49111

John Sivertsen: Twelve Unfired Rounds Found Near His Effects.

USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 8,437.50
49024

George Armstrong Custer: A Fine 1875 Letter in His Hand, Written as Commanding Officer of the 7th Cavalry.

1875 USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 USD 8,125.00
49097

Two Iron Arrow Points and Two Metal Slides, Artifacts of Little Bighorn.

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 7,500.00
49022

George Armstrong Custer: A Fine 7th Cavalry Signed Letter Regarding Indian Scouts.

 1874 USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 6,875.00
49158

Important Presentation Knife Given To White Swan, the Crow Scout Who Survived His Wounds Suffered At Little Bighorn.

USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 USD 6,875.00
49026

George Armstrong Custer: Signed 7th Cavalry Promotion Document of Ferdinand Culbertson, Who Recovered the Famed "Culbertson Guidon" in the Aftermath of Little Bighorn.

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 6,250.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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