Heritage Auctions: Books
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Books | Total Sales (USD) | 1,130,825.00 |
Auction Date | September 13, 2018 - September 13, 2018 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 456,120.00 |
Sale Number | #6193 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 684,180.00 |
Total Lots | 342 | ||
Sold Lots | 327 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 533,720.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 95.61% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 800,580.00 |
Unsold Lots | 15 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 141.25% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
45090 | J[ean] T[héodore] Descourtilz. | [Oiseaux brillans du Brésil. |
1834]. | USD 16,000.00 - 24,000.00 | USD 100,000.00 |
45117 | J[ohn]. Thomson. | Foochow and the River Min. A Series of Photographs. |
1873 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 100,000.00 |
45098 | [Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay]. | The Federalist: A Collection of Essays. Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed Upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. |
1799 | USD 28,000.00 - 42,000.00 | USD 87,500.00 |
45001 | Arthur Conan Doyle. | A Complete Run of Every Sherlock Holmes Story Published in The Strand Magazine. |
1891-1927. | USD 26,400.00 - 39,600.00 | USD 41,250.00 |
45081 | [Tsuguharu] Foujita. | A Book of Cats. Being Twenty Drawings. Poems in Prose by Michael Joseph. |
1930 | USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
45033 | John [Jack] Kerouac. | The Town and the City. |
[1950]. | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
45116 | David Roberts. | Egypt & Nubia, From Drawings Made on the Spot...With Historical Descriptions by William Brockedon… |
1846[-1849]. | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
45087 | John James Audubon. | The Birds of America. From Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. |
[1870-1871]. | USD 4,800.00 - 7,200.00 | USD 19,375.00 |
45105 | Joseph Smith. | The Book of Mormon. Translated by Joseph Smith, Jr. |
1840 | USD 5,600.00 - 8,400.00 | USD 17,500.00 |
45165 | John Speed. | A new and Accurat Map of the World. |
USD 7,600.00 - 11,400.00 | USD 17,500.00 | |
45089 | Richard Bright. | Reports of Medical Cases. Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. |
1827-31 | USD 5,600.00 - 8,400.00 | USD 15,000.00 |
45160 | Hartmann Schedel. | Secunda etas mundi. |
1493]. | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
45003 | A[rthur]. Conan Doyle. | The Sign of the Four [appearing in: Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, No. 266]. |
1890 | USD 5,200.00 - 7,800.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
45106 | [Bill Wilson]. | Alcoholics Anonymous. The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism. |
1939 | USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 11,250.00 |
45073 | A. A. Milne. | The House at Pooh Corner. With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. |
1928 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,625.00 |
45133 | Guillaume de l'Isle. | Carte du Mexique et de la Floride, des Terres Angloises et des Isles Antilles, du Course et des Environs de la Riviere de Mississipi. |
1703 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 | USD 10,312.50 |
45016 | J. K. Rowling. | Boxed Set of Seven Harry Potter Books. |
[circa 2007]. | USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
45072 | A. A. Milne. | When We Were Very Young. |
[1924]. | USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
45102 | Martin Luther King, Jr. | Stride Toward Freedom. The Montgomery Story. |
1958 | USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
45119 | [John Thomson, association]. | Will Tod. Photo Album with Fifty-Five Photographs. |
circa 1870s]. | USD 3,200.00 - 4,800.00 | USD 10,000.00 |
45135 | Frederick de Wit. | Nova Orbis Tabula. In Lucem Edita, A. F. de Wit. |
circa 1660-70]. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
45148 | Herman Moll. | A New and Correct Map of the World, Laid Down. |
1709 (circa 1730). | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 8,750.00 |
45020 | [H. G. Wells]. | The Time Machine. An Invention. |
1895 | USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
45028 | Jorge Luis Borges. | El Aleph. |
1952 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 8,125.00 |
45065 | L. Frank Baum. | Group of Eleven Oz Books. |
[1904-1918]. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 8,125.00 |