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Auction Name Rare Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 157,380.00
Auction Date February 11, 2018 - February 11, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 182,130.00
Sale Number #635 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 282,500.00
Total Lots 222
Sold Lots 149 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 543,080.00
% of Lots Sold 67.12% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 828,750.00
Unsold Lots 73 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 18.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
106 Swift, Jonathan

Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships

 1726 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 18,000.00
26 Daniell, William & Richard Ayton

A Voyage Round Great Britain, Undertaken in the Summer of the Year 1813, and Commencing From the Land's-End in Cornwall, by Richard Ayton, With a Series of Views Illustrative of the Character and Prominent Features of the Coast

 1814 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 16,800.00
71 Leaf, Munro

The Story of Ferdinand

 1936 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,400.00
83

Barack Obama's fifth grade yearbook, "Na Opio O Punahou," signed by him with an inscription to a schoolmate

 1972 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,200.00
103 Stedman, Charles

The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the American War

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,600.00
32 Gamow, George

“Possible Relation between DNA and Protein Structure� - rare author offprint

 1954 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,500.00
1 Ackermann, R., publisher

Microcosm of London

 [1808-1810] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,600.00
46 Folger, Peter

A Looking Glass for the Times. Or, The former spirit of New-England revived in this generation. To which is added, the reports from the Lords of the Committee of Councils, and the King's order relating to the people called Quakers in New England

 Printed in the Year 17[63] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,600.00
18 Boydell, John and Josiah, publishers

An History of the Principal Rivers of Great Britain [An History of the River Thames]

 1794-1796 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,300.00
48 Gandhi, Mohandas

Letter from Mohandas Gandhi to Professor Samuel "Sam" Higginbottom at the Agricultural Institute, Allahabad, asking for advice and aid in recovery efforts following the 1934 Nepal-Bihar earthquake

 1934-03-26 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
66 Morris, William

The Wood Beyond the World

 [1894] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,000.00
76 Mather, Cotton

Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England, from its First Printing in the Year 1620. unto the Year of our Lord, 1698. In Seven Books.

 1702 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
86 Barrie, J.M.

Piter Pan dans les Jardins de Kensington

 1907 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,000.00
201 Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton

The Complete Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation... and Instructions How to Angle for a Trout or Grayling in a Clear Stream with Original Memoirs and Notes by Sir Harris Nicholas

 1836 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,000.00
85 Planck, Max

Ueber eine Verbesserung der Wien'schen Spectralgleichung [“On an Improvement of Wien’s Radiation Law"]

 1900 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,700.00
109 Varney, Samuel

Letter from Samuel Varney sent from San Francisco in 1841, to his wife, with mention of Hawaii and the U.S. Exploring Expedition

 October 28, 1841 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,700.00
7 Omar Khayyam

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

 1973 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,400.00
67

Manuscript Koran (Qur'an) in naskhi script, signed & dated by the calligrapher, with borders and verse separations in gold

 1190 AH [1776 AD] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
24 Dorn, Frank

A Map and History of Peiping - with Explanatory Booklet (cover title)

 1936 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,920.00
19

Elaborate lithographed membership certificate of D. Hoffman Burroughs in the Society of California Pioneers

 September 20, 1859 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
42 Choquette, Robert

Metropolitan Museum: Poeme par Robert Choquette. Avec Bois de Edwin H. Holgate.

 1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
38 Eliot, George

Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

 1871-72 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,560.00
54

The Revelation of St. John the Divine

 1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
41 Burges, James Bland

The Birth and Triumph of Love. A Poem

 1796 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,440.00
94 Shackleton, E. H.

The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-1909

 1909 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,440.00
  • 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
  • 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.
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