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Auction Name Robinson Collection Online - bidstart 2/1 Total Sales (USD) 35,448.00
Auction Date February 12, 2018 - February 12, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,505.00
Sale Number #3063T High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 24,850.00
Total Lots 98
Sold Lots 57 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 31,260.00
% of Lots Sold 58.16% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 49,225.00
Unsold Lots 41 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 72.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1009

Twelve Years a Slave. Narrative of Solomon Northup, A Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853

 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 6,150.00
1077

Archives of the John Boardman, Starbuck, and Folger Families

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,228.00
1007 by Frederick Douglass

My Bondage and My Freedom

 1855 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,998.00
1006 by Capt. J.G. Stedman

Narrative of a Five Year's Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam

 1813 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,845.00
1113 Faith Ringgold (American, b. 1930)

Four Little Girls Bombed in a Church

 2007 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,845.00
1091

Margaret Bourke-White (American 1904-1971) Blackie Ain't Good for Nothing

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,722.00
1109

Elizabeth Catlett (American 1915-2012) Survivor

 1983 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,722.00
1079

Cuban Slave Insurance Document: LA PROTECTORA. COMPANA GENERAL CUBANA DE SEGUROS MUTUOS SOBRE LA VIDA DE LOS ESCLAVOS

 1858 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,169.00
1029

Bill of Lading for the Slave Ship Juno

 1796 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,046.00
1094

Photograph of the East Arlington Volunteer Fire Company

 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 800.00
1028

William Pepperrell Letter Regarding Ability to Sail a Ship

 1729 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 615.00
1066

Tintype Depicting a Lady with a Book

 19th century. USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 584.00
1040

Five Issues of The Liberator

 1846; 1851; 1857; and 1863 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 523.00
1081

James Fenimore Cooper Signed Letter to a Gentleman

 c. 1830s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 492.00
1130

Twenty-two Black Panther Press Photographs

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 492.00
1011

A Preliminary Essay on the Exiled Sons of Africa

 1801 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 461.00
1051

Two Black Cloth Dolls and a Civil War-era Letter

 1863 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 400.00
1118 Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)

Ornery and You Have the Right to Work

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 400.00
1065

Four Cased Tintypes and Daguerreotype Depicting Mixed Race Children

 19th century. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 369.00
1110 Sister Mary Corita Kent (American 1918-1986)

Black is Beautiful

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 369.00
1117 Sister Mary Corita Kent (American, 1918-1986)

Six Unframed Prints - Ellsburg: Wouldn't You Go to Jail if it Would Help End the War? We are Filled with Hope

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 369.00
1063

Half-plate Tintype Depicting a Man with a Dog

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 338.00
1030 by "M. Hume

Needlework Map of England

 1786 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 308.00
1031

Schoolgirl Needlework "Map of England and Wales," late 18th/early 19th century

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 308.00
1000 Scott Hansen

Progress, Poster for Barack Obama Campaign

 2008 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 277.00
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    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.
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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  • 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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