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Auction Name	Rare and Antiquarian - Illustrated Books	Total Sales (USD)	157,612.50
Auction Date	April 04, 2024 - April 04, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	169,300.00
Sale Number	#810	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	260,200.00
Total Lots	335
Sold Lots	219	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	237,700.00
% of Lots Sold	65.37%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	366,100.00
Unsold Lots	116	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	43.05%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
75		Book of Hours, Use of Rome, in Latin. Illuminated manuscript on vellum, mid-15th century	c.1450	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 16,250.00
189	Hokusai	Fugaku Hyakkei (One Hundred Views of Mt. Fuji)	c.1845-1875	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 5,937.50
166	Gibran, Kahlil	The Prophet	1924	USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 5,625.00
30	Willard, Nancy	The Nancy Willard collection of autographed eggs	c.1980-2000	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 4,687.50
128	Poe, Edgar Allan	The Raven	1884	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,687.50
324	Wasson, Valentina Pavlovna & R. Gordon Wasson	Mushrooms, Russia and History	[1957]	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,687.50
317	Tod, James	Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India	1829-1832	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 4,375.00
169	Gillray, James	The Works of James Gillray, from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects not before Collected	c.1849	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,375.00
125	Donne, John	Letters to Severall Persons of Honour	1651	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,250.00
238	Newton, Isaac	The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended. To Which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great	1728	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,250.00
286	Omar Khayyam	Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	c.1911	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 2,000.00
258	Plutarch	The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Compared Together by that Grave Learned Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarke of Chaeronea	1610-1612	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
270		The Arraignment and Conviction of Sr Walter Rawleigh, at the Kings Bench-barre at Winchester. on the 17. of November. 1603. Before the right Honorable the Earle of Suffolke, Lord Chamberline, the Earle of Devon-shire... Coppied by Sir Tho: Overbury	1648	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,875.00
15	Heaney, Seamus	Squarings: A sequence of forty-eight poems...with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt	2003	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,750.00
101	Beale, Thomas	The Natural History of the Sperm Whale...to which is added, a sketch of a South--Sea Whaling Voyage	1839	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,750.00
278	Lawrence, T.E.	Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers [with] More Letters from T.E. Shaw to Bruce Rogers	1933-1936	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,750.00
71		Bohemian Grove Plays - a nearly complete run	1908-2013	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,625.00
79	[Boyle, Robert]	Some considerations touching the usefulnesse of experimental naturall philosophy, Propos'd in a familiar discourse to a friend, by way of invitation to the study of it	1663	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,625.00
87	Burton, Virginia Lee	Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel	1939	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,625.00
304	Yamaguchi Soken	Soken Gafu Soka no Bu	1806	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 1,625.00
9	Brautigan, Richard	Trout Fishing in America	2003	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,500.00
98	Peto, Gladys	Alice in Wonderland Handkerchiefs	[1920s]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,500.00
21	Toomer, Jean	Cane	2000	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,375.00
159	Fraser, John Foster	The Conquering Jew	1915	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,375.00
212	Machiavelli, Niccolo	The Works of the Famous Nicholas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence	1720	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,375.00

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
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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