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Auction Info

Sale Name
Fine Books and Manuscripts
Auction Date
12/18/2019 - 12/18/2019
Year of Sale
2019
Sale Number
#121819
Total Lots
204
Sold Lots
139
Lots Sold
68.1%
Unsold Lots
65
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
11,089,900.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
2,123,200.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
3,041,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
3,042,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
4,436,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
249.98%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
11,651,400.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
173 COUBERTIN, PIERRE DE The Olympic Manifesto

USD 700,000.00 - 1,000,000.00 8,806,500.00
76 POE, EDGAR ALLAN The Raven.

1845

 USD 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 312,500.00
52 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, 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.

1788

 USD 130,000.00 - 180,000.00 150,000.00
151 MAO ZEDONG AND ASSOCIATES Handmade pamphlet belonging to Major Wilbur A. Dexheimer, signed by his Christmas Eve dinner guests at the American Base in Yan'an, China

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 100,000.00
152 MAO ZEDONG Typed letter signed "Mao Tse-tung" as leader of the Chinese Communist Party, requesting that Major Dexheimer send Christmas greetings on his behalf to General Hurley and on behalf of Zhou Enlai to General Wedemeyer

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 81,250.00
175 POE, EDGAR ALLAN Poems.

1831

 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 81,250.00
29 ADAMS, HENRY The Education of Henry Adams.

1907

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 75,000.00
146 LEE, HARPER three “Seckatary Hawkins”-related books inscribed and signed by Harper Lee

USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 75,000.00
104 THE BEATLES Archive related to taxation of the first Beatles tour of the United States, containing three full band signatures, and one signature from Brian Epstein, 1964

USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 75,000.00
196 GOULD, JOHN A Monograph of the Ramphastidae, or Family of Toucans.

1834

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 68,750.00
190 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES The Birds of America, From Drawings made in the United States and Their Territories.

1840

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 62,500.00
73 POE, EDGAR ALLAN Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.

1840

 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 56,250.00
203 TUSSAC, FRANCOIS RICHARD DE Flore des Antilles, ou Histoire generale botanique, rurale et economique des vegetaux indigenes des Antilles.

1808-1827 1828

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 52,500.00
191 BATEMAN, JAMES The Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala.

1837-1843.

 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 52,500.00
202 SHARPE, RICHARD BOWDLER Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower-Birds.

1891-1898

 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 40,000.00
58 HEMINGWAY, ERNEST The Sun Also Rises.

1926

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 40,000.00
204 VIEILLOT, LOUIS JEAN PIERRE Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Amérique Septentrionale, Contenant un Grand Nombre d'Espèces Decrites ou Figurées pour la Première Fois.

1807-1808

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 30,000.00
13 (DERRYDALE PRESS) A Group of 15 Derrydale Titles

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 30,000.00
178 PROPERTY OF PATRICIA LORSCH<br><br>SCHULZ, CHARLES Original four-panel Peanuts daily comic strip signed by Schulz

USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 30,000.00
107 BOOK OF HOURS Manuscript Book of Hours use of Saint-Pol-de-Léon, in Latin. France Brittany: 3rd Quarter of the 15th Century

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 27,500.00
143 JOYCE, JAMES A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.

1918

 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 27,500.00
186 VANDERMAELEN, PHILIPE Atlas Universel De Geographie Physique, Politique, Statistique et Mineralogique Sur L'echelle De 1/1641836 Ou D'une Ligne Par 1900 Toises.

1827

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 25,000.00
197 GOULD, JOHN A Monograph of the Trogonidae, or Family of Trogons.

1858- 1875

 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 25,000.00
92 WHITMAN, WALT Leaves of Grass.

1856

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 25,000.00
123 DELISLE, JOSEPH NICOLAS Atlas' Rossiyskoy sostoyashchey iz' devyatnatsati spetsial'nykh kart' predstavlyayuschchikh' Vserossiyskyyu Imperiyu s'pogranichnymi zemlyami Atlas of Russia, consisting of nineteen special maps, representing the All-Russian Empire....

1745

 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 22,500.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.