Auction Reports

Addison and Sarova

Auction Info

Sale Name
Summer Rare Books and Ephemera
Auction Date
08/29/2020 - 08/29/2020
Year of Sale
2020
Sale Number
#1025
Total Lots
304
Sold Lots
276
Lots Sold
90.8%
Unsold Lots
28
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
88,018.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
38,345.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
78,970.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
44,385.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
89,320.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
98.54%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
89,231.10

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Ambrosius. D. AMBROSII MEDIOLANENSIS EPISCOPI IN CANTICUM CANTICORUM COMMENTARIA.

1558

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 4,062.50
15 London, Jack. THE CALL OF THE WILD.

1903

 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 3,750.00
34 Fisher, John. DEFESIO REGIE ASSERTIONIS CONTRA BABYLONICA CAPTIVITATE, IN QUA RESPONDET PRO REGE HENRICO VIII AD MALEDICENTISSUM MARTINI LUTHERI LIBELLU…. Cologne:

1525

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 3,437.50
27 Andrews, H. C. THE BOTANIST'S REPOSITORY, COMPRISING COLOUR'D ENGRAVINGS OF NEW AND RARE PLANTS… BOTANICAL DESCRIPTIONS IN LATIN AND ENGLISH AFTER THE LINNAEAN SYSTEM.

ca. 1803-1815.

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 2,812.50
247 18th century manuscript chart, hand-colored, "An Historical Chart… of the Principal Empires of the World." 34.5" x 14.5".

18th century

USD 20.00 - 200.00 2,500.00
24 Herodotus. HERODOTI HALICARNASSEI HISTORIARUM LIBRI IX.

1608

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 2,250.00
252 Group of 4 autograph letters signed by Field Marshal Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts (1832–1914), and one photo (5.75" x 3.75", mounted on larger sheet signed by Roberts.)

1892, 1876, 1886

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 1,875.00
29 Contile, Luca. RAGIONAMENTO DI LUCA CONTILE SOPRA LA PROPRIETA DELLE IMPRESE con le particolari de gli academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche.

1574

 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 1,625.00
156 19th century album (first quarter of 19th c.), containing verse and prose in manuscript, nicely decorated with illustrations.

19th century

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 1,500.00
21 Asimov, Isaac. Foundation trilogy, first editions (stated on copyright pages), all with original dust-jackets (all with price of $2.75 to front flap)

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 1,250.00
36 Large collection of approximately 222 engraved bookplates, mostly British and spanning the 17th - 19th centuries.

17th - 19th centuries

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 1,187.50
171 Gladden, W. O. LETTERS AND NOTES FROM A VOYAGE ABROAD.

ca. 1900

 USD 80.00 - 120.00 1,125.00
182 SELECT TRIALS FOR MURDER, ROBBERY, BURGLARY, RAPES, SODOMY, COINING, FORGERY, PYRACY, AND OTHER OFFENCES….

1764

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 1,125.00
12 William Shakespeare] [Complete Works of William Shakespeare] Title translated from the Russian.

1880

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 1,125.00
136 St. John, Spenser. LIFE IN THE FORESTS OF THE FAR EAST; OR TRAVELS IN NORTHERN BORNEO.

1863

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 1,062.50
35 A pair of watercolor paintings, by J. E. Tyndall (of the Royal Engineers) with his captions on verso (in pencil), and further presented with captions in typed form below the artwork.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 1,000.00
2 Cook, James. A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN… PERFORMED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CAPTAINS COOK, CLERKE, AND GORE, IN THE YEARS 1776, 7, 8, 9 AND 80.

1785-7

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 937.50
41 Verheiden, Jacob. THE HISTORY OF THE MODERNE PROTESTANT DIVINES, CONTAINING THEIR PARENTS, COUNTRIES, EDUCATION, STUDIES, LIVES... WITH A TRUE REGISTER OF ALL THEIR SEVERALL TREATISES, AND WRITINGS THAT ARE EXTANT.

1637

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 937.50
170 Swinburne, Henry. A BRIEF TREATISE OF TESTAMENTS AND LAST WILLES….

1611

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 875.00
101 Large collection of approximately 152 bookplates from the 18th century to the 20th century.

mostly 19th century.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 875.00
220 THE BULUWAYO SKETCH. VOL. 1 NO. 6. SATURDAY AUGUST 25TH 1894.

1894

 USD 50.00 - 100.00 812.50
231 Fragment of a 15th century manuscript on vellum.

15th century

 USD 30.00 - 300.00 812.50
96 Kilbourn. THE OHIO GAZETTEER…

1826

 USD 100.00 - 150.00 812.50
5 Jefferson, Thomas. NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA.

1787

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 812.50
240 Sandoval, (Prudencio de.) HISTORIA DE LA VIDA Y HECHOS DEL EMPERADOR CARLOS V.

1634

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 750.00
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    Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
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