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Auction Info
- Sale Name
- Fine Books and Manuscripts - online bidding 11/27
- Auction Date
- 12/10/2024 - 12/10/2024
- Year of Sale
- 2024
- Sale Number
- #N11500
- Total Lots
- 94
- Sold Lots
- 71
- Lots Sold
- 75.5%
- Unsold Lots
- 23
- Price Unknown
- 0
- Total Sales (USD)
- 1,219,440.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 895,800.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 1,483,000.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 1,154,300.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 1,862,500.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 65.47%
- Currency
- USD
- Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
- 1,219,440.00
Top twenty five by sale price
View All Auction Lots.| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1092 | Sendak, Maurice | Original artwork for the inaugural New York is Book Country poster | 1979 |
USD 300,000.00 - 600,000.00 | 336,000.00 |
| 1034 | [Bronte, Emily, and Anne Bronte] --- Ellis Bell and Acton Bell | Wuthering Heights. A Novel, by Ellis Bell And, Agnes Grey. A Novel, by Acton Bell. | 1847 |
USD 90,000.00 - 130,000.00 | 102,000.00 |
| 1084 | Mao Tse-Tung | The most effective political messaging of the 20th century signed by the author | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | 90,000.00 | |
| 1004 | Banneker, Benjamin | Bannaker's Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, and North-Carolina Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord 1796; being Bissextile, or Leap-Year | 1795 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 54,000.00 |
| 1082 | Klimt, Gustav | Eine Nachlese. Herausgegeben von Max Eisler. Wien, Osterreichische Staatsdruckerei 1931 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 42,000.00 | |
| 1066 | Shakespeare, William | Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. | 1685 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 42,000.00 |
| 1031 | [Austen, Jane] | Emma, A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", &C. &C. | 1816 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 31,200.00 |
| 1068 | Stoker, Bram | Dracula. | 1897 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 26,400.00 |
| 1029 | Washington, George | The Will of General George Washington | 1800 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 26,400.00 |
| 1001 | Adams, John | Autograph letter signed ("Your friend, John Adams"), to John Trumbull | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 24,000.00 | |
| 1027 | Smith, John | Virginia Discovered and Described by Captain John Smith. | ca. 1625 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 22,800.00 |
| 1040 | Dickens, Charles | A Christmas Carol. | 1843 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 20,400.00 |
| 1044 | Dickens, Charles | Little Dorrit. | 1857 |
USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | 19,200.00 |
| 1025 | Rocque, John | A General Map of North America | ca. 1763 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 18,000.00 |
| 1037 | Clemens, Samuel Langhorne | Adventures of Tom Sawyer. | 1876 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 15,600.00 |
| 1087 | Newton, Sir Issac | Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica... Editio tertia aucta & emendata. | 1726 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 15,600.00 |
| 1005 | Bates, Katharine Lee | Autograph transcript signed ("Katherine Lee Bates") of America the Beautiful, after 1911 | after 1911 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 15,600.00 |
| 1016 | Jefferson, Thomas | Notes on the State of Virginia ... Illustrated with a Map, including the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. | 1787 |
USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | 14,400.00 |
| 1028 | Story, Joseph | Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States. | 1833 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 14,400.00 |
| 1052 | (Dickens, Charles) --- Joseph Clayton ("Kyd") Clarke | A Series of 649 Original Character-Studies illustrating the Works of Charles Dickens. | 1885-1889 |
USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 1063 | Shakespeare, William | All's Well that Ends Well. Extracted from Mr William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. | 1632 |
USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | 13,200.00 |
| 1057 | Hardy, Thomas | A collection of letters written to James Murray, the lexicographer | 1906-1913 |
USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | 12,000.00 |
| 1078 | (Darwin, Charles) | A group of five photographs, ca. 1863-1878 | ca. 1863-1878 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 10,800.00 |
| 1017 | Jefferson, Thomas | Autograph (polygraph) letter signed ("Th. Jefferson") to his grandson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph, dates 6 September 1814 | 1814 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 10,200.00 |
| 1014 | Hancock, John, & Samuel Adams | Three eighteenth-century Massachusetts appointments: | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 9,600.00 |
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Sotheby's Book Week
2 June - 9 JulySotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000. -
June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Medical Incunabula: Petit (Jean)publisher & Kerver (Thielman)printer. Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum, sm. 8vo, Paris [1498]Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Hugo (Victor) [Wraxall (Lascelles)]. Les Miserable, 3 vols., 8vo, L. (Hurst & Blackett) 1862, First Authorized English Translation (copyright).Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Shelley (Mary Wollstonecraft). Frankenstein: or The Modern Prometheus, 8vo, 2 vols. in one, L. (G. & W.B. Whittaker, Ave-Maria-Lane) 1823.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Cuisine: Anon. Cookery, Pastry, and Sweet Meats in three Books, Alphabetically Digested, 8vo 1710.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Lambert (Aylmer Bourke). A Description of the Genus Pinus, with Directions Relative to the Cultivation…, 2 vols. Sm. folio L. (Messrs. Weddell) 1832.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Botany: Curtis (William). Flora Londinensis: or Plates and Descriptions of such Plants as Grow Wild in the Environs of London, 2 vols. folio, London (B. White) 1777 – 1798.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Le Moire (J.M.) Maple Leaves, Canadian History and Quebec Scenery (Third Series) 8vo Quebec (Hunter, Rose & Co.) 1865. First Edn.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: The Earliest Extant Printed House Contents Sale Catalogue in Ireland: Baillie, Auctioneer, Abby Street. A Catalogue of the Goods and Stock of the late Edward Wingfield…Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: William III King of England. Autograph Letter Signed ("William R") to an unnamed correspondent [possibly Charles-Henri de Lorraine] discussing his strategy against the French forces during the siege of Namur.June 23rd, 24th & 25th 2026 Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: [Austen (Jane) (1785-1817]. Pride and Prejudice, 3 vols. sm. 8vo, L. (T. Egerton) 1813.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Heaney (Seamus). Ugolino, sm. folio D. (Dolmen) 1979, Limited Edn. No. 78/125 Copies, Signed by Seamus Heaney, Louis le Brocquy, Liam Miller and Andrew Carpenter.Fonsie Mealy’s, June 23-25: Voltaire (F.M. Avouet de). Petits Ouvrages, attribues a M. de Voltaire, sm. folio manuscript, dated 1776, containing 9 works. -
Bonhams, June 14-23: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presentation Gold Pocket Watch. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Presentation Copy of the First Issue of the Lincoln Douglas Debates Signed by Abraham Lincoln in Pencil to a Sangamon County Illinois Republican. Estimate: $150,000 - 250,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A Senate Resolution Signed in the Tense Days After the Union's Humiliating Defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run. Estimate: $80,000 - $120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Seven Passages to a Flight, an Artists Book with a Story Quilt by Faith Ringgold, the Publisher's Own Copy. Estimate: $80,000 - 120,000Bonhams, June 14-23: A New Charter for Virginia, A Response to the First Armed Rebellion in the American Colonies. Estimate: $15,000 - 25,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Earliest obtainable printing of the Bill of Rights. Estimate: $8,000 - 12,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Edward Curtis Orotone. Estimate: $7,000 - 9,000Bonhams, June 14-23: Owned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: A Butter or Dessert Plate from FDR's State Dinner Service. Estimate: $3,000 - 5,000Bonhams, June 14-23: An Early Large-Format Plan of the City of Washington. Estimate: $1,500 - 2,500Bonhams, June 14-23: Containing the First Map to Name the Hudson River. Estimate: $20,000 - 30,000Bonhams, June 14-23: America's First Major Novelist, a Complete Chapter in Autograph Manuscript by James Fenimore Cooper. Estimate: $15,000 - 20,000Bonhams, June 14-23: The Only Full-Length Book by Jefferson, with the Justly Famous Map. Estimate: $12,000 - 18,000 -
June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.June 25, 2026 Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000. -
Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950