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Auction Info

Sale Name
January Exceptional Estates
Auction Date
01/25/2025 - 01/25/2025
Year of Sale
2025
Sale Number
#610747
Total Lots
77
Sold Lots
49
Lots Sold
63.6%
Unsold Lots
28
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
39,284.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
35,100.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
66,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
61,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
118,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
33.29%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
39,284.00

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
25 ROY LICHTENSTEIN ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Musical Notes (IV), Screenprint

circa 1995

 USD 8,000.00 - 16,000.00 9,760.00
50 JOAN MIRO JOAN MIRO, Le Grand Ordinateur, Lithograph

circa 1969

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 8,235.00
167 ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, Signed Landscape Print

USD 400.00 - 800.00 2,440.00
133 Library of WW2 German Military Items (32)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 2,196.00
169 HR GIGER HR GIGER Signed Biomechanical Art

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 1,220.00
168 ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, ZDZISLAW BEKSINSKI, Signed Surrealist Print

USD 400.00 - 800.00 1,098.00
11 LEROY NEIMAN LEROY NEIMAN, Desert Inn Baccarat, Serigraph

circa 1997

 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 976.00
3 Andre De Dienes MARILYN MONROE, Andre De Dienes Transparency

1949

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 610.00
246 SHIP JOURNAL: 1857 Sweepstakes Captain's Log

1857

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 610.00
239 John F. Kennedy Original Photos (200)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 610.00
247 SHIP JOURNAL: Marconi Aboard the HMS Duncan

1903 - 1905

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 579.50
21 ALEXANDER CALDER ALEXANDER CALDER, Spiral with Pumpkin, Lithograph

circa 1973

 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 549.00
68 HANNA BARBERA HANNA BARBERA Signed Cartoon Cel

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 518.50
47 Alexander Friedrich Alexander Friedrich, 24 Signed Aquatints

1919-1921.

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 488.00
22 ALEXANDER CALDER ALEXANDER CALDER, Le Petite Pyramids, Lithograph

circa 1976

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 488.00
244 SHIP JOURNALS & MAPS: HMS Talbot 1898

1898

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 457.50
71 SALVADOR DALI SALVADOR DALI, Monument to the Ideal Doctor, Litho

circa 1973

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 457.50
171 HR GIGER HR GIGER Signed Biomechanical Landscape Art

USD 400.00 - 800.00 427.00
172 HR GIGER 2 HR GIGER Signed Prints, Illuminatus I & II

USD 300.00 - 600.00 427.00
245 SHIP JOURNAL: 30 Diagrams 6 Maps HMS Talbot

1902 - 1903

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 396.50
31 PETER MAX PETER MAX, Mickey Mouse, Lithograph

circa 1995.

 USD 300.00 - 600.00 396.50
193 1950's Sealtest Ice Cream Parlor Sign

USD 300.00 - 600.00 396.50
37 Oliver Goldsmith Rare Books: Oliver Goldsmith's Works, #'d to 500

Copyright 1900

 USD 400.00 - 800.00 366.00
61 TOM EVERHART TOM EVERHART, Snoopy, Lithograph

circa 2000

 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 366.00
243 SHIP JOURNALS: (2) 1911 "Leelanaw" & USS Ohio

1911

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 335.50
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  • <b><center>Heritage Auctions<br>Rare Books Signature Auction<br>December 15, 2025</center></b> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Edgar Rice Burroughs. <i>Tarzan of the Apes.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> F. Scott Fitzgerald. <i>Tender is the Night. A Romance.</i> <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Bram Stoker. <i>Dracula.</i> Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897. <b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> Jerry Thomas. <i>How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…</i>
    Heritage Auctions
    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
    Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.