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Sale Name
Rare Books - Internet bidstart 10/23
Auction Date
10/30/2014 - 10/30/2014
Year of Sale
2014
Sale Number
#201444
Total Lots
383
Sold Lots
321
Lots Sold
83.8%
Unsold Lots
62
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (USD)
31,981.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%
Currency
USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
32,307.70

Top twenty five by sale price

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Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
95269 Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

1789

 USD - 2,812.50
95160 American Anti-Slavery Society. A Nearly Complete Run of The American Anti-Slavery Almanac, Vol. 1, Nos. 1-6, Vol. 2, Nos. 1-3 and 6

1836-1847

 USD - 1,000.00
95112 Edward Steichen, photographic illustrator. Henry David Thoreau. Walden or Life in the Woods.

1936

 USD - 550.00
95137 Robert A. Heinlein. Methuselah's Children.

1958

 USD - 531.25
95277 Music Zaccaria Tevo. Il Musico Testore del Zaccaria Tevo.

1706

 USD - 512.50
95159 Aimonius Monachus Floriacensis Aimon De Fleury. Historiae Francorum Lib. V.

1567

 USD - 468.75
95184 Frederick A. Cook and Robert E. Peary. Discovery of the North Pole.

1909

 USD - 462.50
95247 W.E. Parry. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole.

1831

 USD - 462.50
95199 Mikhail Gorbachev. Memoirs.

1996

 USD - 462.50
95200 Alexander Grailhe. Memoire a Plaider devant la cour Supreme de la Louisiane…New Orleans

1852

 USD - 450.00
95136 Robert A. Heinlein. Beyond this Horizon.

1948

 USD - 437.50
95010 Large Lot of Ninety-One Miscellaneous Autographs.

USD - 412.50
95152 J.R.R. Tolkien. Edited by Christopher Tolkien. Illustrated by Alan Lee. The Children of Hurin.

2007

 USD - 408.75
95286 David Foster Wallace. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again.

1997

 USD - 350.00
95288 H.G. Wells. A Year of Prophesying.

1924

 USD - 325.00
95018 Bembo, Pietro. Gliasolani Di Monsignor P. Bembo. Edition Secunda. bound with: Rime Di Monsignor P. Bembo. Including: Stanze

1544-1540

 USD - 325.00
95134 J.P. Claris de Florian. Fables Choisies de J.P. Claris de Florian Illustrees par des Artistes Japonais Sous la Direction de P. Barboutau Tokio.

ca. 1895

 USD - 320.00
95243 Nas (Nasi), Johannes. Concordia Alter unnd newer guter auch boser Glaubens strittiger lehren verglichne beschreibung, mit fridgiriger bitt, und vermanung, man wolle forthin, die fromen Ludgerischen, und dergleichen Christimenschen, unuerdambt lassen, besunder Ir schonen, auch

1583

 USD - 312.50
95214 Josephus, Flavius. Historico Delle Antichita & Guerre Giudaiche.Delle antichita & guerre giudaiche, nuouamente raccolte tutte insieme & da molti errori emendate, & con molta diligenza stampate...

1581

 USD - 312.50
95081 Walker Percy. The Second Coming.

1980

 USD - 300.00
95051 T.E. Lawrence. Revolt in the Desert.

1927

 USD - 300.00
95382 Garth Williams. Seven Preliminary Sketches for One Illustration for King Emmett the Second by Mary Stolz.

USD - 287.50
95027 Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius. Psychomachia, Cathemerion, Peristephanon, Apotheosis. Hamartigenia. Contra Symmachum, praefectu(m)urbis, libri duo.

1527

 USD - 287.50
95120 Tom Wolfe. The Right Stuff.

1979

 USD - 275.00
95183 Americana The Constitutions of the United States, According to the Latest Amendments...Philadelphia: Robert Campbell

1800

 USD - 275.00
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    Book Week
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    Book Week
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    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.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
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