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Auction Name: Fine Printed Books
Auction Date: 06/12/2008 - 06/12/2008
Sale Number: #2011
Total Lots: 233
Sold Lots: 175
Lots Sold: 75.11%
Unsold Lots: 58

Total Sales (USD): 2,492,880.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 1,455,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 2,141,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 2,480,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 3,675,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 67.82%

Top twenty by sale price

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<b>Swann:</b> Scott Joplin, <i>Treemonisha: Opera in Three Acts,</i> New York, 1911. Sold March 24 — $40,000.

<b>Swann:</b> Louisa May Alcott, autograph letter signed, 1868. Sold June 2 — $23,750.

<b>Swann:</b> Anne Bradstreet, <i>Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, full of Delight,</i> Boston, 1758. Sold June 2 — $21,250.

<b>Swann:</b> William Shakespeare, <i>Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Originall Copies. The Second Impression,</i> London, 1632. Sold May 5 — $161,000.

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<b>Swann:</b> John Bachmann, <i>Panorama of the Seat of War,</i> New York, 1861-62. Sold June 23 — $35,000.

<b>Swann:</b> Charlotte Bronte, <i>Jane Eyre,</i> first edition, London, 1847. Sold June 16 — $23,750.

<b>Swann:</b> Elihu Vedder, <i>Simple Simon, His Book,</i> 1913. Sold June 9 — $12,350.

<b>Swann:</b> Frederick Catherwood, <i>Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan,</i> London, 1844. Sold April 7 — $37,500.

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