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Auction Name: Collector's Book Store Hollywood Auction
Auction Date: 12/14/2008 - 12/14/2008
Sale Number: #34
Total Lots: 975
Sold Lots: 973
Lots Sold: 99.79%
Unsold Lots: 2

Total Sales (USD): 1,670,732.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 194,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 291,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 194,800.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 292,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 571.78%

Top twenty by sale price

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Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. Presentation Copy. Sold for $500,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Darwin, Charles. Autograph Letter Signed, 3 pp, negotiating the 2nd American edition with Appleton. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Hemingway, Ernest. Autograph Letter Signed, 8 pp, Paris, 1924, to his father discussing Bullfighting, Stories, and his new baby. Sold for $25,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Corialanus. London, 1623. 1st printing [Extracted from the First Folio]. Sold for $50,075.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. London, 1726. 1st edition, Teerink's A edition, fine, large copy. Sold for $21,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Fitzroy, Robert. Autograph Letter Signed to agent Thomas Stilwell, informing him of the progress of H.M.S. Beagle. Sold for $17,575.

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Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Shakespeare, William. Sonnets. 1901. 2 volumes. Printed on vellum and illuminated by Ross Turner, bound by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Sold for $13,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Beardsley, Aubrey. The Birth, Life, and Acts of King Arthur. 1893-94. 2 volumes. Contemporary painted vellum gilt by Chivers. Sold for $5,325.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Assisi, St. Francis. The Canticle of Brother Sun. Illuminated on vellum, for the Grolier Society. Sold for $7,575.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Rackham, Arthur. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. 1/500 copies signed by Rackham. Sold for $4,825.

Bonhams, Jun 13 results: Proust, Marcel. Du coté de chez Swann. 1st edition, 1st issue. Inscribed by Proust. Sold for $8,825.
Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Textile of the Great White Fleet, with portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans & successor Charles Stillman Sperry, 1908. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: William J. Stone, Declaration of Independence, Force printing, 1833. $15,000 to $25,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Shugart family papers including documentation of the Underground Railroad, 63 items, 1838-81. $30,000 to $40,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Records of the Dickinson & Shrewsbury salt works, over 2000 items, with extensive slave labor correspondence, legal records & receipts, bulk 1820-1865. $80,000 to $120,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Gloria Steinem, typescript for her speech Living the Revolution, with related letters and documents, 1941-77. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Liberty Triumphant or the Downfall of Oppression, depicting the aftermath of the Boston Tea Party, c. 1774. $12,000 to $18,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, Historia naturae, maxime peregrinae, libris XVI distincta, Antwerp, 1635. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Antonio de Mayorga, manuscript map of Mexico City, 1779. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Thomas L. McKenney & James Hall, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, first edition, 3 volumes, Philadelphia, 1842-44. $25,000 to $35,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Samuel Walker, diary of the entire first cruise of the USS Kineo, a gunboat on the Mississippi, 1854-69. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann Auction Galleries Sep 26: Scrapbook on early Stanford football, with letters from Walter Camp, 1893-95 & 1931. $8,000 to $12,000.
Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Roberts, David. Twenty Lithographs of the Holy Land, 19th Century. $2,000 to $4,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Declaration by the Reps. of the United Colonies of N.A. 1775. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Composer Jerome Kern personal Letters, Albums and Other. $15,000 to $25,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Paine, Thomas. Common Sense, London 1776. $8,000 to $12,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Cleveland 1852. $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, 3rd edition, London 1651. $2,000 to $3,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Anno Regni Georgii III. Intolerable Acts and other Bills, 1774. $15,000 to $20,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Wilberforce, William. An Abstract of the Evidence, 5 Letters, and two books. $6,000 to $9,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Nightingale, Florence. Notes on Nursing and Signed Letters, ca. 1860 $4,000 to $6,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Tolstov, Leo. War and Peace, 5 volumes, 1886. $3,000 to $5,000.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Dickinson, John. Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, 1768. $1,500 to $2,500.

Lark Mason Associates, Aug 8-27: Twain, Mark. Tom Sawyer, 1877 [and] Huckleberry Finn, 1885. $4,000 to $6,000.

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