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Auction Name: Books and Decorative Prints
Auction Date: 12/21/2009 - 12/21/2009
Sale Number: #122109
Total Lots: 515
Sold Lots: 459
Lots Sold: 89.13%
Unsold Lots: 56

Total Sales (EUR): 307,891.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 123,271.50
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR): 123,271.50
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 139,621.50
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR): 139,621.50
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 220.52%

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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