Potomack Company: Books, Maps and Prints Cornucopia, 111824, Alexandria

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Auction Date
November 18, 2024 - November 18, 2024
Page Size: 107 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2000

A CHART OF THE SOUTHERN EXTREMITY OF AFRICA, 1806

1806 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 117.00
2001

Mitchell's New General Atlas, Containing Maps of the Various Countries of the World, Plans of Cities...

Philadelphia: 1860 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 910.00
2002 Parkman, Francis.

Works...

Boston 1883 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 422.50
2003 PAUL COLLINS, AMERICAN 1936-,

ROSA PARKS, AUTOGRAPHED BY PARKS

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
2004

BOHEMIAN GROVE PLAYS, 45 VOLUMES, AND OTHER BOHEMIAN GROVE RELATED BOOKS

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 162.50
2005 Harris, Joel Chandler.

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation.

NY 1881 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 585.00
2006 Baudelaire, and Felten, Major.

Flowers of Evil.

NY 1931 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 65.00
2007 Isherwood, Christopher.

Christopher and His Kind 1929-1939.

NY 1977 USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
2008 Houston, Jeanne and Houston, James.

Farewell to Manzanar.

Boston 1973 USD 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
2009 JONATHAN STRANGE & MR. NORRELL.

SUSANNA CLARKE.

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 130.00
2010 Dickens, Charles.

Works of Charles Dickens, Riverside Edition.

NY 1871-72. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 845.00
2011

COLLECTION OF VINTAGE WALT DISNEY, DC (SUPERMAN AND BATMAN), DELL AND OTHER COMICS

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 91.00
2012 Cervantes and Dore, Gustave (illustrator).

Don Quixote.

NY 1880's. USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 292.50
2013 Mayhew, Jonathan.

Practical Discourses Delivered on Occasion of the Earthquakes in November, 1755.

Boston 1760 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
2014

ILLUSTRATED FRENCH AND GERMAN ART BOOKS, SOME EROTIC

USD 200.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
2015

AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN ART REFERENCE BOOKS

USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 162.50
2016 Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (text by).

The Turner Gallery, A Series of One Hundred and Twenty Engravings from the Works of the Late J.M.W. Turner.

NY 1880?. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 357.50
2017 Grey, Zane.

Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas.

NY 1925 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 130.00
2018 Ganz, Giuseppe.

Medicina Pittoresca o Museo Meidcio-Chirurgico....

Venice 1834 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
2019

REMARKS, CRITICAL, CONJECTURAL, AND EXPLANATORY, UPON THE PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE,...

London 1805 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 162.50
2020 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870).

OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.

New York 1865 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 117.00
2021

BOOKS ON INTERIOR DESIGN AND DECORATING

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 65.00
2022

Asa Bird Gardner, The Rhode Island Line in the Continental Army and Its Society of Cincinnati; Elsa deB Sherman, An Account of the Triennial Meeting of the General Society of the Cincinnati, Held in France June 1959; The Lafayette Centennial - The Histor

Philadelphia 1847 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 104.00
2023

QUIMPER FAIENCE REFERENCE BOOKS, CATALOGS AND MAGAZINES AND OTHER BOOKS ON BRITTANY, FRANCE, SOME SIGNED

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 26.00
2024 Amandus Johnson.

The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664.

Philadelphia USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 65.00
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