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Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Stamps - online bidstart 8/8 Total Sales (USD) 133,640.00
Auction Date August 27, 2019 - August 27, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 84,385.00
Sale Number #SBC2 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 131,690.00
Total Lots 138
Sold Lots 77 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 146,020.00
% of Lots Sold 55.80% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 233,085.00
Unsold Lots 61 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 57.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5473118

Anno Regni Georgi II. The Intolerable Acts and Other Bills

1774 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,375.00
5473112 Paine, Thomas.

Common Sense Addressed to The Inhabitants of America, London

1776 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,125.00
5473142

Anno Regni Georgi III. Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties, and Other Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same ; and for amending such

1765-1766 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,437.50
5473117

A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America

1775 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,187.50
5473121 Adams, John.

Dissertation on the Feudal and the Canon Law. IN: The London Chronicle

1765 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,500.00
5473100 Locke, John.

Two Treatises of Government

1698 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,250.00
5473131 Nightingale, Florence.

Two Autographed Letters together with Notes on Nursing, ca. 1860

1860 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,125.00
5473095 Burgh, James.

Political Disquisition; or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses,..., Calculated to Draw the Timely Attention of Government and People to a Due Consideration of the Necessity, and the Means, of Reforming Those Errors, Defects, and Abuses; of

1775 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,375.00
5473096 Burlamaqui, J. J.

The Principles of Natural Law, 1748 and The Principles of Politic Law, 1752

1748 and 1752 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,875.00
5473135

Letters on the Slave-Trade and the State of the Natives

1791 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,750.00
5473094

A Constitution or Frame of Government, Agreed upon the Delegates of the People of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in Convention, Begun and Held at Cambridge on the First of September, 1779, and Continued by Adjournments to the Second of March, 1780. To be

1780 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,875.00
5473103 Dickinson, John.

Letters from A Farmer in Pennsylvania to The Inhabitants of The British Colonies

1768 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,875.00
5473123 Hobbes, Thomas (English, 1588-1679.)

Leviathan, 3rd edition

1651 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,875.00
5473125

The Geneva Bible: That is the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament

1595 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,376.25
5473150 More, Hannah.

Partial Autograph Letter Addressed to Spencer Percival, and The Sorrows of Yamba

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,375.00
5473126

The Geneva Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament

1603 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,328.75
5473141

Anno Regni Georgi II. New York Restraining Act and Act for Repeal of the Massachusetts Bay Act, 1767 and 1778 SBC2

1774, 1767 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,250.00
5473136 Clarkson, T.

History of the Rise, Progress, and and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, by the British Parliament, Two Vols, and a Autographed Letter

1808 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,125.00
5473137 Sancho, Ignatius.

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, 1783 and another Book

1783/1793 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,000.00
5473076 Tolstoy, Leo.

War and Peace, 5 of 6 Volumes

1886 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
5473104 Seabury, Samuel.

Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress

1775 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,625.00
5473119 Algernon, Sidney.

Discourses Concerning Government

1698 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
5473108

Extracts From the Votes and Proceedings Of the American Continental Congress, 5th of Sept. 1774

1774 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,500.00
5473113 Johnson, Samuel.

Taxation no Tyranny

1775 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,375.00
5473116 Madison, James.

The Papers of James Madison, in Three Volumes

1840 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,375.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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