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Auction Name The Forke Collection of Early America/ August Americana Total Sales (USD) 48,373.00
Auction Date August 11, 2019 - August 12, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 15,550.00
Sale Number #3278M High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 23,600.00
Total Lots 21
Sold Lots 21 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 15,550.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 23,600.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 204.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
774

The Spiritual Chimes: A Watercolor and Pen and Ink Fraktur Birth Letter,

 c. 1840 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,220.00
773 , attributed to Marti Brechall, Pennsylvania, d. 1809

Watercolor and Pen and Ink Fraktur Birth Letter

 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,765.00
628 by A. Imbert,

Naval Engagements Between the Buenos Ayrean and Brazillian Fleets in 1827 & 1828,

1829 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 5,228.00
188

Nicholas Lane 2 3/4-inch Pocket Globe, England, 1776

 1776 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,998.00
189

An Accurate Map of North America, Eman Bowen,

1763 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,690.00
840

Painted Wood "Ship Chandlery" Sign, probably Nantucket

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,091.00
254

Fourteen Early Cooking and Related Books

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,476.00
909

Mount Washington and the White Mountains, From the Valley of Conway and Lake Winnipiseogee from Center Harbor NH,

late 19th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,230.00
911 after Edwin Whitefield (Massachusetts, 1816-1892)

Panoramic Views of Providence, 1849

 1849 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,046.00
193

The New-England Primer,

1771 USD 200.00 - 250.00 USD 984.00
58

Nine Early Framed Engravings, 17th to 18th century

 17th to 18th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 615.00
255

Six Early Gardening and Related Books

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 554.00
38

Five Framed Engravings, four sporting: hunting, fowling, falconry, and hawking, and one with an architectural subject

 18th century, USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 523.00
190

Atlas, Three Ledgers, Four Indentures, and a Group of Wrappers,

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 492.00
191

Two Early Architectural Books and two Prints,

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 492.00
908

The Hudson Highlands,

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 461.00
127

Early Bible and Two Miniature Biblical Works, 18th and 19th century

 18th and 19th century USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 338.00
137

Three Mezzotint and Watercolor Domestic Scenes Mounted on Glass, England, 18th century

 18th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 308.00
910

A 'Crack' Sloop in a Race to Windward./Yacht Gracie off New York,

 1882 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 308.00
912

Barnum's Circus Entering New York City

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 308.00
192

Eleven Early Instructional Books,

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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