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Auction Name Fine Books and Manuscripts - Online - Bidstart 11/11 Total Sales (USD) 572,681.85
Auction Date November 17, 2019 - November 17, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 325,385.00
Sale Number #3311T High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 484,725.00
Total Lots 541
Sold Lots 479 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 369,285.00
% of Lots Sold 88.54% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 547,625.00
Unsold Lots 62 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 104.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1273 Paine, Thomas (1737-1809)

Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America.

1776 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 28,290.00
1407 Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) and John Karl Hillers (1843-1925)

Stereoscopic Views.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 17,220.00
1351 Whitman, Walt (1819-1892)

Leaves of Grass.

1855 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 12,300.00
1038 Gouraud, Francois Fauvel (1808-1847)

Letter Signed, 29 November 1839.

1839 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 11,070.00
1006 Anderson, Sherwood (1876-1941)

Signed Photograph Inscribed to Horace Liveright (1884-1933).

c.1923 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 9,225.00
1017 Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865)

Clipped Signature in an Autograph Book, c.1858.

c.1858. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,610.00
1455

A Chart of the Coast of New York, New Jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, &c.Composed [...] by Jos. Fred. W. Des Barres.

1780 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,610.00
1367 Bell, Charles Milton (1848-1893)

Ten Large Albumen Photographs of Diné/Navajo People.

1874 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,995.00
1083 Amman, Jost (1539-1591) and Johann Feyerabend (1550-1599)

Kunstbuchlin, Darinnen neben Furbildung vieler Geistlicher vnnd Weltlicher Hohes vnd Niderstands Personen so dann auch der Turckischen Kayser.

1599 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,380.00
1008a Bellows, George (1882-1925)

Small Archive. A collection of material related to the artist,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,380.00
1242

Manuscript on Parchment, Missal, Dominican Order, Calatayud, Spain, 1704.

1704 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,150.00
1489 Medina, Pedro de (1493-1567)

Nuevo Mundo.

1545 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,150.00
1237

Manuscript Latin Song and Prayer Book on Paper, Early 16th Century, Likely German.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,842.50
1080 Albinus, Bernhard Siegfried (1697-1770)

Tabulae Sceleti et Musculorum Corporis Humani.

1747 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,535.00
1015 Blackwell, Elizabeth (1821-1910)

Fourteen Pamphlets and Broadsheets, c.1869-1901.

c.1869-1901. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,227.50
1151 Dudíková [born Kozinová], Anna (1914-1951)

Painted Folk Art Ornament Sample Book, Straznice, Moravia, Czech Republic, 1922-1926.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,920.00
1252 Milne, A.A. (1882-1956) illus. Ernest Shepard (1879- 1976)

When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh; Now We Are Six; [and] The House at Pooh Corner.

1924-1928. USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,920.00
1114 Bligh, William (1754-1817)

A Voyage to the South Sea, Undertaken by Command of His Majesty, for the Purpose of Conveying Bread-Fruit Tree to the West Indies.

1792 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,612.50
1115 Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)

The Modell of Wit, Mirth, Eloquence, and Conversation.

1625 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,612.50
1145 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

Christmas Carol, First Edition.

1843 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,612.50
1180 Gibran, Kahlil (1883-1931)

The Prophet, First Edition.

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,612.50
1212 Joyce, James (1882-1941)

Finnegan's Wake, Signed Limited First Edition.

1939 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,612.50
1406 Jackson, William Henry (1843-1942) and Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden (1829-1887)

Eleven Large Albumen Photographs of the Far West.

[c.1873]. USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,612.50
1005 Alcott Nieriker, Abigail May (1840-1879)

Drawing of Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), Attributed to May Alcott.

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,305.00
1356

Woman's Journal, Lot.

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,305.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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    Modern First Editions
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    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
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