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Eldreds: Fall Marine Sale - Books, Log Books, Maps, Prints

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Auction Name Fall Marine Sale - Books, Log Books, Maps, Prints Total Sales (USD) 46,618.00
Auction Date November 21, 2019 - November 21, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 37,500.00
Sale Number #956 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 53,300.00
Total Lots 38
Sold Lots 20 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 51,600.00
% of Lots Sold 52.63% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 74,400.00
Unsold Lots 18 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 62.66%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
35

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED JOURNAL OF A WHALING VOYAGE OF THE SHIP RODMAN

 1827-1830 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,400.00
36

FABULOUS TRAVEL JOURNAL OF MILO CALKIN, WHO SERVED ABOARD A NANTUCKET WHALESHIP

 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,000.00
34

WHALING JOURNAL OF THE SHIP ASIA OF HAVRE

 1829- 1831 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,625.00
33

WHALING JOURNAL OF THE BARK PIONEER OF NEW BEDFORD

 1834-1837 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
422

DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE CORDELIA

1806-09 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
313

TWO LOG BOOKS FOR PLEASURE BOATS CAPTAINED BY THOMAS LYNCH

Late 19th Century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
420

RICHARD PATTEN'S CHART OF THE WEST INDIES AND GULF OF MEXICO

1825 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 500.00
283

An Account of the Arctic Regions with a Description of the Northern Whale-Fishery by William Scoresby

 1820 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
275 LEMUEL D. ELDRED Massachusetts, 1848-1921

Whaleships being refitted. Signed L.D. Eldred". Pencil remarque lower left margin of a capstan and a whaleboat.

 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 450.00
421

A.D. BACHE CHART OF EDGARTOWN HARBOR, MARTHA'S VINEYARD, MASSACHUSETTS

 1853 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
282

SIX VOLUMES RELATING TO SCRIMSHAW

 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 343.75
305 JAMES BURTON United States, Late 19th/Early 20th Century

Photograph of the Columbia and Shamrock trial run, August 1899. Oval blind stamp lower right Copyright 1899 James Burton".

 1899 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 300.00
197

PHOTOGRAPH HOLDING RELIGIOUS SERVICES ON BOARD A WHALER ABOUT TO SET SAIL"

 Late 19th/Early 20th Century USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
278

SET OF BARBARA JOHNSON WHALING COLLECTION AUCTION CATALOGS Modern, 1981-1983

 1981-1983 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 162.50
316

PAIR OF ETCHINGS DEPICTING THE R.M.S. MAURETANIA 20th Century

 circa 1909 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 125.00
312

THE CAMBRIA YACHT QUADRILLE" HAND-COLORED SHEET MUSIC COVER

Circa 1870 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 125.00
424A

PRINT OF THE FISHING VESSEL SPRAY OF BOSTON

 1901 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 100.00
423

VOLUMES NARRATIVE OF A VOYAGE TO THE PACIFIC AND BEERING'S [SIC] STRAIT

 circa 1931. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 75.00
277 By E. Norman Flayderman

VOLUME SCRIMSHAW AND SCRIMSHANDERS WHALES AND WHALEMEN

 1972). USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 48.00
435

Marine Paintings and Drawings in the Peabody Museum by M.V. and Dorothy Brewington

 1968). USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 25.00
  • 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.
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