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Auction Name Literature & Books in All Fields: Timed Online Auction - No Reserve - bidstart 7/20 Total Sales (USD) 11,970.00
Auction Date July 30, 2020 - July 30, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #2036 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 201
Sold Lots 188 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 93.53% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
105 Eddington, Arthur Stanley

The Theory of Relativity and its Influence on Scientific Thought

 1922 Not Available USD 390.00
120 Jevons, W. Stanley

The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method

 1874 Not Available USD 390.00
127 Bailey, N.

An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

 1749 Not Available USD 270.00
128 Bayle, Pierre

Dictionaire Historique et Critique with supplement volume

 1702 Not Available USD 240.00
170 Salisbury, William

Hints Addressed to Proprietors of Orchards and to Growers of Fruit in General Comprising Observations on the Present State of the Apple Trees, in the Cider Countries...

 1816 Not Available USD 204.00
114 Hone, William

The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information

 1832 Not Available USD 192.00
130

The Book of The Sacred Magic of Abra=Melin, The Mage as Delivered by Abraham the Jew unto his Son Lamech: A Grimoire of the Fifteenth Century

 [1948] Not Available USD 192.00
107 Choate, Sharr

Creative Gold- and Silversmithing

 1970 Not Available USD 180.00
178 Hedrick, U.P.

The Cherries of New York

 1915 Not Available USD 180.00
181 Hedrick, U.P. et al.

The Plums of New York

 1911 Not Available USD 180.00
194 Gibson, W. Hamilton

Our Edible Toadstools and Mushrooms and How to Distinguish Them

 1895 Not Available USD 180.00
20 Maugham, William Somerset

The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia

 1905 Not Available USD 156.00
24 McCullough, Colleen

The Thorn Birds

 1977 Not Available USD 156.00
60 Verne, Jules

The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees North Latitude

 1874 Not Available USD 144.00
61 Verne, Jules

The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras

 1875 Not Available USD 144.00
97 Bain, Iain

The Watercolours and Drawings of Thomas Bewick and his Workshop Aprentices

 1981 Not Available USD 144.00
144

Lot of 8 books, mostly California small press

 Various dates Not Available USD 144.00
33

Lot of 4 Patti Smith Photo Books

 Various dates Not Available USD 132.00
51 Sterling, George

A Wine of Wizardry and Other Poems with The Caged Eagle and Other Poems

 1909-1916 Not Available USD 132.00
104 Dyson, Verne

Forgotten Tales of Ancient China

 1927 Not Available USD 132.00
167 Nutt, Thomas

Humanity to Honey Bees; or, Practical Directions for the Management of Honey Bees Upon an Improved and Humane Plan in which the Lives of Bees May Be Preserved

 1845 Not Available USD 132.00
168 Quinby, M.; Miner, T.B.

Mysteries of Bee-Keeping Explained [with] The American Bee Keeper's Manual

 1853; 1859 Not Available USD 132.00
169 Hogg, Robert

The Apple & Pear as Vintage Fruits

 1886 Not Available USD 132.00
140 Ritchie, Ward

The Tale of Two Books

 1985 Not Available USD 120.00
159 Moubray, Bonington [pseud. of John Lawrence]

A Practical Treatise on Breeding, Rearing, and Fattening All Kinds of Domestic Poultry, Pheasants, Pigeons, and Rabbits

 1819 Not Available USD 120.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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