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North American Auction Company: Early Western and American Indian Sale

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Auction Name Early Western and American Indian Sale Total Sales (USD) 18,081.00
Auction Date February 20, 2021 - February 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 25,375.00
Sale Number #22021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 52,600.00
Total Lots 103
Sold Lots 92 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,550.00
% of Lots Sold 89.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 57,000.00
Unsold Lots 11 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 31.72%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
115

Custer's Last Stand Quality Amusement Poster 1912

1912 USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 615.00
216 Will James

1923 1st Ed. Cowboys North & South by Will James

1923 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 553.50
345 Cecil Hartley

1865 1st Ed. Life of Daniel Boone by Cecil Hartley

1865 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 553.50
86

1925 1st Ed. The Drifting Cowboy by Will James

1925 USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 522.75
315 Henry David Northrop

Indian Horrors or Massacres by the Red Men c.1889

c.1889 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 492.00
422 P.H. Sheridan

Personal Memoirs of P.H. Sheridan 1st Ed 1888

1888 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 461.25
508 Bev Doolittle

Set of Bev Doolittle Western Framed Prints

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 430.50
599 U.S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant Vol 2 1st Ed 1885

1885 USD 150.00 - 350.00 USD 399.75
87 edited by Nickolas Biddle

1st Ed Journals of the Expedition Lewis & Clark

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 338.25
286

Signed Limited Edition Indian Tribal Series 30 Vol

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 338.25
383

MINT Yellowstone National Parks Boundary Line Sign

USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 338.25
492 John Muir

1911 1st Ed John Muirs First Summer in the Sierras

1911 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 338.25
569

1889 1st Edition Echoes From the Rocky Mountains

1889 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 338.25
600 C.C. Post

Ten Years a Cowboy By C.C. Post Early Edition 1896

1896 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 338.25
26 Frederick Whittaker

A Popular Life of Gen'l Geo. A. Custer 1st Ed 1876

1876 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 307.50
155

Montana Sports Outdoors Collectors Item Vol 1 No 1

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 276.75
399 Bronson G Stevenson

Bronson G Stevenson Sun River Montana Drawing

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 276.75
618 Terry Redlin

Signed Terry Redlin Rainbow Trout Stamp/Painting

USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 276.75
645 TJ Hileman

TJ Hileman Kalispell Montana Photograph c. 1913

c.1913 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 276.75
66 Elizabeth B. Custer

1885 1st Ed. Boots and Saddles by Elizabeth Custer

1885 USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
117

1926 De Laval Cream Separators Advertisement

1926 USD 750.00 - 1,500.00 USD 246.00
118

1888-1910 Buffalo Bill Framed Ephemera Collection

1888-1910 USD 650.00 - 1,100.00 USD 246.00
344 Hiram Martin Chittenden

1905 The Yellowstone National Park by Chittenden

1905 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
503 J. Gabriel Cernay

1920 J. Gabriel Cernay Cottage Hotel Linen Poster

1920 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 246.00
512 Charles Carleton Coffin

The Boys of '61 by Charles Carleton Coffin 1894

1894 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
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