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Auction Name Miniature Books with Books to Benefit the Miniature Book Society Total Sales (USD) 27,636.00
Auction Date September 30, 2021 - September 30, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 23,570.00
Sale Number #742 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 36,870.00
Total Lots 131
Sold Lots 121 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,570.00
% of Lots Sold 92.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 42,920.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.39%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
41

Land of the Pharaohs

Various dates USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,080.00
15

Fifty-seven volumes from the Collector's Jewel Book Library

[1990] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
35

Diary of a Victorian Cat

1993 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 660.00
89

The Sun Full Circle: North; South; East; and West

1981 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 660.00
125 Sweet, Pat

Miniature Book Press

2021 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
45

Mythical Creatures

1983 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
6

Forty-three micro-miniatures from Borrower's Press

1979-82 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 570.00
47

The Path Of The Gods

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 570.00
31

A Ballad of Robin Hood

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
33

Butterflies and Frittilaries

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
49

The Ubiquitous Pigs, or Letters from Abroad

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 510.00
5

Twenty-eight volumes from the Black Cat Press

1964-84 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 480.00
56

Four Miniature ABC Books

1973-1994 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 480.00
36

Fun and Games of Childhood

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 450.00
42

Lilliput Levee

1980 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 450.00
43

Little Red Riding Mouse

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 450.00
20

Serments D'Amour - nineteen copies

[c.1953] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 420.00
23

Thirty-three miniature books from various publishers

Various dates USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 420.00
30

The Adventures of Toad

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
39

Knights Of The Realm

1999 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
40

The Lady of Shallot

1993 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 420.00
121 Schwartzott, Carol

Two Miniature Books from Carol Schwartzott

1993 & 2020 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 420.00
17

Miniature Koran

[c.1950s] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 390.00
25

Forty-five small and miniature miscellaneous volumes

Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 390.00
24

Twenty-two miniature books from various publishers

Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 360.00
  • 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.
  • 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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