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Addison and Sarova: Bookworm Sale, Online Only

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Auction Name Bookworm Sale, Online Only Total Sales (USD) 21,682.18
Auction Date September 12, 2021 - September 12, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 228.00
Sale Number #1031 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 228,000.00
Total Lots 229
Sold Lots 228 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 229.00
% of Lots Sold 99.56% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 229,000.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 9.47%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
80 Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The Last Leaf,

1895 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,000.00
32 Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf 1st ed., and Others Lot of books, principally "The Waves"

1931 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,000.00
145 Henry W. Longfellow

[Bindings] Writings of Henry W. Longfellow

ca 1904. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 520.00
183 John Jortin

Works

USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 406.25
194 "The Brontes,"

Bronte's Works

1949 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 406.25
27 Dickens, Charles.

THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.

1844 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 343.75
42

The Annual Register, or a View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year 1780 (and 1781) .

1782 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 335.00
142 Wordsworth

Poetical Works of Wordsworth

1843 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 328.75
54 Sir John Carr.

[Provenance] Tour Through Holland, along the Right and Left Banks of the Rhine, to the South of Germany.

1807 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 325.00
202 Sophocles / Sir Richard C. Jebb.

[Prize Bindings] Plays of Sophocles, Sophocles / The Plays and Fragments With Critical Notes… Sir Richard C. Jebb.

1902-1907. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 312.50
86

Analecta Scotia: Collections Illustrative of the… History of Scotland.

1834 and 1837. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 304.38
116 J. P. MacLean.

History of the Island of Mull, Rare

1923-1925. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 281.25
184 Andrew Lang.

Poetical Works of Andrew Lang.

1923 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 281.25
185 F. Hopkinson Smith

Works of F. Hopkinson Smith

1902-1915. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 252.50
56 John Mitchel.

The History of Ireland

ca.1868. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 243.75
140 Francis T. Buckland.

Curiosities of Natural History, 1868

1868-1873. USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 243.75
10 William Thomas and Kate Pavitt.

[SIGNED] Book of Talismans, Amulets, and Zodiacal Gems.

1922 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 228.75
59 Mortimer Menpes.

[Fine Binding] Japan, A Record in Colour

1905 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 225.00
165 Miguel Cervantes de Saavedra; Charles Jarvis (trans.); George Cruikshank (illustrator.)

THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA.

Knight and Lacey USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 225.00
13 Henry Hallam;

Constitutional History of, England,together with De Lolme on the English Constitution (as issued.)

1870 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 221.94
25 Dickens, Charles.

BLEAK HOUSE.

1853 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 218.75
156

Cathedrals, Abbeys, and Churches … of England and Wales.

1891 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 212.50
172 Robert Jamieson.

1843, Illustrations of Scripture George Paxton… Revised and Enlarged

1843 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 210.00
143

Praxis Caeremoniarum, seu Sacrorum Romanae Ecclesiae Rituum…

1715 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 207.50
72 Cyprian.

Cyprian's Works, 1682, Opera.

1682 USD 1.00 - 1,000.00 USD 200.00
  • 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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