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Auction Name Americana - Travel & Exploration - World History - Cartography Total Sales (USD) 173,748.00
Auction Date October 07, 2021 - October 07, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 168,300.00
Sale Number #743 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 264,300.00
Total Lots 475
Sold Lots 304 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 245,900.00
% of Lots Sold 64.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 387,800.00
Unsold Lots 171 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
335 Cook, James and James King

A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, in His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery; in the Year

 1785 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,800.00
329

Album of approx. 390 gelatin silver print photographs of travel through China by foot, boat and rail

 [Early 20th Century] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,600.00
330

Approximately 420 gelatin silver print photographs of China

 [c.Early 20th century] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,200.00
412 Stuart, James Everett

Mt. Tamalpais in Distance, Point Bonita in Middle Distance, Looking North from Lands End, S.F., Cal

 [1914] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
392

Sacramento. Bird's Eye View Published by the Daily Record-Union and Weekly Union

 [1890s] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,600.00
243

Reports of Explorations and Surveys, to Ascertain the Most Practicable and Economical Route for A Railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Made Under the Direction of the Secretary of War, in 1853-54...

 1855-1860 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
2 Jarratt, Isaac

Letter from Issac Jarratt to Robert S. Gracy, about the prospects for purchasing slaves and the prices one must pay

 July 24, 1830 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,700.00
363 Sirén, Osvald

The Imperial Palaces of Peking

 1926 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,700.00
387 Gifford, C.B., del. et lith.

U.S. Navy-Yard Mare Island, and City of Vallejo, Solano Co. Cal.

 [c.1860] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,700.00
372 Arrowsmith, Aaron

Map of America

 1804 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,280.00
112

KATE HAYES

 [c.1855] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,160.00
404

Birdseye View of San Leandro, Cal. 1892. Showing Subdivisions on the Electric R.R. between San Leandro and Oakland

 1892 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,160.00
325 Belcher, Edward

The Last of the Arctic Voyages; Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H.M.S. Assistance, Under the Command of Captain Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., in Search of Sir John Franklin...

 1855 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
87

Three original documents relating to the California Gold Rush

 1849 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,920.00
167

Indenture agreement between Japanese laborer Akazana Guntan the Union Mill Company, for the former's services as a worker in the sugar fields

 1899 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,920.00
206 Muses, Charles

Collection of 44 b&w Polaroid photographs of Lacandon Indians, plus related material

 1956 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
405 Denny, Edward, & Co.

Denny's Pocket Map of San Mateo County, California. Compiled from latest official and private data

 1913 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,920.00
111

COMET

 [c.1860] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,800.00
113

ORPHEUS

 [c.1860] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
86 Sweetser, J,.E.

Letter written from San Francisco, on letter sheet with printed page listing current prices for goods in San Francisco, which was produced by the writer of the letter

 January 10, 1852 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,680.00
116

ZOUAVE

 [c.1860] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,680.00
186 Lindbergh, Charles A.

The Spirit of St. Louis

 1953 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
252 Grant, Ulysses S., etc.

Two appointments of Joseph R. Lewis as associate justice of the Supreme Courts of Idaho and Washington Territories, each signed by Ulysses S. Grant, plus four letters to Lewis relating to judicial appointments signed by attorneys general

 1869-1877 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,560.00
431 Kuchel & Dresel

Jacksonville, O.T.

 1859 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
463 Burch, J. H.

Dallas Ry. Co's. Key & Guide to Dallas

 1925 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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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