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Auction Name Americana - Travel - Maps Total Sales (USD) 216,043.75
Auction Date May 05, 2022 - May 05, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 216,700.00
Sale Number #761 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 342,100.00
Total Lots 535
Sold Lots 330 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 337,300.00
% of Lots Sold 61.68% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 531,900.00
Unsold Lots 205 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.62%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
238

La Biblia Vulgata Latina traducida en Espan?ol, y anotada conforme al sentido de los Santos Padres y espositores Catolicos

 1831-1835 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,625.00
158 Hamilton, Alexander; John Jay; & James Madison

Le Fe?de?raliste, ou Collection de quelques e?crits en faveur de la constitution propose?e aux E?tats-Unis de l'Ame?rique, par la convention convoque?e en 1787. Publie?s dans les E?tats-Unis de l'Ame?rique par MM. Hamilton, Madisson et Gay...

 1792 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
228 Meares, John

Voyages made in the Years 1788 and 1789, from China to the North West Coast of America. To which are prefixed, an Introductory Narrative of a Voyage performed in 1786, from Bengal, in the Ship Nootka; Observations on the Probable Existence of a North West

 1790 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,687.50
466 Wilkes, Charles

Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

 1845 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,687.50
212 James, Edwin

Account of the Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819, 1820. By order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, under the command of Maj. S.H. Long, of the U.S. Top. Engineers. Compiled from the notes of Major Lon

 1823 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
44 Bott, Emil

Landscape

 1852 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 4,062.50
45 Bott, Emil

Landscape

 1852 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 4,062.50
105 [Huntley, Henry Vere]

California: Its Gold and Its Inhabitants

 1856 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
283 Agricola, Georgius

De Re Metallica

 1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
4 Grundy, Felix and James Rucks

Original manuscript statement of legal argument on the issue of Negro slave identity

 ca. 1824-1825 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,750.00
348 Forbes, Alexander

California: A History of Upper and Lower California from their First Discovery to the Present Time, Comprising an Account of the Climate, Soil, Natural Productions, Agriculture, Commerce, &c...

 1839 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,750.00
360 Thornton, J. Quinn

Oregon and California: The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California...to which is added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with recent notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources

 1849 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,750.00
344 Duflot de Mofras, Eugène

Exploration de Territoire De L'Orégon, des Californies et de la Mer Vermeille, exécutée pendant les années 1840,1841, et 1842, par M. Duflot De Mofras, Attaché à la Légation de France à Mexico; ouvrage publié par ordre du Roi...

 1844 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,437.50
21 Walker, Kara Elizabeth

Freedom, a Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times.

 1997 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
40

Plan Layout for 1960 Bohemian Grove Play Rip Van Winkle with the James Earle Jewell collection of early Bohemian Club Grove Plays, Grove Play props, Boho publications and ephemera

 1907-1990 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
484 Braun & Hogenberg

Claudiopolis Coloswar vulgo Clausenberg Transilvania civitas primaria

 1617 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,812.50
373 Bruce, James

Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772, & 1773

 1790 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,250.00
479 Wilkes, Charles

Atlas. Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition. During the Years of 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842.

 1845 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
36 Bartram, William

Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, The Cherokee Country, The Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and Country of the Chactaws...

 1792 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
230 Corro, Jose? Justo

El Exmo. Sr. Presidente interino de la Repu?blica Mexicana se ha servido dirigirme el decreto que sigue... a los prisioneros en la guerra de Tejas a? la fecha de la publicacion de este decreto, que hubieren incurrido en la pena capital segun las leyes, se

 1836 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
252 Mullan, John

Miners and Travelers' Guide to Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Via the Missouri and Columbia Rivers. Accompanied by a General Map of the Mineral Region of the Northern Sections of the Rocky Mountains

 1865 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
367 Barba, Alvaro Alonso

Arte de los Metales, en que se ensen?a el verdadero beneficio de los de oro y plata por azogue. El modo de fundirlos todos, y como se han de refinar y apartar unos de otros

 [1729] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
153 Emory, William H.

Report on the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey

 1857-1859 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,875.00
454 Sclater, Philip Lutley and Osbert Slavin

Exotic Ornithology

 1866-69 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
114 Carver, Jonathan

Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.

 1778 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
  • 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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