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Auction Name RARE BOOKS With NO RESERVE NO BUYERS PREMIUM! Total Sales (USD) 23,402.00
Auction Date April 24, 2022 - April 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 55,959.00
Sale Number #42422 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 114,800.00
Total Lots 110
Sold Lots 109 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 56,458.00
% of Lots Sold 99.09% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 115,800.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 20.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
98 TWAIN, Mark

A Horses Tale

 1907 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,050.00
19 RAYNAL, Guillaume Thomas

Histoire philosophique et politique des eÌtablissemens et du commerce des EuropeÌens dans les deux indes

 1781 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 600.00
1 JUSTINIAN

Imperatoris Ivstiniani Institvtionvm libri IIII Adjecti sunt ex digestis Tituli de verborum significatione et de Regulis Iuris : Cum Indice ad cosdem.

 1626 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 570.00
69 GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm

German Household Stories collected by the Brothers Grimm.

 ca. 1880. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 510.00
26 MACGOWAN, John

The life of Joseph, the son of Israel

 1797 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 410.00
61 COOKE, John Esten

A life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke with illustrations, portraits, and maps.

 1871 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 400.00
36 WILSON, Erasmus

The dissectors manual of practical and surgical anatomy.

 1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 395.00
21 DESMONCEAUX, Francois

TraiteÌ des maladies des yeux et des oreilles....

 1786 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 375.00
48 NICHOLS, George Ward

The Story of the Great March from the Diary of a Staff Officer.

 1866 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
33 UNITED STATES.

The Constitution of the United States of America, with an alphabetical analysis

 1854 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 370.00
10 MARTIN, Benjamin

The young trigonometers compleat guide. Being the mystery and rationale of spherical trigonometry made clear and easy ...volume II

 1736 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 360.00
40 CECIL, E.

Life of George Washington. Written for children.

 1859 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 360.00
76 YAGGY, Levi; HAINES, T.L.

Museum of antiquity: a description of ancient life

 1882 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 360.00
53 HANKINS, Col.

Dakota land, or, The beauty of St. Paul : an original, illustrated, historic and romantic work, presenting a combination of marvelous dreams and wandering fancies, singular events and strange fatalities, all interwoven with graphic descriptions of the bea

 1868 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 345.00
62 Main author: Evert A Duyckinck

Title: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America : embracing history, statesmanship, naval and military life, philosophy, the drama, science, literature and art, with biographies

 1872-74. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 335.00
66 GLAZIER, Willard W

Battles for the Union

 1875 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 335.00
59 PECHT, Friedrich

Schiller gallery: containing Characters from Schillers works drawn by Frederick Pecht and Arthur von Ramberg; Fifty illustrations engraved in steel with descriptive text by Frederick Pecht.

1870 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 330.00
34 United States

Echoes from the cabinet : comprising the Constitution of the United States, Declaration of Independence, Fugitive Slave Bills of 1793 & 1850, Missouri Compromise, the Kansas and Nebraska Bill of 1854, also fac-simile autograph names of the signers of the

1855 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 325.00
31 DICKENS, Charles

The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby with illustrations by Phiz.

1839 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 305.00
71 MEYER, Johann Georg

Meyer von Bremen gallery : selected photographs of his latest and choicest works

 1880 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 305.00
11 LUTHER, Martin

Biblia, Das ist, Die gantze Heilige Schrifft

 1737 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 295.00
68 DOYLE, Richard [cartoonist].

Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K.G : in upwards of 100 cartoons from the collection of "Mr. Punch."

 1878 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 290.00
45 GUY, Joseph

Guys Elements of astronomy : and an abridgment of Keiths New treatise on the use of the globes.

 1865 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 285.00
90 BOYD, James P

The life of General William T. Sherman

 1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 285.00
35 PARKER, H.F.

Discoverers and pioneers of America

 1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 280.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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