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Auction Name Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium Total Sales (USD) 21,715.00
Auction Date August 21, 2022 - August 21, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 56,861.00
Sale Number #82122 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 115,200.00
Total Lots 106
Sold Lots 106 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 56,861.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 115,200.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 18.85%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36 The Prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

London: George Routledge & Sons, 1853.

USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,025.00
98 ORWELL, George

Nineteen eighty-four

1949 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 550.00
96 RAND, Ayn

The Fountainhead

1943 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
51 Main author: David Badham; Frederick Currey

Title: A treatise on the esculent funguses of England : containing an account of their classical history, uses, characters, development, structure, nutritious properties, modes of cooking and preserving, etc.

1863 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 495.00
105 FLEMING, Ian

The Man with the Golden Gun

1965 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 460.00
69 HOMER

The Odyssey of Homer

1881 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 455.00
99 STEINBECK, John

Sweet Thursday

1954 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 445.00
35 CAMPBELL, William

An historical sketch of Robin Hood and Captain Kidd,

1853 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 410.00
65 various

Picturesque Europe, British Isles

1876 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 410.00
103 FLEMING, Ian

You Only Live Twice

1964 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 405.00
80 DOYLE, Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

1892 USD 599.00 - 1,000.00 USD 380.00
72 WILD, Joseph

The lost ten tribes.

1883 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 375.00
26 DENDY, Walter Cooper

The Philosophy of Mystery

1845 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 365.00
4 LOCKE, John

Posthumous works of Mr. John Locke

1706 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 355.00
8 various

The Annual register, or, A view of the history, politics, and literature for the year 1760.

1793 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 355.00
86 POE, Edgar Allan

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe.

Ca 1890-1900 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 345.00
34 MUDIE, Robert

The Feathered Tribes of the British Islands.

1853 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 315.00
7 Main author: François Marie Arouet Voltaire, de.; Anton Friedrich Büsching; Johann Michael Hube

Title: Geschichte des russischen Reichs unter Peter dem Grossen

1761 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 310.00
22 CAUNTER, John Hobart

Oriental annual or scenes in India

1835 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 305.00
37 SUMNER, Charles

White slavery in the Barbary states.

1853 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 305.00
58 DEMING, Henry Champion

The life of Ulysses S. Grant : General U.S. Army

1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 305.00
53 TANNER, Thomas Hawkes

Memoranda on poisons.

1864 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
49 Main author: Orville J Victor

Title: The history, civil, political and military, of the southern rebellion, from its incipient stages to its close. Comprehending, also, all important state papers, ordinances of secession, proclamations, proceedings of Congress, official reports of com

[1861] USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 290.00
68 VERNE, Jules

La Maison a Vapeur

1880 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 285.00
79 HARRIS, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus, his songs and sayings

1890 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 285.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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    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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