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Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, and Books Total Sales (USD) 640,881.25
Auction Date March 15, 2023 - March 15, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 440,750.00
Sale Number #31523 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 582,450.00
Total Lots 375
Sold Lots 354 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 544,950.00
% of Lots Sold 94.40% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 720,150.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 88.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
381 Einstein

Einstein “General Theory of Relativity” Superb Equations In His Long Manuscript; He Explains Unified Filed Theory Reconciled To Gravity & Relativity

 n.d. USD 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 56,250.00
61 Lincoln Approves

Lincoln Approves Act Making Espionage "punishable by death" A Highly Important Presidential Item!

 August 7, 1861 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 43,750.00
330

Monumental 1177 DS of Louis VII with Incredible Provenance, Unique with Great Ties to the Crusades, Superb

ca. 1177 USD 24,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 31,250.00
112 George Washington

George Washington Signed Discharge For Light Dragoons, Rare and Superb

 June 12, 1783 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 23,750.00
244 Walt Disney

1959 Walt Disney Signed Railroad & Monorail Pass to Col. Bingham, NY Train Chief

 ca. 1959 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 23,180.00
223 Paul Revere

Patriot Paul Revere Buys Supplies for His Silversmith Business 2 Mos. After The Constitution Was Signed!

 November 10, 1787 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,500.00
383 Einstein

Einstein in English on Science and Military “means of mass destruction”, Mentions Faraday and Rutherford Too, Fantastic Letter!

 February 18, 1949 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,500.00
62 Lincoln

Lincoln Exec. Mansion ALS Associated with Emancipation to Salmon Chase

July 15, 1861 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,500.00
105 Lincoln, Garfield, Grant

Lincoln, Garfield, Grant & 140 Others Sign Autograph Album, With Amazing Eyewitness Account of Lincoln Signing, Incomparable!

 ca. 1860s-1950s USD 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
3 J.Q. Adams Signed

J.Q. Adams Signed Scalloped Ships Papers for Father of Epes Sargent VI

 March 31, 1828 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 12,500.00
267

Civil War Officer's Sword Presented to Captain of All-Jewish Company! Amazing Item!

 August 16, 1862 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,875.00
380 Einstein

Einstein Signed Copy of "Out of My Later Years", With Additional Israel Related Signatures

 ca. 1950 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,375.00
1 John Adams

John Adams ALS, Confronts International Trade in 1800

 July 10, 1800 USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,750.00
63 Lincoln

Lincoln Signed For Man Who Wants to "support the Constitution ... put down this wicked & uncalled for rebellion...face the enemy, now in our hour of danger"

 September 19, 1862 USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
119 Hancock's Nephew

Hancock's Nephew Visits G. Washington, “he owns upwards of 500 slaves...happy as Lords...worth a million of Dollars”, Intimate View of Mt. Vernon Before Washington’s Death

 May 22, 1799 USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,750.00
125 Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat Signed 1985 Tokyo Exhibit Catalog, 3 Years Before His Death

 ca. 1985-86 USD 1,500.00 - 2,400.00 USD 8,750.00
243 Walt Disney

Walt Disney TLS Awarding NY Transit Authority Director a Monorail Pass

 January 12, 1959 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 8,750.00
294 Stonewall Jackson and A.P. Hill

"Stonewall" Jackson and A.P. Hill Signed Rare War Dated Field Letter

 ca. November 1862 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,750.00
226

Rev War Dated Archive: Pulaski's French-born Aide-de-Camp Re: Arnold, Lafayette, Greene, d'Estaing, & Rodney, 1780-1781 - Absolutely Fantastic Content!

 ca. 1780 - 1781 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,500.00
297 R.E. Lee PSA

R.E. Lee PSA Signed CDV

 n.d. USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,937.50
96 Reagan

Reagan Famous God ALS "We are certainly in agreement on the need for this nation to reaffirm that we are a nation under God. We need a spiritual revival."

 ca. February 1980 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,312.50
186 Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky’s Address Book Which Includes Mrs. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Ordered Bugsy's Hit!

 ca. 1970 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,000.00
246 Woody Guthrie,

Woody Guthrie, as Army Private, Handwritten Letter About Life on a Nevada Airfield

 December 8, 1945 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
353 Kerouac

Kerouac 3 Owned Men's Magazines With His Published Articles, From His Estate

 ca. 1959 to 1965 USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 5,000.00
358 Kerouac's

Kerouac's "Evergreen Review" with Published Article, From His Estate

 ca. 1957 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 5,000.00
  • 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.
  • 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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