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Auction Name Discovery in the Backyard - Online only sale Total Sales (USD) 6,579.00
Auction Date March 23, 2023 - March 23, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,736.00
Sale Number #32323 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 7,285.00
Total Lots 90
Sold Lots 66 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 8,816.00
% of Lots Sold 73.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 13,715.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
237

Vintage Joslin's Terrestrial Globe on Stand

19th C. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,216.00
120

Leyendecker Brothers Signatures

USD 30.00 - 50.00 USD 896.00
407

Group of Assorted Antique Books

USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 512.00
390

Group of Books on New York State

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 218.00
381

S. Hahnemann, "Organon of Homeopathic Medicine"

1843 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 192.00
389

Group of Books on Medicine in New York

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 179.00
435

Uncut Sheet of 1981 US $1 Bills

1981 USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 154.00
573

Mr & Mrs Guy Lawler 1839 Antique Ink Silhouettes

1839 USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 154.00
159

Four Plates from "The Costume of China"

1800 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 141.00
383

John C. Gunn, "Gunn's Domestic Medicine"

1838 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 141.00
158

Three Botanical Prints

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 128.00
388

Group of Books on Medicine and Homeopathy

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 128.00
170

Print of the Supreme Court Judges

1904 USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 115.00
183

Two World War II Propaganda Posters

USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 115.00
535

Group of NASA Ephemera

USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 102.00
575

George & Martha Washington Silhouettes

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 102.00
160

Four Prints, James S. King, Portraits of Men

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 90.00
182

Five Car Posters

2011 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 90.00
392

Group of Medical Memoirs and Biographies

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 90.00
401

Group of Assorted Art Books

USD 30.00 - 40.00 USD 90.00
404

Two Books on New York

USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 90.00
406

Group of Assorted Antique Books

USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 90.00
166

Four Engravings and Etchings After Old Masters

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 77.00
180

Two Pastoral Landscape Prints, Westerley & Gondel

USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 77.00
186

Marcel Fiorini Limited Edition 62/120 Print

USD 30.00 - 40.00 USD 77.00
  • 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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