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Auction Name Remarkable Rarities - bidstart 1/19 Total Sales (USD) 1,091,335.00
Auction Date February 22, 2024 - February 22, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 724,000.00
Sale Number #707 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,025,000.00
Total Lots 49
Sold Lots 26 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,386,000.00
% of Lots Sold 53.06% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,960,000.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4023 Mao Zedong

Mao Zedong Historically Important Signed Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book) - Autographed for the Wife of Pakistan's Foreign Minister, with Photo Proof

 1966 USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 USD 250,000.00
4001 George Washington

George Washington Excessively Rare Check Signed as President, Filled Out by Treasury Secretary Oliver Wolcott Jr. - PSA MINT 10

 1795 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 135,473.00
4032 Kelmscott Chaucer

Kelmscott Chaucer: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Kelmscott Press (1896) - 'The finest book since Gutenberg'

 1896 USD 65,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 90,750.00
4051

Apollo 11 Lunar Surface Flown LM Prep Checklist with In-Flight Annotations by CDR Neil Armstrong Prior to the First Moon Landing - From the Private Collection of Buzz Aldrin

 1969 USD 50,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 76,533.00
4016 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Rare Typed Letter Signed Writing His Famous E=Mc2 Equation

 1946 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 68,708.00
4046 John Williams

Star Wars: John Williams Original Handwritten Music Manuscript for the Opening 'Star Wars Main Title' Theme

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 49,290.00
4045 Queen

Queen Massive Signed 1978 Concert Poster - The Largest Example We Have Ever Offered

 1978 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 48,713.00
4024 Chou En-lai and Chen Yi

Chou En-lai and Chen Yi Signed Dinner Menu for Pakistan's Foreign Minister

 1966 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 46,279.00
4007 Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton Handwritten Manuscript Criticizing Religion and the Papacy

 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 45,375.00
4042

Beatles Signed 1963 Program Page - Dezo Hoffman's Classic 'Collarless Suits' Portrait

 1963 USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 36,875.00
4025 Chou En-lai

Chou En-lai Rare Signed Photograph - The First We Have Ever Offered

 1967 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 33,275.00
4013 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed for Light Bulb Patent: "Improvements in and connected with Electric Lamps"

 1881 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,625.00
4039 Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday Autograph Letter Signed on Being Fired from Count Basie's Band: "I would never sing again, but I still have Mama to take care of"

 1938 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,271.00
4049 Coco Chanel

Coco Chanel Rare Document Signed for Cannes Couture Workshop Lease

 1926 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,000.00
4012 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed for Electric Meter Patent - Used in Developing the Electric Light

 1881 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,250.00
4004 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy Handwritten Manuscript on Security in the Middle East: "All of these different conflicts are concentrated in ancient Persia, now Iran"

 circa 1951. USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
4031 Claude Monet

Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed on Manet's 'Olympia'

 1890 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,478.00
4048 Louis Vuitton

Louis Vuitton Autograph Document Signed - Penned for a Founding Father's Descendent

 1873 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,000.00
4006 Brigham Young

Brigham Young Rare Complete Set of Signed 1849 Mormon Currency 'White Notes'

 1849 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,749.00
4038 Frederic Chopin

Frederic Chopin Document Signed for the Sale of a Musical Manuscript

 1838 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,513.00
4020 Napoleon

Napoleon Handwritten Manuscript on the Capture of Malta, Prepared for His Memoirs

 no date. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
4015 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed Seeking Support for a Jewish Academy, Weeks Before Hitler's Rise to Power

 1932 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 11,136.00
4027 Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill Oversized Photograph Signed by Yousuf Karsh

 1941 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,999.00
4053

9/11: World Trade Center Observatory Ticket (September 10, 2001) - PSA EX 5

 2001 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,774.00
4026

World War II Teletype Archive with Model 15 Printer, Covering FDR's Death, Japan's Surrender, and the Atomic Bomb

 1945 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,018.00
  • 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
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Dedication copy. Est: €120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: €25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: €80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: €60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: €18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: €28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: €9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27: Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: ORWELL, George. ANIMAL FARM. London, Secker & Warburg, 1945. $8,000 to $12,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: MILNE, A.A. THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER With decorations by Ernest H. Shepard. London, Methuen, 1928. Deluxe limited edition. $3,000 to $4,000 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: TWAIN, Mark. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. $1,000 to $1,500 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions
    Books, Maps, Modern Literature
    May 14 (US) / May 15 (Australia)
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: RAND, Ayn. ATLAS SHRUGGED. Random House, New York, 1957. First edition. $800 to $1,200 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: [BAUM, L. Frank]. PICTURES FROM THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ By W.W. Denslow… Chicago, [1903]. $400 to $800 AUD.
    Australian Book Auctions, May 14/15: HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London, Jonathan Cape, 1962. $400 to $600 AUD.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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