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Copley Fine Art Auctions: Fall Discovery Sale

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Auction Name Fall Discovery Sale Total Sales (USD) 21,027.50
Auction Date October 16, 2024 - October 16, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 14,950.00
Sale Number #101624 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 26,250.00
Total Lots 61
Sold Lots 46.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 18,600.00
% of Lots Sold 75.41% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 32,600.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
37 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Federal Duck Stamp Design, Canvasbacks

 1935-1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,370.00
39 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Casting for Salmon

 1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,950.00
75 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)

Blue Boat on the Anne

 1959 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,170.00
126 Percival Leonard Rosseau (1859-1937)

Autumn Days

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 715.00
104 Francis Lee Jaques (1887-1969)

Duck Stamp Design

 1940 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 650.00
41 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Two Echings

 1924 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 520.00
77 Ogden M. Pleissner (1905-1983)

Hendrickson's Pool - Beaverkill

 1980 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 520.00
105 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Running the Rapids

 1927 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 487.50
40 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Sunset at Long Point

 1933 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 455.00
185 Michael Coleman (b. 1946)

Two Etchings

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 422.50
43 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Caught Napping

 1949 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 357.50
107 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Morning Flight

 1918 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 357.50
159 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Three Christmas Card Etchings

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 357.50
160 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Evening

 1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 357.50
161 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Bullnecks

 1932 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 357.50
109 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Baldpates

 1924 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 325.00
116 Ken Carlson (b. 1937)

Pintails, Eight Texas Waterfowl Duck Stamp Prints

 1982 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 325.00
164 Churchill Ettinger (1903-1984)

Timberdoodle

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 325.00
186 David Hagerbaumer (1921-2014)

Four Etchings

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 325.00
214

Three Books

 1897, and 1898. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 325.00
42 Frank W. Benson (1862-1951)

Shoveller Drake

 1920 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 292.50
44 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Dawn

 c. 1938 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 292.50
163 Churchill Ettinger (1903-1984)

Exploding Covey

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 292.50
176 Thomas Aquinas Daly (b. 1937)

Two Etchings

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 292.50
158 Richard E. Bishop (1887-1975)

Three Christmas Card Etchings

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 260.00
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
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