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Holabird Western Americana Collections: Wild West Wonders Live Auction - Day 2

Auction Reports

Auction Name	Wild West Wonders Live Auction - Day 2	Total Sales (USD)	127,090.63
Auction Date	August 09, 2025 - August 09, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	80,510.00
Sale Number	#109634	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	154,245.00
Total Lots	330
Sold Lots	266.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	131,140.00
% of Lots Sold	80.61%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	242,515.00
Unsold Lots	64	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	52.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2338	US Mineral Surveyor Archive, Silverton, CO, 1878-1935	1878-1935	USD 6,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 35,937.50
2530	Homestake Mining Co. Stock Certificate No. 2, 1877, Tevis - Haggin	1877	USD 2,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,031.25
2153	Black Bart Autographed Inscription While in Prison, 1888	1888	USD 3,000.00 - 7,500.00	USD 2,500.00
2533	Homestake Mining Company Stock Issued to Vice President Lounsbery, Tevis Autograph	1878	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 2,031.25
2149	Buffalo Bill Cody CDV by the Theatrical Photography Co c1870s	c1870s	USD 2,500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,953.13
2345	"The World's Greatest Zinc and Lead District As Seen Through the Camera", Booklet, 1907	1907	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 1,718.75
2578	North American Land Company Stock Signed by Founding Father Robert Morris, Uncancelled	1795	USD 400.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,640.63
2579	North American Land Company Stock Signed by Founding Father Robert Morris, Uncancelled	1795	USD 400.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,640.63
2577	North American Land Company Stock Signed by Founding Father Robert Morris	1795	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,562.50
2543	Ontario Silver Mining Company Stock Signed by Haggin	N/A	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,406.25
2541	Lead, South Dakota Mining Stock Group incl. Bullock and Tevis Autographs	N/A	USD 140.00 - 300.00	USD 1,250.00
2449	Bodie Bluff Consolidated Mining Co. Stock Certificate Signed by Leland Stanford	1860s	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,015.63
2540	Tornado Consolidated Gold & Silver Mining & Milling Stock #2 Signed by Seth Bullock	1887	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,015.63
2353	Underground Lead-Zinc Mine Photograph feat. Burros	c.1905-10	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 937.50
2538	Three Mining Stock Certificates Signed by Deadwood Sheriff Seth Bullock as President	1887-1909	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 937.50
2572	American Express Company Stock Collection incl. Key Signatures (Wells, Fargo, Butterfield)	1859-68	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 937.50
2320	San Diego County, California Mining Map, 1886, Henry G. Hanks	1886	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 859.38
2406	Virginia City, Nevada Mining Check Collection (11 Different)	1860s-1880s	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 859.38
2528	Highland Mining Co. Stock Certificate, 1895, Tevis Signed 2x, Cert No. 12	1895	USD 700.00 - 1,500.00	USD 859.38
2569	American Express Company Stock Issued to & Signed by Butterfield, and Wells & Fargo	1862	USD 1,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 859.38
2360	Eagle-Picher Lead-Zinc Company Collection	N/A	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 781.25
2362	Ten Tri-State Lead-Zinc Mining Panorama Photographs	N/A	USD 1,200.00 - 2,500.00	USD 781.25
2555	Virginia & Truckee Railroad Bond Signed by William Sharon	1874	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 781.25
2418	The Comstock Illustrated, JH Crockwell, 1890 Albertype Souvenir Book	1890	USD 400.00 - 800.00	USD 742.19
2536	Rattler Gilroy Consolidated Mining Company Stock Certificate Signed by Seth Bullock	1887	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 742.19

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.