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Auction Reports

Auction Name	Rare and Antiquarian Books with Illustrated & Children's Books, and the Dr. Richard R. Rutter Collection of Oz	Total Sales (USD)	232,890.00
Auction Date	January 22, 2026 - January 22, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	186,800.00
Sale Number	#855	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	287,700.00
Total Lots	391
Sold Lots	262.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	263,900.00
% of Lots Sold	67.01%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	405,900.00
Unsold Lots	129	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	57.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
343	Baum, L. Frank	The Army & Navy Alphabet	1900	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 28,125.00
112	Schenk, Pieter	Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta	1702	USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 17,500.00
94	[Marvell, Andrew]	The first anniversary of the government under His Highness the Lord Protector	1655	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 8,750.00
107	Drayton, Michael	England's Heroical Epistles, Written in Imitation of the Stile and Manner of Ovid's Epistles with Annotations	1737	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 8,125.00
91	Nostradamus, Michel de	The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning	1672	USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	USD 7,500.00
192	Hooker, Joseph Dalton	The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from Drawings and Descriptions made on the Spot, during a Government Botanical Mission to th	1849-1851	USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00	USD 5,625.00
220	Perez de Villaamil, Jenaro and Patricio de la Esosura	Espana Artistica y Monumental vistas y Descripcion de los Sitios y Monumentos mas Notables de Espana	1842-50	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 5,625.00
82	Luther, Martin	[Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M...	1557-1579	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,375.00
380	Baum, L. Frank	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz	1900	USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00	USD 4,375.00
14	Bacon, Francis	[The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane]	[1605]	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,062.50
205	Lee, Bruce	Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense	[1963]	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,062.50
250	[McBride, James]	Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres; Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open about the Poles	1826	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 3,750.00
385	Stone, Fred	Holograph manuscript of Fred Stone's introduction to 1920 edition of Wizard of Oz	c.1920	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,750.00
332		The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book	1934	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,437.50
57	Boswell, James	The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Ne	1791	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,812.50
245	Sinclair, Isabella	Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.	1885	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,500.00
89	More, Thomas	Utopia: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Translated into English.	1684	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 2,250.00
191	Homer	Iliad and Odyssey. Translated into German by Carl Edmund Richter	1828-32	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,125.00
102		Five 17th century English Plays	1692-1695	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,875.00
113	Sophocles	[Tragedies of Sophocles, with Scholia of Demetrius Triclinius] Sophokleous Tragodiai... Dimitriou tou Trikliniou peri metron ois exrisato Sophoklis, Peri sximaton, Sxolia	1552-1553	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,875.00
76	Josephus, Flavius	[The famous and memorable workes of Josephus] bound with The Lamentable and Tragicall Historie of the Wars and Utter Ruine of the Jewes	[1602]; 1602	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,625.00
314	Sendak, Maurice	Where the Wild Things Are	1963	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,625.00
136	Austen, Jane	The Novels of Jane Austen	1904	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,500.00
257	Twain, Mark	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)	1885	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,500.00
277		Silk swatch sample book from a mill in Lyon	c. 1930	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,500.00

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.