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Auction Name	Fine Books & Ephemera	Total Sales (USD)	24,228.00
Auction Date	February 17, 2026 - February 17, 2026	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Sale Number	#60	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Total Lots	214
Sold Lots	213.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
% of Lots Sold	99.53%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	1	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
9		Pop-Ups. Group of 11, as listed below.	1960s	Not Available	USD 720.00
30		Cartography. Group of 11 engraved maps, mostly from Tindal's Continuation of Rapins History.	18th-century	Not Available	USD 660.00
72	Dante Alighieri.	The Divine Comedy. Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.	1867	Not Available	USD 570.00
88		Bindings. Group of 12 18th & 19th Century American Imprints.	vd	Not Available	USD 540.00
191		Occult. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam.	1880	Not Available	USD 510.00
193	Jasper, Theodore.	Studer's Popular Ornithology. The Birds of North America: Drawn and Colored From Life by Theodore Jasper.	1878	Not Available	USD 450.00
164		Middle-East. Group of 5 Titles.	vd	Not Available	USD 420.00
64		Colton's Octavo Atlas of the World.	1865	Not Available	USD 390.00
180		Travel. Group of 15 volumes.	vd	Not Available	USD 390.00
186		A Gazetteer of the World or Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge.	1856	Not Available	USD 390.00
25		Fine Miscellany. Group of 6 volumes, as listed below.	vd	Not Available	USD 360.00
200	Colonel John Laurens.	The Army Correspondence of colonel John Laurens in The Years 1777-8.	1867	Not Available	USD 360.00
7	Poe, Edgar Allan.	Graham's Magazine. Volumes 20-21 bound in 1 volume.	1842	Not Available	USD 330.00
26	Prescott, William C.	Report...on the Uncle Same Sr. and Gold Canon Silver Mines of the Comstock Lode in Nevada.	1866	Not Available	USD 330.00
97		Railroad. The Santa Fe Trail 29 Issues.	1892	Not Available	USD 330.00
106		British Essayists...New Edition.	1880	Not Available	USD 300.00
124		Bible. The Holy Bible.	1796	Not Available	USD 300.00
8		Natural History. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.	vd	Not Available	USD 270.00
15		Cooking. Ancient Cookery. From a Ms. in the Library of the Royal Society, Arundel Collection, n.	1790	Not Available	USD 270.00
28		Grandville. Un Autre Monde.	1844	Not Available	USD 270.00
41		Medical. Group of 6 volumes, as listed below.	vd	Not Available	USD 270.00
84		Radical. Cinema Educational Guild.	1930s-60s	Not Available	USD 270.00
162	McKenney, Thomas L..	History of The Indian Tribes of North America.	1978	Not Available	USD 270.00
185		Colorado Periodical. The Great Divide.	1892-94	Not Available	USD 270.00
174		1st Editions. Group of 16 volumes.	vd	Not Available	USD 240.00

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.
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.