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Doyle New York

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Auction Name: Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps
Auction Date: 12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number: #9151
Total Lots: 279
Sold Lots: 198.0
Lots Sold: 70.97%
Unsold Lots: 81

Total Sales (USD): 100,926.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 64,440.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 100,840.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 89,630.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 139,840.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 72.17%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
130		[BASEBALL - NEGRO LEAGUE]. A group of signed documents and rare photographs, some relating to the Negro League player Percy Wilson	1923	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 9,600.00
32	ALCOTT, LOUISA MAY	Little Women	1868-69	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,120.00
125		Group of five signed half-tone reproductions of groups of prominent figures, four mounted to paper or thin card, the fifth unmounted	N/A	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 4,800.00
137	[KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD]	The bookplate of President John F. Kennedy	circa 1961	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,880.00
5		[FORGERY] Two beveled-edged wooden boards extracted from an Italian tempera-painted bookbinding, the upper cover carved & painted with a figure of St. Michael, the lower carved and painted with a variety of arms and an inscription stating that this was th	?1890s	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,920.00
94	WOOLF, VIRGINIA	Collection of Chester Page. Autograph letter signed	1931-12-01	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,792.00
2	BRANT, SEBASTIAN	Stultifera Navis	1488	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,664.00
207	WARD, HERBERT	WARD, HERBERT, Three works	1911	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,408.00
87	RAND, AYN	Atlas Shrugged	[1957]	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,408.00
24	CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE & ROBERT	A large collection of illustrated Cruikshank titles	1821	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,408.00
131		[BASEBALL]. Framed display with a signed photograph of Mickey Mantle and cards signed by the 1951 New York Yankees	1951	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,280.00
89	VONNEGUT, KURT	The Estate of LeGrand Mellon. Kilgore Trout in Cohoes	1975	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 1,216.00
259	BACHELARD, GASTON	[CHAGALL, MARC]. Drawings for the Bible	-1960	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,216.00
218	MACDONALD, CHARLES	[GOLF]. Scotland's Gift: Golf	1929	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,152.00
135	MURRAY, JACK	The Property of a New England Family	1947	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 1,152.00
98		[AMERICAN MANUFACTURING]. A mid-19th century manuscript of recipes for a New York City Varnish and Oils manufacturer	Circa 1855-66	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,152.00
123	GRANT, ULYSSES	Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant	1885-86	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,088.00
182	SANTOS, JOAO DOS	Histoire de l'Ethiopie orientale, composee en portugais, par le R.P. Jean dos Santos ... et traduite en francois par le R.P. Dom Gaetan Charpy...	1684	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,088.00
65		[AMERICAN LITERATURE]. Two major works of American Literature	1896	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 1,088.00
234	ELIOT, GEORGE	Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life	1871-72	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 1,024.00

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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.