Auction Reports

Robert Siegel Galleries

Auction Info

Auction Name
U.S. Postal History
Auction Date
12/06/2025 - 12/06/2025
Sale Number
#9043
Total Lots
200
Sold Lots
182.0
Lots Sold
91.00%
Unsold Lots
18
Total Sales (USD)
63,767.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
44,930.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
62,815.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
49,030.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
68,690.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
92.83%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10093

1851-90 Issues, Classic Medicine Advertising Covers.

 N/A USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,950.00
10070

U.S. Frigate United States.

 N/A USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 2,360.00
10094

1895-20th Century, Illustrated Advertising Covers.

 N/A USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,006.00
10052

U.S.S. Constitution.

 N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,298.00
10119

New Bern N.C. Jul. 8, 1865.

 N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,298.00
10066

U.S.S. FRIGATE/ROANOKE.

 N/A USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 1,298.00
10085

2c Red, Ty. IV (279B).

 N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,180.00
10168

New York City Carrier Covers, 1857-76.

 N/A USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,180.00
10098

1c Blue, Ty. II (7).

 N/A USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,121.00
10005

New Orleans May 21 (1805).

 N/A USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,121.00
10138

3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26).

 N/A USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,003.00
10033

New Orleans La. Apr. 22, 1859.

 N/A USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 885.00
10097

1c Blue, Ty. IV (9).

 N/A USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 885.00
10038

Liverpool, England, to New Orleans, Forwarded to Mexico and Back.

 N/A USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 885.00
10047

Commodore Edmund P. Kennedy.

 N/A USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 767.00
10073

Second Seminole War 1835.

 N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 708.00
10086

2c Red, Ty. IV (279B).

 N/A USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 649.00
10114

Silver City N.T. July 13th.

 N/A USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 649.00
10196

Swarts' City Dispatch Post, New York N.Y., (1c) Pink on Wove (136L10).

 N/A USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 649.00
10110

3c Rose (65).

 N/A USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 649.00
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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.