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Auction Name: Sports, Session One: Trading Cards
Auction Date: 12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number: #6421
Total Lots: 382
Sold Lots: 357.0
Lots Sold: 93.46%
Unsold Lots: 25

Total Sales (USD): 303,818.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 198,850.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 313,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 233,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 362,850.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 83.73%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
11	A 1925 Exhibits Lou Gehrig Rookie Baseball Card (PSA Authentic)	1925	USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00	USD 18,450.00
17	A 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth Baseball Card No. 181 (PSA 2.5 GOOD+)	1933	USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	USD 14,760.00
41	A 1939 Goudey Premiums R303-A Ted Williams Rookie Baseball Card (PSA 3 VG)	1939	USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00	USD 14,760.00
40	A 1938 Goudey Heads Up Joe DiMaggio Rookie Baseball Card No. 250 (PSA 3 VG)	1938	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 9,840.00
100	A 1957 Topps Mickey Mantle Signed Autograph Baseball Card No. 95 (PSA 5 EX / AUTO 8)	1957	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 9,225.00
18	A 1933 Goudey Lou Gehrig Baseball Card No. 92 (PSA 3 VG)	1933	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 7,380.00
292	A 1989 Hoops Michael Jordan Signed Autograph Basketball Card No. 21 (PSA)	1989	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 6,150.00
67	A 1953 Topps Mickey Mantle Baseball Card No. 82 (PSA 4 VG-EX)	1953	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 6,150.00
165	A Collection of Over 500 1967 Topps Baseball Cards	1967	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 5,843.00
64	A Near Set of 1953 Topps Baseball Cards (269/274)	1953	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 5,228.00
39	A 1936 Lou Gehrig Original News Type One Photograph Used For 1936 Goudey Card (PSA)	1936	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,920.00
212	A Box of 24 Unopened 1979 Topps Baseball Card Rack Packs with Multiple Hall of Famers and Notable Visible -- Possible Ozzie Smith Rookie Cards	1979	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,305.00
54	A 1952 Bowman Mickey Mantle Baseball Card No. 101 (PSA 3.5 VG-EX+)	1952	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,305.00
15	A Collection of 1933 Goudey Baseball Cards (106)	1933	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,305.00
143	A Near Set of 1962 Topps Baseball Cards With Variations (597/598)	1962	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,305.00
132	A Collection of Uncommon 1960 and 1962 Topps Issued Collector's Presentation Boxes	1960	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 3,998.00
2	A 1909-11 T206 Walter Johnson Hands At Chest Baseball Card (Piedmont) (PSA 4 VG-EX)	1909-11	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,998.00
343	The Ultimate Collection of Gordie Howe Signed Autograph Hockey Cards (32 Total)	N/A	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,383.00
164	A Partial Set of 1967 Topps Baseball Cards (537/609)	1967	USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 3,075.00
60	A Near Set of 1953 Bowman Color Baseball Cards (158/160)	1953	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,075.00

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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.