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Auction Name Fine Books in All Fields Total Sales (USD) 109,752.00
Auction Date December 19, 2013 - December 19, 2013 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 106,520.00
Sale Number #522 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 164,680.00
Total Lots 436
Sold Lots 256 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 171,780.00
% of Lots Sold 58.72% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 266,670.00
Unsold Lots 180 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
299 Thoreau, Henry David

Walden; Or, Life in the Woods

 1854 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,200.00
247 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

AntiquitAs de la Grande GrA..ce, aujourd'hui Royaume de Naples; gravAes par FranAºois Piranesi... d'aprA..s les dessins du chevalier Jean-Baptiste Piranesi

 1837 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,100.00
352

The Bible. Translated According to the Ebrew and Greeke, and conferred with the best translations in divers languages...

 [1578] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,600.00
381 Bullinger, Heinrich

Fiftie Godlie and Learned Sermons, Divided into Five Decades, Conteyning the Chiefe and Principall Pointes of Christian Religion...

 1577 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 3,300.00
413 Picart, Bernard

Histoire gAnArale des cArAmonies, moeurs, et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde

 1741 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
321 Wahrmund, Jocoserius [pseudonym Sebastian Brant]

Wol-Geschliffener Narren-Spiegel. Worinnen Hundert und Vierzehen Arten Allerlay Narren ihr Eben Bild und Ungestaltes Wesen Ersehen

 [no date] USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,000.00
356

Biblia, das ist: die gantze Schrifft Alten und Newen Testaments. Verteutscht: durch D. Martin Luther. Jetzundt nach dem letzten, in Anno 1545, bey des Authoris Lebzetten aussgangenen Exemplar... insonderheit aber, mit den schAnen und kunstreichen Original

 1630 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,000.00
392 Fabrizi, Principio

[Delle Allusioni, Imprese, et Emblemi. Del Sig. Principio Fabricii de Teramo Sopra La Vita, Opere, et Attioni di Gregoiro XIII, Pontefice Massimo. Libri VI]

 1588 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,280.00
358

Biblia, das ist: Die gantze H. Schrifft, Altes und Neues Testaments

 1670 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,160.00
9 Argote de Molina, Gonzalo

Nobleza del Andaluzia

 1588 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
36 [Bronte, Emily]

Wuthering Heights

 1848 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,920.00
92

Twenty-nine volumes from the Easton Press and Franklin Library

 Various dates USD 400.00 - 700.00 USD 1,680.00
273 Shakespeare, William

The Life of Tymon of Athens

 [1632] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,680.00
301 Timlin, William M.

The Ship that Sailed to Mars: A Fantasy

 [1923] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,320.00
355

Bibla Sacra Vulgate Editionis Sixti Quinti Pont. Max. Iussu recognita atque edita

 1628 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,320.00
111 Hubbard, Elbert

The Complete Writings of Elbert Hubbard

 [1908-1915] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,200.00
253 Rades y Andrada, Francisco de

Chronica de las Tres Ordenes y Cavallerias de Sanctiago Calatrava y Alcantara

 1572 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,200.00
411 Norton, John

The Orthodox Evangelist...

 1654 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,080.00
312 TAriade, E., editor

Verve: The French Review of Art - The first four issues

 1937-1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,020.00
84 Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities

 1859 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
116 Sterne, Laurence

The Works and Life of Laurence Sterne

 [1904] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
38 Browne, Thomas

Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Or, A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes Lately Found in Norfolk. Together with The Garden of Cyrus, Or the Quincunciall, Lozenge, or Net-work Plantation of the Ancients, Artificially, Naturally, Mystically Considered. With Sun

 1658 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 900.00
121 Forshaw, Joseph M.

Kingfishers and Related Birds

 [1983] and [1985] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
257 Riley, James Whitcomb

The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

 [1913] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
338 Willughby, Francis

The Ornithology...Wherein All the Birds Hitherto Known, Being Reduced into a Method Suitable to Their Natures, are Accurately Described...To Which are Added, Three Considerable Discourses...by John Ray

 1678 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 900.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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