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Auction Name Rare Books - Internet bidstart 5/1 Total Sales (USD) 27,944.00
Auction Date May 08, 2014 - May 08, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #201419 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 444
Sold Lots 405 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 91.22% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 39 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
91015 [Comics].

Sad Tale of the Courtship of Chevalier Slyfox-Wikof: Showing his Heart-Rending Astounding and Most Wonderful Love Adventures With Fanny Elssler and Miss Gambol.

Not Available USD 687.50
91440 Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator.

Cover Design for Animal ABC, circa 1957.

circa 1957. Not Available USD 687.50
91276 Christian Isobel Johnstone.

Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including a View of the History of the Buccaneers.

1837 Not Available USD 531.25
91444 Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator.

Original Watercolor for Charlotte Zolotow's Over and Over, circa 1957.

circa 1957. Not Available USD 500.00
91020 Rev. George Crabbe.

The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe, Vol. 1

1834 Not Available USD 468.75
91085 [Lynd Ward, illustrator]. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus.

1934 Not Available USD 437.50
91405

The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments...

n.d.. Not Available USD 437.50
91094 Alfred Tennyson.

The Holy Grail and Other Poems.

1870 Not Available USD 406.25
91443 Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator.

Preliminary Cover Design for Anne Colver's Bread and Butter Indian, circa 1964.

circa 1964. Not Available USD 406.25
91011 Thomas Campbell.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell.

ca. 1860. Not Available USD 375.00
91104 [Fore-Edge Painting].

William Wordsworth.

1862 Not Available USD 375.00
91019 William Cowper.

Poems, Vol. 1

1803 Not Available USD 350.00
91209 A. de Beauchesne.

Louis XVII. His Life-His Suffering-His Death: The Captivity of the Royal Family in the Temple.

1853 Not Available USD 325.00
91350 Gertrude Stein.

Picasso.

1938 Not Available USD 325.00
91116 Ben Bova.

The Star Conquerors.

1959 Not Available USD 320.00
91008 William S. Burroughs.

Naked Lunch.

1959 Not Available USD 300.00
91079 J. D. Salinger.

The Catcher in the Rye.

1951 Not Available USD 300.00
91118 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan Triumphant.

1932 Not Available USD 300.00
91438 Garth Williams (1912-1996), illustrator.

Group of Five Rough Pencil Sketches of Rabbits, Possibly for The Rabbits' Wedding, circa 1958.

circa 1958. Not Available USD 300.00
91287 [James Madison, War of 1812].

Message from the President of the United States, Transmitting Communications from the Plenipotentiaries of the United States, Charged with Negotiating Peace with Great Britain.

1814 Not Available USD 275.00
91049 [Fore-Edge Painting].

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

ca. 1850 Not Available USD 250.00
91119 Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Tarzan and the Forbidden City.

1938 Not Available USD 250.00
91155 Ursula K. Le Guin.

The Dispossessed.

Not Available USD 250.00
91035 Zane Grey.

Wanderer of the Wasteland.

1923 Not Available USD 243.75
91060 Jules Michelet.

The Bird.

1869 Not Available USD 237.50
  • 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.
  • 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
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    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
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    Modern First Editions
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    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
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