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Auction Name Historic Autographs & Manuscripts with Archival Materia Total Sales (USD) 104,172.00
Auction Date May 08, 2014 - May 08, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 112,100.00
Sale Number #532 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 170,600.00
Total Lots 405
Sold Lots 236 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 264,550.00
% of Lots Sold 58.27% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 402,860.00
Unsold Lots 169 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 25.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Wetmore, William & Mr. Fox

Manuscript "Draft of proposed reply to the Yum-Chi's Proclamation" relating to demands by the Chinese government to cease the trade in opium

 c.1839 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,400.00
193 Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Autograph Letter Signed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, to Wm. H. Adams, regarding residences of other writers

 March 4, 1852 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,200.00
9 Lincoln, Abraham

Partially engraved military appointment on vellum, completed in manuscript, appointing Clayton McMichael as Captain in the Ninth Regiment of Infantry, effective March 4th, 1864

 July 1, 1864 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
136 Thorpe, Jim

Jim Thorpe's History of the Olympics - signed by the author

 1932 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,400.00
226

The Koran in Arabic - hand written with hand-colored decorative borders to several leaves

 19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,280.00
40 Reagan, Ronald

Archive of Typed Letters Signed from Ronald Reagan as Governor of California, 1967-1979 - to publishers James Strohn Copley and Helen K. Copley

 1967-1979 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,040.00
116

Manuscript ledger book recording mining claims and locations for numerous mines in the Mammoth Mining Districe, Nye County, Nevada

 1880-1901 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,040.00
318 Miller, Diane Disney as told to Pete Martin

The Story of Walt Disney

 [1957] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
213

Illuminated manuscript leaf, with miniature

 16th c.? USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,800.00
110

Archive of correspondence and documents relating the career of Capt. Paul A. Oliver

 1820s-1840s USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,560.00
231 London, Jack

Autograph Letter from Jack London, to his future wife Charmian Kittredge

 Aug 23/03 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,560.00
230 London, Jack

Autograph Letter from Jack London, to his future wife Charmian Kittredge

 Aug 27/03 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,320.00
265 Yeats, William Butler

Typed Letter Signed from William Butler Yeats regarding early broadcasting the play "Cathleen ni-Houlihan" on the BBC

 September 21st 1923 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,320.00
187 Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Autograph Letter Signed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, to Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a writer, editor and abolitionist Unitarian minister

 21 Feb. 1858 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
170 Patton, George S.

Document Signed by George S. Patton, promoting Frank B. Lull to corporal in te First Brigade Tank Corp of the United States

 Dec. 5th, 1918 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,140.00
289 Morse, Samuel F.B.

Autograph Note Signed by Samuel F.B. Morse, to an autograph seeker, with a carte de visite photograph of Morse

 1843 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,140.00
59

Receipt book of Jacob Whitman & Co., primarily recording payments for items sold at auction, signed by the consignors

 1800-1801 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
217

Miniature from an illuminated manuscript

 16th c. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 900.00
274 Bell, Alexander Graham

Document Signed by Alexander Graham Bell, certifying Abby Locke Stone as a teacher at the American Association to Promote the Teaching of Speech to the Deaf - plus related items

 June 28, 1892 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 900.00
277 Raysaye, Terry

A Million and One Nights: A History of the Motion Picture

 1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 900.00
3 Tyler, John

Autograph Letter Signed by John Tyler, responding to an autograph seeker

 Sept. 22, 1858 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 840.00
141 Muirhead, Desmond

Surfing in Hawaii: A Personal Memoir. With Notes on California, Australia, Peru, and Other Surfing Countries - Original typed manuscript + printed book

 [1962] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
186 Doyle, A. Conan

Autograph Letter signed from Arthur Conan Doyle

 1903-12-24 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 840.00
292 Reik, Theodor

Three Autograph Letters, signed, to Miriam Koshland

 1949-1951 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 840.00
28 Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The White House Years: Waging Peace, 1956-1961

 1965 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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