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Auction Name Books and Ephemera - Civil War, Am. West, Exploration, etc.by Total Sales (USD) 53,703.38
Auction Date May 18, 2014 - May 18, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 49,150.00
Sale Number #51814 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 116,850.00
Total Lots 499
Sold Lots 499 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 49,150.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 116,850.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 45.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3002 Carl E. Wheat

Mapping the Transmississippi West, 1540-1861

 1957 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,997.50
3375 William Klein

Life is Good & Good for You in New York: Trance, Witness, Revels

 1956 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,527.50
3317 uncredited author Editor: Francis Trevelyan Miller

The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes

 1911 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 881.25
3454 Edwin Lefevre

Simonetta

 1919 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 822.50
3036 George Armstrong Custer

My Life on the Plains. Or, Personal Experiences with Indians

 1874 USD 500.00 - 650.00 USD 763.75
3443

Antique Original SIGNED HOWARD PYLE ETCHING Bibliophile Society of Boston W.H.W. Bicknell Medieval England Richard de Bury Tutoring Edward III Middle Ages Illustration

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 646.25
3125 Douglas W. Freshfield

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan Including Visits to Ararat and Tabreez and Ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz

 1869 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 587.50
3403 Frederick Knab, Harrison G. Dyar, Leland O. Howard

The Mosquitoes of North and Central America and the West Indies

 1912-1917 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 558.13
3010

7V Grant Sheridan McClellan Sherman Union Army ANTIQUE CIVIL WAR MEMOIRS Military History Plates Maps Decorative Bindings Slipcase

 USD 550.00 - 700.00 USD 499.38
3212 Thomas B. Van Horne

History of the Army of the Cumberland, Its Organization, Campaigns and Battles, Written at the Request of Major-General George H. Thomas, Chiefly from His Private Military Journal and Official and Other Documents Furnished by Him - Thomas B. Van Horne

 1875 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 470.00
3453 uncredited author

Some Extraordinary Instances of Divine Guidance and Protection; And Awful Warnings of a Just Retribution through Dreams and Visions

 1814 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 411.25
3466

26V Antique Ephemera FRANK LESLIE'S POPULAR MONTHLY Magazine 1886-1899 Illustrated News Travel Fiction Victorian Chromolithographs

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
3001 Thomas Hawkes Tanner

Memoranda on Poisons

 1864 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 381.88
3219 H. Rider Haggard

Works

 1898-1926 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
3032

20V Antique MAGAZINE COMPILATIONS The Casket 1828-1834 Hand-Colored Fashion Plates The New Mirror Steel Engravings 1843-44 Monthly Anthology & Boston Review 1804

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 352.50
3250 George Francis Robert Henderson

Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War

 1898 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 352.50
3295

500 Pc. Vintage RAILROAD EPHEMERA Photographs 92 RR Systems Trains Equipment Locomotives Stations Cars Switches Towers Sidings

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 352.50
3008 Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon: Made in France

2002 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 323.13
3197

12V Antique McCLURE'S MAGAZINE Bound Compilations 1894-1909 Photographs Illustrations Advertisements History Current Events

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
3289 Benjamin Franklin

The Life and Essays of the Late Doctor Benjamin Franklin

 1814 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
3291 Fanny Kemble

Journal of Frances Anne Butler

 1835 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
3208 Andre Kertesz

Of New York...

 1976 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 293.75
3284 John S. Mosby

The Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby

 1917 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 293.75
3379 Joseph Dalton Hooker

Himalayan Journals: Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, &c.

 1855 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 293.75
3392 Beatrix Potter

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

 1906 USD 750.00 - 900.00 USD 293.75
  • 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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    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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