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Auction Name Books, Art, Ephemera, and Collectibles Total Sales (USD) 56,306.00
Auction Date June 08, 2014 - June 08, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 159,780.00
Sale Number #60814 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 252,700.00
Total Lots 411
Sold Lots 411 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 159,780.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 252,700.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 22.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4382 Artist: Joan Miro

Joan Miro UNTITLED MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER 1952 Original Framed Gouache, Ink, & Crayon Surrealist Abstract Modern Art Expressionism Pictorial Signs Spanish Artist, Letter of Authenticity

 1952 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 5,875.00
4002 Ernest Miller Hemingway

Across the River and into the Trees

 1950 USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,527.50
4206 Wifredo Lam

Untitled

 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 1,410.00
4357

Antique & Vintage ESTATE EPHEMERA -- CORRESPONDENCE Collectible Letters Envelopes Postage Postmarks Early 19th Century Stationery Letterheads 1936 Olympics Western Hotels 1815 Citizenship Document

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 1,351.25
4216 United States War Department

Atlas To Accompany the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies

 1891 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 705.00
4309 Hendrik Christian Andersen

Creation of a World Centre of Communication. Ernest M. Hebard, Architect

 1913 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 705.00
4103 Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

 1973 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 646.25
4257 George W. DeLong Editor: Emma DeLong

The Voyage of the Jeannette: The Ship and the Ice Journals of George W. DeLong, Lietenant-Commander U.S.N., and Commander of the Polar Expedition of 1879-1881

 1883 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 646.25
4352 Francis L. Hawks

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, by the Order of the Government of the United States. Compiled fro

 1856 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 646.25
4402

6 Pc. Vintage Collectible ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR PAINTINGS BY MARIANA Foster Children's Book Author Illustrator Flora McFlimsey 1950s Framed Set Watercolors Art

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 587.50
4283 Charles Darwin

Journal of Researches into Natural History and Geology of the Countries during the Voyage of H. M. S. Beagle round the World under the Command of Capt. Fitz Roy, R. N.

 1846 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 558.13
4010

EXPEDICION Y DESEMBARCO DEL "GRANMA" c1960 Commemorative Photo Album Voyage Of Cruiser Cuban Revolution Castro Che Guevara

 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 499.38
4069 William Wordsworth

Lyrical Ballads, with Other Poems. In Two Volumes

 1800 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 499.38
4306 Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are

 1988 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 499.38
4042

96V Vintage GAY EROTICA Magazines Homosexuality 1970s Illustrated Nude Men Bodybuilding Leather Travel Women's Erotica Personals Cruising Bars

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 440.63
4287

200 Pc. Antique POSTCARDS & TRADE CARDS Christmas Halloween Easter Thanksgiving Birthday Novelty Humorous Victorian Chromolithographs Fish Series Children Soap Singer Arm & Hammer Real Photo Postcards RPPCs

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 440.63
4095 Sven Hedin

Through Asia

 1898 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
4301 Lardner Gibbon, William Lewis Herndon

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon, Made under Direction of the Navy Department

 1854 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 381.88
4404

Julian Trevelyan AFRICA SUITE: HIPPOS Original Limited Edition Signed Etching & Aquatint Cubist Influence

 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 352.50
4166 Robert E. Peary

The North Pole: Its Discovery in 1909 under the Auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

 1910 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 323.13
4205 Fanny Bullock Workman

The Call of the Snowy Hispar: A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India

 1910 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 323.13
4217 uncredited author

Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression: Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality

 1946-1948 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 323.13
4263 B. H. Jessen

W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, & British East Africa

 1906 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 323.13
4009 A. T. Andreas

Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Minnesota

 1874 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 293.75
4070

5V Antique ATLASES & GEOGRAPHY BOOKS Rand McNally Mitchell's Peerless Maps Fold-Out

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 293.75
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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