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Auction Name Books Total Sales (USD) 63,420.63
Auction Date June 29, 2014 - June 29, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 126,280.00
Sale Number #62914 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 216,600.00
Total Lots 465
Sold Lots 465 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 126,280.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 216,600.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 29.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5435 Jean Michel Basquiat

Jean Michel Basquiat UNTITLED PAINTING 1981 Graffiti-Inspired New York City Art African-American Social Commentary Crowned Skull SAMO TAR

1981 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 6,168.75
5232 Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova

Lyubov Popova FRAMED SIGNED CUBIST PORTRAIT PAINTING c1915 Russian Avant-Garde

c1915 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,993.75
5002

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

USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 940.00
5219 Thomas William Bowler, W. R. Thomson

The Kafir Wars and the British Settlers in South Africa. A Series of Picturesque Views from Original Sketches by T. W. Bowler. WIth Descriptive Letterpress by W. R. Thomson

1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 940.00
5009 uncredited author Editor John Muir

Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope: California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Etc..

1887 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 763.75
5427 Owen Ruffhead

The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta, to the End of the Last Parliament, 1761. In Eight Volumes

1763-1800 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 763.75
5226 uncredited author

Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, secundum editionem vulgatam

1590-1591 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 646.25
5323 Dmitry Moor

Dmitry Moor ORIGINAL SOVIET PROPAGANDA POSTER 1932 Anti-Capitalist & Anti-Clerical Themes Class Struggle Ogiz-Izogiz Publication

1932 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 646.25
5401

Histoire generale et iconographie des lepidopteres et des chenilles de l'Amerique septentrionale

1833 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 646.25
5462 Rudoph Ackermann

The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. In Two Volumes

1812 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 499.38
5098

Original Antique LINCOLN ASSASSINATION - N.Y. TIMES APRIL 15, 1865 Newspaper First Report Conspiracy William Seward Edwin Stanton John Wilkes Booth Escape Civil War Last Battles

USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 470.00
5116 Jack London

The Call of the Wild

1903 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 440.63
5131 Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, together with a Version in Modern English Verse by William Van Wyck

1930 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 440.63
5006 Frederick Henry Quitman

A Treatise on Magic, or, on the Intercourse between Spirits and Men: With Annotations

1810 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 411.25
5041 Anthony Trollope

The American Senator

1877 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5119 Polybius

Histoire de Polybe, nouvellement traduite du grec par Dom Vincent Thuillier, Benedictin de la Congregation de Saint Maur. Avec un commentaire ou un corps de science militaire, enrichi de notes critiques et historiques, ou toutes les grandes parties de la

1727-1730 USD 500.00 - 650.00 USD 411.25
5129 Cesare Campana

Arbori delle famiglie regali di Spagna, cioe re antichi di Spagna, re di Legione, e di Castiglia, re di Sobrarbe, e di Nauarra, conti di Castiglia, conti di Barcellona, re d'Aragona, re di Portogallo. Doue, per via d'elogio, si discorre di tutte le cose

1591 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 411.25
5262

5V Unauthenticated Owen Wister Handwritten Manuscript IN PAWN IN A FRONTIER TOWN Norman Kane Estate Library of Congress Journals Letters Correspondence

USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5291

ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING IN HEAVY WOODEN FRAME 1891 Forest Scene

USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5001 Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Majors and Minors: Poems

1895 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 381.88
5026 Elisha North

A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic, Commonly Called Spotted Fever; Interspersed with Remarks on the Nature of Fever in General, &c. And an Appendix, in Which Is Republished a Number of Essays Written by Different Authors on This Epidemic, with the Addit

1811 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
5035 John Muir

The Mountains of California

1894 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
5069 Charles Godfrey Leland

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

1891 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 381.88
5078

George Ward Nichols THE STORY OF THE GREAT MARCH and Pages From a Soldier's PERSONAL CIVIL WAR DIARY New Bern NC Plymouth E. Hurlbut Ingham Pompey Syracuse NY

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 381.88
5101 Daniel A. Schulke

Veneficium: Magic, Withcraft, and the Poison Path

2012 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
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    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
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    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
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    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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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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    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
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