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Auction Name Fall Portsmouth Auction - Prints, Books Total Sales (USD) 133,680.00
Auction Date October 25, 2016 - October 25, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,350.00
Sale Number #102516 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 25,700.00
Total Lots 39
Sold Lots 37 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 17,650.00
% of Lots Sold 94.87% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,800.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 480.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
299

RARE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT "HIS EXCEL: G: WASHINGTON ESQ: LLD. LATE COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF THE U.S. OF AMERICA & PRESIDENT OF THE CONVENTION OF 1787. PAINTED & ENGRAVED BY C.W. PEALE, 1787.”

 USD 900.00 - 1,500.00 USD 48,000.00
298

EXTREMELY RARE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT "THE MARQUIS DE LA FAYETTE MAJOR GENERAL IN THE ARMIES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, C.W. PEALE PINXT ET FECIT,”

1787 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 18,000.00
297

RARE ENGRAVED PORTRAIT "HIS EXCELLENCY B. FRANKLIN L.L.D. F.R.S. PRESIDENT OF PENNSYLVANIA & LATE MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AT THE COURT OF FRANCE, C.W. PEALE PINXT ET FECIT 1787.”

 1787 USD 900.00 - 1,500.00 USD 13,200.00
306

PRINTED AND SIGNED OATH RENOUNCING ALLEGIANCE TO KING GEORGE III AND PLEDGING TO SUPPORT AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE,

 CIRCA 1776. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 6,240.00
294

PAUL JONES SHOOTING A SAILOR WHO HAD ATTEMPTED TO STRIKE HIS COLOURS IN AN ENGAGEMENT,

 1779 USD 900.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,760.00
293

MAJOR ROBERT ROGERS, COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE INDIANS IN THE BACK SETTLEMENTS OF AMERICA,

 1776 USD 900.00 - 1,500.00 USD 5,280.00
305

MESHECH WEARE, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. MILITARY ORDERS ADDRESSED TO DR. JOSIAH BARTLETT AND COLONEL NATHANIEL PEABODY, EXETER, AUGUST 23, 1777.

 1777 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,800.00
308

TWO SOLDIERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS IN NORTH AMERICA FROM A DRAWING BY A GERMAN OFFICER.

 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 4,800.00
317

LARGE AND EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF MINIATURE BOOKS, INCLUDING AMERICAN AND ENGLISH TITLES.

 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,320.00
349

BRITISH SATIRICAL PRINT "THE SPENDTHRIFT.”

 circa 1765 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 2,880.00
314

BROADSIDE: THE GALVESTON NEWS, IN MEMORY OF THE DEATH OF ROBERT E. LEE, OCTOBER 18, 1870.

 1870 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,760.00
323 CURRIER & IVES.

ARGUING THE POINT.

 1855 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,160.00
301

ENGRAVED MAP "NOVA BELGICA ET ANGLIA NOVA,”

CIRCA 1638. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,680.00
310 AFTER THOMAS ROWLANDSON.

ENGLISH SATIRICAL PRINT "DISSAPPOINTED EPICURES,”

1809 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,680.00
296

ALLEGORICAL FIGURE OF AMERICA HOLDING AN EAGLE-DECORATED SHIELD AND LIBERTY CAP ATOP A POLE.

 circa 1800 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,320.00
302 SUTTON NICHOLLS

A NEW MAP OF THE MOST CONSIDERABLE PLANTATIONS OF THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA,

1700 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,320.00
348

BRITISH SATIRICAL PRINT "MILITARY LOVER.”

 1781 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,080.00
307

MESHECH WEARE, CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE. MILITARY APPOINTMENT FOR ELIJAH HILLS, EXETER, 20 DECEMBER, 1776.

 1776 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
313

THE MANCHESTER HERO, OR ARTS YIELD TO ARMS, 1778.

 1778 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 720.00
321 CURRIER & IVES.

LAKE WINNIPISEOGEE, FROM CENTRE HARBOR, N.H.

 USD 250.00 - 400.00 USD 720.00
304

WILLIAM FRANKLIN, COLONIAL GOVERNOR OF NEW JERSEY. MILITARY APPOINTMENT FOR WILLIAM DILLS, BURLINGTON, 27 MARCH 1773.

 1773 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 660.00
311

BRITISH WEST INDIES PRINT: "A GRAND JAMAICA BALL” TOGETHER WITH A REPRODUCTION OF "A WEST INDIA SPORTSMAN.”

 1802 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 600.00
322 CURRIER & IVES.

THE SNOW-STORM.

 circa 1850 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 540.00
350

BRITISH ENGRAVED PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN.

 circa 1770 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 510.00
295

FIXEE PRINT "AN EMBLEM OF AMERICA.”

 circa 1798 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 480.00
  • Sotheby’s
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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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  • 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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
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    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
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