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Auction Name Rare Books and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 121,686.00
Auction Date September 07, 2017 - September 07, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 119,700.00
Sale Number #624 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 184,200.00
Total Lots 253
Sold Lots 141 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 277,850.00
% of Lots Sold 55.73% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 428,950.00
Unsold Lots 112 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 28.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
31

The English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First...

 1903-1905 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,800.00
69 Melville, Herman

Moby Dick or the Whale

 1930 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,800.00
30 Watson, James D. & Francis H.C. Crick, et al.

Six early and seminal papers on DNA, in four issues of Nature

 1953-1961 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,600.00
55 Liliuokalani, Lydia Kamakaeha Kaomalii, Queen of Hawaii

Two letters from Queen Liliuokalani to "Cousin William," writing about the publication of her autobiography

 1897 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,000.00
67 Morris, William

The Well at the World's End

 1896 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,100.00
39 Swinburne, Algernon Charles

William Blake: A Critical Essay

 1868 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,600.00
66 Keats, John

The Poems of John Keats

 1894 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,300.00
38 Ensor, James

Scenes de la Vie du Christ

 1921 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
62 [Irving, Washington] Knickerbocker, Diedrich (pseud)

A History of New-York, From the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, Containing Among many Surprising and Curious Matters, the Unutterable Ponderings of Walter the Doubter

 1809 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,000.00
68 Shelley, Percy Bysshe

The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

 1894-95 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
35 Dugdale, William, Sir, & John Stevens

Monasticon Anglicanum: Or, the History of the Ancient Abbies, Monasteries, Hospitals, Cathedrals and Collegiate Churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales...

 1718, 1722, 1723 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 2,700.00
107

The Holy Bible reprinted according to the Authorised Version, 1611. [Together with] The Apocrypha.

 1924-27 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,400.00
119 Clift, William

New Mexico

 1975 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,400.00
88 Gray, Henry

Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical

 1859 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,040.00
136 Shakespeare, William

The Tragedy of King Lear - 12 consecutive leaves from the second folio

 [1632] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
9

Bauhaus. Vierteljahr-Zeitscrhift fur Gestaltung

 1928-1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
131 Shakespeare, William

A Midsummer-Night's Dream

 1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,440.00
10 [Beardsley, Aubrey, et al.]

The Yellow Book: An Illustrated Quarterly

 1894-1897 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
146 Twain, Mark

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)

 1885 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
175 Bullen, Henry Lewis

The Nuremberg Chronicle or, The Book of Chronicles from the Beginning of the World, the most famous German picture books of the fifteenth century... a monograph... with a leaf from the first Latin edition

 1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,320.00
60 Horatius Flaccus, Quintus [Horace]

Opera

 1733-37 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
184

A Leaf from the 1611 King James Bible with "The Noblest Monument of English Prose" by John Livingston Lowes & "The Printing of the King James Bible" by Louis I. Newman

 1937 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,080.00
144 Royal Tailors

Pay Less and Dress Better. - Trade catalog for The Royal Tailors, Fall & Winter Season 1912-13

 1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,020.00
33 Shakespeare, William

The Tragedie of Julius Caesar

 1913 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 960.00
168 Vespucci, Amerigo

The Letter of Amerigo Vespucci, Describing His Four Voyages to the New World, 1497-1504 - proof copy

 1926 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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