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Doyle New York: Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Auction Name Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson Total Sales (USD) 42,303.75
Auction Date October 30, 2018 - October 30, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 28,805.00
Sale Number #18jj03 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 44,435.00
Total Lots 270
Sold Lots 226 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 33,045.00
% of Lots Sold 83.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 51,030.00
Unsold Lots 44 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
114 HENDERSON, KATHLEEN C. T.

The Sporting Adventures of a Memsahib.

1918 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,000.00
40 BURNES, ALEXANDER

Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia...

1834 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
48 CALDWELL, HARRY R.

Experiences with Man-Eating Tigers in China.

1914] USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 812.50
79 ERIC [=LITTLE, WILLIAM?]

Ten Days "Casual" with Ladies after Tiger.

1916 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
27 BIGSBY, JOHN J.

The Shoe and Canoe or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas.

1850 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
167 OATES, FRANK and OATES, C. G., ed.

Matabele Land and Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa.

1889 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
184 PREJEVALSKY, NIKOLAI

Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet...

1876 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
51 [CANADA] PERRY, [RAYMOND J.?]

Manuscript diary detailing a seven-week camping and canoeing trip.

1911 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
116 HICKS, F. C.

Forty Years Among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas.

1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 593.75
173 PAULI, FREDERICK G.

A Record of a Trip through Canada's Wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo and to the Great Lake Mistassini in the Summer of 1906.

1907 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 593.75
56 COOLEY, MYRON

Outings and Innings In Northern Minnesota, And Along the North Shore of Lake Superior.

1894 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 562.50
213 SMITH, A. DONALDSON

Through Unknown African Countries. The first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu.

1897 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
221 [IRAN] STEIN, AUREL, (Sir).

Old Routes of Western Iran. Narrative of an archaeological journey.

1940 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
38 BROWN, HORACE COWLEY

[Sketches by Captain Horace Brown of the Royal (Bombay) Artillery].

circa 1876 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
174 PHILBY, J. B.

The Empty Quarter. Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.

1933 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 500.00
88 FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W.

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan...

1869 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
151 [MASTEN, ARTHUR H.]

The Story of Adirondac.

1923 USD 30.00 - 50.00 USD 468.75
188 RAOUL

Reminiscences of Twenty Years' Pigsticking in Bengal.

1893 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 468.75
16 ARCHER, [EDWARD CAULFIELD]

Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains...

1833 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 406.25
94 GILLMORE, PARKER

Lone Life: A Year in the Wilderness.

1875 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
190 RASMUSSEN, KNUD

Greenland by the Polar Sea. The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

1921 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 406.25
191 RAWSTORNE, LAWRENCE

Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game...

1837 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
115 HICKS, F. C.

Forty Years Among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas.

1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
133 KERR, WALTER MONTAGU

The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa.

1886 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
138 LARKING, CUTHBERT

Bandobast and Khabar. Reminiscences of India.

1888 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 375.00
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