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    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Wooden Case Full of Craftools.
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    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool Set.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Tandy Pro Skiver with attachments.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Craftool saddle stamps.
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    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Stiching Horse.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Rare Vintage 3 Tier Tack Tray.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Hewit-Ecrace Green Calf. 10 sq. ft.
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    Vintage Leather Tool Auction
    January 16, 2025
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Adams Round Knife.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Vintage Mallet.
    High Bids Win, Jan. 16: Midas Brass adjustable Swivel Knife.

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Auction Name Science, Literature, History
Auction Date 01/12/2025 - 01/12/2025
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  • Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
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    Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
    Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
  • Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
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