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Sale Name: Monthly Sports Card and Comics Auction
Auction Date: 09/02/2023 - 09/02/2023
Year of Sale: 2023
Sale Number: #90223
Total Lots: 294
Sold Lots: 281
Lots Sold: 95.6%
Unsold Lots: 13
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (USD): 11,807.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%
Currency: USD
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 11,807.60

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
184	Ted Williams PSA 5 Graded 1951 #165 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1951	USD -	708.40
180	Ted Williams SGC 3 Graded 1950 #98 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1950	USD -	423.20
174	Hughie Jennings SGC 5 Graded 1916 Tango Eggs Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1916	USD -	274.85
178	Yogi Berra SGC 3 Graded 1950 #46 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1950	USD -	246.10
248	1990s Non-Sport Trading cards many thousands in monster box, mostly 1990s incl Upper Deck Looney Tunes Comic Ball, Flinstones, Phantom Comic, Disney, etc	1990s	USD -	215.05
103	1971 Topps Baseball cards 500+ low to mid grade commons, with some duplication	1971	USD -	203.55
7	Mickey Mantle 1958 Topps #150 SGC Graded 1 Baseball Cards	1958	USD -	197.80
95	1982 Fleer Baseball card Vending Boxes, 4 total boxes about 2000 cards, mid to upper grades expected	1982	USD -	174.80
97	1985 Topps Baseball card Vending Boxes, 4 total boxes about 2000 cards, mid to upper grades expected	1985	USD -	173.65
214	Bob Lemon SGC 8 Graded Near Mint/Mint 1952 Bowman Baseball Card #23, Hall of Fame Player	1952	USD -	141.45
8	Mickey Mantle 1958 Topps #487 SGC Graded 2 All Star Baseball Cards	1958	USD -	140.30
213	Enos Slaughter SGC 8 Graded Near Mint/Mint 1952 Bowman Baseball Card #232, Hall of Fame Player, high number card	1952	USD -	123.05
216	Warren Spahn SGC 7 Graded 1953 Johnston Cookies Baseball Card #10, Hall of Fame Player	1953	USD -	120.75
265	1952 Bowman small Football Cards, 21 cards with a few duplicates, with many very fresh and good condition, in top loaders	1952	USD -	120.75
61	1959 Topps Baseball Cards 18 different, includes some nicer and well centered examples	1959	USD -	118.45
185	Ralph Kiner PSA 8 Graded 1955 #197 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1955	USD -	116.15
266	1960s-1980s Football Cards, 32 cards in mixed condition in top loaders and penny sleeves	1960s-1980s	USD -	116.15
195	George Kell SGC 7 Graded 1950 #8 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1950	USD -	116.15
194	Bob Feller SGC 3 Graded 1950 #6 Bowman Baseball Card, Hall of Fame Player	1950	USD -	101.20
217	Ed Mathews SGC 6 Graded 1953 Johnston Cookies Baseball Card #21, Hall of Fame Player	1953	USD -	98.90
39	1959 Topps Baseball Cards 15 different, includes some nicer and well centered examples	1959	USD -	96.60
80	1989 Upper Deck Factory Sealed Set - Ken Griffey Jr Rookie	1989	USD -	93.15
149	1976 Topps Football Cards Near set, 500+ cards in order, missing Walter Payton #148 and a few others	1976	USD -	93.15
75	1953 Topps Whitey Ford (x2 both with staining) plus some other 1953 & 1954 Topps, Tiger Woods Upper Deck collection, etc	1953	USD -	89.70
252	Mickey Mantle 1962 Post Cereal Baseball Card #5 & 6 Mickey Mantle & Roger Maris complete panel uncut and unstapled, with fold at center from being in Life Magazine as issues, very seldom found without staple holes	1962	USD -	89.70

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Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000