Auction Reports
Auction Info
- Sale Name
- The Sporting Library of Edward Sands Litchfield
- Auction Date
- 11/29/2001 - 11/29/2001
- Year of Sale
- 2001
- Sale Number
- #N07736
- Total Lots
- 143
- Sold Lots
- 143
- Lots Sold
- 100.0%
- Unsold Lots
- 0
- Price Unknown
- 0
- Total Sales (USD)
- 1,966,290.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 904,800.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 1,267,150.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 904,800.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 1,267,150.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 155.17%
- Currency
- USD
- Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
- 2,283,620.00
Top twenty five by sale price
View All Auction Lots.| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Audubon, John James, and John Bachman | The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. | 1845-1848 (atlas); 1846-1851 (text volumes) |
USD 300,000.00 - 400,000.00 | 269,750.00 |
| 27 | Catlin, George | Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes and Amusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of America. | 1844 [or 1845] |
USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | 110,000.00 |
| 86 | M[ascall]., L[eonard] | A Booke of Fishing with Hooke & Line, ... | 1590 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 98,500.00 |
| 129 | (Walton, Isaak) | The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. Not Unworthy the Perusal of Most Anglers. | 1653 |
USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | 81,250.00 |
| 13 | Audubon, John James | The Birds of America. | 1840-1844 |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | 69,750.00 |
| 110 | Scotcher, George | The Fly Fisher's Legacy, ... | [ca. 1810] |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 58,250.00 |
| 35 | (Crockett, David) | 'Go Ahead!' Davy Crockett's Almanack of Wild Sports of the West, and Life in the Backwoods. | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 54,800.00 | |
| 22 | Bowdich, Sarah | The Fresh-water Fishes of Great Britain. | 1838 |
USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 49,625.00 |
| 113 | Sharpe, R. Bowdler | Monograph of the Paradiseidae, Or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower Birds. | 1891-(1898) |
USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | 43,875.00 |
| 117 | (Sporting Magazines) | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | 35,250.00 | ||
| 18 | (Bavaria) Das Buech der gemeinen Landpot, Landsordung, Satzung und Gebreuch des Furstennthumbs in Obern und Nidern Bairn Im Funftzehnhundert und Sechtzendem Jar aufgericht. | (1516) |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 35,250.00 | |
| 7 | Alken, Henry | The National Sports of Great Britain. | 1821 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 34,100.00 |
| 53 | [Francis, Charles Spencer] | Sport Among the Rockies. A Record of a Fishing and Hunting Trip in North-Western Montana. | 1889 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 29,500.00 |
| 139 | Whitney, John | The Genteel Recreation: or, the Pleasure of Angling, a Poem. With a Dialogue between Piscator and Corydon. | 1700 |
USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 28,350.00 |
| 55 | Frost, A. B. | Shooting Pictures. | 1895 |
USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | 26,050.00 |
| 134 | Walton, Izaak, and Charles Cotton | Der vollkommene Angler | 1859 |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | 26,050.00 |
| 136 | West, Leonard | The Natural Trout Fly and its Imitation: Being an Angler's Record of Insects seen at the Waterside and the Method of Making their Imitations. Cincinnati, 1847 | [1912] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 24,900.00 |
| 15 | Audubon, John James, and John Bachman | The Quadrupeds of North America. | 1849-51-54 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 24,900.00 |
| 44 | (Derrydale Press)Jennings, Preston J. | A Book of Trout Flies. | (1934) |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 23,750.00 |
| 111 | Seccombe, Joseph | Business and Diversion Inoffensive to God, ... | 1743 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 21,450.00 |
| 142 | (Wyoming) | Diary of the Wyoming Bear Hunt. | [ca 1914] |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 19,150.00 |
| 79 | Kelson, George M. | Tips. | 1901 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | 19,150.00 |
| 60 | Gould, John | A Monograph of the Odontophorinae, or Partridges of America. | [1844-1846]-1850 |
USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | 18,000.00 |
| 92 | Percy, Alice, and Algernon Heber Percy | Journal of Two Excursions in the British North West Territory of North America, ... 1877 & 1878. | n.d. |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 18,000.00 |
| 41 | (Derrydale Press) Connett, Eugene V. | Magic Hours. Wherein We Cast a Fly Here & There As We Wade Along Together. | 1927 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 18,000.00 |
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