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Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's personalized Sweeney Todd asylum coat and jacket. $400 to $600.Doyle, June 18: Twelve Posters for Stephen Sondheim Musicals. $400 to $600.Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's Gold Record for the soundtrack to West Side Story. $1,000 to $1,500.Doyle, June 18: A manuscript musical quotation from Passion. The quotation headed "Tranquillo" above the music, the lyrics are also written out: "lov-ing you is not a choice, it's who I am..." 11 x 14 inches. $800 to $1,200.Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's retained set of The Sondheim Review. Comprising a complete run of Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1994) to Volume XXI, Number 4 (Fall 2015). $500 to $800.Doyle, June 18: Five amusing Victorian-era game boards, including Snakes and Ladders. $200 to $300.Doyle, June 18: A cased tabletop croquet set and two horse racing games. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 18: Four Posters Related to Various Sondheim Productions. $300 to $500.Doyle, June 18: The rare first American edition of The Phantom of the Opera. $100 to $200. -
Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024Sagen & Delås, June 15: ROALD AMUNDSEN: PHOTO of «Fram» SIGNED by 17 members of the South Pole Expedition, Including Amundsen. €6,900 to €8,600.Sagen & Delås, June 15: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen», 1912. IN PARTS. €1,280 to €2,150.Sagen & Delås, June 15: JEAN-BAPTISTE CHARCOT: «Expédition Antarctique Francaise […] 1903-1905. », 1906. RARE, SIGNED. €2,100 to €3,400.Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024Sagen & Delås, June 15: FREDERICK A. COOK: «Through the first Antarctic Night 1898-1899. […]», 1900. First LIMITED & SIGNED edition. €2,100 to €3,400.Sagen & Delås, June 15: JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION UNDER NOBU SHIRASE: «Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki», 1942. Publisher's wrappers. €1,280 to €2,135.Sagen & Delås, June 15: FRIDTJOF NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet», 1897. LOT - 6 Variant bindings. €1,250 to €2,100.Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024Sagen & Delås, June 15: ABRAHAM ORTELIUS: «Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip», 1570. Beautiful handcoloured first state map. €2,950 to €3,800.Sagen & Delås, June 15: SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: [W. S. BRUCE]: «Life in the Antarctic», 1907. 2 copies in wrappers. €85 to €250.Sagen & Delås, June 15: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9», 1909. Publisher's wrappers. €510 to €1,025.Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024Sagen & Delås, June 15: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «South», 1919. An attractive copy in publisher's cloth. €2,550 to €4,265.Sagen & Delås, June 15: UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION UNDER CHARLES WILKES (1838-1842): «Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition», 1845. €3,400 to €5,100.Sagen & Delås, June 15: HUBERT WILKINS: «Under the North Pole», 1931 | CONTRIBUTORS EDITION - LIMITED TO 29 COPIES. €1,280 to €2,550. -
Heritage Auctions, June 27
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925Heritage Auctions, June 27
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Jane Austen
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816Heritage Auctions, June 27
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878Heritage Auctions, June 27
Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923Heritage Auctions, June 27
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Philadelphia, 1814Heritage Auctions, June 27
Emily Dickinson
Autograph letter signed ("Emily and Vinnie"), to Mary Adelaide Hills
Amherst, MA, Late April, 1880Heritage Auctions, June 27
John Keats
Autograph letter signed ("John Keats"), to Mrs. Jeffrey
Honiton 4 or 5 May 1818Heritage Auctions, June 27
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals…
London, 1765Heritage Auctions, June 27
H. P. Lovecraft
Small archive of nine lengthy autograph letters signed variously over a period of six years to J. Vernon Shea.
Various places, 1931-1937Heritage Auctions, June 27
Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation…
London: T. homas Maxey for Rich. ard Marriot, 1653 -
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2663, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 21, 2024 - March 21, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sarah H. Bradford | Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. |
Auburn NY | 1869 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 4,750.00 |
| 2 | Warner Mifflin | His abolitionist petition to President Washington and Congress, |
Providence RI | 1792 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Injured Humanity . . . What the Unhappy Children of Africa Endure from Those Who Call Themselves Christians. |
New York | circa 1805-08 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,188.00 | |
| 4 | Notice for the first annual Boston celebration of the abolition of the slave trade, |
Boston | 1808 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 5 | The Genius of Universal Emancipation. |
Baltimore MD | 1830 to 1831 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 | |
| 6 | David Ruggles | The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment, by the American Churches. |
New York | 1835 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,750.00 |
| 7 | Alex. Sweney, Joseph Templeton, and F. Julius LeMoyne | "The Examiner--Extra: Address of the Anti-Slavery Society of Washington County," a broadside newspaper extra. |
Washington PA | 1835 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 531.00 |
| 8 | "Am I Not a Woman & a Sister" liberty token. |
No place | 1838 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 750.00 | |
| 9 | The Liberty Bell, by Friends of Freedom. |
Boston | 1839 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 10 | Salmon P. Chase | Principles and Measures of True Democracy: The Address of the Southern and Western Liberty |
Cincinnati OH | 1845 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 813.00 |
| 11 | Thirza S. Pelton | The Grave in the Wilderness: A Poem. |
Oberlin OH | 1850 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 12 | The Fugitive Slaves' Appeal!! To the Clergy of Massachusetts. |
Boston | 1850 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 10,625.00 | |
| 13 | Autographs for Freedom. |
London | 1853 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 625.00 | |
| 14 | Council Documents--No. 2. An Act Prohibiting Slavery. |
Omaha NE | 1861 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,000.00 | |
| 15 | Louis Prang & Co | The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated. |
Boston | 1861 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 16 | Bound volume of "The Liberator" spanning the five Civil War years. |
Boston | 1861 to 1865 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,500.00 | |
| 17 | Truth, Douglass, Phillips, Garrison, and other abolitionists | Carte-de-visite album including portraits of Truth, Douglass, Phillips, Garrison, and other abolitionists. |
Various places | circa 1860s, with one 1902 photo | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
| 18 | The preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, on the front page of the New York Semi-Weekly Tribune. |
New York | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 19 | Three letters to abolitionist General Clinton Fisk regarding the impact of the Emancipation Proclamation. |
Various places | 1862-1863 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 688.00 | |
| 20 | Abraham Lincoln | Carte-de-visite rendering of the Emancipation Proclamation. |
Syracuse NY | 1866 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 688.00 |
| 21 | James W. Watts, engraver; after Herrick | Reading the Emancipation Proclamation. |
Hartford CT | 1864 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.00 |
| 22 | Blank petition circulated by the Women's Loyal National League, seeking full emancipation. |
No place | circa late 1863 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,125.00 | |
| 23 | Pennsylvania soldier's letter regarding the 40-acre plots being distributed to freedmen. |
South Carolina | 1865 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 406.00 | |
| 24 | Front-page headline on the passage of the 13th Amendment, |
Boston | 1865 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 25 | Charles Terry Collins | A Yale student's essay titled "The Amendment of the Constitution Abolishing Slavery." |
New Haven CT? | 1865 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
