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Auction Report
Auction Date
May 16, 2024 - May 16, 2024
Page Size: 468 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 Crane, Hart

White Buildings

[New York] 1926 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 225.00
27 Crane, Stephen

Men, Women and Boats

New York [1921] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
28 Crane, Stephen

The Third Violet

New York 1897 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
29 Dahl, Roald

Boy: Tales of Childhood

New York [1984] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,500.00
30 Dahl, Roald

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

New York [1964] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
31 Dahl, Roald

Matilda

New York and elsewhere 1988 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
32 Cellini, Benvenuto

The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

Garden City 1946 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
33 Rose, Billy

Wine, Women and Words

New York [1948] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
34 Prest, Thomas Peckett

The Post-Humourous Notes of the Pickwickian Club, Edited by "Bos" [The Penny Pickwick]

London 1837-1839 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
35 Dickens, Charles

The Adventures of Oliver Twist; Or, The Parish Boy's Progress

London 1846 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
36 Dickens, Charles

Bleak House

London 1853 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
37 Dickens, Charles

Little Dorritt

London 1855-1857 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
38 Dickey, James

Deliverance

Boston 1970 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
39 Dreiser, Theodore

Free and Other Stories

New York 1918 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
40 Eliot, George

Daniel Deronda

Edinburgh and London 1876 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
41 Eliot, T.S., translator

Anabasis: A Poem by St. J. Perse

London 1930 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
42 Eliot, T.S.

Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats

London [1960] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
43 Brother Antoninus

Who is She that Looketh Forth as the Morning

Santa Barbara 1972 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
44 Everson, William

A Man Who Writes

Northridge, California 1980 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
45 Everson, William

These Are the Ravens

San Leandro, CA 1935 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
46 Farina, Richard

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

New York [1966] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 343.75
47 Faulkner, William

Big Woods

New York [1955] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 212.50
48 Faulkner, William

A Fable

New York 1954 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
49 Faulkner, William

Pylon

New York 1935 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
50 Faulkner, William

Requiem for a Nun

New York [1951] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 750.00
  • Bonhams, June 25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. $200,000 - $300,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Gersdorff, Hans Von. 1455-1529. Feldtbuch der wundartzney. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Pare, Ambroise. C.1509-1590. La Methode Curative des Playes, et Fractures de la Teste humaine. Avec les pourtraits des Instruments necessaires pour la curation d'icelles. $25,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Reisch, Gregor. 1470-1525. Margarita Philosophica. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bright, Richard. 1789-1858. Reports of Medical Cases, Selected with a View of Illustrating the Symptoms and Cure of Diseases by a Reference to Morbid Anatomy. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Berengario da Carpi, Giacomo. C. 1460-1530. Tractatus de fractura calve sive cranei. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Vicq D'Azyr, Felix. 1748-1794. Traite d'antomie et de physiologie. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Croce, Giovanni Andrea Della. 1509?-1775. Chirurgia libri septem... $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bruno Da Longburgo. 1200-1286. La cyrogia di Maistro Bruno: Expertissimo in quella. Tradutta in vulgare. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Schwann, Theodor. 1810-1882. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die Ubereinstimmung in der Struktur und dem Wachsthum der Thiere und Pflanzen. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Cowper, William. 1666-1709. The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, with Figures Drawn after the Life… $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 25: Bidloo, Govard. 1649-1713. Anatomia humani corporis, centum & quinque tabulis, per artificiossis. G. de Lairesse ad vivum delineatis. $6,000 - $9,000
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s, June 26: Poe, Edgar Allan. Tamerlane — the most poignant rarity in American literature. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: The Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." 2,500,000 - 5,000,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: William Blake. “Poems with very wild and interesting pictures” 1,200,000 - 1,800,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, June 26: Thomas Taylor [artist]. The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. 400,000 - 600,000 USD
  • Bonhams, June 15-25: 18th Century American Sea Captain's Journals of Voyages to Hawaii, China, and South America. $35,000 - $45,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Admiral Richard E. Byrd's Autograph Diary from Bolling Advance Base, Winter 1934. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Thoreau, Henry David. Walden; Or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854. $4,000 - $6,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Cellarius, Andreas. Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem, et novam exhibens. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Nobelist George Stigler's Copy of Ricardo's Classic on the Science of Economics. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour. Paris: F. L. Schmied, 1927. $15,000 - $20,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Fine Copy of Walras's Classic on the Theory of Marginal Utility. $12,000 - $18,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Arion Press Moby Dick. Melville, Herman. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Venegas, Miguel. Noticia de la California, y desu conquista temporal, y espiritual hasta el tiempo presente. $7,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Carelton Watkins, Yosemite and the West. Portfolio of 21 imperial albumen prints. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: An Unpublished Archive of Thornton Wilder Correspondence to F.J. O'Neil. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, June 15-25: Vesalius, Andreas. 1514-1564. Suorum de humani corporis fabrica librorum epitome. $100,000 - $150,000
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