Robert Siegel Galleries: The Magnolia Collection: India Stampless Postal History, 9020, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025
Page Size: 153 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10126

India, Seringapatam, 1801, "POST FREE/SERINGAPATAM" Oval Handstamp (Giles 4).

1801 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,304.00
10127

India, Seringapatam, 1853, "SERINGAPATAM/Bearing" Framed Handstamp (Giles 10).

1853 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 3,304.00
10128

India, Sheerghotty, 1828, "SHEERGHOTTY POST OFFICE" Double-Oval Handstamp (Giles 1).

1828 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 885.00
10129

India, Sirce, 1858, "SIRCE/Bearing" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1858 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,062.00
10130

India, Sittara, 1845, "SITTARA/Paid" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1845 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,062.00
10131

India, Subathoo, 1837, "SOBATHOO/POST PAID/18__" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1837 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 708.00
10132

India, Sultapore, 1849, "SULTAPORE/Bearing" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1849 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 265.50
10133

India, Surat, 1831, "SURAT/P. NOT/PAID" Circular Handstamp (Giles 1).

1831 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 885.00
10134

India, Surat, 1810, "SURAT/P. PAID" Circular Handstamp (Giles 2).

1810 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,478.00
10135

India, Surat, 1841, "SURAT/Bearing" Framed Handstamp (Giles 4).

1841 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,062.00
10136

India, Sylhet, 1812, "POST OFFICE/SYLHET" Double-Oval Handstamp (Giles 1).

1812 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,478.00
10137

India, Sylhet, 1830, "POST OFFICE SYLHET" Double-Oval Handstamp (Giles 1).

1830 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,298.00
10138

India, Tanjore, ca. 1770s Cover to London.

ca. 1770s Cover to London. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,416.00
10139

India, Tellicherry, 1823, "TELLICHERRY/POST PAID/Rs As" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1823 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 1,652.00
10140

India, Trichinopoly, 1824, "TRECHINOPOLY/POST FREE" Oval Handstamp (Giles 2).

1824 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,180.00
10141

India, Vizagapatam, 1816, "POST FREE/VIZAGAPATAM" Oval Handstamp (Giles 3).

1816 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 1,003.00
10142

India, Wallajahabad, 1813, "WALLAJAHBAD/POST PAID" Two-Line Handstamp (Giles 1).

1813 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 7,670.00
10143

Burma, Shoaygyen, 1856, "SHOAYGYEN P.O./27 AUG 1856" Double-Circle Datestamp.

1856 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 442.50
10144

India, French Settlement, Chandernagore, 1826, "Chandernagore/Post Office/18__" Oval Handstamp (Giles 1).

1826 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,534.00
10145

India, French Settlement, Karical, 1844, "KARICAL/Paid" Framed Handstamp (Giles 1).

1844 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 944.00
10146

India, French Settlement, Pondicherry, 1828, "PONDICHERRY/POST PAID" Framed Handstamp (Giles 5).

1828 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 826.00
10147

India, French Settlement, Pondicherry, 1829, "PONDICHERRY/POST NOT PAID" Framed Handstamp (Giles 6).

1829 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 944.00
10148

India, French Settlement, Pondicherry, 1842, "PONDICHERY/Paid" Framed Handstamp (Giles 7).

1842 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 177.00
10149

India, French Settlement, Pondicherry, 1844, "PONDICHERY/1844 August 15/Paid" Framed Datestamp (Giles 10).

1844 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 200.60
10150

India, French Settlement, Pondicherry, 1852, "PONDICHERRY/1852 November 4/Paid" Framed Datestamp (Giles 12).

1852 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 177.00
  • 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€
  • 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.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
  • Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.
    Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.
    Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.
    Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.
    Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.
    Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.
    Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.
    Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.
    Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.
    Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
  • 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
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