Leland Little Auctions: The Estate of the late Dr. Johnston & Mr. West, Hillsborough, NC, 219321, Hillsborough, NC

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 21, 2025 - March 21, 2025

Page Size: 75 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
2095	Douglas Gorsline (American, 1913-1985),	Three Medical Illustrations			Not Available	USD 120.00
2096	Domenico Campagnola (Italian, 1500-1564),	Engraving, appears unsigned, matted and framed below glass.			Not Available	USD 540.00
2097		Two Framed Sets of Antique German Landscapes		19th century	Not Available	USD 120.00
2098	Jean Duplessi Bertaux (French, 1747-1818),	Portrait of Lazare Hoche			Not Available	USD 60.00
2106	Eugene Savage (American, 1883-1978),	Group of Five Framed Vintage Matson Line's Dinner Menus (Circa 1940s-50s)		Circa 1940s-50s	Not Available	USD 240.00
2107		Four Antique Botanical Engravings		18th century	Not Available	USD 1,440.00
2108		Group of Eight Satirical Cuisine Prints		late 20th/early 21st century	Not Available	USD 3,840.00
2109	Nicola Benois (Italian/Russian, 1901-1988),	Two Framed Prints for the Metropolitan Opera "L'Assedio di Corinto"		1975	Not Available	USD 120.00
2110		Set of Six Prints from	Berlin	late 19th century	Not Available	USD 120.00
2111		Group of Four Antique Framed Costume Prints	Munich	late 19th century	Not Available	USD 60.00
2112		Framed Ornithological Print from	Weimar	1802	Not Available	USD 60.00
2113	after John James Audubon,	Reproduction print in colors after the original Havell edition		20th-century	Not Available	USD 780.00
2200		Group of Five Viennese Street Scene Prints		circa 1990s	Not Available	USD 540.00
2203		Group of Seven Viennese Street Scene Prints		circa 1990s	Not Available	USD 300.00
2204	George Ebers	Five Volumes of the Works of George Ebers	New York	[ca. late 1880s].	Not Available	USD 180.00
2205		Illustrated Cabinet Edition of the Waverley Novels, Finely Bound by Blackwell	Boston	ca. 1894.	Not Available	USD 300.00
2206	Samuel Lover	Six Volumes of Samuel Lover's Works, Finely Bound by Blackwell	New York	1900	Not Available	USD 240.00
2255	Henry Fielding.	THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING, ESQ; WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR	London	1784	Not Available	USD 540.00
2256	John Keats; H. Buxton Forman, ed.	THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN KEATS.	Philadelphia	1891	Not Available	USD 300.00
2257	William Makepeace Thackeray.	The Biographical Edition of the Works of William Makepeace Thackeray	New York & London	1899-1900	Not Available	USD 180.00
2258	George Eliot	Foleshill Edition of the Works of George Eliot	Boston	1900	Not Available	USD 180.00
2259	Thomas Carlyle.	[The Works of Thomas Carlyle].	Boston	n.d. [ca. late 19th century].	Not Available	USD 420.00
2260	J. Fenimore Cooper.	[THE WORKS OF JAMES FENIMORE COOPER].	Boston	n.d. [ca. 1890].	Not Available	USD 420.00
2261	Victor Hugo.	VICTOR HUGO'S WORKS. (16) volumes.	New York	1887-1896.	Not Available	USD 420.00
2262	Alphonse Daudet; George Burnham Ives, Marian McIntyre, et al., trans.	[The Works of Alphonse Daudet]. (20) volumes (of 24?).	Boston	1899-1902.	Not Available	USD 240.00

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
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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