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Addison and Sarova: Rare Books in All Fields

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Auction Name Rare Books in All Fields Total Sales (USD) 241,334.30
Auction Date November 03, 2018 - November 03, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 151,980.00
Sale Number #1020 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 240,480.00
Total Lots 367
Sold Lots 333 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 170,380.00
% of Lots Sold 90.74% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 269,530.00
Unsold Lots 34 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 Donne, John.

PSEUDO-MARTYR. WHEREIN… THIS CONCLUSION IS EVICTED. THAT THOSE WHICH ARE OF THE ROMANE RELIGION IN THIS KINGDOME, MAY AND OUGHT TO TAKE THE OATH OF ALLEGEANCE.

 1610 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,080.00
8 Spenser, Edmund.

THE FAERIE QUEENE. DISPOSED INTO TWELVE BOOKS, FASHIONING XII MORALL VERTUES.

 1590 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,760.00
27

Dutch manuscript prayer book, ca. 1500.

 ca. 1500. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,710.00
310

Original negative film reels. \"U.N. in Action, Tibet.\" Reels 1 and 2 (of 6 reels, other 4 also being offered in this sale).

 ca. 1959 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,490.00
313

Original negative film reels. \"U.N. in Action, Tibet.\" Reels 3 and 4 (of 6 reels, other 4 also being offered in this sale).

 circa 1959 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,185.00
317

Original negative film reels. \"U.N. in Action, Tibet.\" Reels 5 and 6 (of 6 reels, other 4 also being offered in this sale).

 circa 1959 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,880.00
23 Columella, Varro, Cato, Palladius, (ed. Philippus Beroaldus, after Georgius Merula and Franciscus Colucia).

[Scriptores rei rusticae] OPERA AGRICOLATIONUM... CUM EXSCRIPTIONIBUS & COMMENTARIIS D. PHILIPPI BEROALDO.

 1496 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,270.00
327

Script for the 1937 film \"Lost Horizon,\" directed by Frank Capra, Final Draft of March 23, 1936. HARRISON FORMAN'S COPY, with his stamp.

 1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,270.00
271 Rand, Ayn.

ATLAS SHRUGGED.

 1957 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,660.00
3

\"The Keys of Rabbi Solomon, Translated accurately from the Hebrew into English by Edward Hunter.\"

 1827 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,355.00
251

The third folio edition of the King James version of the Bible, printed in large black letter.

 1617 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,355.00
301

FLORILEGIUM DIVERSORUM EPIGRAMMATUM IN SEPTEM LIBROS.

 1503 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,355.00
61 PLATONIS

PLATONIS OPERA A MARSILIO FICINO TRADUCTA ....

 1522 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,050.00
89 Philip, Sir Sidney.

THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA.

 1613 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,050.00
13 Becher, Johann.

Experimentum Chymicum Novum quo artificalis et instantanea metallorum generatio…demonstratur… Frankfurt; Zunneri, 1671. 6.5\" x 4\" bound in 8s. 172 pp. Bound in period full speckled calf with gilt devices and title in gilt over compartments. Binding with

 1671 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,745.00
21 Calvin, John.

[THE INSTITUTION OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION].

 1562 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,440.00
83 Edward I.

STATUTA GLOUCESTR.

 early 18th century USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,440.00
11 Iroe - Grego.

LA VERITABLE MAGIE NOIRE, OU LE SECRET DES SECRETS; MANUSCRIT TROUVE A JERUSALEM, DANS LE SEPULCRE DE SALOMON….

 1750, ca. 1800. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,318.00
53

Fragment from a manuscript Psalter in Latin, ca. 1400.

 ca. 1400. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,196.00
335

Pair of scrapbooks containing articles, photos, and copies of the same, all chronicling the work of Harrison Forman.

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 2,196.00
336 Sun Yat-sen.

THE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF CHINA

 1942 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,196.00
33

Pair of books related to Queen Elizabeth and the Church of England: INJUNCTIONS GIVEN BY THE QUEENES MAJESTIE.

 ca. 1577. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,074.00
12 Galilei, Galileo.

OPERE DE GALILEO GALILEI ….

 1655-1656. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,952.00
22 Baum, L. Frank.

QUEEN ZIXI OF IX OR, THE STORY OF THE MAGIC CLOAK.

 1905 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,952.00
59 Holinshed, Raphael.

[CHRONICLES OF ENGLAND, SCOTLANDE, AND IRELAND].

 1577 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,952.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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