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National Book Auctions: Books and Ephemera – Americana, Indians, Polar Exploration, Civil War, etc.

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Auction Name Books and Ephemera – Americana, Indians, Polar Exploration, Civil War, etc. Total Sales (USD) 11,068.50
Auction Date September 30, 2018 - September 30, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 17,300.00
Sale Number #93018 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 27,450.00
Total Lots 67
Sold Lots 67 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 17,300.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,450.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2037 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

Information Respecting the History Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Collected and Prepared under the Direction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs per Act of Congress of March 3rd, 1847

1853 - 1856 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,468.75
2016 Samuel Wylie Crawford

The Genesis of the Civil War: The Story of Sumter 1860-1861

1887 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 646.25
2050 Cadwallader Colden

The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada, Which Are the Barrier between the English and French in That Part of the World

1750 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 528.75
2035 John Marshall

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, during the War Which Established the Independence of the Country, and First President of the United States, Compiled under the Inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington, from

1836 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 499.38
2002 Various

The Annals of Sporting and Fancy Gazette; A Magazine, Entirely Appropriated to Sporting Subjects and Fancy Pursuits; Containing Every Thing Worthy of Remark on Hunting, Shooting, Coursing, Racing, Fishing, Cocking, Pugilism, Wrestling, Singlestick, Pedest

1822 - 1828 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 470.00
2020 Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant

1886 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 411.25
2034 Edmund Burke

An Account of the European Settlements in America in Six Parts

1765 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 381.88
2001 William Tecumseh Sherman

Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman Written by Himself

1891 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 352.50
2017 James Cook

An Abridgment of Captain Cook's First, Second and Last Voyages

1787, 1788 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 352.50
2045 William Robertson

The History of America

1783 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 323.13
2011 Benjamin G. Smith, Robert Tomes

The Great Civil War: A History of the Late Rebellion with Biographical Sketches of Leading Statesmen and Distinguished Naval and Military Commanders, Etc.

circa 1865 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 264.38
2066 George B. McClellan

McClellan's Own Story: The War for the Union. The Soldiers Who Fought It, the Civilians Who Directed It and His Relations to It and to Them

1887 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 264.38
2043

5V Sir Archibald Alison Alexander Keith Johnston HISTORY OF EUROPE AND ATLAS TO ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE 1855 Leather Marbled Boards French Revolution Bourbons Companion Volume Decorative Gilt Lettering Lithographs Illustrations Maps Military Naval

USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 235.00
2059 Elizabeth B. Custer

Tenting on the Plains or General Custer in Kansas and Texas

1889 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 235.00
2022 John Burley Waring

Architectural Sculptural & Picturesque Studies in Burgos and Its Neighbourhood

1852 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 205.63
2053 Howard Pyle

The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood of Great Renown, in Nottinghamshire

1883 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 205.63
2010 Franz Keim

Die Nibelungen dem Deutschen Volk Wieder Erzahlt

1920 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 176.25
2041 Philip H. Sheridan

Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan. General United States Army - Philip H. Sheridan

1888 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 176.25
2042 Almira Russell Hancock

Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock, by His Wife - Almira Russell Hancock

1887 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 176.25
2051 J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

1906 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 164.50
2004 Laurence Binyon

The Drawings and Engravings of William Blake

1922 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 152.75
2048 Richard Evelyn Byrd

Little America: Aerial Exploration in the Antarctic, The Flight to the South Pole

1930 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 141.00
2008 M. L. Weems

The Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen

1814 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 117.50
2012 Richard Delafield

Report on the Art of War in Europe in 1854, 1855, and 1856; By Colonel R. Delafield, U.S.A., and Major of the Corps of Engineers, from His Notes and Observations Made As a Member of a "Military Commission to the Theater of War in Europe." - Richard Delafi

1861 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 117.50
2021 Pierre Carpentier

Glossarium Novum Ad Scriptores Medii Aevi, Cum Latinos Tum Gallicos; Seu Supplementum Ad Auctiorem Glossarii Cangiani Editionem.

1766 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 117.50
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