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Doyle New York: Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson

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Auction Name Travel Literature and Sporting Books from the Library of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson Total Sales (USD) 42,303.75
Auction Date October 30, 2018 - October 30, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 28,805.00
Sale Number #18jj03 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 44,435.00
Total Lots 270
Sold Lots 226 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 33,045.00
% of Lots Sold 83.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 51,030.00
Unsold Lots 44 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
114 HENDERSON, KATHLEEN C. T.

The Sporting Adventures of a Memsahib.

 1918 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,000.00
40 BURNES, ALEXANDER

Travels into Bokhara; being the account of a journey from India to Cabool, Tartary, and Persia...

 1834 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 812.50
48 CALDWELL, HARRY R.

Experiences with Man-Eating Tigers in China.

 1914] USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 812.50
79 ERIC [=LITTLE, WILLIAM?]

Ten Days "Casual" with Ladies after Tiger.

 1916 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
27 BIGSBY, JOHN J.

The Shoe and Canoe or Pictures of Travel in the Canadas.

 1850 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
167 OATES, FRANK and OATES, C. G., ed.

Matabele Land and Victoria Falls. A Naturalist's Wanderings in the Interior of South Africa.

 1889 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
184 PREJEVALSKY, NIKOLAI

Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet...

 1876 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
51 [CANADA] PERRY, [RAYMOND J.?]

Manuscript diary detailing a seven-week camping and canoeing trip.

 1911 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
116 HICKS, F. C.

Forty Years Among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas.

 1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 593.75
173 PAULI, FREDERICK G.

A Record of a Trip through Canada's Wilderness to Lake Chibogamoo and to the Great Lake Mistassini in the Summer of 1906.

 1907 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 593.75
56 COOLEY, MYRON

Outings and Innings In Northern Minnesota, And Along the North Shore of Lake Superior.

 1894 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 562.50
213 SMITH, A. DONALDSON

Through Unknown African Countries. The first expedition from Somaliland to Lake Lamu.

 1897 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
221 [IRAN] STEIN, AUREL, (Sir).

Old Routes of Western Iran. Narrative of an archaeological journey.

 1940 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 531.25
38 BROWN, HORACE COWLEY

[Sketches by Captain Horace Brown of the Royal (Bombay) Artillery].

 circa 1876 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 500.00
174 PHILBY, J. B.

The Empty Quarter. Being a description of the Great South Desert of Arabia known as Rub' al Khali.

 1933 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 500.00
88 FRESHFIELD, DOUGLAS W.

Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan...

 1869 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
151 [MASTEN, ARTHUR H.]

The Story of Adirondac.

 1923 USD 30.00 - 50.00 USD 468.75
188 RAOUL

Reminiscences of Twenty Years' Pigsticking in Bengal.

 1893 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 468.75
16 ARCHER, [EDWARD CAULFIELD]

Tours in Upper India, and in parts of the Himalaya Mountains...

 1833 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 406.25
94 GILLMORE, PARKER

Lone Life: A Year in the Wilderness.

 1875 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
190 RASMUSSEN, KNUD

Greenland by the Polar Sea. The Story of the Thule Expedition from Melville Bay to Cape Morris Jesup.

 1921 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 406.25
191 RAWSTORNE, LAWRENCE

Gamonia: or, the Art of Preserving Game...

 1837 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 406.25
115 HICKS, F. C.

Forty Years Among the Wild Animals of India from Mysore to the Himalayas.

 1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
133 KERR, WALTER MONTAGU

The Far Interior: A Narrative of Travel and Adventure from the Cape of Good Hope across the Zambesi to the Lake Regions of Central Africa.

 1886 USD 400.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
138 LARKING, CUTHBERT

Bandobast and Khabar. Reminiscences of India.

 1888 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 375.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • 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.
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