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Lark Mason Associates: Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Stamps - online bidstart 8/8

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Auction Name Fine Books, Manuscripts, and Stamps - online bidstart 8/8 Total Sales (USD) 133,640.00
Auction Date August 27, 2019 - August 27, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 84,385.00
Sale Number #SBC2 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 131,690.00
Total Lots 138
Sold Lots 77 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 146,020.00
% of Lots Sold 55.80% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 233,085.00
Unsold Lots 61 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 57.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5473118

Anno Regni Georgi II. The Intolerable Acts and Other Bills

1774 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 19,375.00
5473112 Paine, Thomas.

Common Sense Addressed to The Inhabitants of America, London

1776 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,125.00
5473142

Anno Regni Georgi III. Act for Granting and Applying Certain Stamp Duties, and Other Duties in the British Colonies and Plantations in America, towards further defraying the Expences of defending, protecting, and securing the same ; and for amending such

1765-1766 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,437.50
5473117

A Declaration by the Representatives of the United Colonies of North-America

1775 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,187.50
5473121 Adams, John.

Dissertation on the Feudal and the Canon Law. IN: The London Chronicle

1765 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,500.00
5473100 Locke, John.

Two Treatises of Government

1698 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,250.00
5473131 Nightingale, Florence.

Two Autographed Letters together with Notes on Nursing, ca. 1860

1860 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,125.00
5473095 Burgh, James.

Political Disquisition; or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses,..., Calculated to Draw the Timely Attention of Government and People to a Due Consideration of the Necessity, and the Means, of Reforming Those Errors, Defects, and Abuses; of

1775 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,375.00
5473096 Burlamaqui, J. J.

The Principles of Natural Law, 1748 and The Principles of Politic Law, 1752

1748 and 1752 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,875.00
5473135

Letters on the Slave-Trade and the State of the Natives

1791 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,750.00
5473094

A Constitution or Frame of Government, Agreed upon the Delegates of the People of the State of Massachusetts-Bay, in Convention, Begun and Held at Cambridge on the First of September, 1779, and Continued by Adjournments to the Second of March, 1780. To be

1780 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,875.00
5473103 Dickinson, John.

Letters from A Farmer in Pennsylvania to The Inhabitants of The British Colonies

1768 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,875.00
5473123 Hobbes, Thomas (English, 1588-1679.)

Leviathan, 3rd edition

1651 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,875.00
5473125

The Geneva Bible: That is the Holy Scriptures Conteined in the Olde and New Testament

1595 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,376.25
5473150 More, Hannah.

Partial Autograph Letter Addressed to Spencer Percival, and The Sorrows of Yamba

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,375.00
5473126

The Geneva Bible: That is, The Holy Scriptures conteined in the Old and New Testament

1603 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,328.75
5473141

Anno Regni Georgi II. New York Restraining Act and Act for Repeal of the Massachusetts Bay Act, 1767 and 1778 SBC2

1774, 1767 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,250.00
5473136 Clarkson, T.

History of the Rise, Progress, and and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade, by the British Parliament, Two Vols, and a Autographed Letter

1808 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,125.00
5473137 Sancho, Ignatius.

Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, 1783 and another Book

1783/1793 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,000.00
5473076 Tolstoy, Leo.

War and Peace, 5 of 6 Volumes

1886 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
5473104 Seabury, Samuel.

Free Thoughts on the Proceedings of the Continental Congress

1775 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,625.00
5473119 Algernon, Sidney.

Discourses Concerning Government

1698 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
5473108

Extracts From the Votes and Proceedings Of the American Continental Congress, 5th of Sept. 1774

1774 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,500.00
5473113 Johnson, Samuel.

Taxation no Tyranny

1775 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,375.00
5473116 Madison, James.

The Papers of James Madison, in Three Volumes

1840 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,375.00
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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