PBA Galleries: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Rare Books and Manuscripts | Total Sales (USD) | 126,930.00 |
| Auction Date | September 05, 2019 - September 05, 2019 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 123,710.00 |
| Sale Number | #682 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 193,900.00 |
| Total Lots | 301 | ||
| Sold Lots | 221 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 170,120.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 73.42% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 267,000.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 80 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 47.54% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 233 | Topsell, Edward | The History of Four-footed Beasts and Serpents ... collected out of the writings of Conradus Gesner and other authors ... whereunto is now added The Theater of Insects ... |
1658 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 7,800.00 |
| 52 | [Dana, Richard Henry] | Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea |
1840 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 5,100.00 |
| 59 | Dickens, Charles | The Works of Charles Dickens |
1902 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 4,800.00 |
| 8 | Rendu, Victor | Ampelographie Francaise |
1857 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 |
| 259 | Yogananda, Paramahansa | Autobiography of a Yogi |
[1946] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,900.00 |
| 224 | Stevenson, Robert Louis | An Object of Pity, or, The Man Haggard: A Romance by Many Competent Hands [Together With] Objects of Pity, or, Self and Company by A Gentleman of Quality |
[1892] | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
| 226 | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly |
1852 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,300.00 |
| 146 | Kipling, Rudyard | The Works of Rudyard Kipling - The Seven Seas Edition |
1914-1926 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 200 | Rouse, Henry Clark | Traveling Around the World with General Nelson A. Miles: Extracts from Home Letters of Henry Clark Rouse, Esq. October 1st 1902 to February 15th, 1903 |
1904 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 232 | Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings trilogy |
1954-1955 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 253 | Wilde, Oscar | The Writings of Oscar Wilde - the Astral Edition |
1907 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 111 | Grisham, John | A Time to Kill |
[1989] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
| 4 | Aesop | Le Fabule de Isopo... e Latyne historyade |
1502 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
| 214 | Shelvocke, George | A Voyage Round the World by Way of the Great South Sea, Perform'd in the Years 1719, 20, 21, 22... |
1726 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
| 151 | Locke, John | An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding |
1694 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,160.00 |
| 204 | Ruscha, Edward & Billy Bengston | Business Cards |
1968 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
| 28 | (Caxton, William, printer) | An Original Leaf from the Polycronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482: The Life and Works of William Caxton, with an historical reminder of fifteenth century England by Benjamin P. Kurtz together with a Note on the Polycronicon |
1938 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 255 | Woolf, Virginia | Orlando: A Biography |
1928 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 46 | Manuscript documentation of a slave auction in Cuba, with a list of slaves and their owners |
1865 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,680.00 | |
| 199 | Rossetti, Dante Gabriel | Hand and Soul |
1895 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
| 231 | Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit |
1938 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,560.00 |
| 128 | Hugo, Victor | [The Works of Victor Hugo] |
[1900] | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
| 195 | Irving, Washington | The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
[1928] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
| 150 | Lindbergh, Charles A. | We The Famous Flier's Own Story of His Life and His Transatlantic Flight, Together with His Views of the Future of Aviation |
1927 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 152 | London, Jack | The Call of the Wild |
1903 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
