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Freemans: Books, Maps and Manuscripts

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Auction Name Books, Maps and Manuscripts Total Sales (USD) 190,026.00
Auction Date September 19, 2019 - September 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 113,410.00
Sale Number #1641 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 177,840.00
Total Lots 339
Sold Lots 267 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 147,360.00
% of Lots Sold 78.76% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 230,770.00
Unsold Lots 72 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 82.34%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
225 Ursinus, Benjamin, John Napier

Cursus mathematici practici, volumen primum continens... trigonometrian logarithmican...

1618 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 10,625.00
136 (Paine, Thomas)

Dissertations on Government, the Affairs of the Bank, and Paper-Money

1786 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 8,750.00
415 Bulkeley, Morgan

Autograph note and albumen print, both signed

1892 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 8,750.00
102 Roberts, Robert

The House Servants Directory, or A Monitor for Private Families:

1827 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 7,813.00
364 Wyeth, N.C. (American, 1882-1945)

Pennsylvania Railroad Patriotic Posters Nos. 1-4

1930 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,500.00
352 Citizen Lee, (Richard) (Imprint)

Bill of rights, the birth-right of Englishmen: a short account of that statute, with observations thereon; Recommended to the Consideration of the people of England, at the alarming period of 1795; And ought to be read by every individual in the kingdom a

1795 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,938.00
412 McKay, Charles

Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions

1841 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,000.00
169 Moore, Clement C.

Poems

1844 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,063.00
172 [Ross, George, and others]

Mini-archive Relating to the Mary Ann Furnace of York County, Pennsylvania, The Spring Forge, and the Surrounding Area

Ca. 1760-1810 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 4,063.00
351 James, William

The Meaning of Truth, A Sequel to 'Pragmatism'

1909 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,250.00
416 [Ruth, Babe]

Signed 1939 World's Fair Guest Card

1939 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,250.00
162 [Warhol, Andy]

Holy Cats by Andy Warhol's Mother

1954 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,125.00
298 Nabokov, Vladimir

Lolita

1955 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,860.00
143 Thomas, (Isaiah)

The History of Printing in America. With a Biography of Printers, and an Account of Newspapers. To Which is Prefixed a Concise View of the Discovery and Progress of the Art in Other Parts of the World…

1810 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,750.00
244 Lefèvre, Edwin

Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

1923 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,750.00
305 (Whitman, Walt)

Two Rivulets; Including Democratic Vistas, Centennial Songs, and Passage to India

1876 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
392 [Lawrence, Jacob]

The First Book of Moses, Called Genesis

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,750.00
175

Collection of Signatures from the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

1946 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,625.00
282 Conrad, Joseph

Memorial Edition, Collected Works of Joseph Conrad

1925-1926 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,625.00
345 Penn, William

Manuscript Document, signed

1681 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,340.00
141 [Saur, Christoph]

Biblia, das ist: die heilige schrift altes und neues testaments, nach der teutschen uebersetzung D. Martin Luthers...

1763 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,125.00
396 [Picasso, Pablo] Aristophanes

Lysistrata

1934 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,080.00
236 Graham, Benjamin, and David L. Dodd

Security Analysis

1934 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,950.00
353 Marx, Karl

Capital: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production.

1889 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
104 Vaux, Roberts

Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford; two of the Earliest Public Advocates for the Emancipation of The Enslaved Africans.

1815 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,750.00
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
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