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Freemans: The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer: Books and Autographs

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Auction Name The Collection of Victor Niederhoffer: Books and Autographs Total Sales (USD) 160,825.00
Auction Date September 19, 2019 - September 19, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 98,270.00
Sale Number #1640 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 153,930.00
Total Lots 99
Sold Lots 76 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 183,670.00
% of Lots Sold 76.77% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 284,530.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 56.52%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
69 Harris, John, et al

Lexicon Technicum: or, an Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences explaining not only the Terms of Art, but the Arts Themselves

 1704 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,875.00
56 (Jefferson, Thomas)

Report of the Secretary of State, on the Subject of Establishing a Uniformity in the Weights, Measures and Coins of the United States

 1790 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,250.00
57 Jefferson, Thomas

A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. For the Use of the Senate of the United States

 1801 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 6,250.00
65 Darwin, Charles

Geological Observations on South America. Being the Third Part of The Geology of the Voyage of the Beagle, under the command of Capt. Fitzroy, R.N. during the years 1832 to 1836

 1846 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,625.00
95 Young, Arthur

Travels during the years 1787, 1788, & 1789; undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the Kingdom of France.

 1794 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 5,375.00
21 Hemingway, Ernest

Typed Letter, signed

 1950 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,000.00
61 [The Caxton Club] Duff, E. Gordon

William Caxton

1905 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,000.00
37 Plutarch

The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals...

 1603 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,550.00
20 Grant, U(lysses). S.

Autograph Letter, signed

 1862 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,375.00
51 Bacqueville de la Potherie (Claude-Charles Le Roy)

Histoire de l'Amerique septentrionale...

 1722 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,063.00
10 Newell, C(hester).

History of the Revolution in Texas, Particularly of the War of 1835 & '36; Together With the Latest Geographical, Topographical and Statistical Accounts of the Country...

 1838 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
71 Papin, Denis.

A New Digester or Engine for Softning Bones, Containing the Description of its Make and Use in these Particulars: Viz. Cookery, Voyages at Sea, Confectionary...and Dying. AND A Continuation of the New Digester of Bones: It's Improvements and New Uses it H

 1681 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
36 Plutarch

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes...

 1595 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,375.00
67 [Edison, Thomas] Atkinson, Philip

The Elements of Electric Lighting...

1888 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,375.00
1 [Davis, Jefferson] Hampton, Lieut. General Wade

Address on the Life and Character of Gen. Robert E. Lee, Delivered on the 12th of October, 1871, Before the Society of Confederate Soldiers and Sailors, in Maryland

 1871 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
97 (Collins, Samuel)

The Present State of Russia, In a Letter to a Friend at London; Written by an Eminent Person, Residing at the Great Tzars Court at Mosco for the Space of Nine Years...

 1671 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,250.00
22 Hemingway, Ernest

Autograph Letter, signed

 [1959 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,125.00
53 Locke, John

Some Thoughts Concerning Education

 1693 USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,125.00
43 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson...

 1791 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,000.00
66 Darwin, Charles

The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication

 1868 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,860.00
46 Rand, Ayn

Atlas Shrugged

 1957 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,600.00
40 Petty, Sir William

The Political Anatomy of Ireland...To Which is Added Verbum Sapienti; or an Account of the Wealth and Expenses of England...

 1691 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
98 Lyall, Robert

The Character of The Russians, and A Detailed History of Moscow...

 1823 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
15 Churchill, Winston

Typed Letter, signed

 1952 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
33 Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

 1881 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
  • 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
    Modern First Editions
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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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    Modern First Editions
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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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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