AntiquarianAuctions.com: Rare Books - online bidstart 5/28
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| Auction Name | Rare Books - online bidstart 5/28 | Total Sales (USD) | 28,445.00 |
| Auction Date | June 04, 2020 - June 04, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 38,810.00 |
| Sale Number | #US2 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 56,740.00 |
| Total Lots | 231 | ||
| Sold Lots | 58 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 151,900.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 25.11% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 230,240.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 173 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 12.35% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | [Emperor JUSTINIAN (c.482-565)] | [Corpus juris civilis. trans. Body of Civil Law: the foundation of Western legal tradition] |
1553-1556 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,780.00 |
| 38 | CIRCUMNAVIGATION. - William SIMPSON (1823 - 1899) | [Meeting the Sun] All Round the World |
1873 | USD 2,800.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,200.00 |
| 2 | [Bishop John WILKINS (1614-1672)]. | Mathematicall Magick, or, the wonders that may be performed by Mechanical Geometry. |
1648 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 88 | Ralph STEADMAN (b. 1936) | [Original signed caricature portrait of Art Historian and Broadcaster Kenneth Clark, Lord Clark] |
[c.1969-1975] | USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,890.00 |
| 112 | BINDING, Embroidered cloth with the Portuguese Royal Arms. | [Portuguese Almanack]. Diario Ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal Principalmente para a Cidade de Lisboa, para o Anno de 1816. |
[1815] | USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,449.00 |
| 47 | PACIFIC & North-West Passage. - Nathaniel PORTLOCK & George DIXON . | An Abridgement of Portlock and Dixon's Voyage Round the World, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788. |
1789 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,200.00 |
| 11 | Edward KIDDER (1665/6 - 1739) | Kidder's Receipts of Pastry and Cookery, For the Use of his Scholars. |
n.d but 1733/34 or earlier | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 150 | President Dwight D. EISENHOWER (1890-1969). - Roald DAHL (1916-1990). | The Gremlins. From the Walt Disney Production. A Royal Air Force Story. By Flight Lieutenant Roald Dahl. |
1944 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 214 | MEXICO, Spiritualism. - Alfonso GARCIA TELLEZ | [Mexican Artist’s Book & Ethnographic Artifact] Historia de una Vivienda para Hacer una Ofrenda al Santo Tecuil… |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 919.00 | |
| 105 | MATHEMATICIAN'S portrait. - [Bernhard JOBIN (d.1597, artist).] | [Stephan BRECHTEL (1523-1574)]. Effigies D. Stephani Brechtelii ... qui anno Christi MCLXXIIII ... ex hac vita excessit |
[1574] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 735.00 |
| 205 | Emma Hardinge BRITTEN (1823-1899, editor) - [William BRITTEN (author)] | [American Spiritualism; Women.] Art Magic; or, Mundane, Sub-Mundane and Super-Mundane Spiritualism. |
1876 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 672.00 |
| 145 | U.S. CARD GAME. – W. & S.B. IVES (manufacturers). | [The Game of Trades.] |
[c. 1845-1860] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 12 | [Samuel PEPYS (1633-1703)] | Memoires relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688. |
1690 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 106 | Edward RUTLEDGE (signer of the Declaration of Independence). – PHOENIX ASSURANCE Co. | Certificate of Insurance for Hon. Edward Rutledge's "Dwelling House only situate on the West side of Broad Street Charleston" |
1788 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 600.00 |
| 45 | BRITISH NORTH BORNEO Co. - William Burgess PRYER, Frank HATTON & L. S. von DONOP. | [Five works] in five volumes. |
[c.1883-c.1886] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 552.00 |
| 37 | HAITI & DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, including slavery. - William WALTON (1784-1857) | Present State of the Spanish Colonies, Including a ... Report of Hispañola, or ... part of Santo Domingo [etc.] |
1810 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 50 | [Ortensio LANDO, compilor]. | Lettere Di Molte Valorose Donne, Nelle Quali Chiaramente Appare Non Esser Ne Di Eloquentia Ne Di Dottrina Alli Huomini Inferiori |
1548[-1549] | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 8 | G.[ervaise] M.[ARKHAM] and W.[illiam] L.[AWSON] | A Way to Get Wealth containing Six Principall Vocations |
1668 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 447.00 |
| 24 | Daniel WEBSTER (1758-1843). | A Dictionary of the English language ... By Noah Webster … Reprinted by E.H. Barker ... from a copy communicated by the Author |
1831-1832 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 427.00 |
| 148 | Wall Map of GUILFORD, Ct. – H. IRVINE (surveyor). – Richard CLARK (publisher). | Map of the Town of Guilford New Haven County Connecticut. From Actual Survey by H. Irvine, surveyor. Published by Richard Clark |
1852 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 400.00 |
| 153 | Robert CRAWFORD (artist) & Leigh W. RUTLEDGE. | The Lighthouse, the Cat, and the Sea. A Tropical Tale. - inscribed book + original artwork |
1999 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 400.00 |
| 139 | [Attributed to R.S. GILBERT, or Alexander ANDERSON, wood-block cutters]. | An original end-grain wood printing block of a Federal Eagle + a copy of “M’Carty’s American Primer.” |
[c.1828] | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 350.00 |
| 122 | WOMEN in business. – J. ELLIOTT (collector of Excise) & Thos. SPOONER (supervisor). | An original letterpress and manuscript ‘Tea License’ ‘No. 129 No. 8’, dated 9th September 1814 |
1814 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 343.00 |
| 177 | [American CIRCUS] - Clyde BEATTY and Edward ANTHONY (1895-1971). | The Big Cage |
1936 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 339.00 |
| 16 | Mary Ann Tocker (1778–1853) | [Mary Ann Tocker v. Richard Gurney: a Sammelband containing three of the pamphlets resulting from her trial for libel]. |
[1818] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 326.00 |
