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Holabird Western Americana Collections: Summer 2020 Extravaganza Sale: Part 1 - Day 1

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Auction Name Summer 2020 Extravaganza Sale: Part 1 - Day 1 Total Sales (USD) 34,098.75
Auction Date June 25, 2020 - June 25, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 43,260.00
Sale Number #65563 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,622.00
Total Lots 458
Sold Lots 254 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,490.00
% of Lots Sold 55.46% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 169,902.00
Unsold Lots 204 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 20.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1458

Frontier Gasoline "Rarin'-To-Go" Large (6 foot) Enamel Cowboy Sign - Rare! (108313)

c1950s USD 6,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,375.00
1308

Kinsey Brothers Logging Photography Collection (117198)

1900's USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,000.00
1276

Niagra Insurance Company Sign (118284)

1900s USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
1094

Hetch Hetchy SF Power Porcelain Sign (118281)

1900s USD 400.00 - 1,000.00 USD 687.50
1300

Display Piece: Deadwood Cabinet Card Album (118190)

1890-1910 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 625.00
1643

Clemens- Sketches New and Old, 1875, First Edition, Second State, Bright Covers (117933)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 500.00
1031

A Box of Hollywood Ephemera! (118810)

1920s-1950s USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
1221

Hutchings' California Magazine w/ 1st Published View of Carson City (113343)

1860 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
1231

A. Cook & Company Virginia, Nevada Territorial Grocer (119414)

1864 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 375.00
1531

Sierra Madre Land & Lumber Co. Photo Album (119577)

1910 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
1640

Clemens - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Tom Sawyer's Companion, 1885 Edition (117936)

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 350.00
1039

Seth Kinman Presidential Commemorative CDV Photo (117315)

1864 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 343.75
1280

Signed Letter from Anarchist Author Emma Goldman to Pianist Anton Rovinsky (117337)

1910s USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 343.75
1314

Historic Book of Photographs Yellowstone National Park by Haynes, Inc. (117486)

1920's-1930's USD 80.00 - 160.00 USD 343.75
1235

Goldfield News Tribune (108447)

c1920s-1930s USD 200.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
1275

New York Belting & Packing Co. Porcelain Sign (118278)

1930's USD 180.00 - 250.00 USD 312.50
1086

California Gold Rush Letter (113235)

1851 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
1241

Dennis Meyers' Film & Slide Collection (120631)

1980's-2000's USD 350.00 - 700.00 USD 281.25
1112

So. Sierras Power Co. Enamel Sign (118280)

1900's USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
1232

Piper's Opera House Pass Out Checks (119688)

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 250.00
1283

Actor and Actress Mounted Photos, NY Theatre Related (89335)

c. 1885-1890 USD 400.00 - 1,400.00 USD 250.00
1049

Armstrong Ranch Monterey County Archive (113245)

1880s-1950s USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 237.50
1071

Stereoview Photo of Alcatraz Island c.1864 (118008)

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 225.00
1510

Vintage Publications (119049)

1900's USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 225.00
1115

Stereo-view photo cards of San Francisco after the earthquake, and Yosemite valley (118006)

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 212.50
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    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.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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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