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Auction Name American Historical Ephemera and Photography: Timed Auction - online bidstart 9/4 Total Sales (USD) 58,681.00
Auction Date September 14, 2020 - September 14, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 35,750.00
Sale Number #91420 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 61,700.00
Total Lots 182
Sold Lots 152 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 46,250.00
% of Lots Sold 83.52% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 79,400.00
Unsold Lots 30 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.91%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
78

Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of a Boy in Colonial Garb by C.R. Rees

18th century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 5,313.00
18

Thomas Stonewall Jackson's Personal Surgeon, Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire, Civil War CDV, Plus

1862 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,375.00
79

Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Armed Man, Possibly Californio

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,875.00
97

Occupational and Hobbyist Tintypes and Ambrotype, Including Pugilist Portrait and Remarkably Clear Image of Coopers Holding Tools of the Trade, Lot of 10

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,375.00
19

Union General Nathaniel Lyon, Large Format Photograph by Troxell, St. Louis

1841 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
77

Remarkable Quarter Plate Daguerreotype of a Templar Knight in Full Regalia

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,063.00
220

Legal Document Signed by William H. Harrison, 1823

1823 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,063.00
74

Composer Stephen Foster's Parents, Eliza & William Barclay Foster, Half Plate Daguerreotype, Plus

1940.  USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
89

Daguerreotype and Ambrotype Portraits of Gentlemen, Lot of 11

1856 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 875.00
80

Three Daguerreotypes of Learned Laypeople, Featuring a Romantic Quarter Plate Image by Fitzgibbon of St. Louis

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 750.00
23

Iowa 21st Infantry, CDVs of Civil War Soldiers, Henry Ward Beecher, Plus

USD 250.00 - 450.00 USD 688.00
42

Sergeant James Stickler, 103 IL Infantry, Illustrated War-Date Letter Honoring Abraham Lincoln, Plus Locket Containing Miniature Albumen Portraits of Union Personalities

1865 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 688.00
45

Collection of Confederate Bonds and Notes, Incl. Counterfeit Examples

1860s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 688.00
93

Lot of Two Daguerreian Wall Frames Containing Sixth and Ninth Plate Daguerreotype, Ambrotype and Tintype Portraits of Men, Women, and Children

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 688.00
101

Eleven Fruit, Floral, and Geometric Quarter and Sixth Plate Union Cases Containing Portraits of Men, Women, and Children

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 688.00
123

Bradley & Rulofson, San Francisco, Four Cabinet Cards with Interesting Content Incl. Hawaiian King Kalakaua

1878 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 688.00
15

1848 Letters from Seneca Chief Nathaniel T. Strong Concerning Indian Affairs at the Cattaraugus Reservation

1848 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 625.00
107

Eclectic Mix of Union Cases, Incl. Papier Mache with Mother of Pearl and Hand Painting, Velvet, & Thermoplastic, One Containing Presentation Medallion

1869 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 625.00
249

Pre-Prohibition Phoenix Komon Cream Beer Tray, Central Consumers Company, Louisville, Kentucky

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 625.00
16

Pair of Militia Images, Including Daguerreotype Portrait by C.D. Fredericks and Unmarked Albumen Portrait

1858 forage cap USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 594.00
20

Albumen Photograph of Identified Musicians from VT 2nd Infantry

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 594.00
88

Daguerreotype Portraits of Debonnaire Gentlemen, Including a Daguerreotype by R.H. Vance, San Francisco, Lot of 9

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 594.00
121

Miscellaneous Thermoplastic Boxes, Cases, and More, Including Circular Playing Card Case Containing Card Deck

1874 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 594.00
127

Lot of 11 CDV, Cabinet Card, and Large Format Albumen Albums, Including Images of 19th Century Personalities and Performers

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 594.00
230

Teddy Roosevelt, TLS Dated January 20, 1902, Regarding Payment to the Chickasaw Nation

1902 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 594.00
  • 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.
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