Back
Christies: Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana - bidstart 10/1
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana - bidstart 10/1 | Total Sales (USD) | 2,732,750.00 |
Auction Date | October 16, 2020 - October 16, 2020 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 1,528,800.00 |
Sale Number | #19027 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 2,351,100.00 |
Total Lots | 108 | ||
Sold Lots | 77 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 2,086,600.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 71.30% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 3,183,300.00 |
Unsold Lots | 31 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 85.85% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
36 | The First National Thanksgiving |
1777 | USD 500,000.00 - 800,000.00 | USD 475,000.00 | |
73 | ARISTOTELES (384-322 BCE) | The complete editio princeps |
1495-1498. | USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 | USD 475,000.00 |
30 | PELHAM, Henry (1748-1806) | Boston under Siege |
1777 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 300,000.00 |
2 | BRAUN, Georg (1541-1622) and Frans HOGENBERG (fl. 1540-1590) | Cities of the World |
1599; 1606. | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 250,000.00 |
3 | CALOIRO Y OLIVA, Placido (fl.1617-1657) [and OLIVA, Joan (fl.1592-1643)] | Portolan Chart of the Mediterranean |
1617 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 112,500.00 |
48 | WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799) | Surveying his lands on the Ohio River |
1787 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 100,000.00 |
25 | WASHINGTON, George (1732-1799) | On his mission to Fort Le Boeuf |
1754 | USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | USD 75,000.00 |
37 | LE ROUGE, George Louis (1712-1719) | Atlas & Pilote Americain |
1778 | USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 | USD 75,000.00 |
65 | LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) | Offering thanks for two canes |
1864 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 60,000.00 |
1 | THEVET, André (1502-1590) | The Singularities of France Antarctique |
1558 | USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 | USD 52,500.00 |
72 | Minoru Yamasaki & Associates and Emery Roth & Sons | World Trade Center |
1968-72. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 43,750.00 |
71 | KENNEDY, John F. (1917-1963) | Notes from the first Presidential debate |
1960 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 40,000.00 |
60 | THE UNION IS DISSOLVED! |
1860 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 32,500.00 | |
27 | EVANS, Lewis (c.1700-1756) | Lewis Evans on his Map |
1756 | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 30,000.00 |
77 | Illuminated Schoeffer New Testament |
1472 | USD 25,000.00 - 45,000.00 | USD 30,000.00 | |
46 | Presidential Autographs |
c.1783-1950 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 | |
84 | NICOLAUS DE GRETZ (fl. 1421-39, rector of Vienna University 1437) | Austrian chained binding |
1440 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
93 | GÖDEL, Kurt (1906-1978) | Gödel on the continuum hypothesis |
1953 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 25,000.00 |
41 | [TÚPAC AMARU II (1738-1781) and KATARI, Tomás (d.1781).] | Linking the American Revolution and Túpac Amaru |
1781 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
99 | KAFKA, Franz (1883-1924) | Franz Kafka to Klopstock's supervisor |
1922 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
62 | LINCOLN, Abraham (1809-1865) | To Secretary of War Edwin Stanton |
1862 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
97 | JUNG, Carl (1875-1961) | Carl Jung on happiness |
1950 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 21,250.00 |
31 | The Declaration of Independence |
1833 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 | |
47 | JEFFERSON, Thomas (1743-1826) | On the Mason Dixon Line & the Barbary Pirates |
1785 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
55 | AUDUBON, John James (1785-1851), after; LIZARS, William Home (1788-1859), engraver; HAVELL Jr, Robert (1793-1878), aquatint. | Wild Turkey |
1827-30. | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |