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Kolbe and Fanning Numismatic Booksellers: Catalogue of Catalogues: The P. Scott Rubin Library - bidstart 9/27

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Auction Name Catalogue of Catalogues: The P. Scott Rubin Library - bidstart 9/27 Total Sales (USD) 134,155.63
Auction Date October 24, 2020 - October 24, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 98,125.00
Sale Number #157 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 98,125.00
Total Lots 500
Sold Lots 372 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 136,785.00
% of Lots Sold 74.40% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 136,785.00
Unsold Lots 128 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 98.08%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
435 Thomas, M., & Sons

EXECUTORS’ SALE AT NO. 93 WALNUT STREET. VALUABLE COLLECTION OF GOLD AND SILVER COINS, MEDALS, &C….

 1851 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,987.50
203 Freeman & Co., Samuel T

PEREMPTORY SALE. COLLECTION OF MEDALS, GOLD AND SILVER COINS, BRONZE AND SILVER CASKETS, SWORD GUARDS, &C.

1918 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 5,581.25
157 Cogan, Edward

AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES.

1858–1879. USD 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,700.00
92 Chapman, S.H & H

EXECUTOR’S SALE. CATALOGUE OF THE STOCK OF POSTAGE STAMPS OF THE LATE JOHN W. KLINE OF PHILADELPHIA.

1896 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 4,406.25
438 Weyl, Adolph

VERZEICHNISS EINER BEDEUTENDEN SAMMLUNG VON MÜNZEN UND MEDAILLEN VON AMERIKA, AUSTRALIEN, ASIEN UND AFRIKA, SOWIE EINER STATTLICHEN REIHE PROKLAMATIONS-MÜNZEN VON SPANIEN.

1884 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,406.25
326 New York Coin & Stamp Co

CATALOGUE OF THE REMARKABLY FINE COLLECTION OF U.S. PATTERN AND EXPERIMENTAL COINS, FORMED BY MR. GEO. D. WOODSIDE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PA.,

 1892 USD 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,525.00
442 Woodward, W. Eilliot

CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS & MEDALS, FINE AND RARE SPECIMENS, FOREIGN GOLD, SILVER, AND COPPER COINS.

1860 USD 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,525.00
308 Mehl, B

Max. AUCTION CATALOGUES. Sales 1–116, complete.

1906–1955. USD 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,350.00
322 New Netherlands Coin Company

AUCTION SALE CATALOGUES. NOS. 1–66.

1940–1976. USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,115.00
441 Woodward, W. Eilliot

CATALOGUE OF A VALUABLE COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS AND MEDALS, COMPRISING MANY FINE AND RARE SPECIMENS, …

 (1860). USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,997.50
494 Woodward, W. Eilliot

CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN AND RUSSIAN MINERALS, AND ARTICLES OF HOUSEHOLD ADORNMENT.

1886 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 1,762.50
235 Hesslein, William

NUMISMATIC AUCTION SALES.

1909–31. USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,527.50
428 Strobridge, William Harvey

A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE SEAVEY COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COINS, THE PROPERTY OF LORIN G. PARMELEE, OF BOSTON.

1873 USD 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,527.50
83 Chapman, S.H & H

CATALOGUE OF THE LARGE AND VALUABLE COLLECTION OF ANCIENT, FOREIGN, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN COINS AND MEDALS OF THE LATE THOMAS CLENEAY, ESQ., OF CINCINNATI.

1890 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,410.00
393 Sampson, H.G

CATALOGUE OF A VERY VALUABLE AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF GOLD, SILVER AND COPPER COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF MR. L.F. MONTANYE, OF NEW YORK CITY.

1881 USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 1,292.50
4 Adams, Geoffrey Charlton

PLATES ISSUED TO ACCOMPANY THE CATALOGUE FOR THE NOVEMBER 1906 DIXIE LAND COLLECTION SALE.

1906 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,175.00
56 Bowers & Ruddy / Bowers & Merena Galleries

AUCTION CATALOGUES. A complete set of 197 auction catalogues issued in the main Bowers & Ruddy and Bowers & Merena series through the March 2003 Smith & Youngman sale (the last to bear the name of Q. David Bowers), plus 13 of 19 mail-bid sales conducted b

 USD 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,175.00
96 Chapman, S.H & H

CATALOGUE OF THE FINE COLLECTIONS OF COINS AND MEDALS OF S. EMLEN MEIGS AND DAVID B. PAUL OF PHILADELPHIA, P. NAPOLEON BRETON, MONTREAL, CANADA AND SEVERAL OTHERS.

1901 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 1,175.00
102 Chapman, S.H & H

THE J.A. NEXSEN COLLECTION OF COINS.

1904 USD 300.00 - 300.00 USD 1,175.00
116 Chapman, S.H

CATALOG OF THE COLLECTION OF COINS OF THE UNITED STATES OF J.S. LAUGHREY, ESQ., DAWSON, PA.

1919 USD 150.00 - 150.00 USD 1,175.00
164 Cogan, Edward

CATALOGUE OF COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF MORTIMER LIVINGSTON MACKENZIE, ESQ.

1869 USD 500.00 - 500.00 USD 1,175.00
378 Raymond, Wayte, and J.G

AUCTION CATALOGUES.

1932–45. USD 900.00 - 900.00 USD 1,116.25
62 Burleigh, Joseph B., Jr

CATALOGUE OF A VARIED AND INTERESTING COLLECTION OF MEDALS, ENGLISH TOKENS, UNITED STATES, COLONIAL AND FOREIGN COINS, U.S. AND FOREIGN STAMPS & ENVELOPES, BELONGING TO SEVERAL PRIVATE COLLECTORS.

1884 USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 998.75
163 Cogan, Edward

CATALOGUE OF COINS AND MEDALS, THE PROPERTY OF MORTIMER LIVINGSTON MACKENZIE, ESQ.

1869 USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 998.75
495 Woodward, W. Eilliot

CATALOGUE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS OF SEVERAL PROMINENT AMERICAN COLLECTORS, …

 1886 USD 750.00 - 750.00 USD 998.75
  • 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
    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
  • 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.
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