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Auction Name Rare Books with Science, Medicine & Natural History Total Sales (USD) 192,810.00
Auction Date November 18, 2021 - November 18, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 224,500.00
Sale Number #748 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 344,500.00
Total Lots 240
Sold Lots 166 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 280,400.00
% of Lots Sold 69.17% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 431,800.00
Unsold Lots 74 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 44.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
19 Audubon, John James

The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories

1840-1844 USD 60,000.00 - 90,000.00 USD 36,000.00
187 Plato

[Opera, i.e. Omnia Platonis opera]

[1513] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 9,600.00
43 Caesar, Caius Julius

The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War

1753 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,200.00
60 Churchill, Winston S.

My Early Life, A Roving Commission

[1930] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 7,200.00
231 Vidal, Emeric Essex

Picturesque Illustrations of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video

1820 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,600.00
20

Manuscript Guest Book for the Castello Bar in Mondsee, Austria, with hundreds of autographs of actors, authors, musicians, singers, dancers, race car drivers, and others

1952-1988 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,000.00
51 Churchill, Winston S.

Arms and the Covenant

1938 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
188 Pliny the Elder

The Historie of the World: Commonly Called the Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. Translated into English by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physicke

1635-1634 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,000.00
81 Dalton, John

A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Parts I and II in One Volume.

1808[-1810] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,800.00
5 Sendivogius, Michael

A New Light of Alchymie: Taken out of the fountaine of Nature, and Manuall Experience. To which is added a Treatise of Sulphur: Written by Micheel Sandivogius... Also Nine Books of the Nature of Things, written by Paracelsus... Also a Chymicall Dictionary

1650 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
120 Heidegger, Martin

Die Lehre vom Urteil im Psychologismus: Ein kritisch-positiver Beitrag zur Logik

1914 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,900.00
206 Shakespeare, William

The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight

[1632] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,600.00
221 Church, Alonzo, et al., editors

The Journal of Symbolic Logic

1936-2010 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
3 Glauber, Johann Rudolf

The Works of the Highly Experienced and Famous Chymist, John Rudolph Glauber: containing, Great Variety of Choice Secrets in Medicine and Alchymy in the Working of Metallick Mines, and the Separation of Metals

[1689] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,700.00
6 Valentinus, Basilius

The Last Will and Testament of Basil Valentine, Monke of the Order of St. Bennet... To Which is added Two Treatises. The First declaring his Manual Operations. The Second shewing things Natural and Supernatural

1671 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,400.00
174 Papworth, John B.

Select Views of London; With Historical and Descriptive Sketches of Some of the Most Interesting of Its Public Buildings

1816 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,400.00
61 Churchill, Winston S.

The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan

1899 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
204 Scrope, G. Poulett

Considerations on Volcanos, the Probable Causes of Their Phenomena, the Laws Which Determine Their March, the Disposition of Their Products, and Their Connexion with the Present State and Past History of the Globe; Leading to the Establishment of a New Th

1825 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,280.00
223 Thucydides

The hystory writtone by Thucidides the Athenyan of the warre, whiche was betwene the Peloponesians and the Athenyans, translated oute of Frenche into the Englysh language by Thomas Nicolls citezeine and goldesmyth of London

1550 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,160.00
66 Churchill, Winston S.

Thoughts and Adventures

[1932] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,040.00
156 Martin, John

Illustrations of the Bible

1838 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
11 Apianus, Petrus

Cosmographia Petri Apiani, per Gemmam Frisium apud Louanienses medicum & mathematicum insignem, iam demum ab omnibus vindicata mendis ac nonnullis quoque locis aucta & annotationibus marginalibus illustrata...

1574 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,800.00
80 Cushing, Harvey

The Life Of Sir William Osler

1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,800.00
199 Riverius, Lazarus, Nicholas Culpeper, and Abdiah Cole

The Practice of Physick in Two Volums, Very much Enlarged. Wherein is plainly set forth, The Nature, Cause, Differences, and Several Sorts of Signs: Together with the Cure of all Diseases in the Body of Man. In Twenty and Four Books.

1658 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,800.00
115 Ouspensky, P.D.

A New Model of the Universe - finely bound by Philip Smith

1948 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,680.00
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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