PBA Galleries: Fine Books - Fine Press - Fine Bindings - With a Taste of Golf
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books - Fine Press - Fine Bindings - With a Taste of Golf | Total Sales (USD) | 90,874.00 |
| Auction Date | September 16, 2021 - September 16, 2021 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 77,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #740 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 122,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 238 | ||
| Sold Lots | 170 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 125,500.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 71.43% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 199,500.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 68 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 45.55% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 145 | Sumerian Clay Tablet Incised with Cuneiform Script |
[c. 2054 BC] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,200.00 | |
| 128 | Rostand, Edmond | La Princesse Lointaine: Pièce en quatre actes en vers |
1919 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
| 5 | Cervantes, Miguel de | Don Quixote |
2009 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,000.00 |
| 102 | Aesop | Aesop's Fables: A New Translation by V.S. Vernon Jones with an Introduction by G.K. Chesterton |
1912 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,700.00 |
| 199 | Signed photograph of Manly P. Hall with typescript lectures and notes |
[c. 1950-51] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 2,700.00 | |
| 130 | Ruskin, John | The Stones of Venice |
1853, 1858 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,400.00 |
| 90 | Killion, Tom | Walls: A Journey Across Three Continents |
1990 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
| 126 | Swift, Jonathan | Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World |
1909 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 2,280.00 |
| 133 | Scott, Sir Walter | The Waverley Novels |
1814-1831 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,920.00 |
| 47 | Racinet, M.A. | Le Costume Historique |
1888 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
| 94 | Various | 20 Deluxe Editions from the Sylvester & Orphanos Press |
Various Dates | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,680.00 |
| 6 | Crane, Hart | The Bridge |
2017 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
| 63 | Wheat, Carl Irving | Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861 |
1957-1963 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,440.00 |
| 35 | Blake, William | The Marriage of Heaven and Hell |
1960 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 50 | Hecht, Anthony, Michael Kuch, et al. | Séance for a Minyan |
2001 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 204 | Ricardo, David | On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation. |
1819 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,140.00 |
| 34 | Blake, William | The Book of Thel |
1965 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 173 | Dickens, Charles | Dombey and Son |
1846-1848 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 10 | Dickens, Charles | The Chimes or, Some Bells that Rang in an Old Year Out & a New Year In |
1985 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 124 | Pepys, Samuel | Everybody's Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669 |
1929 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 156 | Harding, Edward | Costume of the Russian Empire, Illustrated by upwards of Seventy Richly Coloured Engravings... |
1810 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 203 | Browning, Robert | The Pied Piper of Hamelin - Publisher's Dummy |
1898 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 31 | Blake, William | All Religions Are One |
1970 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 960.00 |
| 107 | van Leeuwen, Jan Storm | Dutch Decorated Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century, in Four Volumes |
2006 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 960.00 |
| 113 | Eliot, George and J.W. Cross, editor | The Life and Works of George Eliot |
1858-1885 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 960.00 |
