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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 12/13

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 12/13 Total Sales (USD) 1,374,743.00
Auction Date January 12, 2022 - January 12, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 689,750.00
Sale Number #627 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 993,800.00
Total Lots 1031
Sold Lots 680 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,035,150.00
% of Lots Sold 65.96% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,495,000.00
Unsold Lots 351 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152 Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla Autograph Letter Signed

1901 USD 125,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 341,295.00
739 Prince

Prince Signed 'Purple Rain' Album

1980s and 1990s USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 73,699.00
749 Prince

Prince 1986 'Camille' Advance Pressing

1986 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 49,375.00
758 Prince

Prince Guitar Pick Collection (22)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 43,788.00
168 Queen Mary I

Queen Mary I Letter Signed

1556 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 30,990.00
147 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed

1950 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,781.00
101 Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton Letter Signed

1790 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,688.00
713

Beatles Signed Fan Club Promo Card

1963 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,889.00
642 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept storyboard painting from Peter Pan

1953 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 20,625.00
711

Beatles Signed 1963 Harrogate Concert Program

1963 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 18,750.00
764 Prince:

Prince: Custom Handbuilt Cloud Electric Guitar

1984 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 17,688.00
722 Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan (4) Signed 'Train Tracks' Lithographs

2018 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,045.00
639 Eyvind Earle

Eyvind Earle preliminary concept background painting from Lady and the Tramp ('Bella Notte')

1955 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
987 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Oversized Photograph

2000 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,353.00
542 Georges Picquart

Georges Picquart Signed Photograph

1900 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 11,526.00
3 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Document Signed as President

1861 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,208.00
4 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Endorsement Signed

1863 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 9,279.00
988 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Check

1935 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 9,074.00
732 Queen

Queen Signed 1974 Tour Flyer

1974 USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,689.00
1005 LeBron James

LeBron James Signed Basketball Card

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 8,281.00
121 John D. Rockefeller and Henry M. Flagler

John D. Rockefeller and Henry M. Flagler Document Signed

1875 USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00 USD 8,125.00
673 Philip K. Dick

Philip K. Dick Typed Letter Signed

1981 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,684.00
167 Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip Oversized Signed Photographs

1953 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,500.00
141 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison Document Signed

1908 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,321.00
740 Prince

Prince Signed Album

USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,909.00
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
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