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Auction Name Fine Book and Ephemera Auction - bidstart 12/17 Total Sales (USD) 23,934.00
Auction Date January 11, 2022 - January 11, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #11 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 192
Sold Lots 191 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 99.48% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
147 Tolkien, J. R. R..

The Hobbit By J. R. R. Tolkien. Later American Edition In Dust Jacket.With Color Frontis. Ex-Library Bookplate. Perforated Stamp On Title.

 Not Available USD 2,700.00
155 J. K. Rowling.

Harry Potter By J. K. Rowling. (4) Signed Later Printings. Sorcerer's Stone. Goblet Of Fire. Three Copies.

 Vd Not Available USD 1,200.00
47 U. S. Grant.

Personal Memoirs Of U. S. Grant. (2) Volume 1. (1885). 3/4 Leather.

 1885 Not Available USD 450.00
78 Guarini.

Il Pastor Fido & Le Rime Del Sig. Caualier Battista Guarini. Lacks Cover.

 1640 Not Available USD 450.00
146 Bemelmans, Ludwig.

Madeline By Ludwig Bemelmans. First Edition First Issue In Dust Jacket. Library Bookplate. Perforated Stamp On Title.

 1939 Not Available USD 450.00
102

The Monthly Chronicle Of Events, Discoveries, Improvements And Opinions. (3) bound volumes. Illustrated With Maps and Drawings. 3/4 Leather.

 1840's Not Available USD 420.00
131

Hildebrand. Theologia Dogmatica * Calixt. De Præcipuis Christianæ Religionis * Titius. Disputatio Prima de Prooemio Theologiæ et de Scriptura Sacra. Together 3 volumes bound in 1. Thick 4to, contemporary vellum; library bookplate, manuscript note on first

 1684-92 Not Available USD 420.00
150 Burton, Virginia Lee.

The Little House By Virginia Lee Burton. Signed. Second Printing In Dust Jacket. Perforated Library Stamp On Title.

 1942 Not Available USD 390.00
16

Advertising Ink Blotters. Large Lot.

 Vd Not Available USD 360.00
46 Defoe, Daniel..

The Life And Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe By Daniel Defoe. (2) Volumes. 3/4 Leather.

 1820 Not Available USD 360.00
75 Casanova, Joseph de.

Primera Parte del Arte de Escrivir [all publ.]. 16 (of 30) engraved plates. Folio, limp vellum; lacking plates and several leaves. SOLD-AS-IS.

 1650 Not Available USD 360.00
87 Sandburg, Carl.

Abraham Lincoln The War Years & The Prairie Years By Carl Sandburg. (6) Volumes. 3/4 Leather.

 1939 Not Available USD 360.00
172 Featley, Daniel.

The Dippers Dipt. Or, The Anabapatists Ducked And Plungd By Daniel Featley.

 1646 Not Available USD 360.00
65a

Group of 25 volumes. Most illustrated. 8vo or smaller, most wrappers; varying wear, some incomplete others worn and soiled.

19th-century. Not Available USD 330.00
81

Limited Editions Club (6) Signed Volumes. Maggie By Stephen Crane. * The Mill On The Floss By George Elliot. * American Notes By Dickens. * Etc.

 Vd Not Available USD 330.00
151 Sendak, Maurice.

Where Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak. Signed. Second State In Dust Jacket. Library Stamp. Dust Jacket Adhered To Book At Flaps.

 1963 Not Available USD 330.00
39

Weird Tales (8) Signed & Limited Editions. 1990's

 Vd Not Available USD 300.00
88

Picturesque Representations Of The Dress And Manners Of The Austrians. With 50 Hand-Colored Plates.

 1814 Not Available USD 300.00
52 Moser, Barry.

(15) Volumes Illustrated Or About Barry Moser. Nine Of Them Are Signed.

Vd Not Available USD 240.00
59

Advertising Broadsheets. The Barstow Parlor Stove. * The Patent Expansion Lamp Shade. * Hood's Sarsaparilla. * Etc.

 Vd Not Available USD 228.00
127

Signed Limited Editions Club (6) Volumes. The Poems Of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. (1974). * Irish Folk Tales Edited By Yeats. (1973). * Ah, wilderness By Eugene O,Neill. (1972). * Etc.

 Vd Not Available USD 216.00
22 Wells, H. G..

The Outline Of History By H. G. Wells. 24 Issues, Complete.

1919-20 Not Available USD 204.00
71 Roscio, Giulio, .

et. al. Ritratti et Elogii di Capitani Illustri. Profusion of engraved portrraits. 4to, old vellum; covers detached, disbound, lacking last several leaves. SOLD-AS-IS.

 1646 Not Available USD 204.00
164 Greene.

A Yankee Among The Nullifiers By Greene.

 1833 Not Available USD 204.00
42 Shelly, Mary Wollstonecraft.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelly. Limited Editions Club. 1/1500 Signed By The Illustrator.

1934 Not Available USD 192.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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