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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 5/20

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts - bidstart 5/20 Total Sales (USD) 1,150,586.00
Auction Date June 15, 2022 - June 15, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 835,100.00
Sale Number #637 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,277,300.00
Total Lots 868
Sold Lots 555 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,216,550.00
% of Lots Sold 63.94% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,221,900.00
Unsold Lots 313 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 35.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
440 Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe Autograph Letter Signed

USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 154,958.00
333 George S. Patton

George S. Patton Typed Manuscript Signed with Accompanying Typed Letter Signed

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 29,475.00
492 Beatles: John Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon Typed Letter Signed with Self Portrait Sketch

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,129.00
815 Mary Blair

Mary Blair large concept painting of Alice from Alice in Wonderland

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 22,500.00
819 Eyvind Earle

Eyvind Earle large concept storyboard painting of Princess Aurora and Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 21,889.00
482 Niccolo Paganini

Niccolo Paganini Autograph Musical Manuscript

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,250.00
768

Pirates of the Caribbean ride concept painting by Marc Davis

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 18,898.00
1 George Washington

George Washington Document Signed

USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 17,943.00
162 Alexander II

Alexander II Archive of (5) Handwritten Love Letters

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,643.00
569 Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee Signed Check

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,381.00
811 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Cinderella from Cinderella

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,558.00
163 Ferdinand and Isabella

Ferdinand and Isabella Document Signed

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,129.00
483 Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert Signature

USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,125.00
812 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Lady Tremaine's Chateau from Cinderella

USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,101.00
720

Jiminy Cricket production cel and super panorama production master background from Pinocchio

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,501.00
164 Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette Document Signed

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 12,479.00
816 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Peter Pan and mermaids from Peter Pan

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,373.00
810 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Uncle Remus from Song of the South

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,353.00
813 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Alice and Dinah from Alice in Wonderland

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,688.00
767

Pirates of the Caribbean ride concept painting by Marc Davis

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,503.00
814 Mary Blair

Mary Blair concept painting of Alice and guards from Alice in Wonderland

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,588.00
142 Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Typed Letter Signed

USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,814.00
441 Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy Signed Book

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
817 Eyvind Earle

Eyvind Earle concept painting of Briar Rose and castle from Sleeping Beauty

USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,375.00
332 Douglas MacArthur

Douglas MacArthur Signed Photograph

USD 7,500.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,363.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
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