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Auction Name Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium Total Sales (USD) 31,555.00
Auction Date July 10, 2022 - July 10, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 59,067.00
Sale Number #71022 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 120,600.00
Total Lots 106
Sold Lots 106 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 59,067.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 120,600.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.17%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
88 GRAETZ, Heinrich

History of the Jews

1891-1895. USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,500.00
69 TWAIN, Mark

works

1872-1880. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 2,200.00
86 SMITH, Joseph

The doctrine and covenants of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints : containing the revelations given to Joseph Smith, jun., the prophet, for the building up of the Kingdom of God in the last days

1891 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,500.00
105 ORWELL, George

Nineteen eighty-four

1949 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,300.00
38 STOWE, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Toms cabin: a tale of life among the lowly

1852 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,075.00
96 YAMADA, Keichyu [painter].

Scenes from the life of Buddha

1898 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 990.00
103 ORWELL, George

Animal Farm

1946 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 800.00
102 HEMINGWAY, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 710.00
78 VERNE, Jules

Twenty thousand leagues under the seas: or, the marvellous and exciting adventures of Pierre Aronnax, Conseil his servant, and Ned Land, a Canadian harpooner

1880 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 700.00
98 BURTON, Richard Francis

The book of the thousand nights and a night a plain and literal translation of the Arabian nights entertainments; translated and annotated

ca.1900 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 700.00
101 ROSSETTI, Christina

Goblin market

1933 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 660.00
76 GRIMM, Jacob & Wilhelm

Grimms Fairy Tales

1880 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 620.00
19 SHAKESPEARE, William.

The plays of William Shakespeare.

1793 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
80 GRANT, Ulysses S

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

1885-86 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 500.00
97 KIPLING, Rudyard

The Jungle book

1899 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 485.00
36 Various

Harpers New Monthly Magazine. Volume III, June to November 1851.

1851 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 435.00
6 BURNET, Gilbert

The memoires of the lives and actions of James and William, Dukes of Hamilton and Castleherald, &c. : in which an account is given of the rise and progress of the civil wars of Scotland, with other great transactions both in England and Germany, from the

1677 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 415.00
59 VALENTINE, D.T.

Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, 1866.

1866 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 395.00
44 ABBOTT, John S.C.

The History of Napoleon Bonaparte

1855 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 390.00
28 Connecticut, General Court

The code of 1650 : being a compilation of the earliest laws and orders of the General Court of Connecticut.

1842 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 365.00
60 STEPHENS, Alexander Hamilton

A Constitutional View of the late war between the states: its causes, character, conduct and results: presented in a series of colloquies at Liberty Hall

1868 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 365.00
74 JOHNSTON, William Preston

The life of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston: embracing his services in the armies of the United States, the Republic of Texas, and the Confederate States

1878 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 350.00
63 DEMING, Henry Champion

The life of Ulysses S. Grant : General U.S. Army

1868 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 345.00
70 various

A library of famous fiction : embracing the nine standard masterpieces of imaginative literature

1873 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 345.00
26 YATES, Robert

Secret proceedings and debates of the convention assembled at Philadelphia, in the year 1787 : for the purpose of forming the Constitution of the United States of America

1838 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 320.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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