Heritage Auctions: Rare Books
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Rare Books | Total Sales (USD) | 1,605,013.00 |
| Auction Date | July 27, 2022 - July 28, 2022 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Sale Number | #6253 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 0.00 |
| Total Lots | 541 | ||
| Sold Lots | 530 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 97.97% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 0.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 11 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45017 | James Otto Lewis. | The Aboriginal Port Folio. Or a collection of portraits of the most celebrated chiefs of the North American Indians. |
1835-1838 | Not Available | USD 100,000.00 |
| 45002 | [Bible in Latin]. | Single Leaf from the Gutenberg Bible. |
ca. 1455. | Not Available | USD 90,625.00 |
| 45226 | J. R. R. Tolkien. | The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. |
1954-1955. | Not Available | USD 57,500.00 |
| 45012 | James Cook; John Hawkesworth; James King. | The Complete Cook's Voyages. |
1773-1784 | Not Available | USD 56,250.00 |
| 45005 | [Hartmann Schedel]. | Liber Chronicarum [Nuremberg Chronicle]. |
1493 | Not Available | USD 37,500.00 |
| 45116 | H. G. Wells. | The Invisible Man. |
1897 | Not Available | USD 32,500.00 |
| 45227 | J. R. R. Tolkien. | Autograph Letter Signed "J. R. R. Tolkien," regarding the history of Tolkien's own name and his inspiration for Lord of the Rings. |
1956 | Not Available | USD 30,000.00 |
| 45222 | Ayn Rand. | Atlas Shrugged. |
1957 | Not Available | USD 27,500.00 |
| 45163 | Dashiell Hammett. | The Maltese Falcon. |
1930 | Not Available | USD 25,000.00 |
| 45009 | Thucydides. | Historiarum Peloponnensium, Liber Primus. Laurentii Vallensis ad sanctissimum Nicolaum Quintum Pontificem Maximum in Thucydidis historici translationem. |
circa 1483. | Not Available | USD 22,500.00 |
| 45193 | Ian Fleming. | Casino Royale. |
1953 | Not Available | USD 20,625.00 |
| 45221 | George Orwell. | Nineteen Eighty-Four [1984]. |
1949 | Not Available | USD 20,000.00 |
| 45100 | [J. Sheridan Le Fanu]. | Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery. |
1851 | Not Available | USD 18,750.00 |
| 45233 | L. Frank Baum. | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. |
1908 | Not Available | USD 18,750.00 |
| 45043 | [WWII]. | Large Archive of Photographs and Documents Related to the Japanese-American Confinement Site, "Heart Mountain." |
Circa 1942-1945. | Not Available | USD 17,500.00 |
| 45132 | [Jane Webb Loudon]. | The Mummy! A tale of the twenty-second century. |
1827 | Not Available | USD 16,250.00 |
| 45173 | Ellery Queen. | The Egyptian Cross Mystery. A problem in deduction. |
1932 | Not Available | USD 16,250.00 |
| 45066 | Benjamin Graham. | The Intelligent Investor. |
1949 | Not Available | USD 13,750.00 |
| 45097 | Stephen King. | The Dark Tower Series, I-VI, together with an Advance Review Copy of The Dark Tower III, The Wastelands. |
1982 - 2004 | Not Available | USD 13,750.00 |
| 45152 | Arthur Conan Doyle. | The Sign of Four. |
1891 | Not Available | USD 13,750.00 |
| 45042 | [Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay]. | The Federalist, on the New Constitution. By Publius. Written in 1788. To which is added, Pacificus, on the proclamation of neutrality. Written in 1793. Likewise, The Federal Constitution, with all the Amendments. Revised and Corrected. |
1802 | Not Available | USD 12,500.00 |
| 45074 | Herman Melville. | Moby-Dick. Or, The Whale. |
1851 | Not Available | USD 12,500.00 |
| 45113 | Bram Stoker. | Dracula. |
1901 | Not Available | USD 11,250.00 |
| 45215 | Margaret Mitchell. | Gone With the Wind. |
1936 | Not Available | USD 10,937.50 |
| 45021 | Ernest Shackleton. | South. The story of Shackleton's last expedition 1914-1917. |
1919 | Not Available | USD 10,625.00 |
