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Auction Name Fine Books and Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 20,490.00
Auction Date July 28, 2022 - July 28, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #17 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 212
Sold Lots 210 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 99.06% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 2 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
74

Alcott, Louisa M. Little Women. (2) Volumes. (1870). * Jo's Boys. (1886). Roberts Brothers.

 Vd Not Available USD 780.00
154

Performers Letterhead. (100+) Letters Concerning bookings, Etc. On company Or Performers Letterhead. Fox film Corp. * Eastern Feature film Co. * American Feature Film Co. Etc. Most Are Early 1900's.

 Vd Not Available USD 780.00
54 Nightingale, Florence.

Notes On Nursing: What It Is And What It Is Not. First U. S. Edition.

 1861. 1882 Not Available USD 660.00
181 Washington, George.

Writings. Edited by Jared Sparks. Illustrated. 12 volumes. 4to, leather-backed boards; shelf-worn, lacking several tips, scattered foxing, etc.

1837 Not Available USD 480.00
28 Classical Architecture.

I Tre Ordini Architettonici Monumenti di Roma E Di Grecia By De Rossi. (4) Volumes.

 Circa 1800 Not Available USD 450.00
61

Harvard. (2) Harvard 1907 Scrapbooks. Student James Kent Stone Of Brookline.

Vd Not Available USD 420.00
196 Smith, Adam.

An Inquiry Into The Nature and Causes Of The Wealth Of Nations. (2) Volumes. Full Leather.

 1804 Not Available USD 420.00
8

Ephemera. (85+) Justice Of The Peace Documents.
(1806-1837).

 Vd Not Available USD 390.00
155 Trump, Donald.

Trump The Art Of The Deal. Signed.

 1987 Not Available USD 360.00
171 Malthus.

An Essay On The Principle Of Population. (3) Volumes.

 1817 Not Available USD 360.00
9 Cooper, J. Fenimore.

The History Of The Navy Of The United states Of America. (2) Volumes. 1/2 Leather.

 1839 Not Available USD 330.00
66

Alice In Wonderland. (8) Volumes. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. Illustrated By Arthur Rackham. (1928). * Alice In Orchestralia By La Prade. Signed. (1927). * …

 Vd Not Available USD 330.00
112

Signed Modern Literature. (7) Volumes. Night By Elie Wiesel. * A Rumor Of War By Philip Caputo. * Exodus By Leon Uris. * Roots By Alex Haley. * …

 Vd Not Available USD 330.00
6 Bentham, Jeremy.

Plan Of Parliamentary Reform. 1/2 Leather.

 1817 Not Available USD 300.00
117

The Papyrus. (55) Issues. A Magazine Of Individuality.

 1900's Not Available USD 300.00
123

Children's Illustrated. (5) Illustrated By Kate Greenaway. Under The Window. * Book Of Games. * A Day In A Child's Life. * The Queen Of The Pirate Isle. (1887). * …

 Vd Not Available USD 300.00
20 Marshall, John.

The Life Of George Washington. (5) Volumes. Full Leather.

 1804 Not Available USD 270.00
163 Ellington, Duke.

(72) Duke Ellington 78 RPM Records. One Jacket Is Signed.

 Vd Not Available USD 270.00
63

Ephemera. (50+) Stock Trading Documents. (1890's). * (100+) Familial Correspondence. (1860's-90's).

 Vd Not Available USD 240.00
81

Cartography. (12) Maps. 1939 World's Fair. * Europe. * South America. * East Lexington. * Winchester. * Essex, Mass. * Ipswich. * New Hampshire. * Boston. * Etc.

Vd Not Available USD 240.00
37

Spanish Civil War. (22) Booklets. Spain And Peace By Howard Fast. With Picasso Cover. * Spain In My Heart By Henry Winston. * …

 Vd Not Available USD 228.00
106 Johnston, Robert.

Travels Through Part Of The Russian Empire And The Country Of Poland. Complete With 21 Plates (20 colored) & (2) Maps.

 1815 Not Available USD 228.00
133 Dickenson, Emily.

Letters Of Emily Dickinson Edited By Mabel Loomis Todd. (2) Volumes.

 1894 Not Available USD 228.00
5 Pope, Alexander.

The Duncaid Variorum. Full Leather. A. Dod. London., 1729

 Not Available USD 216.00
23

The Black Cat. Bound Volume Containing Issues Number 4 Through 9.

 1896 Not Available USD 216.00
  • 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
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    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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