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Auction Name Early American Auction Total Sales (USD) 352,943.50
Auction Date January 14, 2023 - January 14, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 359,055.00
Sale Number #11423 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 491,655.00
Total Lots 215
Sold Lots 185 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 398,385.00
% of Lots Sold 86.05% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 545,745.00
Unsold Lots 30 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.67%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94 GEORGE WASHINGTON

1769 GEORGE WASHINGTONs Hand-Signed at Mt. Vernon Debt Accounting With Land + Slaves as Collateral

 1769 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 35,100.00
54

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Commodore John Paul Jones of Instructions to Meet the King of Denmark

 1785 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,100.00
1 JOHN ADAMS + SAMUEL QUINCY

Dec. 5th 1770 JOHN ADAMS + SAMUEL QUINCY Signed Court Document, the BOSTON MASSACRE TRIAL Lawyers

 1770 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 20,800.00
165

Mr. SAMUEL ADAMS, April 1775, Printed by and for Charles Reak + Saml. Okey Newport, RI.

 1775 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,600.00
115

c. 1761 Rare Engraving: City of Boston by Pownall

 c.1761 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,400.00
302

Silver Hibernia Farthing in PCGS graded SP64

 1723 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,100.00
43 JOHN HANCOCK

JOHN HANCOCK Signed 1767 Faneuil-Hall LOTTERY TICKET, Boston, a Rare Winning Ticket

 1767 USD 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 USD 7,800.00
273

Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane in 6 Parts

 1914 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,175.00
53 THOMAS JEFFERSON + JAMES MADISON

1808 THOMAS JEFFERSON + JAMES MADISON Signed Four Language Ships Paper

 1785 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,875.00
172

1858 ALEX. JAZET - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

 1776" USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,875.00
2 JOHN ADAMS

JOHN ADAMS 1773-Dated Boston Legal Writ Signed Adams, as an Attorney in the Case

 1773 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,225.00
58 HENRY LAURENS

April 3, 1776 HENRY LAURENS Signed Privateers Broadside ACT as President of the Continental Congress

 1776 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,225.00
67 HENRY MIDDLETON

HENRY MIDDLETON Signed Colonial Currency South Carolina April 1775 20 Pounds Note Rarity

 1775 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
68 HENRY MIDDLETON

HENRY MIDDLETON Signed South Carolina, April 29, 1775 Dated, 50 Pounds Colonial Note PMG graded Fine

 1775 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,900.00
182

c 1810 Pres. George Washington Hand-Painted Miniature Portrait in Gold Sons of Washington (PA) Bezel

 c.1810 USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,900.00
229

Andrew Jackson, 1832 Broadside Printed on Silk

 1832 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,640.00
168

May 2, 1780 Continental Congress Broadside Instructions To Privateer Ships Philadelphia

 1780 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,380.00
100

Frank Lloyd Wright Taliesin Wallpaper Sample Book

 1955 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,120.00
156

1784 PAUL REVERE Engraved Masthead Massachusetts Spy Newspaper with FORT STANWIX TREATY

 1784 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,120.00
80 1762 ISRAEL PUTNAM and JOHN LEDYARD

1762 ISRAEL PUTNAM and JOHN LEDYARD, French and Indian War Document for Raising Connecticut Troops

 1762 USD 1,600.00 - 3,200.00 USD 2,860.00
148

SC. Gov. Rawlins Loundes Signed Custom House Oath

 1778 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,860.00
74

July 6th 1798 Naval Sailors Oath of Allegiance Serving on the UNITED STATES First U.S. Warship

 1798 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,600.00
122

Colonial Currency, Maryland, July 26, 1775 $1 Allegorical-Gunpowder Political Note Rarity

 1775 USD 2,400.00 - 2,800.00 USD 2,600.00
126

1777 North Carolina Documented Counterfeit Currency Legal Case With Prison Escape Assisted by Lawman

 1777 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,600.00
153

1774 Map Titled: A PLAN of the TOWN of BOSTON

 1774 USD 2,400.00 - 2,800.00 USD 2,600.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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