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Britannic Auctions: First Editions, Rare and Antique Books

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Auction Name	First Editions, Rare and Antique Books	Total Sales (USD)	11,073.20
Auction Date	April 13, 2024 - April 13, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	7,485.00
Sale Number	#41324	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	9,640.00
Total Lots	74
Sold Lots	59	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	17,375.00
% of Lots Sold	79.73%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	22,030.00
Unsold Lots	15	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	50.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
124	Thackeray.	Vanity Fair. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE,	1848	USD 500.00 - 600.00	USD 992.00
157		This 19th century chapbook pamphlet was apparently self-published by a deaf, dumb dwarf prophet in 1816.	1816	USD 75.00 - 100.00	USD 992.00
125	Mark Twain	Adventures of Tom Sawyer 1876	1876	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	USD 868.00
117		Nineveh and Its Remains: With an Account of a Visit to the Chaldean Christians of Kurdistan, and the Yesidis, Or Devil Worshippers; and an Inquiry Into the Manners and Arts of the Ancient Assyrians	1849	USD 75.00 - 100.00	USD 527.00
156		Aristotle's Master-Piece Completed in Two Parts. The First containing the Secrets of Generation in all the Parts thereof.	Circa late 18th/Early 19th C.	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 372.00
114	Ernest Hemingway	Islands in the Stream	1970	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 341.00
155		A Son of the Forest. The Experience of William Apes, A Native of the Forest Written by Himself.	1831	USD 250.00 - 300.00	USD 341.00
153	Samuel P Fowler.	Salem Witchcraft Comprising More Wonders of the Invisible World. Wonders of the Invisible World Together with Notes and Explanations	1865	USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 310.00
112		1825 Onwards,The Botanic Garden 3 VOLUMES Hand Colored Plates Benjamin Maund. The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants.	1825	USD 200.00 - 250.00	USD 279.00
134	Conan Doyle	A Conan Doyle Collection of 11 Novels.		USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 279.00
171	James Caulfield.	James Caulfield. Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, of Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II.	1819/20	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 279.00
118	Jules Verne	The Steam House (Part II) Tigers And Traitors	1881	USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 248.00
138		Collection of first editions to include. The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye 2017		USD 250.00 - 300.00	USD 248.00
170	William Combe	The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax. Comprising of The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque	c1820	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 248.00
147	Henry M. Stanley.	In Darkest Africa	1890	USD 50.00 - 60.00	USD 217.00
115	Margaret Mitchell	1936 Gone With the Wind	1936	USD 75.00 - 100.00	USD 186.00
127	Lafayette Houghton Bunnell. M.D.,	c1880 Discovery of the Yosemite and The Indian War of 1851. Which led to that event.	c1880	USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 186.00
133	Virginia Woolf	Virginia Woolf Collection of 7 Novels Many Firsts in Original Dust Jackets.		USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 186.00
168	Omar Khayyam, Edmund Dulac.	Finely bound Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam	1896	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 186.00
119	Walter Colton	"Three Years in California,"	1850	USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 155.00
137		Collection of SIGNED First Editions.		USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 155.00
166		The Demolished Man.	1953	USD 100.00 - 120.00	USD 155.00
101	Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated Hugh Thomson.	She Stoops to Conquer or; The Mistakes of a Night	1912	USD 75.00 - 100.00	USD 124.00
122		Folding hand-colored lithographed frontis. & one colored plate.	1844	USD 150.00 - 200.00	USD 124.00
130	the Rev S.T.Bloomfiels, D.D.D F.S.A. of Sidney College,	The History of Thucydides Newly Translated into English and Illustrated with Very Copious Annotations	1829	USD 75.00 - 100.00	USD 124.00

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

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
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 27th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000

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