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Grant Zahajko Auctions: Books, Maps & Atlases: Birmingham-Southern College Collection

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Auction Name Books, Maps & Atlases: Birmingham-Southern College Collection Total Sales (USD) 294,273.00
Auction Date July 31, 2024 - July 31, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 198,360.00
Sale Number #73124 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 324,875.00
Total Lots 501
Sold Lots 501 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 198,360.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 324,875.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.58%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
22

[1624, 1625-1632, with All Four Maps] The Generall Historie of Virginia, New=England, and the Summer Isles: with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning.

c1624 USD 50,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 21,420.00
44 Thomas L McKenney and James Hall.

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished with One Hundred and Fifteen of One Hundred and Twenty Portraits In Three Volumes.

1842, 1844 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,900.00
13

AMERICAN REVOLUTION -- The American Military Pocket Atlas.

1776 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,560.00
127 Leeser, Issac

Discourses on the Jewish Religion in 10 volumes.

1836, 1867 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 6,930.00
2

A DESCRIPTION OF THE ENGLISH PROVINCE OF CAROLANA, BY THE SPANIARDS CALL'D FLORIDA, AND BY THE FRENCH LOUISIANE. ALSO OF THE GREAT AND FAMOUS RIVER MESCHACEBE OR MISSIPPI.

1741 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,985.00
19 William Roberts & Thomas Jefferys,

[6 folding maps and 1 folding plate] An Account of the First Discovery and Natural History of Florida.

1763 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,670.00
21 CHARLEVOIX (P. F. X. DE).

Historie et Description Generale de la Nouvelle France, avec le Journal Historique d'un Voyage fait par odre du Roi dans l'Amerique Septentrionnale in Three Volumes.

1744 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,670.00
15 ELLICOTT, Andrew (1754-1820).

The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late Commissioner on Behalf of the United States During Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, and 1799, and part of the Year 1800:

1803 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,355.00
38

The Principal Navigations, Voiages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, Made by Sea or Over-land, to the Remote and Farthest Distant Quarters of the Earth.

1598-1600. USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 5,040.00
3

Ulysses.

1922 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,725.00
489 A.M. Prude.

Soliloquy of Birmingham Bob of Rainbow Glen

1906 USD 75.00 - 100.00 USD 4,095.00
497 John Marshall.

The Life of George Washington.

1804 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 3,528.00
14 ELLICOTT, Andrew (1754-1820).

The Journal of Andrew Ellicott, late Commissioner on Behalf of the United States During Part of the Year 1796, the Years 1797, 1798, and 1799, and part of the Year 1800:

1803 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,276.00
48 MAXIMILIAN, Alexander Phillip of Wied?Neuweid, Prince (1782?1867).

Travels in the Interior of North America. Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites.

1906 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 3,276.00
5 WILLIAMS, JOHN LEE

The Territory of Florida: or, Sketches of the topography, civil and natural history of the country, the climate and the Indian tribes.

1837 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,150.00
27 MARTYR, Peter [Pietro Martire d'Anghiera] (1457-1526).

De rebus Oceanicis & Orbe nouo decades tres... Eiusdem praeterea legationis Babylonicae liber tres.

1533 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,150.00
30

The Case of the Cherokee Nation against the State of Georgia; Argued and Determined at the Supreme Court of the United States, January Term 1831.

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,150.00
25 [MITCHELL, John (d.1768).]

The Contest in America Between Great Britain and France, with its Consequences and Importance ... By an Impartial Hand.

1757 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,024.00
65 Darwin (Charles)

Darwin's Descent of Man First Edition, 1st Issue.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,024.00
55 Alexander Falconbridge,

An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa

1788 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,898.00
82 Dante Alighieri, Henry Boyd Translation, T. Cadell.

Divina Commedia 3 Vols,

1802 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,772.00
85

Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession.

1860 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,772.00
4

[All Four Maps] Travels on an Inland Voyage: Through the States of New-York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee and Through the Territories of Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi and New-Orleans.

1810 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,520.00
8 Amos Andrew Parker.

Trip to the West and Texas.

1836 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,520.00
140

Geneva Bible.

1599 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,520.00
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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