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Auction Name Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps - Online 8/27 Total Sales (USD) 213,900.00
Auction Date September 12, 2024 - September 12, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 164,880.00
Sale Number #24BP03 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 251,960.00
Total Lots 291
Sold Lots 221 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 211,090.00
% of Lots Sold 75.95% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 322,980.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 66.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

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

Broadsheet on laid paper, a military discharge document for "Henry Miller-Soldier" of the First New York Regiment, accomplished in manuscript in a clerical hand, and signed in pale brown ink by George Washington, 8th June 1783 as Commander of the Continen

1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,240.00
86 ADAMS, JOHN

Autograph letter signed, dated December 30th, 1812, to William Smith of Quincy, Mass.

1812 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,680.00
202 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE

African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.

1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,040.00
281 PICASSO, PABLO

Verve. Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. VII, Nos. 25 et 26.

1951 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,400.00
90 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM and EDWARD STANTON

Document signed.

1864 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,080.00
75 [LEWIS, MERIWETHER & CLARK, WILLIAM]

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6.

1814 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,120.00
3 BLAEU, WILLEM.

Asia Noviter Delineata.

c. 1635. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,800.00
258 MILNE, A.[LAN] A.[LEXANDER] and SHEPARD, E.[RNEST] H.[OWARD]

Winnie-The-Pooh.

1926 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
156 LANSDOWNE, J. FENWICK

Rare Birds of China.

1992 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,160.00
122

A Group of approximately forty seventeenth and eighteenth-century French books, almost all in contemporary bindings; including, [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD]. Memoires...

1663 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,840.00
69 BRINTON, DANIEL G.

A Guide-Book of Florida and the South, for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants, with a Map of the St. John River.

1869 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,520.00
201 PATTERSON, J.H.

Collection of glass lantern slides and negatives, apparently as used in Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Patterson's American lectures; together with eight formal photographs by Van Dyck of London and others of Patterson; and two flyers for the lecture tour promot

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 3,520.00
250 WILDE, OSCAR

An Ideal Husband.

1899 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,200.00
267 HALSEY, R.T. HAINES.

Pictures of Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery. Together with Pictures of Boston and New England, Philadelphia, the South and West.

1899 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,200.00
35 SPEED, JOHN.

The Turkish Empire.

1626 but 1676. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,880.00
179 JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM

The Naturalist's Library.

1843 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,880.00
253 BEMELMANS, LUDWIG

Pepito.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
254 BEMELMANS, LUDWIG

Madeline.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
220 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

Taps at Reveille.

1935 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,560.00
259 MILNE, A.[LAN] A.[LEXANDER] and SHEPARD, E.[RNEST] H.[OWARD]

The House at Pooh Corner.

1928 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,560.00
72 GEORGE, HENRY

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy.

1879 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
262 TRAVERS, P.[AMELA L.[YNDON]

Mary Poppins.

1934 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,432.00
161 BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON, THOMAS MAYO BREWER, and ROBERT RIDGWAY

A History of North American Birds. Land Birds. [The Water Birds of North America].

1875-84. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,176.00
190 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Captain.

A New Account of the East Indies, Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt.

1727 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,176.00
198 BLAKE, TOM

Hawaiian Surfboard.

1935 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,176.00
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  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Bible, Arabic & Latin. Biblia Sacra Arabica, 3 vol., Rome, Tipografia della Congregazione di Propaganda Fide, 1671. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shepard (Ernest). "Wind in the Willows" Toad Escapes from Prison, original pencil drawing with watercolour, 1931. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Economics.- Smith (Adam). An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, 2 vol., second edition, Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1778. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Burma.- Burmese School (1870s). Folding manuscript, or parabaik, of festivities and processions, probably from the Court Workshop at the Royal Court at Manadaly, Burma, [c. 1870]. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: More (Sir Thomas). La Description de l'Isle d'Utopie ou est comprins le Miroer des republiques du monde, first French edition, Paris, Charles l'Angelier, 1550. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Botany.- Dioscorides (Pedanius). De medicinali materia libri sex, hand-coloured throughout, Frankfurt-am-Main, Chr. Egenolff, 1543. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: World.- Blaeu (Johannes). Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu, engraved map, [c.1662]. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Shelley (Mary). Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 2 vol., [second edition], Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1823. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: [Evans (Marian)] 'George Eliot'. A complete set of first editions of her works, uniformly bound in red morocco, 1858-1885 (30). £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th September 2024
    Forum, 26 Sep: Lewis (C.S.) [The Chronicles of Narnia], 7 vol., first editions, 1950-56. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Albertolli (Ferdinando). Porte di Città e Fortezze...di Michele Sammicheli, Milan, 1815. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, 26 Sep: Gregynog Press.- Euripides. The Plays, one of 25 specially-bound copies, this by George Fisher at the Gregynog Bindery, 1931. £4,000 to £6,000.
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 54
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 8th-10th 2024
    Gonnelli: Menù di gala per l'incoronazione di Nicola II Romanov e di Aleksandra Feodorovna. Moskva, 1896. Starting price 1000 €
    Gonnelli: Raccolta di 38 albumine, molte colorate a mano, di vedute della Cina, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Giappone e vari ritratti, 1880. Starting price 340 €
    Gonnelli
    Futurism
    Gonnelli: Lucio Fontana. Milan: Achille Mauri, 1968. Starting price 400 €
    Gonnelli: Mucha Alphonse, Documents décoratifs, 1901-1902. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Christie Agatha, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. A detective story. London: John Lane, 1921. Starting price 460 €
    Gonnelli: Alberti Leon Battista, Ecatonphyla. Venice: Bernardino da Cremona, 1491. Starting price 10000 €
    Gonnelli: Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843. Starting price 5000 €
    Gonnelli: Bardi Giovanni, Memorie del calcio fiorentino. Florence, 1688. Starting price 1000 €
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