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

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Auction Name Books, Maps & Atlases: Birmingham-Southern College Collection - Session II Total Sales (USD) 180,362.70
Auction Date August 01, 2024 - August 01, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 80,455.00
Sale Number #80124 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 135,325.00
Total Lots 483
Sold Lots 483 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 80,455.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 135,325.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 133.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
510 [SENEX, John].

A New General Atlas, Containing a Geographical and Historical Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms and other Dominions of the World.

1721 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 18,900.00
526

A Map of Louisiana and Mexico, Western America, including part of Canada, showing many settlements, populations, tribes and roads, title in English and French, lower left, engraved map with original hand-colouring in outline, dissected and linen-backed, M

1820 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 13,860.00
513 Guillaume de l'Isle.

Atlas Nouveau, contenant Toutes les Parties du Monde . . . Par Guillaume de l'Isle.

1733 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 11,970.00
515 Kitchen [Kitchin], Thomas.

A General Atlas, Describing The Whole Universe.

1780 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,340.00
514 BOWEN, Emanuel

A Complete Atlas, or a Distinct View of the Known World.

1752 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,710.00
505 Drawn by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co.

Map of the Late Surveys in the Northern District of the Alabama Territory. Drawn by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co. Sc. Phillips's List of Maps of America, p. 92, where the date is given as

[181-]. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 9,450.00
504 Drawn by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co.

Map of the Late Surveys in the Southern District of the Alabama Territory. Drawn by Tanner, Vallance, Kearny & Co.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 6,930.00
516 CAREY, HENRY CHARLES; and ISAAC LEA.

A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas.

1823 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,930.00
543

Collection Antique Textile Fragments & Swatches

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 4,095.00
1301 Bell, Currer, Ellis, and Acton (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte)

Poems.

1848 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 3,528.00
530 Stepehn Elkins

1891-1895 Civil War Atlas 175 Plates (Disbound)

1891-1895. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,024.00
517 Colton, Joseph Hutchins.

Colton's New Topographical Map of the Eastern Portion of the State of North Carolina with Part of Virginia & South Carolina.

1863 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,142.00
520 Colton's

[NORTH CAROLINA] Colton's New Topographical Map of the Eastern Portion of the State of North Carolina with Part of Virginia & South Carolina.

1863 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,890.00
1397

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882). 1. The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.

1882 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,890.00
502

[Tennessee] Map of the Tennessee government, formerly part of North Carolina

Circa 1795. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,512.00
524 Colton's

1856 Complete 2 Vols. Colton's Atlas of the World.

1856 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,512.00
501

Southern Section of the United States Including Florida and C.

dated 1816. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,386.00
1399

[Alabama] Original Manuscript. The Life and Times of A.C. Ramsey (post Civil War).

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,386.00
1221 NILES, HEZEKIAH, editor

The Weekly Register.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,134.00
511

Atlas de Toutes les Parties Connues du Globe Terrestre.

1780's USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 945.00
512

Map of the Public Land States and Territories Constructed from the Public Surveys and other Official Sources in the General Land Office.

1865 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 819.00
837

Confederate Military History.

1899 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 819.00
1274

A short Sermon: Also Hymns in the Muskokee or Creek Language

1835 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 819.00
506

C.1846-47 Unites States, Mexico Ornamental Map.

C.1846-47 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 756.00
525 MURCHISON, Roderick Impey.

The Silurian System, founded on Geological Researches in the Counties of Salop, Hereford, Radnor, Montgomery, Caermarthen, Brecon, Pembroke, Monmouth, Gloucester, Worcester and Stafford.

1839 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 756.00
  • Leland Little, Jan. 22: The First Issue of Robert Frost's A Boy's Will, In Extremely Scarce Binding.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Knight's An Account of the Remains of the Worship of Priapus.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Locke's Important Treatise Some Thoughts Concerning Education.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: The Richly Illustrated First French Edition of Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes Orientales.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Scarce First Issue of An Account of the Province of Carolina in America, Finely Bound and With Celebrated John Speed Map.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Humphrey's An Historical Account, Complete with Scarce Folding Maps.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: First Edition of Chamberlain's Scarce Civil War Memoir The Passing of the Armies.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: A Rare Photograph of David Bruce Brown and #48 Fiat.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: George Cruikshank (England, 1792-1878), Archive of Sketches, Notes, and Letters.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Extremely Scarce Copy of Die Samländische Ode (The Samland Ode), Signed by Max Pechstein.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Andy Warhol's The Thirteen Most Wanted Men Exhibition Catalogue.
    Leland Little, Jan. 22: Edward Ruscha (American, b. 1937), Every Building on the Sunset Strip.
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