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Auction Name Rare Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera Total Sales (USD) 78,042.00
Auction Date August 17, 2024 - August 17, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 12,710.00
Sale Number #1053 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 127,100.00
Total Lots 153
Sold Lots 150 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 13,140.00
% of Lots Sold 98.04% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 131,400.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.39%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
44 Adolph Hitler

Typed war-time letter signed by Adolph Hitler, on Hitler's letterhead with Nazi eagle over swastika.

1941 USD 300.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
12

An extensive German manuscript related to medical alchemy.

Circa mid-17th century USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,200.00
31 Whitman, Walt.

LEAVES OF GRASS.

1876 USD 300.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,900.00
10 Kircher, Athanasius.

ARS MAGNA SCIENDI.

1669 USD 350.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,300.00
4 Duniway, Abigail J.

CAPTAIN GRAY'S COMPANY; OR, CROSSING THE PLAINS AND LIVING IN OREGON.

1859 USD 400.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,000.00
34 Whitman, Walt.

COMPLETE POEMS AND PROSE.

1888/9 USD 600.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,700.00
8 Aristotle.

[Collection of Scientific Works]: PHYSICORUM ARISTOTELIS LIBRI. Joanne Argyropylo & Francis.

USD 250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,400.00
15

CORDIALE QUATTUOR NOVISSIMORUM.

1492 USD 800.00 - 8,000.00 USD 2,400.00
21 AESOP AND OTHERS Croxall, Samuel, translator.

FABLES OF AESOP AND OTHERS, NEWLY DONE INTO ENGLISH... ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTTS.

1722 USD 100.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,040.00
3 Tanner, Henry Schenck.

GEORGIA AND ALABAMA, BY H. S. TANNER.

1823 USD 400.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,920.00
81

Revolutionary War, Benjamin Lincoln Document

1776 USD 60.00 - 600.00 USD 1,920.00
7 Diogenes, Laertius.

DE VITA ET MORIBUS PHILOSOPHORUM LIBRI X.

1566 [1567.] USD 100.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,680.00
29 Whitman, Walt.

TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA.

1876 USD 700.00 - 7,000.00 USD 1,560.00
9 Schott, Gaspar.

TECHNICA CURIOSA, SIVE MIRABILIA ARTIS, LIBRIS XII COMPREHENSA.

1664 USD 250.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,320.00
41 Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens.)

LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI.

1883 USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,200.00
125 Ricciardus, Antonius.

COMMENTARIA SYMBOLICA IN DUOS TOMOS DISTRIBUTA... AD MYSTICAM NATURALEM, & OCCULTAM RERUM SIGNIFICATIONEM ATTINENTIA.

1591 USD 80.00 - 800.00 USD 1,200.00
2 Jefferson, Thomas.

NOTES ON THE STATE OF VIRGINIA. WITH AN APPENDIX RELATIVE TO THE MURDER OF LOGAN'S FAMILY.

1803 USD 70.00 - 700.00 USD 960.00
30 Whitman, Walt.

TWO RIVULETS INCLUDING DEMOCRATIC VISTAS, CENTENNIAL SONGS, AND PASSAGE TO INDIA.

1876 USD 600.00 - 6,000.00 USD 960.00
40 Twain, Mark (Samuel Clemens.)

ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN.

1885 USD 120.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
47

Apollo 11... NASA Voice Line. Lengthy manuscript in pencil on leaves numbered 56, 99, 7, 4, 12, and 23 (appears complete.)

USD 40.00 - 400.00 USD 900.00
73 Ockland, Christopher.

ANGLORUM PRAELIA AB ANNO DOMINI 1327... 1558... ITEM DE PACATISSIMO ANGLIAE STATU, IMPERANTE ELIZABETHA, COMPENDIOSA NARRATIO.

1582 USD 70.00 - 700.00 USD 900.00
13

[Gold Mining, 1752]

1752 USD 40.00 - 400.00 USD 780.00
14 Ovid.

EPISTOLE HEROIDES.

1529 USD 150.00 - 1,500.00 USD 720.00
97

Florida General Assembly, Civil War Era

1853-1869. USD 200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 720.00
129 Luther, Martin.

TOMUS QUINTUS OMNIUM OPERUM....

1554 USD 90.00 - 900.00 USD 720.00
  • Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: CATESBY, MARK. 1683-1749. The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. The Birds of America, from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: ADAMS ON HIS PEAR TREES AND A LOST PORTRAIT BY SALEM ARTIST HANNAH CROWNINSHIELD. ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: EARLIEST MAP DEVOTED TO NORTH AMERICA. FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: HAMILTON DEFENDS THE CONSTITUTION. HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 24: NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION BROADSIDE. Boston, September 14, 1768. $5,000 - $8,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: ONE OF THE EARLIEST ILLUSTRATIONS OF A SURGICAL PROCEDURE. BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS. $10,000 - $15,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: RICHARD FEYNMAN'S ANNOTATED COPY, WITH TWO EARLY FEYNMAN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. $15,000 - $25,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN COMPUTING. TURING, ALAN MATHISON. 1912-1954. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: FINE OIL PORTRAIT OF ALBERT EINSTEIN BY EUGEN SPIRO. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: PENICILLIN MOLD MEDALLION INSCRIBED BY ALEXANDER FLEMING. FLEMING, ALEXANDER. 1881-1955. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, now to Oct. 23: APPLE "TWIGGY" MACINTOSH PROTOTYPE USED IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF DEMONSTRATION SOFTWARE. $80,000 - $120,000
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Abraham Lincoln Signed Letter on Executive Mansion Stationary To Secretary of The Navy re: Appointment for Naval Academy!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Extremely Rare Ben Franklin Printed: Considerations on Keeping Negroes...Part Second. 1762.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: An impressively extra-illustrated copy; Including an Original leaf from Shakespeare’s 1623 First Folio!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Rarest Naval Autograph James Lawrence “Don’t give up the ship On " U.S. Ship Hornet June 19th 1812.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Oversize Ernest Hemingway Signed Photo with long Inscription about Drinking Wine to his dear friend and Secretary Roberto Herrera.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: VOLTAIRE Signed Receipt about a partial payment of debt for the Duke of Wuerttemberg.
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: [Maps] Gio. Ant. Magnini, Italia, 1620.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: LAWMAN SALOON JUDGE ROY BEAN Signed Legal Document 1895-RARE!
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Autograph Album with James Garfield as President, Chester A. Aurthur as VP, William T. Sherman, Burnside, P.T. Barnum and many more!
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    October 17th, 2024
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Thomas Jefferson and James Madison Signed Four Language Ship's Paper.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Hector Berlioz Autograph Musical Quotation Signed.
    One of a Kind Collectibles, Oct. 17: Important Memorandum the Day after Gettysburg July 5th, 1863 where Lincoln asks all Department Heads of the cabinet to meet him at the Executive Mansion.
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  • Sotheby’s
    Bibliotheca Brookeriana:
    A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M
    18 October 2024
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Herodianus Syrus, Herodiani Historiarum, Venice, Heirs of Aldo & Torresano, 1524, Parisian binding for Jean Grolier by Jean Picard, ca. 1540
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Musaeus, Opusculum de Herone et Leandro, Venice, Aldo, 1495 (Greek text), interleaved with 1497–1498 (Latin text), English olive morocco by Charles Lewis, the Botfield copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Horatius Flaccus, Horatius, Venice, Aldo, 1501, Bolognese brown goatskin (between 1501 and 1503), arms of Mino Rossi and illuminated initials throughout
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Lucretius, De rerum natura, Venice, Aldo, 1500, English early eighteenth-century red morocco, the Fletcher copy
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 18: Dante, Le terze rime, Venice, Aldo, 1502, illuminated, contemporary Bolognese morocco binding
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