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Heritage Auctions: Selections from the J. Doyle DeWitt Collection Americana & Political Showcase Auction

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Auction Name Selections from the J. Doyle DeWitt Collection Americana & Political Showcase Auction Total Sales (USD) 113,713.75
Auction Date August 24, 2024 - August 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,096.00
Sale Number #32165 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 124,644.00
Total Lots 342
Sold Lots 337 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 83,896.00
% of Lots Sold 98.54% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 125,844.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 90.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
61234

[Grover Cleveland]: Anti-Republican 1884 Broadside.

1884 USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 11,250.00
61030

Elbridge Gerry: Gerrymander Broadside.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 7,500.00
61044

Andrew Jackson et al: Newspapers and Imprints.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 3,250.00
61395

Henry Wallace: Civil Rights [Paul Robeson] Group.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 2,375.00
61495

WWII: Japanese Internment Camp Poster.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 2,375.00
61186

Grant & Wilson: Framed "Sculptural" Display.

USD 160.00 - 240.00 USD 2,062.50
61106

Abraham Lincoln: Large Hand-Colored Lithograph.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,750.00
61131

Abraham Lincoln: Rogers Group Council of War.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 1,750.00
61397

Henry Wallace: Large Archive of 1948 Progressive Party Imprints.

1948 USD 160.00 - 240.00 USD 1,625.00
61173

Ulysses S. Grant: Anti-Klan and Anti-Free Trade Broadside.

USD 480.00 - 720.00 USD 1,562.50
61112

Anti-Slavery, Civil War and 1860 Election Newspapers.

1860 USD 352.00 - 528.00 USD 1,250.00
61299

Eugene V. Debs et al: Mock Student Election Rally Photographs.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 1,250.00
61252

Blaine & Logan: Jugate Poster.

USD 64.00 - 96.00 USD 1,062.50
61426

Lyndon B. Johnson: Cardboard Posters.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,062.50
61102

[Abraham Lincoln]: Draft Riots Broadside.

USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 1,031.25
61037

[Andrew Jackson and Hard Times]: Anti-Bank Broadside.

USD 480.00 - 720.00 USD 1,000.00
61202

Rutherford B. Hayes: Counting the Vote Cards or Tickets.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 968.75
61203

Rutherford B. Hayes: Counting the Vote Cards or Tickets.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 937.50
61024

Thomas Jefferson: 1801 Inauguration Speech Broadside.

1801 USD 480.00 - 720.00 USD 906.25
61201

Rutherford B. Hayes: Counting the Electoral Vote Cards.

USD 320.00 - 480.00 USD 875.00
61096

John P. Hale: Free Soil Party Broadsheet.

USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 812.50
61104

Abraham Lincoln: 1864 Broadside Handbill.

1864 USD 480.00 - 720.00 USD 812.50
61073

James K. Polk: Color Presidential Wall Chart.

USD 240.00 - 360.00 USD 781.25
61099

John C. Fremont: Philadelphia Broadside.

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 781.25
61172

Ulysses S. Grant: Anti-Greeley Currier & Ives Cartoon.

USD 480.00 - 720.00 USD 718.75
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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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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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 €
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    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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