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Auction Name Shelf Lot Book Auction Total Sales (USD) 8,145.78
Auction Date August 29, 2024 - August 29, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #Q1340 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 91
Sold Lots 75 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 82.42% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
45

38 Volumes. . Includes The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: First Series; The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Second Series; and the Ante-NiceneFathers

Not Available USD 622.30
56

Btye Magazine. Early collection of the first magazine dedicated to Computer Science, including the first issue..

Not Available USD 546.10
41

[Leather] 28 volumes. Includes a 1754 edition of Recueil des lettres de madame la marquise de Sevigne, Tome I-VIII

1754 Not Available USD 425.45
78

[Fine Binding] 13 leatherbound volumes consisting of 4 sets: Irving's Life of Columbus, v.1-2; Shelley's Poetical Works, v.1-2; Martin's History of France, v.1-3; and Guizot's History of France v.

Not Available USD 410.85
43

[Civil War] 1861 Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization.

Not Available USD 384.81
25 Fitzgerald, Edward (trans.)

The Rubiayat.

1894 Not Available USD 303.54
44

[Civil War] 1862 Harper's Weekly.

Not Available USD 292.10
1 Grant, Ulysses S.

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant.

1885-86. Not Available USD 241.30
7 Biden, Joe.

Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose.

2017 Not Available USD 234.95
66

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature.

Not Available USD 219.08
14 Karhu, Clifton.

Book of Prints.

1975 Not Available USD 206.38
36 Jacob, Giles.

A New Law Dictionary.

1772 Not Available USD 174.63
121 Daniel Webster

21 vols. Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster

1903 Not Available USD 174.63
70

14 issues of the Architectural Record journal spanning the years 1928-1932.

Not Available USD 139.07
46

[Religion] 31 volumes. Assorted writings on Christianity. Includes two editions of the multi-volume. Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Not Available USD 138.43
15 Rauschenberg, Robert and Clifford Ackley (Introduction).

Photos In + Out City Limits Boston.

1981 Not Available USD 137.80
9 Hemingway, Ernest.

The Sun Also Rises.

1927 Not Available USD 136.53
23

Vetus Testamentum Graecum ex Versione Septuaginta interpretum. juxta exemplar Vaticanum Romae editum,

1665 Not Available USD 133.35
51 James Russell Lowell

14 Volumes. Includes The Writings of James Russell Lowell; James Russell Lowell: A Biography in Two Volumes. Large Paper Editions.

1890-1901. Not Available USD 130.81
48

The Liturgical Year of Dom Prosper Gueranger

2000). Not Available USD 120.65
75

17 volumes. Francis Parkman's Works. Frontenac Edition.

Not Available USD 120.02
37

Revue de Viticulture. Organe de L'Agriculture des Regiones Viticoles.

1895 -- 1914. Not Available USD 113.03
20

[Nature] 4 volumes on butterflies and travel,

Not Available USD 108.59
72

two sets: The works of William Shakespeare : from the text of the Rev. Alexander Dyce's third edition

1875 Not Available USD 97.79
12

[African American Interest] 12 magazine total, consisting of 11 issues of Jet Magazine; ; and one issue of Quick Magazine

(1952-1958) (1952). Not Available USD 93.98
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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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