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Doyle New York: Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps

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Auction Name Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps Total Sales (USD) 683,221.00
Auction Date December 06, 2024 - December 06, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 358,260.00
Sale Number #24pb04 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 563,980.00
Total Lots 309
Sold Lots 264 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 555,060.00
% of Lots Sold 85.44% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 854,880.00
Unsold Lots 45 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 79.92%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
649 [SPINOZA, BARUCH (later BENEDICTUS DE]

The first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus

1670 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 73,150.00
793 RAND, AYN

A manuscript leaf from the first draft of "Atlas Shrugged"

N.d., but early 1950s, likely 1951 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 33,250.00
543 PTOLEMY, CLAUDIUS; JOHANN REGER; and JOHANNES SCHNITZER.

An important early map of the Arabian Peninsula from the 1486 Ulm Ptolemy

1486 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 29,925.00
754 ELIOT, T.[HOMAS] S.[TEARNS]

T.S. Eliot inscribes The Waste Land to a young Harvard man

1922 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,960.00
564 VISSCHER, CLAES JASZOON.

A finely colored example of Visscher's double hemisphere world map, with a figured border

USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 14,630.00
675 GEORGE, HENRY

The true first edition of Henry George's Progress and Poverty, an inscribed copy

1879 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 14,630.00
565 PLANCIUS, PETRUS.

"The first of many world maps with richly decorated borders" (Burden)

1594 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,970.00
679 KEYNES, JOHN MAYNARD

John Maynard Keynes on The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money

1936 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 11,305.00
525 OVERLAND JOURNAL

A manuscript overland narrative

1864 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 10,640.00
794 RAND, AYN

An remarkable inscribed copy of Atlas Shrugged

1957 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,640.00
737 CHANDLER, RAYMOND

Raymond Chandler's Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 9,975.00
591 AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES

The fourth edition of Audubon's Birds

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 9,310.00
644 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM

A leaf from Richard II from each of the first four folios

1979 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,980.00
646 FERRARI, GIOVANNI BAPTISTA

Ferrari's Hesperides, with superb plates of fruit

1646 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,980.00
611 POPE, ALEXANDER and AUBREY BEARDSLEY

Beardsley's Rape of the Lock, one of 25 copies on Japan vellum

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,315.00
797 SHELLEY, MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT

A rare early edition of Frankenstein

1831 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,315.00
677 DARWIN, CHARLES

A finely bound set of the works of Charles Darwin

1896-97. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,650.00
757 FAULKNER, WILLIAM

A landmark Faulkner novel, in jacket

1927 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,650.00
773 [HEMINGWAY, ERNEST]

Antonio Ordonez's "Suit of Lights" owned by Ernest Hemingway

USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 6,650.00
614 KIPLING, RUDYARD.

An immaculate set signed by Kipling and with original watercolors

1913-15. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,652.50
748 CARROLL, LEWIS [DODGSON, CHARLES LUTWIDGE]

A first edition set in cloth of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass

1866 & 1872. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,652.50
532 TRUMAN, HARRY

A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House reconstruction

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,320.00
542 [BERLINGHIERI, FRANCESCO DI NICOLO].

Berlinghieri's early map of Asia

1482 or slightly later. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,320.00
582 LAZOVSKY, G. [photographer]

The Coronation of Tsar Nicholas II

1896 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,320.00
700 [CHANDLER, RAYMOND]

A large group of books inscribed between Cissy and Raymond Chandler

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,320.00
  • SwannPrinted & Manuscript African AmericanaMarch 20, 2025 SwannPrinted & Manuscript African AmericanaMarch 20, 2025
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 7: Thomas Fisher, The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, London, 1825. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 78: Victor H. Green, The Negro Travelers' Green Book, New York, 1958. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 99: Rosa Parks, Hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr., autograph manuscript, Detroit, c. 1990s. $30,000 to $40,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 154: Frederick Douglass, Autograph statement on voting rights, signed manuscript, 1866. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 164: W.E.B. Du Bois, What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas, Washington, circa 1936. $3,000 to $4,000.
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    Printed & Manuscript African Americana
    March 20, 2025
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 263: Susan Paul, Memoir of James Jackson, Boston, 1835. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 267: Langston Hughes, Gypsy Ballads, signed translation of García Lorca's poetry, Madrid, 1937. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 274: Malcolm X, Collection from Alex Haley's estate, 38 items, 1963-1971. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 367: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave, Auburn, NY, 1853. $2,500 to $3,500.
    Swann, Mar. 20: Lot 402: Anna Julia Cooper, A Voice from the South, Xenia, OH, 1892. $2,000 to $3,000.
  • Koller, Mar. 26: Wit, Frederick de. Atlas. Amsterdam, de Wit, [1680]. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Merian, Maria Sibylla. Der Raupen wunderbare Verwandelung, und sonderbare Blumennahrung. Nürnberg, 1679; Frankfurt a. M. und Leipzig, 1683. CHF 20,000 to 30,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: GOETHE, JOHANN WOLFGANG VON. Faust. Ein Fragment. Von Goethe. Ächte Ausgabe. Leipzig, G. J. Göschen, 1790. CHF 7,000 to 10,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: Hieronymus. [Das hochwirdig leben der außerwoelten freünde gotes der heiligen altuaeter]. Augsburg, Johann Schönsperger d. Ä., 9. Juni 1497. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Mar. 26: BIBLIA GERMANICA - Neunte deutsche Bibel. Nürnberg, A. Koberger, 17. Feb. 1483. CHF 40,000 to 60,000
    Koller, Mar. 26: HORAE B.M.V. - Stundenbuch. Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament, Kalendarium französisch. Nordfrankreich (Rouen?). CHF 25,000 to 40,000
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    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
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