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Auction Name	Encapsulated Auction	Total Sales (USD)	399,631.00
Auction Date	December 19, 2024 - December 19, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	244,700.00
Sale Number	#706	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	0.00
Total Lots	286
Sold Lots	192	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	444,350.00
% of Lots Sold	67.13%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	0.00
Unsold Lots	94	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1001	George Washington Autograph Document Signed, Honoring a Gallant Revolutionary War Officer, Capt. George Hurlbut, Who Died of His Wounds	1788	USD 25,000.00 - 0.00	USD 38,781.00
1069	Daniel Boone Autograph Document Signed with Hand-Drawn Survey Map	1787	USD 10,000.00 - 0.00	USD 27,581.00
1050	Benjamin Franklin Document Signed, Paying a Pennsylvania Dragoon for Service in the Revolutionary War	1786	USD 15,000.00 - 0.00	USD 18,975.00
1211	Marilyn Monroe Signed Photograph	1953	USD 15,000.00 - 0.00	USD 18,089.00
1062	Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed on 'On the Origin of Species' and 'Voyage of the Beagle'	[no year but circa 1862-69]	USD 15,000.00 - 0.00	USD 17,573.00
1169	Beatles Signed 1963 Parlophone Promo Card - The First to Show New Drummer Ringo Starr (PSA NM-MT 8)	1962	USD 6,000.00 - 0.00	USD 12,636.00
1172	Buddy Holly and Norman Petty Signed Publishing Contract for 'I Know IaEUll Have the Blues Again' - PSA NM-MT 8	1958	USD 10,000.00 - 0.00	USD 12,520.00
1064	Albert Einstein Signed Photograph (1933) - PSA NM-MT 8	1933	USD 8,000.00 - 0.00	USD 10,106.00
1143	Claude Monet Autograph Letter Signed	1922	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	USD 9,816.00
1015	Donald Trump Signed $100 Dollar Bill - PSA GEM MT 10	1990	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	USD 9,074.00
1057	Martin Luther King, Jr. Signed Photograph - 'I Have a Dream' Speech	1963	USD 6,000.00 - 0.00	USD 8,268.00
1233	Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio Signatures		USD 6,000.00 - 0.00	USD 8,254.00
1003	Thomas Jefferson Signed and Hand-Addressed Free Frank as President	1807	USD 3,000.00 - 0.00	USD 8,125.00
1212	Marilyn Monroe Signed 1951 Contract Page with Twentieth Century-Fox	1951	USD 3,000.00 - 0.00	USD 6,816.00
1239	Babe Ruth Signed Golf Scorecard (May 1943)	no date [May 1943],	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	USD 6,179.00
1113	Robert Gould Shaw Signature - Celebrated Commander of the All-Black 54th Massachusetts - PSA MINT 9		USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,633.00
1213	Marilyn Monroe Signed and Filled Out Check	1950	USD 3,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,633.00
1055	King James I Document Signed	1590	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,363.00
1144	Pablo Picasso Autograph Letter Signed - PSA MINT 9	1955	USD 5,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,159.00
1052	Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed: "If you care about the principles of Free Trade and Liberalism which I stand forward to defend, I ask you most earnestly to give me the effective assistance of your vote" - PSA MINT 9	1906	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,120.00
1053	Winston Churchill Autograph Letter Signed, Predicting Political Upheaval in Europe: "I apprehend considerable change on both sides of the Channel in the near future" - PSA GEM MINT 10	1924	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,120.00
1072	Sam Houston Letter Signed: "My disease has been toothache, face ache, & headache"	1855	USD 2,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,120.00
1002	George Washington Hand-Addressed Envelope Panel	no date but circa 1776	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,051.00
1060	Elon Musk Signed Photograph - PSA GEM MINT 10	2017	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 5,003.00
1058	Malcolm X Signed Page for Alex HaleyaEUs 1963 Playboy Interview - PSA NM-MT 8	1963	USD 4,000.00 - 0.00	USD 4,654.00

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.

High Bids Win
Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
and Machine Manuals
December 24 to January 9

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.

High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: William Shakespeare.
The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD

Sotheby’s: Charles Dickens.
A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD

Sotheby’s: William Golding.
Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien.
The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD

Sotheby’s: John Milton.
Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD

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