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Auction Name Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium Total Sales (USD) 17,483.00
Auction Date January 05, 2025 - January 05, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 54,958.00
Sale Number #10525 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 111,200.00
Total Lots 104
Sold Lots 103.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 55,557.00
% of Lots Sold 99.04% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 112,400.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 15.55%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94 MILNE, A.A.; SHEPARD, Ernest H. (Illus.)

Now We Are Six

1927 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 610.00
91 L Frank Baum

Tik-Tok of Oz

1914 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 530.00
38 WILKES, Charles

Narrative of the United States exploring expedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842

1845 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 475.00
44 BARHAM, Richard Harris

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

1855 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 425.00
102 FLEMING, Ian

You Only Live Twice

1964 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 420.00
23 RAMSAY, Allan

Poems on Several Occasions

1793 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 405.00
75 FONTAINE, Jean de la

Tales and novels in verse

1884 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 350.00
79 TWAIN, Mark

A Connecticut Yankee in king Arthurs court by Mark Twain.

1890 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 310.00
66 RASPE, Rudolf Erich

Aventures du baron de munchhausen

[ca.1875]. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
87 REMINGTON, Frederick

Done in the Open: Drawings by Frederic Remington

1904 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 295.00
12 AULNOY, Marie d

Histoire dHypolite, comte de Duglas

1699 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 280.00
97 SANGORSKI, Alberto (illustrator)

The Sermon on the Mount

1937 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 275.00
65 BARHAM, Richard Harris.

The Ingoldsby Legends or Mirth and Marvels

1875 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 265.00
59 JACKSON, Mary Anna

Memoirs of Stonewall Jackson

(c)1895. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 260.00
96 Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

South Moon Under

1933 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 260.00
36 DICKENS, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. With illus. by Phiz.

1844 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 255.00
104 TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

The Silmarillion

1977 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 255.00
5 CLAUDIAN, Claudius

Cl. Claudiani quae exstant: ex emendatione Nicolai Heinsii.

1677 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 250.00
67 LOSSING, Benson John

Our Country: a household history for all readers, from the discovery of America to the present time

1875-77 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 240.00
82 TWAIN, Mark

The American Claimant.

1892 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 235.00
80 JOHNSON, W. Fletcher

The Red Record of the Sioux. Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890-91. A Graphic Account of the Life of the Great Medicine Man and Chief Sitting Bull; His Tragic Death; Story of the Sioux Nation; Their Manners and Customs, Ghost Dance

(c)1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 230.00
83 HARRIS, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus or, Mr. Fox, Mr. Rabbit, and Mr. Terrapin.

[1897] USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 230.00
3 KEMPIS, Thomas a

Limitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduite & paraphrase?e en vers franc?ois

1660 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 225.00
37 SUE, Eugene

The Mysteries of Paris

1845-1846 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 225.00
7 L. B. D. E. D. E.

La Cour De France Turbanise?e, Et Les Trahisons De?masque?es : En trois Parties

1690 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 215.00
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.