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Auction Name	Antiquarian and Collectable Books, and Related Items	Total Sales (USD)	241,281.25
Auction Date	January 09, 2025 - January 09, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	138,900.00
Sale Number	#829	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	194,485.00
Total Lots	382
Sold Lots	300.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	174,950.00
% of Lots Sold	78.53%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	250,735.00
Unsold Lots	82	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	96.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
340		Harris's List of Covent-Garden Ladies: Or, Man of Pleasure's Kalender, for the Year, 1787. Containing the Histories and Some Curious Anecdotes of the Most Celebrated Ladies Now on the Town, or in Keeping, and Also of Many of Their Keepers	[1787]	USD 1,200.00 - 1,100.00	USD 31,250.00
227	Kyd, Thomas	The Spanish Tragedy: or, Hieronimo is Mad Againe. Containing the Lamentable End of Don Horatio, and Belimperia; With the Pitifull Death of Hieronimo	1633	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 21,250.00
319	Robert, Henry Martyn	Pocket Manual of Rules of Order for Deliberative Assemblies	1876	USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 17,500.00
292	Palou, Francisco	Noticias de la Nueva California, Tomos I-IV	1874	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 8,125.00
330		Moskva v ee proshlom i nastoiashchem	1909-1912	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,000.00
2	Estes, Rufus	Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus: A Collection of Practical Recipes for Preparing Meats, Game, Fowl, Fish, Puddings, Pastries, etc.	1911	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 4,687.50
157	Galilei, Galileo	Systema Cosmicum, Autore Galilaeo Galilaei Lynceo... in quo Quatuor Dialogis, de Duobus Maximus Mundi Systematibus, Ptolemaico & Copernicano...	1663	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 4,687.50
321	Rodriguez, Etienne Alexander	The Religion of Vishnoo. The History of the Most Remarkable Events of the Ten Avatars or Incarnations of Vishnoo, the Preserving Power of India...	1849	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 4,375.00
11	Abbott, Edwin A.	Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions	1980	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,437.50
100	Cunningham, Joseph Davey	A History of the Sikhs, From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej	1849	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 2,500.00
126	Erasmus, Desiderius	Apophthegmatum, sive scite dictorum libri sex	1531	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 2,500.00
267	Du Sommerard, Alexandre	Les Arts au Moyen Age	1838-1846	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,500.00
310	Symonds, John Addington	In the Key of Blue and Other Prose Essays	1893	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 2,500.00
313	Leslie, Charles Robert and Tom Taylor	Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds: With Notices of Some of His Contemporaries	1865	USD 700.00 - 350.00	USD 2,375.00
39	Bely, Andrei, editor	Epopeia	1922-1923	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,000.00
102	Darwin, Charles	On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life	1861	USD 1,200.00 - 600.00	USD 1,875.00
111	Shakespeare, William	Shake-Speares Sonnets. Tercentenary Edition	1909	USD 1,200.00 - 950.00	USD 1,875.00
181	Gray, Thomas	The Poems of Mr. Gray. To Which are Prefixed Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason	1775	USD 400.00 - 200.00	USD 1,875.00
205	Hume, David	The History of England	1754-1762	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,875.00
226	Knolles, Richard	The Generall Historie of the Turkes... Together with the Lives and Conquests of the Othoman Kings and Emperours... Digested into one Continuat Historie untill this Present Yeare 1603	1603	USD 800.00 - 400.00	USD 1,750.00
272		Exercitium fur die sammentlich Kaiserlich-Konigliche Infanterie	1768	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,750.00
29	Babbage, Charles	On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures	1832	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,500.00
376	Wittgenstein, Ludwig	Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus	1922	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,500.00
244	Lefevre, Edwin	Reminiscences of a Stock Operator	1923	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 1,375.00
64	Brigham, William T.	Ka Hana Kapa: The Making of Bark-Cloth in Hawaii, Memoirs of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum of Polynesian Ethnology and Natural History	1911	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 1,250.00

Sotheby’s
Year in Review

Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD

Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
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