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Auction Name Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Photographs, Art - Timed Online Auction Total Sales (USD) 29,606.25
Auction Date January 02, 2025 - January 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,860.00
Sale Number #2061 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 38,600.00
Total Lots 405
Sold Lots 386 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,050.00
% of Lots Sold 95.31% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 40,500.00
Unsold Lots 19 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
184 Chesney, Francis Rawdon

The Expedition for the Survey of the Rivers Euphrates and Tigris... in the Years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by geographical and historical notices of the regions situated between the rivers Nile and Indus...

1850 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 812.50
237 Schwaberow, Micah

Tuolumne: Yosemite, Book I [with] Homage to Monet

1988 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 375.00
188 Ellis, William

Narrative of a Tour Through Hawaii, or Owhyhee, with Observations on the Natural History of the Sandwich Islands and Remarks on the Manners, Customs, Traditions, History, and Language of their Inhabitants

1827 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
201 Hoole, Elijah

Madras, Mysore, And The South Of India, Or, A Personal Narrative Of A Mission To Those Countries From Mdcccxx to Mdcccxxviii

1844 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
374

William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray

1971 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
190 Fisher, Irving

Elementary Principles of Economics

1915 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 312.50
255 Audubon, John James

White-headed Sea Eagle, or Bald Eagle

1840-44 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 312.50
187 Eckfeldt, Jacob Reese & William E. Du Bois

New Varieties of Gold and Silver Coins, Counterfeit Coins, and Bullion, with Mint Values

1850 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 281.25
225

Two inauguration First Day Covers and one presidential postcard

c.1953-1977 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 281.25
140 Verne, Jules

Voyage au Centre de la Terre [and] Cinq Semaines en Ballon

1867 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 250.00
183

State of California Cattle Protection Board. Cattle Brands and Licensed Slaughters 1918...

1918 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 237.50
203 Dodwell, Edward and James Samuel Miles

Alphabetical List of the Honourable East India Company's Madras Civil Servants, From the Year 1780, to the Year 1839...

1839 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 237.50
210 Lepsius, Karl Richard

Briefe aus Aegypten, Aethiopien und der Halbinsel des Sinai...

1852 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 237.50
279 Mealey, M.W., photographer

Original photograph of a street in apparently Pueblo, Colorado

c.1885 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 237.50
390

Six volumes of American photography

Various dates USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 237.50
208 Kneeland, Samuel

The Wonders of the Yosemite Valley, and of California

1871 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 212.50
2

Shelf of literature anthologies

1923-1953 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
191 Fisher, Irving

The Nature of Capital and Income

1912 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
193

A Winter in the West Indies and Florida; Containing General Observations Upon Modes of Travelling, Manners and Customs, Climates and Productions, with a Particular Description of... places of Resort for Northern Invalids.

1839 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
344

Medieval manuscript bifolium

14th century? USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
358

Shelf of volumes related to poets

1927-1941 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
368

Three volumes of photography from Aperture

1988-1994 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
406 Szyk, Arthur

Six Collier's magazines, all but one featuring the cover art of Arthur Szyk

1941-1942 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
64 James, Montague Rhodes

Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary

1913 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 187.50
199 Hart, Stephen H. and Archer B. Hulbert, editors

Zeb Pike's Arkansaw Journal: Interpreted by his newly recovered maps

1932 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 187.50
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