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New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List

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Auction Name Fine Books and Ephemera List Total Sales (USD) 25,308.00
Auction Date January 07, 2025 - January 07, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #46 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 214
Sold Lots 199 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 92.99% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
215 The Bar-Tenders' Guide

A Complete Cyclopaedia of Plain and Fancy Drinks.

1862 Not Available USD 2,400.00
179 Smith, Adam

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

1791 Not Available USD 1,560.00
6 Kauffman, Angelica

The Flight of Paris and Helen from the Court of King Menelaus * Venus Presenting Helen to Paris.

Late 18th-century Not Available USD 840.00
172

Scientific American. A Journal of Practical Information in Art, Sciences, Mechanics.

1855-84 Not Available USD 780.00
175 Paxton, John

Magazine of Botany.

1840-48 Not Available USD 660.00
174

Fossil Vertebrates from the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

1887-1958 Not Available USD 450.00
162 Loudon, Jane Webb

The Ladies' Flower-Garden of Ornamental Perennials.

1843-44 Not Available USD 420.00
15 Jones, John.

The Mysteries of Opium Reveald.

1701 Not Available USD 300.00
39 Northcote, James

One Hundred Fables.

1833 Not Available USD 300.00
64 [Bronte, Charlotte] Currer Bell.

Shirley. A Tale. By Currer Bell.

1849 Not Available USD 300.00
88

Typography. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 270.00
109

Worcester, Mass.

vd Not Available USD 270.00
181

Botany. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 270.00
151

Paroissien.

1853 Not Available USD 240.00
196

Sporting. Group of 21 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 240.00
2 Austen, Jane

Sense and Sensibility and Persuasion.

1857 Not Available USD 228.00
34 [Royall, Anne]

Sketches of History, Life and Manners in the United States.

1826 Not Available USD 228.00
99 Rilke, Rainer Maria. Translated by Carl Niemyer.

From Volume Four of the Gesammelte Werke of Rainer Maria Rilke.

1947 Not Available USD 228.00
153 Ribadeneyra, Pedro.

Les Fleurs des Vies des Saincts.

1625 Not Available USD 228.00
178 Disney

Group of 25 Walt Disney's Wonderful Adventures of Pinocchio Movie Promotional Mask and Puppet Sheets.

Circa 1938 Not Available USD 228.00
199 Live Stock Association

Proceedings of the First - Eighth National Live Stock Association * Proceedings of the Twelfth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth & Twenty-first ...American Live Stock Association.

1898-1918 Not Available USD 228.00
36

British Imprints. Group 7 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 216.00
45

Illustrated. Group of 7 volumes.

vd Not Available USD 216.00
120

Atlases. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below.

vd Not Available USD 216.00
56 Elzevier. Claudianus.

Claudianus. Poemata.

1650 Not Available USD 204.00
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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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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
  • Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: ALDROVANDI, Ulisse (1522-1605) - [Opera omnia]. Bologna: Bellagamba, Benacci, Bonomi, Tebaldini, Ferroni, 1599-1668. €22.000-€28.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: [CANALETTO] - VISENTINI, Antonio (1688-1782) da Giovanni Antonio CANAL (1697-1768, detto 'Il Canaletto') - Urbis Venetiarum prospectus celebriores. Venezia: Giovanni Battista Pasquale, 1742-51. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: LA FONTAINE, Jean de (1621-1695) - Fables Choisies. Parigi: Claude Barbin, 1668. €7.000-€10.000
    Il Ponte, Feb. 25-26: MERCATOR, Rumold (1545-1599) - [I continenti] - Europa; Africa; America Sive India Nova; Asia. Amsterdam: S.d. [ca. 1633]. €2.000-€3.000
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