Sothebys: Fine Books and Manuscripts - Part 2
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Books and Manuscripts - Part 2 | Total Sales (USD) | 1,225,042.00 |
| Auction Date | June 26, 2025 - June 26, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 690,400.00 |
| Sale Number | #N11830 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 1,035,700.00 |
| Total Lots | 88 | ||
| Sold Lots | 61 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,112,500.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 69.32% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,653,700.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 27 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 74.08% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1025 | Austen, Jane | Pride and Prejudice: a Novel. |
1813 | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 127,000.00 |
| 1009 | Hamilton, Alexander, James Madison, and John Jay | The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favour of the New Constitution, as Agreed upon by the Federal Convention, September 17, 1787. |
1788 | USD 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 120,650.00 |
| 1003 | Catesby, Mark. | The natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the figures of birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants. |
1731-1743 | USD 50,000.00 - 100,000.00 | USD 88,900.00 |
| 1051 | Tennyson, Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson | Maud and Other Poems. |
1855 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 88,900.00 |
| 1052 | Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. |
1937 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 76,200.00 |
| 1053 | Wallace, David Foster | An intimate group of letters from the early stages of the author's career, with a presentation copy of his first book |
1983 -- 1996 | USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | USD 57,150.00 |
| 1026 | Austen, Jane | Mansfield Park: A Novel. |
1814 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 35,560.00 |
| 1083 | Smith, Adam | The Theory of Moral Sentiments. |
1759 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 35,560.00 |
| 1041 | Hemingway, Ernest | The Sun Also Rises. |
1926 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 33,020.00 |
| 1013 | Lincoln, Abraham | Document signed ("A. Lincoln"), as 16th president |
1864 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 30,480.00 |
| 1012 | Lewis, Meriwether, and William Clark | Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America from the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean |
1817 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 27,940.00 |
| 1017 | Paine, Thomas | Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America... |
1776 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 27,940.00 |
| 1006 | Douglass, Frederick | Autograph letter signed ("Frederick Douglas"), to F. P. Noble, the Secretary of the African Congress on the temerity of revisionist history |
1893 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 |
| 1079 | Ricardo, David | On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. |
1817 | USD 14,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 |
| 1032 | Dickens, Charles | Bleak House. |
1853 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 |
| 1074 | Newton, Isaac | Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. |
1726 | USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 |
| 1028 | Bemelmans, Ludwig | An extensively illustrated, wide-ranging archive of letters to Elizabeth Weicker and Theodore Weicker, Jr. |
circa 1960-1962 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 22,860.00 |
| 1049 | Rowling, J.K. | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. |
1997 | USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 22,860.00 |
| 1044 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume. |
1829 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 21,590.00 |
| 1001 | Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis, et al. | Archive of manuscript documents and letters from British military commanders in the Southern Theater... |
circa 1739-1794 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 1010 | Humboldt, Alexander von, and Aime Bonpland | Vues des Cordilleres et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de l'Amerique. |
1810 but 1813 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 1086 | Szyk, Arthur | The Haggadah, Executed by Arthur Szyk, Edited by Cecil Roth. |
1940 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 1027 | Austen, Jane | Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice", &C. &C. |
1816 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 1081 | Schulz, Charles | Original pen and ink illustration for the Peanuts comic strip. |
1965 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 1047 | Rackham, Arthur --- Richard Wagner | Alberich and Mime fighting over the body of Fafnir, original ink and watercolor drawing, from Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods, 1911 |
1911 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
![Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/acf970a0-a15d-4c79-aa24-5e8e414cb465.png "<b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.")
