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Auction Name
Books in All Fields with Literature, Americana, Maps, Photographs, Art - Timed Online Auction
Auction Date
01/02/2025 - 01/02/2025
Sale Number
#2061
Total Lots
405
Sold Lots
386
Lots Sold
95.31%
Unsold Lots
19
Total Sales (USD)
29,606.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
3,860.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
38,600.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
4,050.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
40,500.00
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
374

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

 1971 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 343.75
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
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
225

Two inauguration First Day Covers and one presidential postcard

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

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

 1867 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 250.00
390

Six volumes of American photography

 Various dates 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
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
279 Mealey, M.W., photographer

Original photograph of a street in apparently Pueblo, Colorado

 c.1885 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
358

Shelf of volumes related to poets

 1927-1941 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
344

Medieval manuscript bifolium

 14th century? 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
368

Three volumes of photography from Aperture

 1988-1994 USD 10.00 - 100.00 USD 200.00
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