Death Defying Success
- by Bruce E. McKinney
A Blanc. Works, East Schuylkill Falls. c. 1860
It was for Bloomsbury and Mr. Markowitz a gutty performance. They had no control over the economic uncertainty but everything they could control they did and they did it well.
Here are links to:
[1] Bloomsbury Sale NY020 – this sale: click here.
[2] A detailed comparison of Siebert material purchased in 1999 and resold in this sale
| AE Auction Listing Link | Title | 1999 Siebert Sale | 2008 Snider Lots | ||||||
| Lot No. | Low Est. | High Est. | Realized Price | Low Est | High Est | Hammered price | Realized Price | ||
| Lot 18 | THOMAS, Gabriel. An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. London: Printed for and sold by A. Baldwin, 1698. | 122 | $24,000 | $26,000 | $40,250 | $50,000 | $60,000 | unsold | |
| Lot 46 | BRADFORD, Andrew (printer). The Particulars of an Indian Treaty at Conestogoe, between His Excellency Sir William Keith, Bart. Governor of Pennsylvania, And the Deputies of the Five Nations [caption title]. Philadelphia: Andrew Bradford, [1721]. | 329 | $10,000 | $15,000 | $8,050 | $15,000 | $20,00 | $12,000 | $14,400 |
| Lot 65 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer). An Account of the Treaty Held at the City of Albany in the Province of New-York, By His Excellency the Governor of that Province, and the Honourable the Commissioners for the Provinces of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Penns... | 521 | $7,000 | $10,000 | $10,925 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $16,000 | $19,200 |
| Lot 66 | BRAINERD, David. Mirabilia Dei inter Indicos, or the Rise and Progress of a Remarkable Work of Grace amongst a number of the Indians in the Provinces of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, justly represented in a Journal. | 148 | $4,000 | $6,000 | $4,887 | $7,000 | $10,000 | $6,000 | $7,200 |
| Lot 91 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer). Minutes of Conferences Held with the Indians, at Harris’s Ferry, and at Lancaster, in March, April and May, 1757. Philadelphia: B. Franklin and D. Hall, 1757 | 528 | $6,000 | $8,000 | $11,500 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $16,000 | $19,200 |
| Lot 92 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer). Minutes of Conferences held with Indians at Easton, in the Months of July, and August, 1757. | 530 | $6,000 | $8,000 | $13,800 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $16,000 | $19,200 |
| Lot 93 | FRANKLIN, Benjamin (printer). Minutes of Conferences, Held at Easton, In October, 1758, With the Chief Sachems and Warriors of the Mohawks, Oneidoes, Onondagoes, Cayugas, Senecas, Tuscaroras, Tuteloes, Skaniadaradigronos | 532 | $6,000 | $8,000 | $10,350 | $20,000 | $30,000 | $16,000 | $19,200 |
| Lot 95 | POST, Christian Frederick. The Second Journal of Christian Frederick Post, On a Message from the Governor of Pensilvania to the Indians on the Ohio. | 534 | $5,000 | $7,000 | $7,475 | $10,000 | $15,000 | $12,000 | $14,400 |
| Lot 103 | SMITH, Matthew; and James GIBSON. A Declaration and Remonstrance of the distressed and bleeding Frontier Inhabitants of the Province of Pennsylvania, Presented by them to the Honourable the Governor and Assembly of the Province, | 175 | $2,000 | $3,000 | $4,025 | $6,000 | $8,000 | $5,500 | $6,600 |
| Lot 105 | PHILOPATRIUS [pseudonym of David James DOVE.] The Quaker unmask'd; or, Plain truth: Humbly address'd to the Consideration of all the Freemen of Pennsylvania. | 172 | $1,000 | $2,000 | $2,185 | $3,000 | $4,000 | $4,000 | $4,800 |
| $47,000 | $67,000 | $73,197 | $121,000 | $177,000 | $103,500 | $124,200 | |||
[3] An article I wrote about this sale in the November issue of AEM: click here.