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Auction Name Fine Americana - African-American History - Travel - Maps and Views Total Sales (USD) 204,060.00
Auction Date January 16, 2014 - January 16, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 188,880.00
Sale Number #524 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 290,220.00
Total Lots 559
Sold Lots 412 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 285,560.00
% of Lots Sold 73.70% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 432,710.00
Unsold Lots 147 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 47.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
303 Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste

Description Geographique, Historique, Chronologique, Politique et Physique de l'Empire de la Chine

 1735 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,600.00
191 Strong, Ray

California Spring - Original oil on canvas

 1946 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,200.00
197 Twain, Mark

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches

 1867 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 7,800.00
364 Monten, Dietrich & H.A. Eckert

Das K.K. Russische Militair

 1840 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,000.00
397 Morden, Robert

Geography Rectified: Or, A Description of the World, in all its Kingdoms, Provinces, Countries, Islands, Cities, Towns, Seas, Rivers, Bayes, Capes, Ports; Their Ancient and Present names, Inhabitants, Situations, Histories, Customs, Governments, &c.

 1688 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,500.00
511 Moll, Herman

[North America, i.e.] To the Right Honourable John Lord Sommers...this Map of North America According to ye Newest and Most Exact Observations is Most Humbly Dedicated by Herman Moll Geographer

 [1719] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,500.00
515 Chatelain, Henri Abraham

Carte tres Curieuse de la Mer du Sud, Contenant des Remarques Nouvelles et tres Utiles non Seulement sur les Ports et Iles de cette Mer, mais aussy sur les Principaux Pays de l'Amerique tant Septentrionale...

 1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,200.00
78

California Gold Shipment Manifest Letter, 1850

 1850 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,600.00
415 Mercator, Michael

America siue India Nova ad MagnA| Gerardi Mercatoris aui Universalis imitationem in compendi um redacta. Per Michaelem Mercatorem Duysburgensem

 1595-[1633-39] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,300.00
164 Reid, John C.

Reid's Tramp; Or, a Journal of the Incidents of Ten Months Travel Through Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, and California. Including Topography, Climate, Soil, Minerals, Metals, and Inhabitants; With a Notice of the Great Inter-Oceanic Rail Road

 1858 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,000.00
508 Coroneli, Vincenzo

[Partial set of Globe Gores, being most of North America with California as an island, mounted and framed]

 [c.1688] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,000.00
21 Bonaparte, Charles Lucian

American Ornithology; Or, The Natural History of Birds Inhabiting the United States, Not Given by Wilson. Volumes 1 through 3

 1825-1828 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
307 White, Herbert C.

Peking The Beautiful. Comprising seventy photographic studies of the celebrated monuments of China's Northern Capital and its Environs Complete with Descriptive and Historical Notes

 [1927] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,400.00
65 Callimachus

Callimachi Cyrenaei Hymni

 1532 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,280.00
127 Muir, John

My First Summer in the Sierra

 1911 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,280.00
229 [Denison, E.S.]

Yosemite and the Big Trees of California [cover title]. E.S. Denison's Yosemite Views [on half title]

 [1881] USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,040.00
222 Wheat, Carl I[rving]

Mapping the Transmississippi West...1540-1861

 1957-1963 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,920.00
309 Wright, Arnold

Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China: Their History, People, Commerce, Industries, and Resources

 1908 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
116 Marshall, John

The Life of George Washington, Commander in Chief of the American Forces, During the War Which Established the Independence of His Country, and First President of the United States. Compiled under the inspection of the Honourable Bushrod Washington... To

1804-1807 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,800.00
534 Bowen, Emanuel

A New Map of Georgia with Part of Carolina, Florida and Louisiana

 1748 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,800.00
538 Hondius, Jodocus

Virginiae Item et Floridae Americae Provinciarum, Nova Descriptio

 1606-[1609] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,800.00
1 Abert, James W.

Report of the Secretary of War, communicating...a report and map of the examination of New Mexico, made by Lieutenant J.W. Abert, of the topographical corps.

 1848 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,560.00
69 Edward, David B.

The History of Texas, or the Emigrant's, Farmer's and Politician's Guide...

 1836 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
82

Brunel's Mammoth Ship. View, Section, Plan, and Description of the Great Eastern Steam Ship, Building at Millwall for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company, and Designed to Carry Ten Thousand Persons

 [1857] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,440.00
190 Strong, A.B.

The American Flora, Or History of Plants and Wild Flowers

 1847-50 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,440.00
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
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