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RR Auction: Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph - bidstart 12/19

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Auction Name Rare Manuscript, Document & Autograph - bidstart 12/19 Total Sales (USD) 994,944.00
Auction Date January 15, 2014 - January 15, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 642,300.00
Sale Number #421 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 924,240.00
Total Lots 1773
Sold Lots 1136 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,157,300.00
% of Lots Sold 64.07% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,892,940.00
Unsold Lots 637 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.39%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
895 Beatles

Beatles Album

USD 150,000.00 - 200,000.00 USD 175,698.00
176 Kennedy Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald

Kennedy Assassination: Lee Harvey Oswald Home movie

USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 43,320.00
253 Hirohito

Hirohito DS and award

USD 9,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 32,529.60
1 George Washington

George Washington DS

USD 15,000.00 - 17,000.00 USD 21,951.60
742 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec ALS

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 13,045.20
95 John F. Kennedy and Mercury Astronauts

John F. Kennedy and Mercury Astronauts In-flight booklet cover

USD 7,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD 10,800.00
894 Beatles

Beatles Itinerary

USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,540.80
30 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln DS

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,799.20
665 Marc Chagall

Le Cirque D’Izis.

1965 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 9,144.00
31 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Check

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,907.60
185 André-Marie Ampere

André-Marie Ampere ALS

USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,814.00
893 Beatles

Beatles Signatures

USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,097.60
5 John Adams

John Adams DS

USD 4,000.00 - 4,500.00 USD 7,360.80
106 John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy SP

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,691.20
29 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Signature

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,621.60
210 Pierre Curie

Pierre Curie ALS

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,355.20
710 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Photographic reproduction

USD 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,920.80
250 John Hancock

John Hancock DS

USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,776.80
546 Apollo 11

Apollo 11 SP

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 5,776.80
759 Frank Lloyd Wright

Frank Lloyd Wright ALS

USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,251.20
749 Noah Webster

Noah Webster ALS

USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 5,160.00
907 Beatles: John Lennon

Beatles: John Lennon Check

USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,148.00
747 Voltaire

Voltaire LS

USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,974.00
6 Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison DS

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,915.20
698 Claude Monet

Claude Monet ALS

USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,915.20
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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