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Auction Name Books Total Sales (USD) 63,420.63
Auction Date June 29, 2014 - June 29, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 126,280.00
Sale Number #62914 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 216,600.00
Total Lots 465
Sold Lots 465 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 126,280.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 216,600.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 29.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5435 Jean Michel Basquiat

Jean Michel Basquiat UNTITLED PAINTING 1981 Graffiti-Inspired New York City Art African-American Social Commentary Crowned Skull SAMO TAR

 1981 USD 75,000.00 - 100,000.00 USD 6,168.75
5232 Lyubov Sergeyevna Popova

Lyubov Popova FRAMED SIGNED CUBIST PORTRAIT PAINTING c1915 Russian Avant-Garde

 c1915 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,993.75
5002

EXPEDICION Y DESEMBARCO DEL "GRANMA" c1960 Signed By Fidel Castro Commemorative Photo Album Voyage Of Cruiser Cuban Revolution Martyrs Che Guevara

 USD 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 940.00
5219 Thomas William Bowler, W. R. Thomson

The Kafir Wars and the British Settlers in South Africa. A Series of Picturesque Views from Original Sketches by T. W. Bowler. WIth Descriptive Letterpress by W. R. Thomson

 1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 940.00
5009 uncredited author Editor John Muir

Picturesque California: The Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Slope: California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington, Alaska, Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Etc..

 1887 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 763.75
5427 Owen Ruffhead

The Statutes at Large, from Magna Charta, to the End of the Last Parliament, 1761. In Eight Volumes

 1763-1800 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 763.75
5226 uncredited author

Biblia sacra Veteris et Novi Testamenti, secundum editionem vulgatam

 1590-1591 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 646.25
5323 Dmitry Moor

Dmitry Moor ORIGINAL SOVIET PROPAGANDA POSTER 1932 Anti-Capitalist & Anti-Clerical Themes Class Struggle Ogiz-Izogiz Publication

 1932 USD 800.00 - 1,000.00 USD 646.25
5401

Histoire generale et iconographie des lepidopteres et des chenilles de l'Amerique septentrionale

 1833 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 646.25
5462 Rudoph Ackermann

The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster, Its Antiquities and Monuments. In Two Volumes

 1812 USD 300.00 - 450.00 USD 499.38
5098

Original Antique LINCOLN ASSASSINATION - N.Y. TIMES APRIL 15, 1865 Newspaper First Report Conspiracy William Seward Edwin Stanton John Wilkes Booth Escape Civil War Last Battles

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 470.00
5116 Jack London

The Call of the Wild

 1903 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 440.63
5131 Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, together with a Version in Modern English Verse by William Van Wyck

 1930 USD 200.00 - 350.00 USD 440.63
5006 Frederick Henry Quitman

A Treatise on Magic, or, on the Intercourse between Spirits and Men: With Annotations

 1810 USD 350.00 - 500.00 USD 411.25
5041 Anthony Trollope

The American Senator

 1877 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5119 Polybius

Histoire de Polybe, nouvellement traduite du grec par Dom Vincent Thuillier, Benedictin de la Congregation de Saint Maur. Avec un commentaire ou un corps de science militaire, enrichi de notes critiques et historiques, ou toutes les grandes parties de la

 1727-1730 USD 500.00 - 650.00 USD 411.25
5129 Cesare Campana

Arbori delle famiglie regali di Spagna, cioe re antichi di Spagna, re di Legione, e di Castiglia, re di Sobrarbe, e di Nauarra, conti di Castiglia, conti di Barcellona, re d'Aragona, re di Portogallo. Doue, per via d'elogio, si discorre di tutte le cose

1591 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 411.25
5262

5V Unauthenticated Owen Wister Handwritten Manuscript IN PAWN IN A FRONTIER TOWN Norman Kane Estate Library of Congress Journals Letters Correspondence

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5291

ANTIQUE OIL PAINTING IN HEAVY WOODEN FRAME 1891 Forest Scene

 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 411.25
5001 Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Majors and Minors: Poems

 1895 USD 750.00 - 1,000.00 USD 381.88
5026 Elisha North

A Treatise on a Malignant Epidemic, Commonly Called Spotted Fever; Interspersed with Remarks on the Nature of Fever in General, &c. And an Appendix, in Which Is Republished a Number of Essays Written by Different Authors on This Epidemic, with the Addit

 1811 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
5035 John Muir

The Mountains of California

 1894 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
5069 Charles Godfrey Leland

Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune-Telling: Illustrated by Numerous Incantations, Specimens of Medical Magic, Anecdotes and Tales

 1891 USD 100.00 - 250.00 USD 381.88
5078

George Ward Nichols THE STORY OF THE GREAT MARCH and Pages From a Soldier's PERSONAL CIVIL WAR DIARY New Bern NC Plymouth E. Hurlbut Ingham Pompey Syracuse NY

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 381.88
5101 Daniel A. Schulke

Veneficium: Magic, Withcraft, and the Poison Path

 2012 USD 70.00 - 200.00 USD 381.88
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • 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
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    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
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  • 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.
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