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Auction Name Rare Books, Autographs, and Maps - Online 8/27 Total Sales (USD) 213,900.00
Auction Date September 12, 2024 - September 12, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 164,880.00
Sale Number #24BP03 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 251,960.00
Total Lots 291
Sold Lots 221 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 211,090.00
% of Lots Sold 75.95% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 322,980.00
Unsold Lots 70 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 66.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
106 WASHINGTON, GEORGE

Broadsheet on laid paper, a military discharge document for "Henry Miller-Soldier" of the First New York Regiment, accomplished in manuscript in a clerical hand, and signed in pale brown ink by George Washington, 8th June 1783 as Commander of the Continen

1783 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,240.00
86 ADAMS, JOHN

Autograph letter signed, dated December 30th, 1812, to William Smith of Quincy, Mass.

1812 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,680.00
202 ROOSEVELT, THEODORE

African Game Trails. An account of the African wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.

1910 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,040.00
281 PICASSO, PABLO

Verve. Revue Artistique et Litteraire. Vol. VII, Nos. 25 et 26.

1951 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,400.00
90 LINCOLN, ABRAHAM and EDWARD STANTON

Document signed.

1864 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,080.00
75 [LEWIS, MERIWETHER & CLARK, WILLIAM]

History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence across the Rocky Mountains and down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed during the years 1804-5-6.

1814 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,120.00
3 BLAEU, WILLEM.

Asia Noviter Delineata.

c. 1635. USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,800.00
258 MILNE, A.[LAN] A.[LEXANDER] and SHEPARD, E.[RNEST] H.[OWARD]

Winnie-The-Pooh.

1926 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,800.00
156 LANSDOWNE, J. FENWICK

Rare Birds of China.

1992 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,160.00
122

A Group of approximately forty seventeenth and eighteenth-century French books, almost all in contemporary bindings; including, [LA ROCHEFOUCAULD]. Memoires...

1663 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,840.00
69 BRINTON, DANIEL G.

A Guide-Book of Florida and the South, for Tourists, Invalids and Emigrants, with a Map of the St. John River.

1869 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,520.00
201 PATTERSON, J.H.

Collection of glass lantern slides and negatives, apparently as used in Lieutenant Colonel J.H. Patterson's American lectures; together with eight formal photographs by Van Dyck of London and others of Patterson; and two flyers for the lecture tour promot

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 3,520.00
250 WILDE, OSCAR

An Ideal Husband.

1899 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,200.00
267 HALSEY, R.T. HAINES.

Pictures of Early New York on Dark Blue Staffordshire Pottery. Together with Pictures of Boston and New England, Philadelphia, the South and West.

1899 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,200.00
35 SPEED, JOHN.

The Turkish Empire.

1626 but 1676. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,880.00
179 JARDINE, SIR WILLIAM

The Naturalist's Library.

1843 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,880.00
253 BEMELMANS, LUDWIG

Pepito.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
254 BEMELMANS, LUDWIG

Madeline.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,880.00
220 FITZGERALD, F. SCOTT

Taps at Reveille.

1935 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,560.00
259 MILNE, A.[LAN] A.[LEXANDER] and SHEPARD, E.[RNEST] H.[OWARD]

The House at Pooh Corner.

1928 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,560.00
72 GEORGE, HENRY

Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions, and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth. The Remedy.

1879 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
262 TRAVERS, P.[AMELA L.[YNDON]

Mary Poppins.

1934 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,432.00
161 BAIRD, SPENCER FULLERTON, THOMAS MAYO BREWER, and ROBERT RIDGWAY

A History of North American Birds. Land Birds. [The Water Birds of North America].

1875-84. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,176.00
190 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER, Captain.

A New Account of the East Indies, Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt.

1727 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,176.00
198 BLAKE, TOM

Hawaiian Surfboard.

1935 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,176.00
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