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Auction Name Fine Press - Fine Bindings - Fine Art & Illustration Total Sales (USD) 107,668.75
Auction Date August 14, 2025 - August 14, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 123,500.00
Sale Number #844 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 196,300.00
Total Lots 321
Sold Lots 204 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 201,200.00
% of Lots Sold 63.55% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 316,600.00
Unsold Lots 117 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
67 Dawson, Montague

The Queen of Clippers

 c.1940's-50's USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
217 Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

 1861 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,375.00
109 Various Photographers

One Picture Book series - complete set of 100 titles

 [2000-2017] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,750.00
182

Ge'ez Biblical manuscript in Ethiopian Coptic

 Mid-19th - early 20th century USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,750.00
249 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Hound of the Baskervilles

 1902 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,500.00
60 Bowles, Paul and Ira Yeager

2137 Tanger Socco

 2011 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
240 Dickens, Charles

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Travels, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members

 1836-37 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
69 Dietz, H.R. Kissner

[Ship at Sea]

 1912 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
251 Eliot, T. S.

The Waste Land

 1922 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
292 Ovid

Ovid's Metamorphoses in Latin and English Translated by the Most Eminent Hands

 1732 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,500.00
231 Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. By "Boz"

 1838 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,375.00
272

Spiritual letter from Vincenzo Bandello to Fernando Alvarez de Toledo and Maria Pacheco

 1504 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,375.00
291 Nostradamus, Michel de

The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning

 1672 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
227 Dickens, Charles

Master Humphrey's Clock

 [1840-41] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
271 Johnson, Samuel

A Dictionary of the English Language: In Which the Words are deduced from their Originals, and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers. To Which Are Prefixed, a History of the Language, and an English Grammar

 1765 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,125.00
237 Dickens, Charles

The Personal History of David Copperfield

 1849-1850 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,062.50
243 Dickens, Charles

A Tale of Two Cities

 1859 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,062.50
261

Eight volumes of classical literature and archaeology

 1875 - 1976 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,062.50
92

Oceanic Arts New Guinea Mask #411

 c.2000s USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,000.00
220 Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

 1843-44 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
93 Wadsworth, Edward

The Black Country

 1920 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
242 Dickens, Charles

Sketches by "Boz": Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. [With] Sketches by "Boz". Second Series.

 1836-37 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 937.50
223 Dickens, Charles

The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

 1838-1839 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 875.00
80 Matisse, Henri

Portraits

 1955 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 812.50
207 [Dalyell, Sir John Graham]

Shipwrecks and Disasters at Sea; or Historical Narratives of the Most Noted Calamities and Providential Deliverances, Which have Resulted from Maritime Enterprise: With a Sketch of Various Expedients for Preserving the Lives of Mariners

 1812 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 812.50
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  • <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000 <b>Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1:</b> REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
  • <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> NEWTON, ISAAC. <i>Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica.</i> London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. <i>Theatrum orbis terrarum.</i> 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> BECKMANN, MAX. <i>Apokalypse.</i> Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. <i>Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln.</i> AND: <i>Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln…</i> CHF 30,000 to 50,000. <b>Koller, Sep. 17:</b> SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. <i>Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten.</i> Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: NEWTON, ISAAC. Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica. London, Joseph Streater, "Prostat apud plures Bibliopolas", 1687. CHF 250,000 to 300,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: ORTELIUS, ABRAHAM. Theatrum orbis terrarum. 3 parts in 1 volume. Antwerpen, Plantin, 1612. CHF 120,000 to 160,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BECKMANN, MAX. Apokalypse. Frankfurt a. M., Privatdruck der Bauerschen Giesserei, 1943. CHF 40,000 to 60,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: BOISSERÉE, SULPIZ. Ansichten, Risse und einzelne Theile des Doms von Köln. AND: Ders. Geschichte und Beschreibung des Doms zu Köln… CHF 30,000 to 50,000.
    Koller, Sep. 17: SCHEDEL, HARTMANN. Buch der Chroniken und Geschichten. Nürnberg, Anton Koberger, 23. Dez. 1493. CHF 25,000 to 40,000.
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Available for Immediate Purchase</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ian Fleming. <i>Casino Royale,</i> London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. <i>Winnie The Pooh,</i> United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ernest Hemingway. <i>Three Stories And Ten Poems,</i> [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000. <b><center>Sotheby's<br>Fine Books, Manuscripts & More<br>Available for Immediate Purchase</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> L. Frank Baum. <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,</i> Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Man Ray. <i>Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934,</i> Hartford, 1934. $7,860. <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Thomas Pennant. <i>Zoologia Britannica,</i> Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.