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Auction Name Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyers Premium Total Sales (USD) 17,002.00
Auction Date December 07, 2025 - December 07, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 54,007.00
Sale Number #395057 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 109,200.00
Total Lots 103
Sold Lots 103.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 54,007.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 109,200.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 15.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
14 William Shakespeare

Title: The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere

1786 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
27 Antoine Vincent Arnault

Title: Life and Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte: Giving an Account of All His Engagements, from the Siege of Toulon to the Battle of Waterloo

1847 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 640.00
103 J.R.R. Tolkien Illustrator(s): Tolkien

Title: The Silmarillion

1977 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 620.00
13 Flavius Josephus Contributor(s): George Henry Maynard (Translator)

Title: The Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus, the Celebrated Warlike, Learned and Authentic Jewish Historian

ca. 1785 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 465.00
35 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Title: Uncle Toms Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly

1852 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 455.00
97 George Orwell

Title: Nineteen Eighty-Four

1949 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 445.00
19 MOULE, Thomas

Antiquities in Westminster Abbey, Ancient oil paintings, and sepulchral brasses in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster

1825 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 395.00
38 William Shakespeare Contributor: Rev. William Dodd (editor)

Title: The Life and Beauties of Shakspeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play; with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads

1856 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 365.00
72 James Otis Illustrator(s): George A. Traver

Title: The Life Savers: A Story of the United States Life-Saving Service

1899 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 355.00
25 Felix Emmanuel Henri Philippoteaux Illustrator(s): Charles Bour

Title: Le Siecle de Napoleon, galerie des illustrations de lEmpire : guerriers, diplomates, ecrivains, magistrats, savants, artistes, medecins, manufacturiers

1846 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 350.00
22 L. Carroll Judson

Title: A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry

1839 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 335.00
100 Ian Fleming

Title: You Only Live Twice

1964 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 315.00
90 Alan Alexander Milne Illustrator: Ernest Howard Shepard

Title: Now We Are Six

1927 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 285.00
16 Daniel Defoe

Title: The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: Including an Account of His Shipwreck, and Residence for Twenty-Nine Years on an Unknown Island

ca. 1812 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 260.00
57 Edgar Allan Poe

Title: Poems of Edgar Allan Poe: with Memoir

1882 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 260.00
76 L. Frank Baum Illustrator(s): John R. Neill

Title: The Marvelous Land of Oz: Being an Account of the Further Adventures of the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman

1904 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 255.00
24 Charles Dickens Illustrator: Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne)

Title: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit

1844 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 250.00
30 Samuel Kercheval

Title: A History of the Valley of Virginia

1850 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
94 HEMINGWAY, Ernest

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 250.00
55 various Contributor(s): William Chambers (Editor); Robert Chambers (Editor)

Title: Chamberss Pocket Miscellany

ca. 1878 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 245.00
68 TWAIN, Mark

The Prince and the Pauper, A tale for young people of all ages

1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 245.00
92 Omar Khayyam Illustrator(s): Willy Pogany Contributor(s): Edward FitzGerald (Translator)

Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ... the first and fourth renderings in English verse

[ca. 1935] USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 245.00
53 RIGGS, Stephen & Alfred

Maka-Oyakapi, Geography. Guyots Elementary Geography in the Dakota Language

1876 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 220.00
5 SANDRAS, Gatien Courtilz de

Testament politique du Marquis de Louvois, premier ministre dE?tat sous le re?gne de Louis XIV

1695 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 210.00
28 [Samuel Carter Hall], editor

Title: The Art-Union: Monthly Journal of the Arts

1848 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 210.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Year in Review
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: A Rare Hebrew Bible with Micrographic Masorah. Sold: 1,514,000 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: "The Freedman's Primer.” Sold: 241,300 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Smith, William. "The Map that Changed the World." Sold: 139,700 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Psalter, C13th. Illuminated Psalter. Sold: 330,200 GBP
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Lincoln, Abraham. The abolition of slavery. Sold: 13,697,500 USD
    Sotheby’s Year in Review: Vergilius. Opera, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, 1501. Sold: 1,041,400 USD
  • Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1775 Map of Virginia, Fry and Jefferson, ex-John Tyler. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Albrecht Durer Engraving, The Peasant Couple at Market. $3,400 to $3,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1777 Map: Wm. Faden, British Colonies in N. America, ex. John Tyler. $2,000 to $2,400.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 30 Vols. George Eliot 1st Editions; Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Deronda, etc. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Celestial Floor Globe c. 1800. $1,400 to $1,800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, 1866 London MacMillan. $900 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: President Andrew Jackson Signed Patent, 1831. $1,000 to $1,200.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Civil War Tintype of Calvin “Old Ballie” Walker, CSA 3rd TN Infantry, KIA, plus 3 Union Images. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: 1855 Georgia Pocket Map, W. G. Bonner. $800 to $1,000.
    Case Antiques
    2026 Winter Fine Art & Antiques
    January 31 and February 1, 2026
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Audubon c. 1835 Birds of America Common Cormorant, Havell Edition. $800 to $900.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1st Edition in 8 Volumes. $600 to $800.
    Case Antiques, Jan. 31-Feb. 1: Four NASA Moon Survey Photos; 144M, 148M, 149M, 149H1. $400 to $600.