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Auction Name Rare Books with No Reserve No Buyers Premium! Total Sales (USD) 16,970.00
Auction Date May 24, 2026 - May 24, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 52,505.00
Sale Number #415952 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 106,000.00
Total Lots 103
Sold Lots 103.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 52,505.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 106,000.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 16.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
73 John Wesley Powell

Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-86

1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 770.00
94 Alan Alexander Milne

Now We Are Six

1927 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 620.00
102 J.R.R. Tolkien

The Hobbit, or there and back again

1966 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 550.00
25 Samuel Johnson

The works of Samuel Johnson

1816 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 355.00
92 C.S. Evans

Cinderella

1919 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 355.00
54 Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)

Mark Twains Sketches, New and Old

1875 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 350.00
88 Gaston Leroux

The Phantom of the Opera

1911 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 345.00
38 Samuel G. Goodrich

A History of All Nations, from the Earliest Periods to the Present Time, or, Universal History

1852 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 340.00
5

Les Pseaumes de David

c. 1700 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 305.00
56 Sarah N. Randolph

The life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson, ("Stonewall" Jackson)

1876 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 305.00
79 D.M. Kelsey

History of Our Wild West and Stories of Pioneer Life: From Experiences of Buffalo Bill, Wild Bill, Kit Carson, David Crockett, Sam Houston

1901 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 305.00
4 Augustine of Hippo

Les confessions de saint Augustin, traduction nouvelle, sur ledition latine des Peres Benedictins de la Congregation de saint Maur

1696 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 295.00
43 David Livingstone

Livingstones travels and researches in South Africa including a sketch of sixteen years residence in the interior of Africa

1859 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 285.00
99 E.B. White

Stuart Little

1945 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 280.00
93 Theodore Roosevelt

The Rough Riders

1923 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 265.00
90 William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair

1913 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 260.00
89 Marshall Everett

Wreck and Sinking of the Titanic

1912 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 255.00
70 George Washington Cable

The Creoles of Louisiana

1885 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 250.00
30 William Beattie

Switzerland… illustrated in a series of views

1836 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 240.00
97 Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls

1940 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 240.00
103 J.R.R. Tolkien

The Silmarillion

1977 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 240.00
9 Jean-Joseph Expilly

Le geographe manuel, contenant la description de tous les pays du monde

1774 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 235.00
74 W. Fletcher Johnson

The Red Record of the Sioux: Life of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890–91

1891 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 230.00
100 Ayn Rand

Atlas Shrugged

1957 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 230.00
39

The Self-explanatory reference Bible. The Holy Bible: Containing the Old and New Testaments: translated out of the original tongues

1852 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 220.00
  • Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
    Live Sale 24 June
    Sotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.