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Auction Info

Auction Name
Premier Collections Auction
Auction Date
09/12/2025 - 09/12/2025
Sale Number
#91225
Total Lots
38
Sold Lots
38
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (USD)
566,052.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
304,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
481,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
304,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
481,300.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
117.61%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
121 John James Audubon

The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America ,

1845, 1846, 1848 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 273,000.00
138

A Monograph of the Trochilidae, or Family of Humming-Birds.

[1849]-1861. USD 50,000.00 - 75,000.00 USD 84,500.00
443 Eudora Welty

"Twenty Photographs"

1930s - early 1940s, print date 1980 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 33,800.00
95 Gustav Baumann

"The Sycamore"

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 26,000.00
127 John Thomas James

"Brown Pelican" Plate 421, from The Birds of America,

1838 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 26,000.00
143

The Works of Charles Dickens,

1881 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 18,200.00
125 John James Audubon

The Birds of America, From Drawings Made in the United States and Their Territories, by John James Audubon, dpapers and edges.

1856, New York USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 18,200.00
128

"Trumpeter Swan, Young" Plate 376, from The Birds of America,

1832 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,350.00
126 John James Audubon

The Birds of America,

1971-1972 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,400.00
141 Rex Brasher

Birds and Trees of North America, Chickadee Valley near Kent, CT., [the author], 1929-1932, Volume 3

1929-1932 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 4,875.00
122 John James Audubon

The Quadrupeds of North America, by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman,

1856 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,875.00
131 John James Audubon

"Black & Yellow Warbler" Plate 50, from The Birds of America,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,640.00
129 John James Audubon

"American Bittern" Plate 337, from The Birds of America,

1836 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,510.00
134

"Orchard Oriole" Plate 42, from The Birds of America

1830 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,510.00
142

The Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh (Lizars),

1833-1843 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,250.00
89 Frederick Childe Hassam

"Spring in Charleston, South Carolina"

1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,120.00
468 Leroy Neimann

"P.J. Clarke's Bar"

1978 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,990.00
465 George Rodrigue

"Space Chair: Split-font Blue and Pink"

1992 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,860.00
133 John James Audubon

Worm-eating Warbler Plate 34, from The Birds of America,

1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,730.00
467 Russell Young

"Elvis TCB Gun"

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,730.00

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