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Eldreds: Books + Historic Ephemera

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Books + Historic Ephemera	Total Sales (USD)	39,008.00
Auction Date	June 26, 2024 - June 26, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	31,500.00
Sale Number	#62624	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	50,500.00
Total Lots	119
Sold Lots	95	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	45,625.00
% of Lots Sold	79.83%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	72,775.00
Unsold Lots	24	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	53.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1096		CHICAGO FIRE EXTINGUISHER MANUFACTURING CO. PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADE ALBUM Album 2.5" x 15.5" x 11.5". Photographs 13.75" x 11".	19th Century	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,120.00
1028		FIVE VOLUMES OF THE EARLY JOURNALS OF CONGRESS Each 8.25" x 5".	Last Quarter of the 18th Century	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,304.00
1013	SAMUEL ADAMS	SAMUEL ADAMS SIGNED DOCUMENT		USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,176.00
1018		MAP "PLAN OF THE TOWN OF BOSTON" 11.75" x 5.75" sight. Framed 16.5" x 9.5".	Circa 1775	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,664.00
1021		EARLY MAP OF COASTAL MAINE 30" x 42" sight. Framed 32" x 45".	1776	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,152.00
1025		FRONT PAGE OF AN EARLY BOSTON NEWSPAPER Dated March 10, 1774 Framed 22" x 16".	1774	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 1,152.00
1038	BY WILLIAM JOHNSON	"EULOGY ON THOMAS JEFFERSON" 8.5" x 5.25".	1826	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 1,088.00
1110		COLLECTION OF ANNUAL REPORTS OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY TO THE SECRETARY OF THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Large quarto 11.5" x 8".	19th Century	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 960.00
1067		THIRTY-TWO BOOKS, MOSTLY RELATING TO NAVIGATION AND MATHEMATICS Largest 9" x 11.5".	Late 18th to Second Quarter of the 20th Century	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 896.00
1047		EIGHT VOLUMES ON NEW ENGLAND STATES	18th to Early 20th Century	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 832.00
1016		THREE CONTINENTAL PAPERS Framed 11" x 9".	18th Century	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 768.00
1059		THIRTY-EIGHT VOLUMES OF "THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR" AND RELATED VOLUMES BY NATHANIEL BOWDITCH Each approx. 9.5" x 6".	Mostly 19th Century	USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00	USD 768.00
1015		EMANCIPATION DOCUMENT Dated May 22, 1769 6.5" x 8" and 4.5" x 8".	1769	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 640.00
1106		COLLECTION OF UNITED STATES PAPER CURRENCY	19th/20th Century	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 576.00
1006	EDMUND HALLEY	"ASTRONOMICAL TABLES" 11.25" x 9".	1752	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 544.00
1009		FIVE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY MEDICAL-RELATED BOOKS	18TH AND 19TH CENTURY	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 544.00
1022		NICHOLAS SCULL & GEORGE HEAP'S ENGRAVED MAP OF PHILADELPHIA 1777 Sheet 16" x 13.25".	1777	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 544.00
1127	ROBERT FROST	SIGNED COPY OF ROBERT FROST'S "COMPLETE POEMS" 8.675" x 5.75".	1949	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 544.00
1001		EARLY ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT 19" x 11.75" sight. Framed 26" x 19".		USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 512.00
1008	TOBIAS MAYER	"TABULAE MOTUUM SOLIS ET LUNAE NOVAE ET CORRECTAE" 10.5" x 8.5".	1770	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 512.00
1058		TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUMES OF "THE NEW AMERICAN PRACTICAL NAVIGATOR" AND RELATED VOLUMES BY NATHANIEL BOWDITCH Mostly 19th Century Each approx. 9.5" x 6".		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 512.00
1083		FINAL ISSUE OF THE ABOLITIONIST NEWSPAPER "THE LIBERATOR" December 29, 1865	1865	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 512.00
1093		PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION SOUVENIR STEVENGRAPH 1876 10" x 6.5" sight. Framed 10.5" x 8".	1876	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 512.00
1128	JOHN STEINBECK	FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE DUST JACKET OF JOHN STEINBECK'S "EAST OF EDEN" Dated 1952 8.75" x 6".		USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 512.00
1010		FIVE SERMONS AND ADDRESSES Mostly New England, Largest 9" x 6".	Late 18th to Mid-19th Century	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 480.00

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.
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