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Bonhams: Books and Manuscripts: Summer Sale

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Auction Name Books and Manuscripts: Summer Sale Total Sales (USD) 204,454.40
Auction Date July 25, 2024 - July 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 96,600.00
Sale Number #30241 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 147,450.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 130 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 117,000.00
% of Lots Sold 86.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 183,050.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 111.69%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
83

Over 320 pages of tipped-in, mounted and loose autographs including Thomas Jefferson (2), Samuel Clemens (3), a Samuel Smith fair copy of "America" ("My Country Tis of Thee"), ...

USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,720.00
117 SCARRY, RICHARD. 1919-1914.

Original pen and watercolor on paper, with artist's stamp at lower left,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 12,800.00
80 WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799.

Document Signed ("Go. Washington"), being a discharge from the Continental Army for Sergeant Elijah Price of the 2nd New York Artillery,

June 9, 1783 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,520.00
78 VANDERBILT, CORNELIUS. 1794-1877.

Document Signed ("C. Vanderbilt") on verso, partially printed and accomplished in manuscript, granting John M. Dobin 500 shares in the New York and Harlem Railroad Company,

April 12, 1864 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 8,320.00
8 MORRISON, TONI. 1931-2019. WALKER, KARA E, artist.

Five Poems.

2002 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,040.00
44 TOOLE, JOHN KENNEDY. 1937-1969. PERCY, WALKER, foreword.

A Confederacy of Dunces.

1980 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,120.00
58 FORD, HENRY. 1863-1947.

Document Signed ("Henry Ford"), stock certificate #100 issuing 20 shares in the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd.,

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,864.00
105

36 volumes of XXe siecle, including 1-18, 20, 24, 26, 29-40, 42-43, 45.

1951-75. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,608.00
60 GREEN, HETTY. 1834-1916.

Document Signed ("Hetty H.R. Green") on verso of certificate granting Green 4 shares in the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad Company,

October 6, 1902 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 4,352.00
67 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743--1826. MADISON, JAMES. 1751--1836.

Printed Document Signed ("Thomas Jefferson" as President; and "James Madison" as Secretary of State), the right-hand third of an unaccomplished ship's passport,

[1801 - 1809] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,352.00
133 WILLIAM DUNCAN. 1717-1760. Translator.

The Commentaries of Caesar ... To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War.

1753 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,352.00
2 COLLODI, CARLO. 1826-1890.

The Story of a Puppet, or the Adventures of Pinocchio.

1892 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,096.00
5 DICKENS, CHARLES. 1812-1870.

Autograph Letter Signed ("Charles Dickens") to John Pritt Harley,

1844 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
16 BAUM, L. FRANK. 1856-1919; and JOHN R. NEILL, illustrator.

Comprising 14 volumes, many with marginal annotations in pencil by Wagenknecht:

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,584.00
49 ALLEN, ETHAN. 1738-1789.

Manuscript Document Signed ("Ethan Allen" and "Ebenezer Moses") being a bill of debt to Stephen Fay for "full value received," in the hand of Ebenezer Moses,

July 16, 1775 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,584.00
81 WASHINGTON, GEORGE. 1732-1799. KNOX, HENRY. 1750-1806.

Document Printed on Parchment Signed ("H. Knox" as Secretary and "Go: Washington" as President), an unaccomplished Society of the Cincinnati Diploma, copper engraving after the design of Pierre-Charles L'Enfant,

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,584.00
98 PICASSO, PABLO. 1881-1973. MERIMEE, PROSPER.

Le Carmen des Carmen.

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,328.00
140 HONTER, JOHANN. 1498-1549.

Rudimentorum ... Libri III. cum Tabellis Geographicis Elegantissimis [with Atlas] Circuli Sphaeral.

1564 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,816.00
22 CRANE, HART. 1899-1932.

Postcard Signed ("Hart Crane") featuring the Brooklyn Bridge, to Edward Dahlberg,

1929 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,432.00
90 DUCHAMP, LAURENCIN, PICABIA, PICASSO, et al. GLEIZES, ALBERT; and JEAN METZINGER.

Du Cubisme.

1947 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,304.00
65 HURD-MEAD, KATE CAMPBELL. 1867-1941.

Autograph notebooks signed on the covers ("Kate C. Mead" and "Kate C. Mead, M.D."), being her "cash list" for her medical practice for the years 1901-1903,

1901-1903 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,048.00
72 MUGFORD, JAMES, JR. 1749-1776.

Autograph Pay Order Signed ("James Mugford Jr") ordering advance Sargent's pay for Colonel John Glover just before their heroic capture of the Hope outside Boston Harbor, May 17, 1776,

April 13, 1776 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
146 TYSON, CARROLL SARGENT, JR. 1878--1956.

Great Grey Owl (Scoliaptex Nebulosa).

1920 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,048.00
12 RAND, AYN. 1905-1982.

Atlas Shrugged.

1957 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,920.00
61

Document Endorsed ("Meyer Guggenheim") on the verso, granting him 100 shares in the Chicago, St. Louis and Pittsburgh Railroad Company,

March 14, 1890 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,920.00