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Auction Name Rare Books & Manuscripts: A PBA Platinum Auction - At Pasadena Total Sales (USD) 402,062.50
Auction Date February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 372,400.00
Sale Number #830 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 580,600.00
Total Lots 127
Sold Lots 72 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 631,900.00
% of Lots Sold 56.69% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 975,300.00
Unsold Lots 55 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 41.22%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6 [Austen, Jane]

Pride and Prejudice: A Novel. In Three Volumes

1813 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 93,750.00
74 Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de

Philosophie Zoologique

1809 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 28,125.00
32 Carret, Jules

Le Deplacement Polaire Preuves des Variations de l'Axe Terrestre

1877 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 20,000.00
43 [Feynman, Richard P.]; Linus Pauling & E. Bright Wilson, Jr.

Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Application to Chemistry

1935 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 18,750.00
46

The English Bible, Containing the Old Testament & the New Translated Out of the Original Tongues by Special Command of His Majesty King James the First...

1903-1905 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 16,250.00
83 Melville, Herman

Moby-Dick; or, the Whale

1851 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 15,000.00
90 Newton, Isaac

A Treatise of the System of the World. Translated into English

1728 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
96 Plato

The Republic of Plato. In ten books. Translated from the Greek by H. Spens, D.D. With a preliminary discourse concerning the philosophy of the ancients by the translator

1763 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,500.00
70 Jefferys, Thomas

The West-India Atlas; or, A Compendious Description of the West-Indies...

1775 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 10,625.00
106

Cabinet card photo portrait of Mark Twain inscribed and signed twice by Twain with an aphorism.

1897 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 10,000.00
113 Whitman, Walt

Leaves of Grass [with] Two Rivulets

1876 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
114 [Whitman, Walt]

Leaves of Grass

1856 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,750.00
37 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

1953 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,500.00
59 Lu Hongnian (Hung-Nien), artist

Fore-edge painting of The Flight into Egypt [on] Tang lei han (Tang Lei Han )

17th century? (Painting: c.1936-1942) USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,875.00
66 [Hume, David]

Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding

1748 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,312.50
82 McKenney, Thomas L. & James Hall

History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with One Hundred and Twenty Portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington

1858 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,312.50
5 Austen, Jane

Pride and Prejudice. A Novel

1833 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,000.00
14

Archive of 24 original land patents verifying and itemizing grants made to the Western Pacific Railroad and its successor Central Pacific Railroad as compensation for construction of a portion of the transcontinental railroad

1867-1915 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
62 Hawking, Stephen W.

A Brief History of Time

[1990] USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
77 Lee, Harper

To Kill a Mockingbird

[1960] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,000.00
95 [Exquemelin, Alexandre Olivier]

The History of the Bucaniers of America; from their First Original down to this Time; written in several languages, and now collected into one volume. [bound together with] Lussan, Raveneau de. A Journal of a Voyage Made into the South Sea, by the Bucanie

1699 & 1698 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,000.00
85 Mitchell, Margaret

Gone With the Wind

1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,687.50
22 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de

El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha

1780 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,375.00
89 Newton, Isaac

Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. [Bound with] Arithmetica Universalis; Sive de Compostione et Resolutione Arithmetica Liber.

1714 [&] 1732 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
93 Perry, Matthew Calbraith

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, under the Command of Commodore M.C. Perry, United States Navy, by Order of the Government of the United States

1856 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,375.00