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Addison and Sarova

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Auction Name: Rare Books, Manuscripts and Ephemera
Auction Date: 04/26/2025 - 04/26/2025
Sale Number: #1057
Total Lots: 290
Sold Lots: 276
Lots Sold: 95.17%
Unsold Lots: 14

Total Sales (USD): 170,820.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 34,120.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 341,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 77,240.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 410,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 41.57%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
45		The Civil War manuscript diary of Confederate Lieutenant Pryor Gardner Veazey (1832-1908)...		USD 1,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 9,000.00
48	Reuben M. Potter	Historical Essays, Too True to be Believed, and Other Things Too Tedious to Mention	1886	USD 1,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 7,800.00
19	Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin de	OEUVRES DE I. B. P. MOLIERE. TOME PREMIER	1664	USD 2,500.00 - 25,000.00	USD 7,200.00
21	[Benjamin Franklin]	POOR RICHARD IMPROVED: BEING AN ALMANACK AND EPHEMERIS... FOR THE BISSEXTILE YEAR, 1748	[1747]	USD 3,000.00 - 30,000.00	USD 6,600.00
30	Thoreau, Henry David	A Tract of Woodland described as follows....	Ca. 1850	USD 1,500.00 - 15,000.00	USD 5,400.00
11	Newton, Isaac	PHILOSOPHIAE NATURALIS PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA	1714	USD 1,000.00 - 10,000.00	USD 4,200.00
6	Burton, Richard	PERSONAL NARRATIVE OF A PILGRIMAGE TO EL-MEDINAH AND MECCAH	1855-1856	USD 500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 3,600.00
32	Wyeth, N. C. (illustrator); Palmer, George Herbert (translator)	THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER	1929	USD 120.00 - 1,200.00	USD 3,600.00
22	Franklin, Ben	PHILOSOPHICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS	1787	USD 300.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,600.00
14		[Costume, Hand-Colored Plates] Five early 19th century folio volumes containing a total of 273 hand-colored costume plates...		USD 400.00 - 4,000.00	USD 3,300.00
38		An attractive folio sammelband containing miscellaneous manuscripts in German		USD 500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,700.00
17	Cicero, Marcus Tullis	Rhetorica ad C. Herennium (Commentary by Franciscus Maturantius and Antonius Mancinellus); De inventione (Commentary by C. Marius Victorinus)	1500	USD 350.00 - 3,500.00	USD 2,700.00
43	Contile, Luca	RAGIONAMENTO DI LUCA CONTILE SOPRA LA PROPRIETA DELLE IMPRESE con le particolari de gli academici affidati et con le interpretationi et croniche	1574	USD 300.00 - 3,000.00	USD 2,700.00
41	Acuna, Cristobal (and others)	VOYAGES AND DISCOVERIES IN SOUTH-AMERICA	1698	USD 800.00 - 8,000.00	USD 2,400.00
209	Frederic Ross Vallings	Archive of letters from missionaries in India, sent to family members by members of the Vallings family...		USD 150.00 - 1,500.00	USD 2,160.00
229		A collection of eight autograph manuscripts by William Lewis...		USD 500.00 - 5,000.00	USD 2,040.00
44		A beautifully scribed French and Indian War powder horn with mapped locations of various forts along the Hudson River, and with scenes of Albany and New York		USD 750.00 - 7,500.00	USD 2,040.00
204	Canes, Francisco	GRAMATICA ARABIGO-ESPANOLA, VULGAR, Y LITERAL. CON UN DICCIONARIO...	1775	USD 40.00 - 400.00	USD 1,920.00
224	Bomtempo, Jose Maria	COMPENDIOS DE MATERIA MEDICA FEITOS POR ORDEM DE SUA ALTEZA REAL	1814	USD 30.00 - 300.00	USD 1,800.00
130	Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome	MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS THE ROMAN EMPEROUR, HIS MEDITATIONS CONCERNING HIMSELF...	1635	USD 100.00 - 1,000.00	USD 1,800.00

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