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Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Books & Ephemera
Auction Date
04/22/2025 - 04/22/2025
Sale Number
#49
Total Lots
223
Sold Lots
209
Lots Sold
93.72%
Unsold Lots
14
Total Sales (USD)
35,322.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
Inf%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
195 Verne, Jules.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; covers worn, lacking part of spine, inner front joint crudely glued, first signature detached and chipped, etc, etc. SOLD-AS-IS. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Myers 56)

1873 Not Available USD 2,700.00
118 Austen, Jane.

The Novels of Jane Austen. 12 volumes.

1899 Not Available USD 1,560.00
184

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. 8vo, cloth, dust jackets (frayed); moderate wear.

vd Not Available USD 1,020.00
186 Austen, Jane.

Persuasion. Volume II (only). Tall 12mo, contemporary cloth-backed boards, paper spine-label, uncut; front inner joint crudely repaired, some foxing and soiling, etc. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. (Gilson B3).

1832 Not Available USD 1,020.00
223 Anthony, Susan B..

History of Woman Suffrage. (4) volumes. 1889-1902.

Vd Not Available USD 840.00
58 Milton, John.

Paradise Lost. A Poem. 2 volumes. Full leather.

1760 Not Available USD 780.00
134

Group of 3 volumes, as listed below. Illustrated with folding maps. 8vo or 12mo, contemporary leather or sheep; shelf-worn, last lacking maps.

vd Not Available USD 600.00
107 Williams, William.

Oxonia Depicta sive collegiorum met Aularum in inclyta AcademiaOxoniensi. 58 (of 66) engraved plates, most double-page. Folio, loose in portfolio; some margin stains, lacking several plates. SOLD-AS-IS.

1733 Not Available USD 600.00
62 Eekman, N. M..

Dood-dans in Zeven Tempo's (Death in Seven Days). Woodcut Title & 7 Woodcuts Printed on Japanese Toshi. SIGNED & Numbered in Pencil on Bottom Edge of Last Woodcut. Image 6" x 10.75". Published in Paris.

1924 Not Available USD 510.00
30 Stein, M. Aurel.

Ruins of Desert Cathay. Personal Narrative of Explorations in Central Asia and Westernmost China. 2 volumes. Ex library.

1912 Not Available USD 480.00
160

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. 1st US Edition. (1971). * Ariel Poems by Sylvia Plath. Later Printing. * Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon. 6th Printing. (1973).

Vd Not Available USD 480.00
3 Humboldt, Alexander Von

Vues des Cordilleres, et Monumens des Peuples Indigenes de L'Amerique. 19 engraved plates, some colored. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary acid-dyed calf; spines split and text partially disbound, some foxing. (Sabin 33750; Palau 117027).

1816 Not Available USD 480.00
115

The Tournament; or, Days of Chivalry. With 24 Color Plates. Full leather.

1823 Not Available USD 450.00
119 Key, Francis S..

Poems of the Late Francis S. Key, Esq. Star Spangled Banner (page 31).

1857 Not Available USD 450.00
87 Baudot, A. de; & A. Perrault-Dabot.

Archives de la Commission des Monuments Historiques. 500 heliogravure plates. 5 volumes. Folio, gilt-lettered morocco-backed boards; rubbed, generally clean and sound.

[1898-1903] Not Available USD 450.00
10 Gibbon, Edward.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New Edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece, 3 folding engraved maps. 12 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf; rebacked and endpapers renewed, some foxing, etc. (Norton 56).

1807 Not Available USD 420.00
137 (Rowland, Thomas).

Goldsmith. The Vicar of Wakefield. 24 hand-colored plates after Rowlandson. 8vo, publisher's cloth stamped in gilt and blind; front cover detached, some offsetting of plates, generally sound otherwise.

1823 Not Available USD 390.00
168 Woolf, Virginia.

A Room of One's Own. 8vo, cloth (soiled); moderate wear. FIRST EDITION. (Kirkpatrick A12b).

1929 Not Available USD 390.00
192 Verne, Jules.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's pictorial cloth; inner joints split, lacking free endpapers, some soiling, etc.

1875 Not Available USD 390.00
221 Lossing, B. J..

Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. (2) volumes. 3/4 leather.

1851 Not Available USD 360.00

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