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Auction Name
Rare Books, Manuscripts and More! A PBA Platinum Sale
Auction Date
11/06/2025 - 11/06/2025
Sale Number
#850
Total Lots
100
Sold Lots
42.0
Lots Sold
42.00%
Unsold Lots
58
Total Sales (USD)
166,375.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
186,500.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
287,500.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
559,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
859,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
19.36%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
61 Munster, Sebastian

Die Neuwen Inseln / so hinder Hispanien gegen Orient bey dem land India lingen.

1550 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,500.00
51 Killion, Tom and Gary Snyder

The High Sierra of California by Tom Killion with Excerpts from the Journals of Gary Snyder and John Muir

2000 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,250.00
82 Anonymous

Bifolium from the Nuremberg Chronicle comprising folios XII and XIII

1493 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,375.00
28 [Espinosa y Tello, Jose]

Relacion del viage hecho por las goletas Sutil y Mexicana en el ano de 1792 para reconocer el estrecho de Fuca [with] Atlas para el Viage de las goletas Sutil y Mexicana...

1802 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 9,375.00
96 Blake, William

Songs of Innocence and Experience

[2003]; [2002] USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 8,750.00
64 M[arkham, G[ervase]

The Young Sportsman's Delight and Instructor in Angling, Fowling, Hawking, Hunting, ordering Singing Birds, Hawks, Poultry, Conies, Hares, Dogs, &c. and how to Cure them

[c. 1712] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,750.00
50 Morris, William

The Story of the Glittering Plain, or the Land of Living Men

[1894] USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 8,125.00
30 Euclid

The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid in which coloured diagrams and symbols are used instead of letters for the greater ease of learners

1847 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
21 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

1969 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 6,875.00
9 null

Biblia Das ist: Die gantze Heilige Schrifft / Deudsch

1607 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,625.00
45 Shakespeare, William

Shakespeare's Sonnets

1897 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
24 De Bry, Theodore

America Sive Novus Orbis Respectu Europaeorum

1596 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
39 Harris, Joel Chandler

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

1881 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,062.50
94 Watts, Alan

In My Own Way: An Autobiography

[1972] USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,750.00
68 Zervos, Christian, editor

Pablo Picasso - catalogue raisonne

1932-1975 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,750.00
25 Shakespeare, William

The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustrations of various commentators...

1821 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,750.00
58 Machiavelli, Niccolo and Girolamo Cataneo

The Arte of Warre...set foorth in English by Peter Withorne [with] Certaine Waies for the Ordering of Souldiours in battelray, and setting of battailes, after diuers fashions with their manner of marching: And also fugures of certaine new plattes for fort

1588 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 3,750.00
87 Stanley, Henry M.

In Darkest Africa: or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria

1890 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,125.00
81 Davidson, Thomas and John Forbes

Cantus, songs and fancies: To thre, foure, or five partes, both apt for voices and viols. With a briefe introduction of musick, as is taught in the musick-schoule of Aberdene by T. D. Mr. of Musick

1662 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
17 Karsh, Yousuf, photographer

Winston Churchill, 1941

1941; later print USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00

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