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Auction Name
Rare and Antiquarian Books with Illustrated & Children's Books, and the Dr. Richard R. Rutter Collection of Oz
Auction Date
01/22/2026 - 01/22/2026
Sale Number
#855
Total Lots
391
Sold Lots
262.0
Lots Sold
67.01%
Unsold Lots
129
Total Sales (USD)
232,890.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
186,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
287,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
263,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
405,900.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
57.38%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
343 Baum, L. Frank

The Army & Navy Alphabet

1900 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 28,125.00
112 Schenk, Pieter

Petri Schenkii Hecatompolis, sive Totius orbis Terrarum Oppida Nobiliora Centum; Exquisite Collecta atque Eleganter Depicta

1702 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 17,500.00
94 [Marvell, Andrew]

The first anniversary of the government under His Highness the Lord Protector

1655 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 8,750.00
107 Drayton, Michael

England's Heroical Epistles, Written in Imitation of the Stile and Manner of Ovid's Epistles with Annotations

1737 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,125.00
91 Nostradamus, Michel de

The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, Physician to Henry II, Francis II, and Charles IX, Kings of France, and one of the best Astronomers that ever were. A Work full of Curiosity and Learning

1672 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 7,500.00
192 Hooker, Joseph Dalton

The Rhododendrons of Sikkim-Himalaya; being an Account, Botanical and Geographical, of the Rhododendrons recently discovered in the Mountains of Eastern Himalaya, from Drawings and Descriptions made on the Spot, during a Government Botanical Mission to th

1849-1851 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 5,625.00
220 Perez de Villaamil, Jenaro and Patricio de la Esosura

Espana Artistica y Monumental vistas y Descripcion de los Sitios y Monumentos mas Notables de Espana

1842-50 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,625.00
380 Baum, L. Frank

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

1900 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 4,375.00
82 Luther, Martin

[Opera Ominia, i.e.:] Tomus primus[-quartus] omnium operum Reverendi Patris, D.L.M...

1557-1579 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,375.00
205 Lee, Bruce

Chinese Gung Fu: The Philosophical Art of Self Defense

[1963] USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
14 Bacon, Francis

[The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and advancement of Learning, divine and humane]

[1605] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,062.50
250 [McBride, James]

Symmes's Theory of Concentric Spheres; Demonstrating that the Earth is Hollow, Habitable Within, and Widely Open about the Poles

1826 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,750.00
385 Stone, Fred

Holograph manuscript of Fred Stone's introduction to 1920 edition of Wizard of Oz

c.1920 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
332

The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book

1934 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,437.50
57 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Comprehending an Account of his Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations With Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Ne

1791 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,812.50
245 Sinclair, Isabella

Indigenous Flowers of the Hawaiian Islands: Forty-Four Plates Painted in Water-Colours and Described by Mrs. Francis Sinclair, Jr.

1885 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,500.00
89 More, Thomas

Utopia: Written in Latin by Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England. Translated into English.

1684 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
191 Homer

Iliad and Odyssey. Translated into German by Carl Edmund Richter

1828-32 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,125.00
102

Five 17th century English Plays

1692-1695 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,875.00
113 Sophocles

[Tragedies of Sophocles, with Scholia of Demetrius Triclinius] Sophokleous Tragodiai... Dimitriou tou Trikliniou peri metron ois exrisato Sophoklis, Peri sximaton, Sxolia

1552-1553 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,875.00

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