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Auction Name
Photography & Fine Art, Fine Press & Fine Bindings - with Natural History & Mountaineering
Auction Date
06/12/2025 - 06/12/2025
Sale Number
#840
Total Lots
341
Sold Lots
212
Lots Sold
62.17%
Unsold Lots
129
Total Sales (USD)
96,268.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
92,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
144,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
159,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
247,800.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
38.85%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
52 Meserve, Frederick Hill

The Photographs of Abraham Lincoln

1911 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,000.00
315 Rey, Guido

The Matterhorn

[1907] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 4,062.50
53 Maisel, David

The Lake Project 16, 2002

2002; print: 2003 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,125.00
200 Dickens, Charles

A Christmas Carol

[1915] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
338 Filippi, Filippo de

Ruwenzori: An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy

1908 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,812.50
322 Freshfield, Douglas W.

The Exploration of the Caucasus

1896 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,500.00
122 Myers, Mark Richard

Commodore Biddle's Squadron Getting Under Way, U.S.S. Columbus and Vincennes 1845

1987 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 2,000.00
326 Filippi, Filippo de

Karakoram and Western Himalaya 1909: An Account of the Expedition of H.R.H. Prince Luigi Amedeo of Savoy, Duke of the Abbruzzi

1912 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,875.00
261 Dawkins, Richard

The Selfish Gene

1976 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,875.00
97 Craig, Thomas B.

Original oil painting by Thomas B. Craig

1901 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,750.00
213 Doyle, Arthur Conan

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

1892; 1894 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
220 Carroll, Lewis

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There

1872 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,625.00
209 Milne, A. A.

Finely bound set of four Winnie-the-Pooh books

1962-1963 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
256

Etching of Charles Darwin with his signature

No date USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
292 Thompson, D'Arcy Wentworth

On Growth and Form

1917 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,187.50
155 Cavafy, C.P.

The Splendour of a Morning

2016 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,125.00
217 Hammett, Dashiell

The Glass Key

1931 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,062.50
64 Ruscha, Edward

Every Building on the Sunset Strip

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,000.00
153

Constitution of the United States: Published for the Bicentennial of its Adoption in 1787

1987 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
65 Ruscha, Edward

Real Estate Opportunities

1970 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,000.00

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