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Auction Name
Rare and Antiquarian
Auction Date
05/15/2025 - 05/15/2025
Sale Number
#838
Total Lots
318
Sold Lots
208
Lots Sold
65.41%
Unsold Lots
110
Total Sales (USD)
124,625.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
127,700.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
196,000.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
278,100.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
426,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
29.24%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
213 Pauling, Linus

The Nature of the Chemical Bond. Application of Results Obtained from the Quantum Mechanics and from a Theory of Paramagnetic Susceptibility to the Structure of Molecules

 1931 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 8,750.00
46

The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, translated out of the Original Greek: and with the former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised. Appointed to be read in Churches

 1794 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,250.00
54 Behmen, Jacob

The Works of Jacob Behmen, The Teutonic Theosopher...with Figures, illustrating his Principles, left by the Reverend William Law, M.A.

 1764-1781 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,687.50
16 Arrowsmith, Aaron

Map of America

 1804 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,687.50
43

Bible in Czech

 1549 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 4,375.00
77 Chaucer, Geoffrey

Large section from The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, including Troilus and Creseide

 1561 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
214 [Lazenby, William, publisher]

The Pearl. A Journal of Facetiae Voluptious Reading

 1880 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,500.00
300 Milne, A.A

The House at Pooh Corner [with] Autograph letter signed by A.A. Milne

 [1928] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
6 Basilius Valentinus

Basil Valentine His Triumphant Chariot of Antimony, with Annotations of Theodore Kirkingius M.D. with The True Book of the Learned Synesius... concerning the Philosopher's Stone

 1678 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,375.00
314 Seuss, Dr.

The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins

 [1938] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,375.00
260 Stevens, Wallace

The Man with the Blue Guitar & other poems [with] typed letter signed by Wallace Stevens

 1937 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,375.00
17

The Art-Journal

 1849-1876 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,125.00
203 Mott, Abigail, compiler

Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour

 1826 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,125.00
276 Wright, Frank Lloyd

Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture: Selected Writings, 1894-1940

 1941 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,875.00
118

Rider's British Merlin: for the Year of our Lord God 1764. Being the Bissextile or Leap-Year. Adorn'd with many delightful and useful Verities, fitting all Capacities in the Islands of Great Britain's Monarchy...

 1764 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,875.00
222 Sponsel, Jean Louis

Das Moderne Plakat

 1897 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,750.00
295 L'Engle, Madeleine

A Wrinkle In Time

 [1962] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
79

Journal of the West China Border Research Society

 1922-1945 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
78 Fung, H.K.

The Shop Signs of Peking

 [1931] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
95 Dickens, Charles

Bleak House

 1852-1853 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,250.00
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    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.
    Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.
    Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.
    Sotheby's
    Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.
    Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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