119 Lots for Sale 17666
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Lot 1 An unrecorded broadside EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1841 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $3,125 | |
Lot 3 Rare broadside WALT WHITMAN, 1872 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $12,500 | |
Lot 4 With autograph card and signed photograph WALT WHITMAN, 1876 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,750 | |
Lot 5 Moby-Dick HERMAN MELVILLE, 1851 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $40,000 | |
Lot 6 Presentation copy to Marilyn Monroe, star of the film GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES, 1925 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $16,250 | |
Lot 9 \"Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)\" KEROUAC, BRADBURY, SHIRLEY JACKSON, ET AL, 1960 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $7,500 | |
Lot 11 Love letters to Beverly Bentley MILES DAVIS, 1959 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $13,750 | |
Lot 12 The manuscript for a minimalist masterpiece STEVE REICH, 1971 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $25,000 | |
Lot 13 \"Had we but World enough, and Time...\" ANDREW MARVELL, 1681 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $8,750 | |
Lot 15 \"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'\" EDGAR ALLAN POE, 1845 |
estimate $1,500 - $2,500 price realized $3,000 | |
Lot 16 \"Please, sir, may I have some more please?\" CHARLES DICKENS, 1838 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $2,375 | |
Lot 17 God Bless Us, Every One! DICKENS'S CHRISTMAS CAROL, 1843 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $11,250 | |
Lot 18 Dracula, first issue BRAM STOKER, 1897 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $8,125 | |
Lot 19 Treasure Island ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 1883 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $3,250 | |
Lot 21 Jekyll and Hyde in original paperback ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON, 1886 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $3,750 | |
Lot 22 The Picture of Dorian Gray OSCAR WILDE, 1890 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $4,750 | |
Lot 23 Sherlock Holmes—Adventures & Memoirs ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, 1892 AND 1894 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $1,625 | |
Lot 24 How Toys Become Real THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, 1922 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $8,125 | |
Lot 25 Winnie-the-Pooh A.A. MILNE, 1924-1928 |
estimate $600 - $800 price realized $875 | |
Lot 26 Brave New World ALDOUS HUXLEY, 1932 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,250 | |
Lot 28 All animals are equal BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS |
estimate $1,200 - $1,800 price realized $4,000 | |
Lot 29 Inscribed to his army buddy DASHIELL HAMMETT, 1944 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,000 | |
Lot 33 Sam Spade's debut BLACK MASK, 1929 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $2,000 | |
Lot 34 A fine first edition THE MALTESE FALCON, 1930 |
estimate $1,000 - $2,000 price realized $1,125 | |
Lot 35 The Holy Grail of detective fiction THE MALTESE FALCON, 1930 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $50,000 | |
Lot 36 First appearance in original wrappers THE GLASS KEY, 1930 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $4,000 | |
Lot 38 In the rare dust jacket DASHIELL HAMMETT, 1931 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $1,875 | |
Lot 39 Hammett's favorite work, in the rare jacket THE GLASS KEY, 1931 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $75,000 | |
Lot 40 First appearance of The Thin Man DASHIELL HAMMETT, 1933 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $625 | |
Lot 46 Live and Let Die IAN FLEMING, 1954 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 47 Moonraker IAN FLEMING, 1955 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,500 | |
Lot 48 Diamonds are Forever IAN FLEMING, 1956 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,125 | |
Lot 49 From Russia, With Love IAN FLEMING, 1957 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,125 | |
Lot 50 Dr. No IAN FLEMING, 1958 |
estimate $1,500 - $2,500 price realized $1,625 | |
Lot 52 The Man with the Golden Gun, rare variant IAN FLEMING, 1965 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $6,875 | |
Lot 53 James Bond EIGHT FIRST EDITIONS, 1959-1966 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $6,875 | |
Lot 54 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. SALINGER, 1951 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $4,750 | |
Lot 55 \"An offer he can't refuse.\" THE GODFATHER, SIGNED, 1969 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $3,750 | |
Lot 56 Maurice Sendak's 'Night' Trilogy—Signed BEGINNING WITH WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, 1963 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $7,500 | |
Lot 57 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest KEN KESEY, 1962 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $3,000 | |
Lot 58 \"I think you will really go places\" JOHN FORBES NASH, JR., C.1940S |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $27,500 | |
Lot 59 Nash's first great contribution to Game Theory FROM THE LIBRARY OF JOHN FORBES NASH, JR., 1950S |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $25,000 | |
Lot 60 Nash's doctoral thesis NON-COOPERATIVE GAMES, 1951 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $137,500 | |
Lot 61 For his brilliant insight into human behavior JOHN FORBES NASH, JR., 1994 |
estimate $500,000 - $800,000 price realized $735,000 | |
Lot 62 For refining Nash's work REINHARD SELTEN, 1994 |
estimate $200,000 - $300,000 price realized $225,000 | |
Lot 63 A handwritten lecture JOHN FORBES NASH, JR., C.1990S |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $10,625 | |
Lot 64 A handwritten history of Game Theory at Princeton JOHN FORBES NASH, JR., 2000S |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $35,000 | |
Lot 65 On Spain’s cession of Louisiana to France WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 6 MARCH 1803 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $9,375 | |
Lot 66 On his return from Detroit WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 20 JULY 1803 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $1,375 | |
Lot 67 Announcing the Louisiana Purchase WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 2 AUGUST 1803 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $125,000 | |
Lot 68 Introducing an Indiana Territorial Judge WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 26 SEPTEMBER 1803 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $7,500 | |
Lot 69 The Senate Ratifies the Louisiana Purchase WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 12 NOVEMBER 1803 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $93,750 | |
Lot 71 A new government for the Louisiana Territory WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON, 6 MAY 1804 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $8,750 | |
Lot 72 Transferring control of upper Louisiana to the U.S. AMOS STODDARD, 1804 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $2,500 | |
Lot 73 Sorting land titles in Louisiana THOMAS JEFFERSON & JAMES MADISON, 28 JUNE 1805 |
estimate $3,000 - $4,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 74 A meeting with the President THOMAS JEFFERSON, 31 MARCH 1806 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $1,250 | |
Lot 75 Introducing General Ripley to New Orleans ANDREW JACKSON, 20 NOVEMBER 1816 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $1,500 | |
Lot 76 An early letter from West Point JEFFERSON DAVIS, 29 FEBRUARY 1828 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $1,250 | |
Lot 77 Spanish Louisiana's last captain general CAROLS IV, 4 APRIL 1803 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $5,250 | |
Lot 78 On the defense of the Rhine NAPOLEON BONAPARTE, 29 DECEMBER 1799 |
estimate $800 - $1,200 price realized $3,250 | |
Lot 79 The short-lived College d'Orleans NICOLAS ROCHEFORT, 1 APRIL 1815 |
estimate $400 - $600 price realized $500 | |
Lot 81 America’s first banned book, lampooning the Puritans THOMAS MORTON, 1637 |
estimate $35,000 - $45,000 price realized $60,000 | |
Lot 82 Granting \"Anthony the Turk\" land in Brooklyn WILLEM KIEFT, 27 MAY 1643 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $27,500 | |
Lot 83 Rare pamphlet on religious persecution in the American colonies JOHN ENDICOTT, 1660-61 |
estimate $10,000 - $20,000 price realized $40,000 | |
Lot 84 A secret anti-Puritan polemic—a rarity of printed Americana SAMUEL GROOM, 1676 |
estimate $20,000 - $40,000 price realized $137,500 | |
Lot 85 Manuscript Map of Revolutionary War New Jersey JOHN ERSKINE, 1779 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $68,750 | |
Lot 87 Establishing the First Bank of the United States GEORGE WASHINGTON & THOMAS JEFFERSON, 25 FEBRUARY 1791 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $15,000 | |
Lot 88 Farming at Mount Vernon GEORGE WASHINGTON, 1790S |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 89 Stemming the Panic of 1792 ALEXANDER HAMILTON, 25 MARCH 1792 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $162,500 | |
Lot 90 Color plates from the best travel book of the American West KARL BODMER, 1840-1843 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $112,500 | |
Lot 91 \"The most elaborate work on this expedition\" LEWIS & CLARK, 1904 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $5,625 | |
Lot 92 Confederate geography textbook MARINDA MOORE, 1863 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,750 | |
Lot 96 Captain Bligh's account of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty LONDON, 1792 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $8,750 | |
Lot 97 The first French circumnavigation, first English edition LOUIS-ANTOINE BOUGAINVILLE, 1772 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,000 | |
Lot 99 First edition uncut in original boards JAMES BURNEY, 1819 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,000 | |
Lot 101 First printed account of Cook's first voyage JAMES MAGRA, 1771 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,000 | |
Lot 103 The finest personal account of Cook's first voyage SYDNEY PARKINSON, 1773 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 104 Second edition, expanded, of Parkinson's Journal SYDNEY PARKINSON, 1784 |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 price realized $15,000 | |
Lot 105 First printed account of Cook's second voyage JOHN MARRA, 1775 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 106 Cook's second voyage, unauthorized GEORG FORSTER, 1777 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,000 | |
Lot 108 James Cook's third voyage THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT, 1784 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 109 The first full-scale biography of Captain Cook ANDREW KIPPIS, 1788 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $2,000 | |
Lot 110 Classic account of the Terra Nova expedition CHERRY-GARRARD, 1922 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $3,750 | |
Lot 111 First account of the voyage of the Dolphin, with giants CHARLES CLERKE, 1767 |
estimate $1,500 - $2,500 price realized $3,250 | |
Lot 113 First edition, first issue of Darwin's first published book LONDON, 1839 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $25,000 | |
Lot 114 The \"flaming fields\" of Vesuvius, a magnificent and obsessive work WILLIAM HAMILTON, 1776 & 1779 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $43,750 | |
Lot 115 Maria Sibylla Merian's great plate books on insects AMSTERDAM, 1719 & 1730 |
estimate $180,000 - $250,000 price realized $225,000 | |
Lot 116 The People of Russia 95 HAND-COLORED ENGRAVINGS, 1812-13 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $15,000 | |
Lot 117 Scotland in the Industrial Revolution JOHN CLARK, 1823-1825 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 119 Heart of the Antarctic ERNEST SHACKLETON, 1909 |
estimate $18,000 - $22,000 price realized $21,250 | |
Lot 120 The Complete Antiquities of Athens JAMES STUART AND NICHOLAS REVETT, 1762-1830 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $16,250 | |
Lot 121 First edition of Vancouver's Voyage GEORGE VANCOUVER, 1798 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $22,500 | |
Lot 122 \"Give me chastity and temperance—but not yet!\" SAINT AUGUSTINE, 1475 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $8,125 | |
Lot 123 Quentell's Low German Bible, with brilliant contemporary color LOW GERMAN BIBLE, C.1478 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $43,750 | |
Lot 126 Incunable edition of Donatus's commentary on Terence DONATUS, C.1472 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $8,750 | |
Lot 127 The Zamberti Euclid, second issue EUCLID, 1510 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $12,500 | |
Lot 128 \"We Jews are ... not a chosen people\" ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1927 |
estimate $35,000 - $45,000 price realized $37,500 | |
Lot 129 Rare signed portrait MAHATMA GANDHI, 1947 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $37,500 | |
Lot 130 First edition of Dr. Johnson's greatest literary achievement LONDON, 1755 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $10,000 | |
Lot 131 William Morris does Caxton KELMSCOTT PRESS, 1892 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $5,000 | |
Lot 132 Demonology manual, with guide to self-exorcism DIDACO GÓMEZ LODOSA, 1676 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $6,000 | |
Lot 134 Matisse illustrates James Joyce's Ulysses SIGNED BY BOTH JOYCE AND MATISSE, 1935 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $13,750 | |
Lot 135 Matisse's rare suite of etchings for Joyce's Ulysses THE PRINT CLUB, 1935 |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 price realized $33,750 | |
Lot 136 The Irish poet writes to his publisher THOMAS MOORE, 1813 |
estimate $400 - $600 price realized $750 | |
Lot 137 Chemistry in the kitchen, a woman's manuscript recipe book ELIZABETH HARDY, C.1791 |
estimate $1,500 - $2,500 price realized $1,500 | |
Lot 138 Cookbook of the Pope’s secret chef BARTOLOMEO SCAPPI, [1570?] |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 price realized $18,750 | |
Lot 140 First edition, Wealth of Nations ADAM SMITH, 1776 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $100,000 | |
Lot 141 The Microcosm of London THOMAS ROWLANDSON & A.C. PUGIN, 1808-10 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,625 | |
Lot 142 Europe during the Napoleonic Wars ROBERT BOWYER, 1815-16 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,500 | |
Lot 143 The Swedish army in colored aquatints BARON EBEN & NICOLAUS HEIDELOFF, 1808 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $8,125 | |
Lot 144 Hand-colored plates of the French Imperial Guard PARIS, 1811 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,750 | |
Lot 145 Watercolors of soldiers from the French royal household EMMANUEL GRAMMONT, C.1890S |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,500 | |
Lot 147 Watercolors of Dutch soldiers from the Batavian Republic J.A. LANGENDIJK, 1797-1800 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $6,250 | |
Lot 148 Hand-colored plates of French military uniforms C.A. LITTRET DE MONTIGNY, 1772 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $17,500 | |
Lot 149 French flags from the eve of the Revolution MOREAU LE JEUNE, 1789-90 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $22,500 | |
Lot 150 The Austrian army during the French Revolutionary Wars J.G. MANSFELD, 1796-98 |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $6,875 | |
Lot 151 Colored plates of the Royal Westphalian Guard, from Jérôme Bonaparte's library ALEXANDRE SAUERWEID, C.1810 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $8,125 | |
Lot 152 An extra-illustrated first edition CHARLES TOMKINS, 1799 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,750 | |
Lot 153 The Battle of the Nile COOPER WILLYAMS, 1802 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 |