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Sothebys: Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2

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Auction Name Making Our Nation: Constitutions and Related Documents. Sold to Benefit the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Foundation. Part 2 Total Sales (USD) 254,961.00
Auction Date December 02, 2021 - December 02, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 169,400.00
Sale Number #N10804 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 251,750.00
Total Lots 185
Sold Lots 185 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 169,400.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 251,750.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 101.28%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
223

Acts Passed at the First [-Third] Session of the Congress of the United States of America, Begun and Held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, in the Year M,DCC,LXXXIX.

1791 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 10,710.00
230

The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention of the State of Pennsylvania, to their Constituents [caption title].

1787 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,450.00
213

Annotated draft copies of the Tennessee Constitution, with printed amendments, instructions, and extensive handwritten notes from the 1824 State Constitutional Convention.

1834 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,930.00
77 Adams, John

A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.

1787–1788 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,048.00
231

An Address or Oration Delivered Before Members of a Society in Huntingdon, before the Society on the 7th of June 1788 on the Subject of the Proposed Constitution.

1788 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,048.00
194

The Proceedings Relative to Calling the Conventions of 1776 and 1790. The Minutes of the Convention that Formed the Present Constitution of Pennsylvania, …

1825 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 5,670.00
114

Constitution of the State of Illinois. November 16, 1818, Read and Ordered to lie upon the table. Printed by order of the House of Representatives.

1818 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 5,040.00
142 Theophilus Parsons

Result of the Convention of Delegates Holden at Ipswich in the County of Essex, Who Were Deputed to Take into Consideration the Constitution and Form of Government, Proposed by the Convention of the State of Massachusetts-Bay.

1778 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,040.00
103 Cranch, William

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States.

1804, 1806, 1807, 1812, 1809, 1816-1817 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,788.00
130

Magna Charta, cum statutis qua antiqua vocantur, iam recens excusa, & summa fide emendata, iuxta vetusta exemplaria ad Parliamenti rotulos examinata: quibus accesserunt nonnulla nunc primum typis edita.

1556 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,788.00
227

The Columbian Magazine for September, 1787, and three other issues. 

1787 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,032.00
235

Journal of the Second Session of the Senate … begun and held at the City of New-York, January 4TH1790 [– February 16th, 1790]. — Journal of the Third Session of the Senate … begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, December 6th, 1790 [–3 March 1791]...

1790, 1791, 1793, 1794 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,032.00
102 Continental Congress

Secret Journals of the Acts and Proceedings of Congress, from the First Meeting Thereof to the Dissolution of the Confederation, by the Adoption of the Constitution of the United States.

1820 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,780.00
143

Constitucion Federal de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Sancionada por el Congreso General Constituyente, el 4 de Octubre de 1824.

1824 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,780.00
216

The Constitution of the State of Texas, as Amended in 1861. The Constitution of the Confederate States of America. The Ordinances of the Texas Convention: and an Address to the People of Texas.

1861 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,780.00
168

List of Copies of Charters, from the Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, Presented to the Honourable the House of Commons, in Pursuance of their Address to His Majesty, of the 25th of April 1740.

1741 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,528.00
205 Smith, William

A Comparative View of the Constitutions of the Several States with Each Other, and With That of the United States.

1796 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,528.00
212

An Act for allowing certain Compensation to the Judges of the Supreme and other Courts, and to the Attorney-General of the United States.

1789 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,528.00
254

Constitution of the State of Wisconsin, Adopted in Convention, at Madison ... Together with the Act of Congress, and the Act of Legislature, in relation to the formation of a State Government in Wisconsin.

1846 USD 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,276.00
100 Continental Congress

Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September, 1774.

1774 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,024.00
111

The New Constitution. The Draft Submitted to the Convention. To be Approved or Changed. Results of the Work of the Executive Council for some weeks past. Government of the Republic of Hawaii.

1894 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,024.00
200

A group of three tickets, from the impeachment trials of Andrew Johnson, and William Jefferson Clinton.

1868 and 1999 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,024.00
253 Wheaton, Henry

Reports of Cases Argued in the Supreme Court of the United States ...

1816, 1817–1827 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,024.00
108 Fitch, Thomas

By the Honourable Thomas Fitch Esq; Governor ... of Connecticut ... A Proclamation for a Public Thanksgiving …

1760 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,772.00
199

Political Cartoon: Eighteenth-century Revolutionary War Woodblock - Don't Tread on Me.

ca. 1775 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,772.00
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    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
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    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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