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Schilb Antiquarian

Auction Info

Auction Name
Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium
Auction Date
04/21/2024 - 04/21/2024
Sale Number
#42124
Total Lots
102
Sold Lots
101
Lots Sold
99.02%
Unsold Lots
1
Total Sales (USD)
22,434.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
58,123.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
119,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
58,722.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
120,400.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
18.63%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
70 GRANT, Ulysses S

Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant

 1885-86 USD 795.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,375.00
71 ALIGHIERI, Dante

The Vision of Hell by Dante Alighieri.

[1886]. USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 920.00
19 William Parry

Voyages North Pole MAPS

1824 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 650.00
29 CULPEPER, Nicholas

The Complete Herbal, to Which is Added, Upwards of One Hundred Additional Herbs, with a Display of their Medicinal and Occult Qualities Physically Applied to the Cure of All Disorders Incident to Mankind: to Which are Now First Annexed, the English Physic

 1846 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 620.00
94 PAINE, Thomas

The Life and Works of Thomas Paine

 [1925]. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 480.00
73 RICE, Allen Thorndike (Editor)

Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln by Distinguished Men of His Time

 1886 USD 399.00 - 800.00 USD 430.00
10 PLUCHE, Noel Antoine

Histoire du ciel conside?re? selon les ide?es des poe?tes, des philosophes et de Moi?se : ou? lon fait voir : 1deg lorigine du ciel poe?tique, 2deg la me?prise des philosophes sur la fabrique du ciel et de la terre, 3deg? la conformite? de lexpe?rience av

 1739-1742. USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 420.00
42 DICKENS, Charles

Little Dorrit.

 1857 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 420.00
6 ROHAULT, Jacques

Traite? de physique, tome premier

 1696 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 405.00
86 BAUM, L. Frank; DENSLOW, W.W. (Illus.)

The New Wizard of Oz

 1903 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 405.00
8 Homer

LOdyse?e dHome?re,

 1716 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 390.00
36 various contributors

The Great metropolis: or New-York almanac, for 1850

 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 365.00
32 SMITH, J. Calvin

The illustrated hand-book : a new guide for travelers through the United States of America

 1848 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 355.00
92 STOKER, Bram

Dracula

 1897, [1920]. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 340.00
7 RIBADENEYRA, Pedro de

Die Triumphierende Tugend, Das ist: Die ausserlessneste Leben Aller Heiligen Gottes. 2, Der andere Theil In sich haltend die sechs letzte Monaten dess Jahrs, vom Heumonat, biss End Christmonats ...

 1705 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 330.00
82 KIPLING, Rudyard

Soldier Tales | The Second Jungle Book

 1897-1900. USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 325.00
87 [DAVIS, Richard Harding]; MAHAN, Capt. A.T.

The Russo-Japanese War. A Photographic and Descriptive Review of the great Conflict in the Far East. Gathered From the Reports, Records, Cable Despatches, Photographs, Etc., Etc., of Colliers War Correspondents... Together with an Account of the Great Nav

 1904 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 320.00
102 TOLKIEN, J.R.R.

The Silmarillion

 1977 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 320.00
97 POE, Edgar Allan; CLARKE, Harry (Illus.)

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe. Illustrated by Harry Clarke.

 1933 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 315.00
20 LEE, Henry

Memoirs of the war in the southern department of the United States

 1827 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 310.00
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  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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