- Auction
19026
The Open Book: Fine Travel, Americana, Literature and History in Print and Manuscript
2 June 2020 - 18 June 2020, New York
SALE TOTAL: 2,711,625 (USD)
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87 Lots for Sale 19026
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Lot 1 Illuminated Homilies on John John Chrysostom, 1470 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $30,000 |
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Lot 2 \"Extremely rare\" Götz Bible Cologne, 1477-8 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $12,500 |
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Lot 3 Beautifully illuminated incunable of the Natural History Pliny the Elder, 1479 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $75,000 |
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Lot 5 Gregory's Dialogues Gregory I, c.1484 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $4,000 |
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Lot 6 Extremely rare Medieval sermons Strassburg, c.1486 |
estimate $2,000 - $4,000 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 7 Fallacies of traditional sciences Phillipus Beroaldus, 1497 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $1,625 |
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Lot 8 Ancient astronomy, by Aldus Aratus et al., 1499 |
estimate $15,000 - $20,000 price realized $37,500 |
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Lot 9 Great humanist exposition of Aristotle Jacques Lefèvre d'Etaples, 1501 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 11 Medieval astronomy and meteorology Duke Leopold of Austria, 1520 |
estimate $1,800 - $2,500 price realized $2,750 |
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Lot 12 Two major works on twilight Pedro Nunes & Ibn Mu'adh, 1542 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $30,000 |
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Lot 13 Prophecies on the Ottoman Empire Ps.-Antonio Torquato, 1552 |
estimate $1,000 - $1,500 price realized $1,250 |
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Lot 15 First English edition of the complete works Thomas More, 1557 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $18,750 |
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Lot 16 One of the first women listed in the Index Olympia Fulvia Morata, 1562 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $4,000 |
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Lot 17 Rabelasian monster book Ps.-Rabelais, 1565 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $68,750 |
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Lot 18 Münster's Cosmografia Sebastian Münster, 1575 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,625 |
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Lot 19 Heron mechanicus Conrad Dasypodius, 1580 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 21 Le diverse et artificiose machine Agostino Ramelli, 1588 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $23,750 |
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Lot 22 First collected edition Paracelsus, 1589-90 |
estimate $2,500 - $3,500 price realized $6,875 |
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Lot 24 The Earth a Magnet William Gilbert, 1600 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $22,500 |
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Lot 25 Physiognomaniacal treatise on distillation Giovanni Battista Della Porta, 1608 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 26 Robert Fludd's mystic masterpiece Oppenheim, 1624 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 27 Miniature dos-à-dos binding New Testament and Psalms, 1633-5 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 29 The wave or pulse theory of light Christiaan Huygens, 1690 |
estimate $12,000 - $22,000 price realized $18,750 |
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Lot 30 First substantial history of algebra, with early American provenance John Wallis |
estimate $2,000 - $4,000 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 31 Binomial theorem Isaac Newton, 1711 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $32,500 |
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Lot 32 Architettura civile Guarino Guarini, 1737 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 33 Foundational study on the measurement of light Johann Lambert, 1760 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $10,000 |
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Lot 34 Discovery of oxygen Carl Wilhelm Scheele, 1772 |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $10,000 |
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Lot 35 Machines & inventions Jean-Gaffin Gallon, 1776-78 |
estimate $2,000 - $3,000 price realized $1,375 |
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Lot 36 First Spanish Edition of The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, 1794 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $13,750 |
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Lot 37 First American edition of Wealth of Nations Adam Smith, 1789 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 38 MITOCHONDRIAL DNA Vintage photograph, 1963 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $6,250 |
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Lot 39 Rare Map of West Africa Carel Allard, c.1690s |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $16,250 |
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Lot 40 The Quadrupeds of North America John James Audubon, 1845 |
estimate $120,000 - $180,000 price realized $300,000 |
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Lot 45 Views of Rome Giovanni Battista Falda, 1665-1669 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $2,500 |
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Lot 46 Himalayan Plants Magnolias, poppies, etc., 1855 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 47 The Alhambra Owen Jones, 1842 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,125 |
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Lot 49 The History of the Indies López de Gomara, 1569 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $13,750 |
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Lot 50 With rare original wrapper and ads Aboriginal Portfolio, 1835-36 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $75,000 |
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Lot 51 First edition of \"the grandest color plate book\" McKenney & Hall, 1836-44 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $112,500 |
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Lot 52 Hand-Colored Issue of Roberts' Holy Land David Roberts, 1842-49 |
estimate $80,000 - $120,000 price realized $87,500 |
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Lot 53 The very rare first Latin edition Ludovico Varthema, 1511 |
estimate $60,000 - $80,000 price realized $75,000 |
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Lot 55 Visscher's Map of New England and New Amsterdam Amsterdam, c.1684 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,500 |
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Lot 57 Landmark of navigational science Edward Wright, 1610 |
estimate $15,000 - $25,000 price realized $27,500 |
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Lot 58 Ackermann's Costumes of the Indian Army Rare suite, 1844-1849 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $15,000 |
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Lot 59 Austrian Army Vienna, 1823 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 60 British officers, 1845 Rare suite of lithographs |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $4,375 |
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Lot 61 Color Portraits of the Madras Army Published in Chennai, 1841 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $9,375 |
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Lot 64 Attention! Prussian soldiers, 1820 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 67 Central Europe in the Interwar Years Autograph album, c.1926-42 |
estimate $6,000 - $9,000 price realized $15,000 |
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Lot 69 Dali's Alice in Wonderland Limited edition, 1969 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $6,250 |
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Lot 70 From the library at Gad's Hill Candlestick, mid 19th-century |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $8,750 |
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Lot 71 Charles Dickens's writing desk Writing table, mid-19th century |
estimate $12,000 - $18,000 price realized $13,750 |
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Lot 72 Autograph letter & check Charles Dickens, 1859 |
estimate $1,000 - $2,000 price realized $3,250 |
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Lot 75 The Kelmscott Chaucer In original boards, 1896 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $50,000 |
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Lot 76 Mother Goose signed prints Baum & Parrish, 1897 |
estimate $25,000 - $35,000 price realized $25,000 |
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Lot 77 The Boy Who Lived The first Harry Potter, 1997 |
estimate $50,000 - $80,000 price realized $68,750 |
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Lot 78 From The Wind in the Willows E.H. Shepard, 1931 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $30,000 |
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Lot 80 Mrs Dalloway, signed Virginia Woolf, 1925 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $68,750 |
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Lot 81 To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf, 1927 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $10,625 |
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Lot 82 One of 250 signed copies Virginia Woolf, 1930 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $4,000 |
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Lot 83 First editions, two signed Virginia Woolf, 1915-1958 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $9,375 |
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Lot 84 Letters to his friend and translator Emile Zola, 1892-1902 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $22,500 |
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Lot 85 Signed by John, Paul, George, & Ringo The Beatles, 1960s |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $11,875 |
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Lot 86 Signed caricature of John & Yoko John Lennon, 1969 |
estimate This lot was withdrawn from the sale |
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Lot 87 An unpublished interview Bob Dylan, [1965] |
estimate $6,000 - $8,000 price realized $7,500 |
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Lot 88 The original art for Led Zeppelin's debut LP George Hardie, 1969 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $325,000 |
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Lot 89 Mouzon's Map of the Carolinas London, 1794 |
estimate $4,000 - $6,000 price realized $6,000 |
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Lot 90 A textile handkerchief broadside On cambric, c. 1820 |
estimate $3,000 - $5,000 price realized $3,000 |
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Lot 91 The Battle of Long island Samuel Holland, 1776 |
estimate $5,000 - $8,000 price realized $5,000 |
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Lot 92 Invoicing Georgia for acting as Parliamentary agent Benjamin Franklin, 7 October 1776 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $32,500 |
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Lot 93 Introducing a British volunteer for the Continental Army Benjamin Franklin, 17 June 1778 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $32,500 |
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Lot 94 On the victory at Yorktown George Washington, 15 November 1781 |
estimate $40,000 - $60,000 price realized $137,500 |
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Lot 95 A lock of hair & an invitation to dine George Washington, 1781 & 1787 |
estimate $5,000 - $7,000 price realized $6,875 |
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Lot 96 The Society of the Cincinnati George Washington, 4 July 1786 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $11,250 |
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Lot 97 The federal Constituion comes into force Charles Thomson, 13 September 1788 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $18,750 |
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Lot 98 A rare autograph letter signed Martha Washington, 15 February 1794 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $11,250 |
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Lot 101 Ordering his favorite French wines Thomas Jefferson, 14 May 1803 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $22,500 |
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Lot 102 Installing the Great Clock at Monticello Thomas Jefferson, 28 Janaury 1804 |
estimate $30,000 - $50,000 price realized $35,000 |
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Lot 103 The first dated printing of the Star-Spangled Banner [Francis Scott Key], 20 September 1814 |
estimate $300,000 - $500,000 price realized $325,000 |
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Lot 104 Plans for the Spanish Reconquest of Mexico Joaquín de Miranda y Madariaga, 1829 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $21,250 |
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Lot 105 Signed as President William Henry Harrison, 24 March 1841 |
estimate This lot was withdrawn from the sale |
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Lot 107 On the death of his wife Thomas J. Stonewall Jackson, 24 March 1855 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $10,000 |
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Lot 109 Offering a pardon for a Confederate diplomat Abraham Lincoln, 9 January 1865 |
estimate $10,000 - $15,000 price realized $21,250 |
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Lot 110 Appealing to the United States for support Sun Yat-sen, November 1918 |
estimate $20,000 - $30,000 price realized $25,000 |
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Lot 111 Praising the work of the NAACP Albert Einstein, 22 September 1943 |
estimate $8,000 - $12,000 price realized $32,500 |
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Lot 113 In talks on full diplomatic relations Deng Xiaoping, 9 July 1978 |
estimate $7,000 - $9,000 price realized $21,250 |
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