Highlighted Results from Our Rare Book Auctions
Notable rare books sold in our auctions, including first editions, important manuscripts, and works by major authors - with actual estimates and hammer prices for reference.
1816 Chapbook by Peter Loural: A Deaf, Dumb Dwarf’s Visionary Prophecies for America
$75-$100
$992
First 1863 Meeting of the Football Association, Bell’s Life in London
$150 – $200
$950
Charles Dickens’ The Gad’s Hill Gazette, Limited Edition Copy, 1895
$75 – $100
$300
1867 “No Thoroughfare” Playbill, Wilkie Collins & Charles Dickens Play
$75 – $100
$450
1798-1799 William Curtis’ Botanical Magazine (Two Volumes)
$400 – $500
$400
1806 “Travels from St. Petersburgh in Russia to Various Parts of Asia” (With Maps)
$100 – $120
$550
“London”, Edited by Charles Knight in Half Leather Bindings, 1841-1844
$75 – $100
$2,400
Kelly’s Post Office Directory, Antique Map Of London 1857
$100 – $120
$425
“Costume of the Lower Orders of the Metropolis” Thomas Lord Busby, 1822 Hand-Colored Plates
$250 – $350
$1,400
Thomas Carlyle, Signed Presentational Copy “Life of Friedrich Schiller”
$150 – $200
$550
John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State Personally Owned Newspapers, 1820
$400 – $500
$1,000
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show Program (1907), Cabinet Card & Arcade Card
$100 – $120
$175
Charles Dickens’ Barnaby Rudge, Bound in Original Newgate Prison Wood
$300 – $300
$2,400
“Suffolk Surnames” 1857 Book From Charles Dickens Personal Library
$1,000 – $1,200
$2,200
1851 George Cruikshank Presentational Copy The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman
$150 – $200
$1,300
1844 American First Edition “A Christmas Carol” Charles Dickens
$2,500 – $3,000
$3,400
Charles Dickens’ Hard Times, 1854 First Edition in Secondary Binding
$800 – $1,000
$2,200
1837/40 Charles Dickens The Sketches of Young Ladies, Young Gentlemen, Young Couples by Quiz
$400 – $500
$1,000
Charles Dickens Signature on 1851 Rental Agreement Document, Countersigned by William Henry Wills, John Forster
$2,500 – $3,000
$3,600
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1868 St James Hall First Course [Program] Mr. Charles Dickens Farewell Readings
$500 – $600
$1,300
Charles Dickens 1837 Playbill: Mr. Pickwick by Boz, The Strange Gentleman
$800 – $1,000
$2,400
F. Scott Fitzgerald Signed 1920s-30s Autograph Album Page
$500 – $600
$558
18th Century Antique Miniature Bible: Ethiopian Coptic Manuscript on Vellum
$75 – $100
$682
1865-1870 Harper’s Weekly: Civil War, President Lincoln’s Funeral, The First Vote
$800 – $1,000
$1,736
Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, First Edition
$150 – $200
$620
Joel Chandler Harris “On The Plantation” 1892 First Edition
$125 – $150
$620
Carl Werner’s “Nile Sketches”, Beautiful 1875 Folio
N / A
$1,200
