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Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Americana

Christie's, New York

Date of the auction: 25.10.2019

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Lot number 55
''An offer he can't refuse.''
Estimate
US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
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Lot number 122
''Give me chastity and temperance — but not yet!''
Estimate
US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$8,125
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Lot number 13
''Had we but World enough, and Time...''
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US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
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Lot number 58
''I think you will really go places''
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$27,500
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Lot number 16
''Please, sir, may I have some more please?''
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,375
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Lot number 15
''Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore.'''
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US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$3,000
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Lot number 20
''The Body Snatcher'' in original wrappers
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US$3,500 - US$4,500
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 91
''The most elaborate work on this expedition''
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US$4,000 - US$6,000
Price realised:
US$5,625
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Lot number 128
''We Jews are ... not a chosen people''
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US$35,000 - US$45,000
Price realised:
US$37,500
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Lot number 9
''Writers are born, not made (ask Balzac)''
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US$8,000 - US$12,000
Price realised:
US$7,500
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Lot number 34
A fine first edition
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US$1,000 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$1,125
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Lot number 64
A handwritten history of Game Theory at Princeton
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$35,000
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Lot number 63
A handwritten lecture
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$10,625
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Lot number 74
A meeting with the President
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,250
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Lot number 71
A new government for the Louisiana Territory
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US$7,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
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Lot number 86
A proposed U.S. capital city on the Delaware
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US$6,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 42
A remarkably fine copy
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US$14,000 - US$18,000
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 84
A secret anti-Puritan polemic—a rarity of printed Americana
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$40,000
Price realised:
US$137,500
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Lot number 28
All animals are equal
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$4,000
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Lot number 81
America’s first banned book, lampooning the Puritans
Estimate
US$35,000 - US$45,000
Price realised:
US$60,000
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Lot number 94
An Apple 1 Personal Computer
Estimate
US$200,000 - US$300,000
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 76
An early letter from West Point
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,250
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Lot number 152
An extra-illustrated first edition
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US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$3,750
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Lot number 1
An unrecorded broadside
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US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$3,125
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Lot number 67
Announcing the Louisiana Purchase
Estimate
US$20,000 - US$30,000
Price realised:
US$125,000
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Lot number 125
Attractively colored first Sacon-Koberger Bible
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$5,250
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Lot number 26
Brave New World
Estimate
US$3,000 - US$5,000
Price realised:
US$3,250
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Lot number 98
Burney's South Sea Discoveries
Estimate
US$6,000 - US$9,000
Price realised:
n. a.
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Lot number 96
Captain Bligh's account of the mutiny on the HMS Bounty
Estimate
US$5,000 - US$8,000
Price realised:
US$8,750
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Lot number 137
Chemistry in the kitchen, a woman's manuscript recipe book
Estimate
US$1,500 - US$2,500
Price realised:
US$1,500
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