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Auction Name Summer Estates Auction - Books, Prints Total Sales (USD) 75,805.50
Auction Date July 08, 2017 - July 08, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 50,600.00
Sale Number #70817 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 75,950.00
Total Lots 106
Sold Lots 82 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 62,250.00
% of Lots Sold 77.36% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 93,000.00
Unsold Lots 24 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 81.51%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
436 Leon Joseph Fremaux (American/New Orleans, 1821?1898)

New Orleans Characters,

1876 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,880.00
426

Confederate Prisoner Autograph Album from Fort Warren, Dec. 5, 1861?April 5, 1862

 1861?1862 USD 1,800.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,575.00
244 George Rodrigue (American/Louisiana, 1944-2013)

"Second Line: White"

 1994 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,062.50
216 Walter Ronald Locke (American/Florida, 1883-1949)

"The Net Menders, Fla.", "Against the Wind", "Edge of the Pines" and "Glorious Eucalyptus"

 1937-39 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,928.00
202 Ellsworth Woodward (American/New Orleans, 1861-1939)

"Sailing Boats (first state)", "Buck Ridge Bar, Mississippi River, Aug. 1917", and "Yellow Pine: Ruston"

 1901 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,562.00
175 [William Morris/ Kelmscott Press],

two titles; Clanvowe, Sir Thomas. The Floure and the Leafe, & The Boke of Cupide, God of Love, or the Cuckow and the Nightingale,

1896 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,250.00
250 George Rodrigue (American/Louisiana, 1944-2013)

"Louis Armstrong (New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival)"

 1995 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
214 William Woodward (American/New Orleans, 1859-1939)

"Poydras Market - End Toward Baronne Street, N.O., 1885"

 1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,074.00
174 [William Morris/ Kelmscott Press],

Rossetti, Dante Gabriel. Sonnets and Lyrical Poems,

1894 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,048.00
439

[Rare Norman Map of New Orleans], "Norman's Plan of New Orleans & Environs, 1845 by Henry Moellhausen, Civil Engineer",

 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,920.00
457 [Lewis & Clark Expedition], Jefferson, Thomas.

Travels in the Interior Parts of America; Communicating Discoveries Made in Exploring the Missouri, Red River and Washita, by Captains Lewis and Clark, Doctor Sibley, and Mr. Dunbar...,

1807 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,708.00
253 Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965)

"Horizontal Pelican", linocut on wallpaper, unsigned, titled en verso

 2007, p. 70 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,664.00
456

[Louisiana and Mississippi River Land Controversies], four items, incl. Livingston, Edward. An Answer to Mr. Jefferson's Justification of his Conduct in the case of the New Orleans Batture,

1813 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,586.00
390 John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)

"Louisiana Water Thrush", Plate 19, hand-colored aquatint engraving from The Birds of America, Havell edition, "J.Whatman/Turkey Mill 1835"

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
437

Le Page du Pratz, Antoine Simon, The History of Louisiana, or of The Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina...,

 1763 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,464.00
252 Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965)

"Alligator", linocut on wallpaper, unsigned, titled en verso

 2007, p. 71 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,408.00
391 John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)

"Cuvier's Wren", Plate 55, hand-colored aquatint engraving from The Birds of America,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,342.00
398 John James Audubon (American, 1785-1851)

"Black-Capped Titmouse", Plate 160, hand-colored aquatint engraving from The Birds of America

 1833 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,342.00
251 Walter Inglis Anderson (American/Mississippi, 1903-1965)

"Two Crabs", linocut on wallpaper, unsigned, titled en verso

 2007 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,220.00
395 John James Audubon (American, 1785-1751)

"Brown Headed Worm Eating Warbler", Plate 193, hand-colored aquatint engraving from The Birds of America,

1854 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,220.00
462

[Fore?Edge Painting Signed by William Waldorf Astor], Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings, The Folk?Lore of the Old Plantation,

1887 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,098.00
438

[Rare Atlas of New Orleans], Robinson, Elisha and Roger Pidgeon. Atlas of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana. Based upon Surveys furnished by John F. Braun, Surveyor & Architect, New Orleans,

 1883 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,088.00
441

Good Antique American Atlas, Colton's General Atlas, containing One Hundred and Seventy Steel Plate Maps and Plans, on One Hundred Imperial Folio Sheets,

1857 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,024.00
245 George Rodrigue (American/Louisiana, 1944-2013)

"Rodrigue: A Man & His Dog"

 1993 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 976.00
440

Good Group of Four American Atlases, incl. Mitchell's New General Atlas...,

 1874 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 976.00
  • 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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