Rago Arts and Auctions: Curated: The Library and Design Collection of James Zemaitis, 60625, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
June 06, 2025 - June 06, 2025
Page Size: 66 items in 3 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
100

Important Eileen Gray auction catalogs, two

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 4,064.00
101

Gerrit Rietveld and Dutch Design monographs, thirteen

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 858.00
103

French Art Deco surveys, monographs, and collections, seventeen

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 13,970.00
104

French Style monographs, nineteen

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 12,065.00
105

19th Century European and American Design monographs, thirteen

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 508.00
106

Jean Prouve monographs, eight

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
108

American Modernism: Surveys and Collections monographs, eighteen

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 635.00
109

Le Regard d'Alan auction catalog

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 445.00
110

European Design surveys and monographs, sixteen

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 635.00
111 Lucien Herve 1910--2007 follow artist

Jean Prouve; Pierre Jeanneret (two works)

1950/printed later, 1955 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,826.00
113

Art Nouveau and Art Deco monographs, eleven

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 508.00
114

British Design and Decorative Arts monographs, eighteen

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 445.00
115

Arts & Crafts Movement: United States, Britain and Austria surveys, seventeen

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 572.00
117

French Modern Design: Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret et al. monographs, fifteen

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,286.00
119

Marcel Breuer: Bauhaus, Isokon and America monographs, eight

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 889.00
120

Bauhaus and German Design monographs, twenty

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,270.00
121

American Fiber Art and Jewelry monographs, thirteen

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 635.00
122

Bauhaus and the Americas monographs, fifteen

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,016.00
123

American Studio Furniture, Metalwork, and Sculpture monographs, seventeen

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 889.00
124

California Ceramics monographs, ten

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 762.00
126

American Studio Furniture and Woodworking monographs, seventeen

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 2,540.00
127

American Craft Collections, eleven

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 445.00
128

American and European Modernism: Primary Sources 1928-1942 monographs, eleven

1928-1942 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,080.00
129

American Studio Furniture and Woodworking monographs, twelve

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 572.00
131

T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings and Saridis monographs, two

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 924.00
  • Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025 Forum AuctionsFine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper  17th July 2025
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    Forum, July 17: Lucianus Samosatensis. Dialogoi, editio princeps, second issue, Florence, Laurentius Francisci de Alopa, 1496. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Boccaccio (Giovanni). Il Decamerone, Florence, Philippo di Giunta, 1516. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, July 17: Henry VII (King) & Philip the Fair (Duke of Burgundy). [Intercursus Magnus], [Commercial and Political Treaty between Henry VII and Philip Duke of Burgundy], manuscript copy in Latin, original vellum, 1499. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bible, English. The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New, Robert Barker, 1613. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Bond (Michael). A Bear Called Paddington, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1958. £4,000 to £6,000.
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    Forum, July 17: Yeats (William Butler). The Secret Rose, first edition, with extensive autograph corrections, additions and amendments by the author for a new edition, 1897. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bound in dark green morocco elaborately tooled in gilt and with 3 watercolours to fore-edge, by Fazakerley of Liverpool, 1841. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum, July 17: Miró (Juan), Wassily Kandinsky, John Buckland-Wright, Stanley William Hayter and others.- Spender (Stephen). Fraternity, one of 101 copies, with signed engravings by 9 artists. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Sowerby (George Brettingham). Album comprising 22 leaves of original watercolour drawings of fossil remains of Cheltenham and Vicinity, [c.1840]. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, July 17: Mathematics.- Blue paper copy.- Euclid. De gli Elementi, Urbino, Appresso Domenico Frisolino, 1575. £12,000 to £18,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 15: Buzz Aldrin's FLOWN Apollo 11 Crew-Signed NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Cover. $15,000 to $20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Lunar Surface Flown Mission Emblem Presented to Tom Stafford by John Young. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Albert Einstein. Typed Letter Signed ("A. Einstein."), to Ann Morrisett, Affirming a Pacifist's Right to Self-Defense, March 21, 1952. $10,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, July 17: Operating and Maintenance Manual for the BINAC Binary Automatic Computer Built for Northrop Aircraft Corporation. Philadelphia, 1949. $30,000 to $50,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 17: Steve Jobs Apple Computer Business Card, c. 1977. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Extensive Chronology of Spacecraft From Apollo to Skylab, Signed by a Member of Every Crewed Apollo Flight and the Commanders of Each Skylab Mission. $5,000 to $8,000.
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