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Auction Name The Joel Harris Collection of Original Illustration Art and Illustrated Books (with additions) Total Sales (USD) 48,657.75
Auction Date November 01, 2018 - November 01, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 57,350.00
Sale Number #657 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 91,700.00
Total Lots 360
Sold Lots 156 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 175,360.00
% of Lots Sold 43.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 274,700.00
Unsold Lots 204 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 17.71%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
242 Wagner, Richard

The Ring of the Nibelung. A Trilogy with a Prelude by Richard Wagner

1910 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
189 Shakespeare, William

Macbeth: Eaux-fortes de Gromaire

1958 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
181 Andersen, Hans Christian

Stories from Hans Andersen

[1911] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,080.00
170

The Arabian Nights. Tales from the Thousand and One Nights

[1924] USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,020.00
89 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

c. 1986 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
293 Koizumi, Akio & Kosaku Hamada

The Tomb of Painted Basket of Lo-Lang, Detailed Report of Archaeological Research

1934 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
36 LaMarche, Jim

Original mixed-media painting for Old Town in the Green Groves

[c.2002] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
77 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from cover of Frightful's Daughter

c. 2002 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
226 Carroll, Lewis

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

[1907] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
358 Fancher, Lou and Steve Johnson

Original mixed media painting from When Mermaids Sleep

2013 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 900.00
265 Warhol, Andy

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

[1975] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
87 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story

c. 1994 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 840.00
134 Bemelmans, Ludwig

Madeline's Christmas in Texas

1955 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 840.00
133 Beardsley, Aubrey

Morte Darthur Portfolio

1927 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 780.00
224 Brown, Abbie Farwell

The Lonesomest Doll

[1928] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 720.00
214 McCommon, Frances

The Frogs' Picnic: A Magic Roundabout

1931 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 687.50
86 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from Rip Van Winkle

c. 1984 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
135 Benson, Sally

Meet Me in St. Louis

1942 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 660.00
156 Crane, Walter

Two of Walter Crane Picture Books

[1871 & 1875]] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 660.00
272 Yee, Ip & Laurence Tam

Chinese Bamboo Carving. Part I.

1978 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
88 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story

c. 1994 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 600.00
94 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from The Ugly Duckling

c. 1987 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
96 San Souci, Daniel

Original watercolor from title page to Feathertop based on the tale from Nathaniel Hawthorne

c. 2006 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
353 Fancher, Lou and Steve Johnson

Original oil painting from Bambi: A Life in the Woods

1999 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 600.00
300 Ménestrier, [Claude-François]

L'Art des emblemes ou s'enseigne la morale par les figures de la fable, de l'histoire et de la Nature

1684 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 540.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
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