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Auction Name The Fine Sale - Prints Total Sales (USD) 14,606.25
Auction Date April 27, 2019 - April 28, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 13,000.00
Sale Number #12321 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 21,800.00
Total Lots 23
Sold Lots 18 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 21,600.00
% of Lots Sold 78.26% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 36,500.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 40.02%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
613 Léon Bakst (1866-1924):

Costume design for 'Chamberlain' from Don Juan Refutè and Costume design for 'Leparello' from Don Juan Refutè

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,305.00
474 Johann Sebastian Muller (1715-1785), after Giovanni Paola Panini (1692-1765):

View of the Campo Vaccino with the Temple of Jupiter Stator, the Arch of Titus, the Colosseum, the Basilica of Maxentius, the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina and Temp

1775-76 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,353.00
468 Robert John Thornton (1768-1837):

The China Limodoron; and The Narrow-Leaved Kalmina

1802 and 1804 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,230.00
744

French Wallpaper Panel of Juno Feeding Jupiter, Possibly Zuber

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,107.00
159 Marie Laurencin (1883-1956):

Femme Assise

USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 984.00
477 Francesco Piranesi (1750-1810):

Meleager , From Classical Statues in Rome

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 861.00
549 Howard Cook (1901-1980):

Montparnasse Street

1931 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 861.00
154 Henri Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936):

Les Fossiles

1892 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 738.00
157 James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903):

Annie Seated

1858/59 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 738.00
395 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926):

Looking into the Hand Mirror

1904 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 615.00
550

20th Century School: Cityscape

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 492.00
548 Arthur Bowen Davies (1862-1928):

Ecstasy

1918 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 307.50
344

Group of Fourteen Books on Delft

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 246.00
346

Group of Thirteen Continental Porcelain Books

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 184.50
347

Group of Six German Porcelain Books

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 184.50
546 Isabel Bishop (1902-1988):

Sweet Sixteen

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 184.50
628 Rudolph Ackermann, Publisher:

Pocock's Reclining Patent Chair; and Salon Chair, Library Chair, from Ackermann's Repository of Arts

1813 and 1810 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 184.50
345

Group of Seventeen English and Export Porcelain Books

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 30.75
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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