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Aspire Auctions: May Online - Prints, Books - Bidstart 5/31

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Auction Name May Online - Prints, Books - Bidstart 5/31 Total Sales (USD) 23,735.70
Auction Date June 08, 2019 - June 08, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 19,400.00
Sale Number #377 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,100.00
Total Lots 30
Sold Lots 30 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 19,400.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 31,100.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 76.32%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
81 Martin Lewis (American, 1881 - 1962)

Corner Shadows

1930 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,490.00
97 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921 - 2012)

Homage to Ali

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,888.00
100 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921 - 2012)

Michael Jordan

1991 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,799.50
98 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921 - 2012)

Baden - Baden

1987 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,504.50
99 LeRoy Neiman (American, 1921 - 2012)

Churchill Downs

1993 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,445.50
103 Helmut Horn (German, b. 1940)

Collection of twenty-one (21) vintage original photographs taken in Havana, Cuba of classic cars

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 1,132.80
101 Victor Skrebneski (American, b. 1929)

Group of eleven (11) photographs by Victor Skrebneski

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 896.80
119 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Ticket Seller

1937 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 885.00
90 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 - 1989)

Les mysteres de l'alchimiste (The chemist) from L'adventure medicale

1980 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 767.00
125 Norman Rockwell (American 1894-1978)

Our Heritage, 1950 Calendar illustration for Boys Scouts of America for Brown & Bigelow.

1950 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 619.50
127 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Boy Gazing at Pictures of Glamorous Stars (Star Struck)

1934 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 619.50
123 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Medicine/ Aunt Polly Giving Tom Sawyer Medicine from Tom Sawyer Folio

1936 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 590.00
124 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Dreamboats, Cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post

1938 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 590.00
120 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Trumpeter (Sour Note)

1931 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 560.50
92 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 - 1989)

L'ampoule incandescence (light bulb), from "Homage a Leonardo da Vinci".

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 472.00
93 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 - 1989)

L'aeroplane (airplane), from "Homage a Leonardo da Vinci".

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 472.00
91 Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904 - 1989)

Blasphemers - Inferno, Canto 11 from Divine Comedy

1963 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 365.80
106 Douglas Busch (American, b. 1951)

Community Building, Belvidere

1987 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 365.80
122 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Moving Furniture/Settling In

circa 1950s. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 354.00
126 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Marriage License

1979 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 306.80
73 Stefano della Bella (Italian, 1610 – 166

Two Gentlemen Travelers Passing a Flock of Sheep, from the series Six Large Views of Rome and the Countryside

ca. 1656 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 295.00
84 Roman de Tirtoff "Erte" (Russian/French,

Harmony

1986 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 295.00
121 Norman Rockwell (American, 1894-1978)

Three Farmers story illustration detail from Norman Rockwell Visits a County Agent, Saturday Evening Post

1947 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 177.00
104 Helmut Horn (German, b. 1940)

Window to the Universe, Big Sur.

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 177.00
76 Mary Cassatt (American, 1844 - 1926)

“Sara Smiling”

1904 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 141.60
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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