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Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books: Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper

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Auction Name Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper Total Sales (USD) 22,060.50
Auction Date June 01, 2019 - June 01, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 42,050.00
Sale Number #60119 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 82,750.00
Total Lots 174
Sold Lots 138 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 52,450.00
% of Lots Sold 79.31% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 104,150.00
Unsold Lots 36 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 21.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8897 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Flamingo. 375

1840-1844 USD 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 USD 935.00
8973 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Moth Metamorphosis. 41

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 742.50
8971 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Fruit & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 43

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 660.00
8965 John Gould

Gould - Golden Oriole, Oriolus galbula

1862-1873 USD 250.00 - 650.00 USD 632.50
8968 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Butterfly Metamorphosis & Lizard. 4

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 577.50
8972 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Hibiscus & Moth Metamorphosis. 37

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 577.50
8974 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Watermelon & Moth Metamorphosis. 15

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 550.00
8896 John James Audubon

Audubon - Florida Jay. 233

1840-1844 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 412.50
8882 John James Audubon

Audubon - Rock Ptarmigan. 301

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 385.00
8945 Thomas L. McKenney & James Hall

McKenney & Hall, Folio - Tustennuggee Emathla or Jim Boy, A Creek Chief

1838 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 385.00
8967 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Moth Metamorphosis. 61

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 385.00
8969 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Butterfly Metamorphosis. 30

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 385.00
8809 Jan Christian Sepp

Sepp - Volume 8 with 50 Entomology Engravings

1762 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 357.50
8970 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Butterfly Metamorphosis. 35

1726 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 357.50
8883 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Bittern. 365

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 286.00
8943 Thomas L. McKenney & James Hall

McKenney & Hall, Folio - Chippeway Squaw & Child

1838 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 286.00
8806 David Roberts

David Roberts - 15 Folio Lithographs

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 275.00
8838 Thomas McKenney & James Hall

McKenney & Hall - Chippeway Squaw & Child (Nursing)

1855 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 275.00
8850 George Edwards; Johann Seligmann

Edwards & Seligmann - 8 Bird Engravings

1749-1776 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 275.00
8884 John James Audubon

Audubon - Hudsonian Curlew. 356

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 264.00
8886 John James Audubon

Audubon - Wilsons Snipe, Common Snipe. 350

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 264.00
8888 John James Audubon

Audubon - Golden Eye Duck. 406

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 253.00
8808 Lieutenant James Melville Gilliss

Gilliss - Two Volumes with 50 Plates - U.S. Naval Astronomical Expedition to The Southern Hemisphere

1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 220.00
8816 Sir William Jardine

Jardine - Pair of Volumes with 64 Birds of Western Africa Engravings

1833-1860 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 220.00
8964 John Gould

Gould - Long-tailed Tit (young), Mecistura Caudata

1862-1873 USD 250.00 - 650.00 USD 220.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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