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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) 46,183.50
Auction Date August 10, 2019 - August 10, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 65,350.00
Sale Number #81019 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 137,550.00
Total Lots 192
Sold Lots 180 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 69,300.00
% of Lots Sold 93.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 145,100.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 31.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10992 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Pineapple & Insects. 1

1730 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,905.00
10975 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Herds of Bison and Elks on the upper Missouri. 47

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,585.00
10973 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. 9

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,145.00
10898 John James Audubon

Audubon - Carolina Parrot or Parrakeet. 278

1840-1844 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,815.00
10896 John James Audubon

Audubon - Passenger Pigeon. 285

1840-1844 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,705.00
10972 Johannes de Laet

Laet - Map of Virginia

1630 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,595.00
10974 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Idols of the Mandan Indians. 25

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,595.00
10824 John Gould with One Lithograph from Edward Lear

Lot 15 Gould Folio Lithographs; Including 1 by Edward Lear

1800s USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,155.00
10987 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Flower & Moth Metamorphosis. 49

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,100.00
10897 John James Audubon

Audubon - Pileated Woodpecker. 257

1840-1844 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 825.00
10990 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Fruit, Insects, Moth Metamorphosis. 27

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 770.00
10943 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Larger Yellow Ladyslipper. 19

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
10988 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Plant & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 30

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 660.00
10928 Francois Nicolas Martinet & Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon

Martinet & Buffon - Kingfisher. 715

1770-1786 USD 150.00 - 350.00 USD 632.50
10991 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Cocoa Plant & Moth Metamorphosis. 26

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 632.50
10812 Gualtieri, Merian, Buonanni

Lot of 21 Shell & Sea Life Engravings & Lithographs

1700s-1800s USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 522.50
10945 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Sea Squill, Sea Onion. 116

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 495.00
10982 Richard Bowdler Sharpe & John Gould, William Hart

Sharpe & Gould - Southern Golden Bird of Paradise

1891-1898 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
10809 Michael Bernhard Valentini, Johann Theodor de Bry & Matthaus Merian

Valentini - Lot of 28 Botanical Engravings

1719 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 467.50
10952 John Gould

Gould - Roller

1862-1875 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 467.50
10962 John Gould

Gould - Bonaparte's Star-frontlet Hummingbird

1849-1887 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 467.50
10969 Henri Abraham Chatelain

Chatelain - Canada (New France) & Great Lakes. 82

1718-1720 USD 600.00 - 1,000.00 USD 440.00
10860 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Bison or Buffalo. 57

1854 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 412.50
10861 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Bison or Buffalo. 56

1854 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 412.50
10944 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Cultivated Ananas. 455

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 412.50
  • 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.
  • 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
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