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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) 40,942.00
Auction Date September 07, 2019 - September 07, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 61,850.00
Sale Number #90719 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 116,850.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 182 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 67,650.00
% of Lots Sold 91.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 127,450.00
Unsold Lots 18 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 32.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
11800 David Roberts

David Roberts - Approach of the Simoom, Desert of Gizeh

1846-1849 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 3,465.00
11798 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Wahk-Tä-Ge-Li, A Sioux Warrior

1839-1842 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,695.00
11797 Robert John Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The Dragon Arum

1799-1807 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,595.00
11781 Jean Baptiste Verany

Verany - Octopus; Eledon Aldrovandi. 2

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,265.00
11782 Jean Baptiste Verany

Verany - Umbrella Squid; Histioteuthis Bonelliana. 19

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,265.00
11657 Gregory Macalister Mathews

Mathews - Large Lot of 119 Bird Lithographs

1910-1927 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,210.00
11788 Richard Bowdler Sharpe & John Gould, William Hart

Sharpe & Gould - Princess Stephanie's Bird of Paradise

1891-1898 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,155.00
11793 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Moth Metamorphosis. 11

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,100.00
11794 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Hibiscus & Moth Metamorphosis. 42

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 935.00
11799 David Roberts

David Roberts - Pyramids of Geezeh

1846-1849 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 880.00
11791 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Moth Metamorphosis. 45

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 742.50
11795 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Papaya & Moth Metamorphosis. 40

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 742.50
11779 Jean Baptiste Verany

Verany - European Flying Squid; Loligo Sagittata. 32

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
11780 Jean Baptiste Verany

Verany - Spider Octopus; Octopus Salutii. 9

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 577.50
11711 Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville

Dumont - Antarctica, Penguins. 28

1841-1855 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 495.00
11709 Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville

Dumont - Powell Island, Glaciers, Antarctica

1841-1855 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 467.50
11650 John James Audubon

Audubon - Blue Heron. 372

1856-1871 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 440.00
11662 Gracius Broinowski

Broinowski, Australia - Volume 5 with 50 Bird Prints

1887-1891 USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 440.00
11787 Richard Bowdler Sharpe & John Gould, William Hart

Sharpe & Gould - Gorgeted Bird of Paradise

1891-1898 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 440.00
11778 Jean Baptiste Verany

Verany - Squid; Loligopsis Veranii. 39

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 412.50
11686 Carl Linnaeus & Philip M

Carl Linnaeus & Muller - Original Watercolor - Swallow. 656

1806 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 385.00
11710 Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville

Dumont - Ship amongst Glaciers, Antarctica

1841-1855 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 385.00
11683 Carl Linnaeus & Philip M

Carl Linnaeus & Muller - Original Watercolor - Treebird. 539

1806 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 357.50
11750 John James Audubon

Audubon - Whooping Crane. 313

1840-1844 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 357.50
11752 John James Audubon

Audubon - Reddish Egret. 371

1840-1844 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 357.50
  • 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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