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Cowans Auctions: Unreserved Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints and Books - bidstart 8/20

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Auction Name Unreserved Fine and Decorative Arts - Prints and Books - bidstart 8/20 Total Sales (USD) 2,836.00
Auction Date August 31, 2020 - August 31, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,810.00
Sale Number #83120 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 8,490.00
Total Lots 57
Sold Lots 55 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,865.00
% of Lots Sold 96.49% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 8,600.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 32.98%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
192

Two Framed Photographs Front and Rear View of the Remington Armory Illion, N.Y.

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 406.00
101

American Rifleman Magazine from 1923, '24, '34, '37, '39, '41, '42

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 225.00
240

Chest of Memorabilia Concerning Lieutenant Colonel Charles Frederick Hamilton Napier (1872-1963)

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 225.00
105 Maxfield Parrish

Maxfield Parrish Posters, Including for Scribner's and The Century Magazines, Plus

20th century. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 200.00
119 after Hirsohige Utagawa (Japanese, 1797-1858)

Wild Duck Swimming beneath Snow-Laden Reeds

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 138.00
213

No Horses Painted Wooden Sign

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 138.00
190 Martin Van Buren

Martin Van Buren Signed Grant

1839 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 125.00
56

[Cartography - Europe - Germany] Lusatiae Superioris,

1732 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 113.00
115 Engraving by Peter Mazell after Peter Paillou (English, 1757-1831),

The Bald Buzzard

19th century. USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 88.00
50 Woody Crumbo (Potawatomi, 1912-1989)

Winter Range and Night Rider

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 75.00
137 Harry Shokler (American, 1896-1978)

Marina Scene

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 75.00
90

Pair of Prints in the Manner of Persian Miniatures

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 56.00
136

Collection of Sailing Books

USD 15.00 - 30.00 USD 56.00
184

A Currier and Ives Still Life Print Landscape, Fruits and Flowers

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 56.00
9

[Biography] Books about Joseph Brant; Hinman, Marjory Barnum. Onaquaga: Hub of the Border Wars. 1975 Kelsay, Isabel Thompson. Joseph Brant 1743-1807: Man of Two Worlds. 1984

USD 10.00 - 20.00 USD 50.00
10 McKenney and Hall

McKenney and Hall Color Lithographs, Reproduction

20th century USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 50.00
140 David Paladin Chethlahe (Dine, 1926-1984)

Night scene, framed, 12x14 in.

USD 25.00 - 50.00 USD 44.00
145 Engraving After Edwin Landseer (English, 1802-1873)

English, 19th century. Engraving on paper, laid on canvas. Deer Stalkers Returning; 22.25 x 28 in. (image), 32 x 37.25 in. (frame).

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 44.00
155 Gould and Richter

Hummingbird Lithograph Campylopterus Roberti

USD 25.00 - 50.00 USD 44.00
183

A Road to Denver Movie Poster

20th Century USD 25.00 - 50.00 USD 44.00
206

1837 Address to German School Convention in Pittsburgh,

USD 15.00 - 30.00 USD 44.00
1

Framed Albumen of One Room School House

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 33.00
51

Sword and Blossoms Poems Book with Woodblock Illustrations, Plus

20th century. USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 33.00
97

Youngest and Oldest War Veterans Meeting (WWI and Civil War), 1922 Press Photo by Underwood and Underwood

USD 75.00 - 150.00 USD 33.00
187

[Literature] Novels, Poems, and Stories about American Indian Culture

USD 30.00 - 50.00 USD 33.00
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