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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) 62,672.50
Auction Date February 20, 2021 - February 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,400.00
Sale Number #22021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 175,200.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 190 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,100.00
% of Lots Sold 95.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 182,000.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
28800 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - The Cougar. 97

1842-1848 USD 5,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,235.00
28617 Theodor de Bry

De Bry - Allegory of The Discovery of America or Americae Retectio - Series of Four Plates - Commemorating the discoveries of America by Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan

1590-1594 USD 8,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,015.00
28799 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Sea Otter. 137

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,915.00
28748 David Roberts

David Roberts - Edfou

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 2,805.00
28797 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Douglass Squirrel. 48

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,255.00
28798 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Musk Rat-Musquash. 13

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,255.00
28611 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Map of Philippines Islands including Tandaya, Panai, Mindora, Lucon of Luconia

1724-1726 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,815.00
28616 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Scheuchzer - Astrological Map, Celestial (Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth)

1731-1735 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,595.00
28789 John Gould

Gould - 5 Hummingbird Lithographs

1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,045.00
28733 Rex Brasher

Brasher - Burrowing & Florida Burrowing Owl. 378

1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 990.00
28747 David Roberts

David Roberts - Part of the Portico of Edfou

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 880.00
28731 Rex Brasher

Brasher - Roseate Spoonbill. 183

1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 825.00
28673 Joseph Antoine Risso

Risso, Rare Folio - Squid; Sagillatus Todarus. 11

1854 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 742.50
28613 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Map of Malaysia and Sumatra (Singapore)

1724-1726 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 715.00
28749 David Roberts

David Roberts - Dendera

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 715.00
28609 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - One of the Earliest Maps of Staten Landt, New Zealand charted by Abel Tasman; View of Koningen or Three Kings Islands

1724-1726 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
28746 David Roberts

David Roberts - Fragments of the Great Colosi, at the Memnonium

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 687.50
28755 Basilius Besler

Besler - 3 Botanical Engravings

1713 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
28651 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Mermaid, Sawfish, Fish. 52

1724-1726 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 632.50
28795 John Gould

Lear & Gould - Swallow-tailed Kite

1832-1837 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 632.50
28681 Abbe Laurent Berlese

Berlese - 11 Camellia Engravings

1843 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 605.00
28723 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - Greater ?Amakihi or Honeycreeper (Extinct); Viridonia Sagittirostris

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 577.50
28722 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - O?ahu ?Alauahio or Creeper; Oreomyza Maculata

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 550.00
28608 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - One of the earliest printed maps of Cape Town, South Africa

1724-1726 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 522.50
28720 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - Creeper; Oreomyza Newtoni

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 522.50
  • 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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