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Christies: Old Master and 19th Century Prints

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Auction Name Old Master and 19th Century Prints Total Sales (USD) 2,860,200.00
Auction Date January 24, 2023 - January 24, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,945,500.00
Sale Number #21481 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,901,200.00
Total Lots 149
Sold Lots 114 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,594,400.00
% of Lots Sold 76.51% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,854,800.00
Unsold Lots 35 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 74.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
111 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ crucified between two Thieves: ‘The Three Crosses’

1653 USD 500,000.00 - 700,000.00 USD 730,800.00
127 FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Los Caprichos

1797-98 USD 180,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 201,600.00
47 AFTER TIZIANO VECELLIO, CALLED TITIAN (CIRCA 1488-1576), ANONYMOUS, NORTHERN ITALIAN, 16TH CENTURY

Portrait of Suleyman the Magnificent

circa 1532-40 USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 189,000.00
27 ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Melencolia I

1514 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 151,200.00
28 ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Melencolia I

1514 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 100,800.00
130 FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)

Los Desastres de la Guerra

1810-1820 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 94,500.00
108 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ returning from the Temple with His Parents

1654 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 88,200.00
3 MARTIN SCHONGAUER (CIRCA 1445-1491)

The Flagellation, from: The Passion

circa 1470-80 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 81,900.00
104 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Abraham's Sacrifice

1655 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 50,400.00
63 PIETER VAN DER HEYDEN (CIRCA 1530-1572) AFTER PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER (CIRCA 1525-1569)

The Stone Operation, or: The Witch of Malleghem

1559 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,100.00
103 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Jan Lutma, Goldsmith

1656 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 44,100.00
107 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Angel appearing to the Shepherds

1634 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,100.00
32 DANIEL HOPFER (1470-1536)

Saint George on Horseback slaying the Dragon

circa 1505-36 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 41,580.00
24 ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

The Small Horse

1505 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,800.00
36 LUCAS CRANACH THE ELDER (1472-1553)

The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

circa 1513-14 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 34,020.00
62 PIETER VAN DER HEYDEN (CIRCA 1530-1572) IN THE MANNER OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH (1450-1516)

Die Blau Schuyte

1559 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 32,760.00
112 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross by Torchlight

1654 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 32,760.00
7 ISRAHEL VAN MECKENEM (1440-1503) AFTER HANS HOLBEIN THE ELDER (CIRCA 1460-1524)

Christ among the Doctors, from: The Life of the Virgin

circa 1490-1500 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 30,240.00
21 ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

The Promenade

circa 1498 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,720.00
106 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Triumph of Mordecai

circa 1641 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 27,720.00
109 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Christ preaching: 'La Petite Tombe'

circa 1652 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 27,720.00
102 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

A Scholar in his Study ('Faust')

circa 1652 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,200.00
105 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

Abraham entertaining the Angels

1656 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 25,200.00
114 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

A Cottage beside a Canal with a View of Ouderkerk

circa 1641 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
143 FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND (1833-1914)

Portrait d'Edmond de Goncourt

1882 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 25,200.00
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    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
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    Part IX
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    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:
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    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
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    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.
  • Sotheby’s
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    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
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    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
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
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    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
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