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Doyle New York: The Collection of Stephen Sondheim

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Auction Name	The Collection of Stephen Sondheim	Total Sales (USD)	574,493.50
Auction Date	June 18, 2024 - June 18, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	41,810.00
Sale Number	#24SS01	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	65,390.00
Total Lots	116
Sold Lots	116	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	41,810.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	65,390.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	878.57%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
278		Four thesauruses used by Stephen Sondheim		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 26,600.00
279		Group of dictionaries, thesauruses and books on crossword puzzles		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 26,600.00
303		A manuscript musical quotation from Into the Woods		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 26,600.00
294		A manuscript musical quotation from Into the Woods		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 17,290.00
277		A stack of Stephen Sondheim's stationery and a signed spiral notebook		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 15,960.00
284		An artist's three-dimensional caricature of Sweeney Todd characters		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 15,960.00
269		The vocal score of Gypsy, inscribed to Stephen Sondheim by Jule Styne		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 14,630.00
288		A manuscript musical quotation from Passion		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 14,630.00
237		Eight Caricatures of Stephen Sondheim		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 13,300.00
256	ELIOT, T.S.	Two volumes of T.S. Eliot poems annotated by Stephen Sondheim	1943	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 12,635.00
268	STEPHEN SONDHEIM and JULE STYNE	Stephen Sondheim's specially bound score for Gypsy	[1960].	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 12,635.00
311		A handmade ceramic chess set with pieces based on characters from Sondheim musicals		USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 11,970.00
178		A collection of books on Georges Seurat		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 10,640.00
325	KEITH HARING.	A Keith Haring puzzle invitation to the 1985 "Party of Life"	1985	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 10,640.00
302		A large group of scripts, scores and songs from Sondheim musicals produced after 1980		USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 9,310.00
158		Book and Print Inscribed to Stephen Sondheim by Deborah Kass	2012	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 8,645.00
286	STEPHEN SONDHEIM	Two signed posters, one signed by Stephen Sondheim		USD 500.00 - 800.00	USD 7,980.00
273		A complete set of promotional jigsaw puzzles for "The Last of Sheila," and more	circa 1973.	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 7,315.00
307		Poster for a 2006 revival of Company signed by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth	2006	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 6,650.00
453		A homemade set of early Hollywood-themed cards given to Sondheim for his birthday	Late twentieth-century.	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 6,650.00
3	Clive Francis	Two Caricatures of Stephen Sondheim by Clive Francis		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 6,317.50
272		Six first and early book editions of Stephen Sondheim musicals	1963	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 6,317.50
238		Group of Photographs Depicting Mr. Sondheim with Friends		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 5,652.50
261	DuBOSE HEYWARD.	A DuBose Heyward letter framed with Porgy and Bess sheet music		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 5,652.50
281		A 19th century Sweeney Todd broadside		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 5,652.50

Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000

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