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Auction Name Classic Fine Art, Furniture & Decorative Art Total Sales (USD) 27,625.00
Auction Date February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 15,100.00
Sale Number #21325a High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 23,750.00
Total Lots 26
Sold Lots 22 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 20,200.00
% of Lots Sold 84.62% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 30,950.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 89.26%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4108 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

SCARLET IBIS, NO. 80; Plate CCCXCVII

USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,175.00
4011 AUGUSTE-LOUIS LEPERE

LA CONVALESCENTE - MME LEPERE,

1892 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,850.00
4017 ODILON REDON

PROFIL DE LUMIERE,

1886 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,550.00
4144 GEORG BRAUN & FRANS HOGENBERG

CITY VIEW OF VENICE

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,250.00
4143 GEORG BRAUN & FRANS HOGENBERG

MAP OF AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS

USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,560.00
4237

The Voyages and Adventures of Edward Teach....

1805 USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 1,560.00
4012 FELIX-HILAIRE BUHOT

L'ABRI DINARD,

1888-1889 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 650.00
4019 HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

LA CHAINE SIMPSON (PL. 238) from LES MAITRES DE L'AFFICHE

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 552.50
4013 PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR

BUSTE D'ENFANT TOURNE A DROITE

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 455.00
4009 JACQUES CALLOT

ATTIRE LE SOLDAT SANS CREINTE DES DANGERS from LES GRANDES MISERES DE LA GUERRE

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 325.00
4229 Lancelot-Theodore Turpin de Crisse

Commentaires De Cesar...

1785 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 325.00
4015 ODILON REDON

CAIN AND ABEL,

1886 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 292.50
4234

GROUP OF RED FINELY BOUND BOOKS, BINDINGS SIGNED: MACDONALD, R.W. SMITH, AND SANGORSKI & SUTCLIFFE

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 292.50
4232

seven volumes of The World's History and Its Makes,

1902 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 260.00
4238

GROUP OF GREEN, BLUE AND PURPLE LEATHER BOUND BOOKS OF LITERATURE

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 260.00
4230 Parkinson, James.

Organic Remains of a Former World...

1808 (vol. 1), 1811 (vol. 2 and 3). USD 350.00 - 450.00 USD 227.50
4231 Jules Romains, Ill. Jacques Touchet.

Knock: Ou Le Triomphe De La Medecine.

1948, USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 227.50
4235

Letters from the Marchioness de Sevigne.

1927 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 227.50
4014 ODILON REDON

ET IL DISTINGUE UNE PLAINE ARIDE ET MAMELONNEUSE from TENTATION DE SAINT-ANTOINE

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 195.00
4010 JEAN-JOSEPH BALECHOU after JUSTE-AURELE MEISSONNIER

ST. AIGNAN GUERISSANT AGRIPPIN - ST. AIGNANG HEALING AGRIPPA,

CIRCA 1748 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 130.00
4233 Bell, John.

Bell's New Pantheon; Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes, and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity...

1790 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 130.00
4236 WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

TWO SETS OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 130.00
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • 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
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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