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Auction Name February Art Cornucopia Total Sales (USD) 18,180.50
Auction Date February 14, 2025 - February 14, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 10,225.00
Sale Number #21425 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 17,275.00
Total Lots 74
Sold Lots 58 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 13,155.00
% of Lots Sold 78.38% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 22,175.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 81.99%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6163 ROGER MUHL , FRENCH, 1929-2008

NATURE MORTE - STILL LIFE

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 1,950.00
6174 THOMAS D. MANGELSEN , AMERICAN, 1946-

STORM AT SEKENANI

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,950.00
6005 GEORGE BROOKSHAW , BRITISH, 1751-1823

A PAIR OF MELONS from BROOKSHAW'S "THE HORTICULTURAL REPOSITORY..."

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 975.00
6014 AFTER CLAUDE LE LORRAIN , FRENCH, 1600-1682

ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE (NO. 105); ARCADIAN LANDSCAPE (NO. 128)

1776 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 910.00
6082 GEORGES-LOUIS LECLERC DE BUFFON , FRENCH, 1707-1788

LE TATOU A LONGUE QUEUE; LA LOUTRE; L'HERMINE; LE VISON; LE SARIQUE DES ILLINOIS and LE CARCAJOU

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 845.00
6186

VINTAGE PSYCHEDELIC CONCERT POSTERS, MOSTLY FROM CALIFORNIA

CIRCA 1966-1967 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 845.00
6074 FRANCOIS NICOLAS MARTINET , FRENCH, 1725/31-1804

L'ANHINGAS, DE CAYENNE; and L'ECHASSE

1770-1786 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 650.00
6033

GEORGE AND MARTHA WASHINGTON

1864 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 585.00
6129 LOUIS ICART , FRENCH, 1888-1950

GREEN SCREEN / INTIMACY, 1928

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 455.00
6058 ANNIE SPRINKLE , AMERICAN, 1954-

TIT PRINT '94, CALIFORNIA PRINT '94, AND JEWISH TIT PRINT '93

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 422.50
6080 GABOR PETERDI , AMERICAN/HUNGARIAN, NEW YORK, 1915-2001

DESPAIR III, 1938

1938 USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 422.50
6089 ANDREA WAY , AMERICAN, WASHINGTON, D.C., 1949

PARTITA, 1994

1994 USD 80.00 - 150.00 USD 390.00
6161 RICHARD EARLOM AFTER CLAUDE LE LORRAIN , BRITISH, 18TH CENTURY

A PAIR OF LANDSCAPE PRINTS, 1774-5

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 390.00
6185 VICTOR VASARELY , HUNGARIAN/FRENCH, 1906-1997

COMPOSITION 2

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 357.50
6131 LOUIS ICART , FRENCH, 1888-1950

MOQUERIE (MOCKERY)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 325.00
6158 RAPHAEL SOYER , AMERICAN, 1899-1987

PASSING BY (STREET SCENE #3)

CIRCA 1975 USD 80.00 - 150.00 USD 325.00
6184 VICTOR JEAN BAPTISTE PETIT , FRENCH, 1817-1871

GROUP OF 14 LITHOGRAPHS FROM THE SERIES "HABITATIONS CHAMPETRES"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 325.00
6109 JOAN GARDY-ARTIGAS , SPANISH, 1938

TORSO ABSTRACT

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 292.50
6144

NORTH KOREAN HAND-PAINTED PROPAGANDA POSTER

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 292.50
6115 JOYCE TENNESON , AMERICAN, 1945

UNTITLED - SONIA AND SUZANNE

1994 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 260.00
6141 MOHAMMED OMAR KHALIL , SUDANESE, 1936

THE WILD MUSHROOM

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 260.00
6153

PIERRE BONNARD and GEORGES DE FEURE

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 260.00
6168 SHIRO IKEGAWA , JAPANESE/AMERICAN, 1933-2009

KAGAME

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 260.00
6118 JURGEN PETERS , GERMAN, 1936-1997

OCTAGON V

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 227.50
6150 PAUL BERTHON , FRENCH, 1872-1934

VISION NOCTURNE

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 227.50
  • Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025 Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025
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    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
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    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.
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    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'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    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
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    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’sRare Books & Collectors’ SaleApril 30th & May 1st Fonsie Mealy’sRare Books & Collectors’ SaleApril 30th & May 1st
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    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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