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Auction Name 20/21 at Stair Total Sales (USD) 59,174.50
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 49,650.00
Sale Number #17001 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 81,355.00
Total Lots 111
Sold Lots 108 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 51,650.00
% of Lots Sold 97.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 84,355.00
Unsold Lots 3 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.15%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Sean Scully (b. 1945)

Large Mirror II

1992 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,842.50
21 Matthew Pillsbury (b. 1973)

Wyoming Diplodocus, Natural History Museum, London

2007 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,445.00
202 Forrest Moses (b. 1934)

Irises; Iris F97/13; Iris 98/15; Iris 98/08; and Iris

1991-1999 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 3,312.50
9 Sean Scully (b. 1945)

Untitled

1996 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,915.00
97 Attributed to Francesca Woodman (1958-1981)

Untitled

c. 1979 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,385.00
19 Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)

Electric Furnace, Ludlum Steel Co., Dunkirk, New York

c. 1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,855.00
38 Kees Van Dongen (1877-1968)

Claudine

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,855.00
201 Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002)

Lagunkide Solidario

1997 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,722.50
73 Antonio Saura (1930-1998)

Pintiquinestras, Serie de la Gigantas Amorasas

1959 USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 1,590.00
6 Andrea Buttner (b. 1972)

Piano

2013 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,192.50
114 After Moise Kisling (1891-1953)

City Park; and Spring in the Countryside

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 1,192.50
163 Kenro Izu (b. 1949)

Still Life #125

1991 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,192.50
28 Claes Oldenberg (1929-2022)

Soft Saxophone (Black, Yellow, Red)

1992 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,060.00
46 Tom Slaughter (1955-2014)

Hat; and House

1992 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,060.00
89 Howard Sochurek (1924-1994)

Himalaya Tax Collector; Market Place, Gregit; and Flour Grinding, India

1954-1963 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,060.00
30 Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Untitled

1997 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 927.50
48 Imi Knoebel (b. 1940)

Untitled (Yellow with Vertical Bars)

1996 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 927.50
50 Imi Knoebel (b. 1940)

Untitled #1 (Diptych); and Untitled (Yellow with Vertical Bars)

1996 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 927.50
58 Tony Fitzpatrick (b. 1958)

Autumn Composition

2001 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 927.50
93 Aaron Siskind (1903-1991)

Los Angeles

1949 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 927.50
159 Laurie Simmons (b. 1949)

Blue House, from Food Clothing Shelter

1996 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 927.50
45 Will Barnet (1911-2012)

Stairway to the Sea: Four Impressions

1984 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 795.00
117 Eliot Elisofon (1911-1973)

Lingaraj Temple, India; Nuer Storkman, The Nile; and The Shiluck Girl,

1947 and 1955 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
229 Laura Grisi (1939-2017)

Stripes

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 795.00
20 Walker Evans (1903-1975)

Facade, from Chicago Portfolio

1947 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 662.50
  • Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025 Jeschke JádiRare Book Auction 155Saturday April 26, 2025
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    Rare Book Auction 155
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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.
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    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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    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.
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    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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    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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