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Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books: Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper

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Auction Name Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper Total Sales (USD) 66,420.25
Auction Date September 27, 2025 - September 27, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 138,250.00
Sale Number #92725 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 249,800.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 129.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 181,500.00
% of Lots Sold 86.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 314,800.00
Unsold Lots 21 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 21.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3650 Chatelain

Large Map of Pacific & Americas [Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud ...]

1718-1720. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,259.50
3653 Kircher's Arca Noe

Volume with 22 Engravings & Numerous In-text Illustrations

1675 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,206.00
3746 Catesby

Heath Hen (Extinct) or Greater Prairie Chicken with the Eastern Shooting Star. Sup-1

1731-1743. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,942.50
3616 De Vito

Carcare Rain from ... 1822 (Pioggia di Carcare da ... 1822)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,033.00
3695

4 Original Watercolors of Botanicals after Nebl, Ledl, Ledelmaier for Oeder, Jacquin (according to Linnaeus system)

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,765.50
3648 Van Keulen

Chart of the Meditteranean with part of Spain, Italy, Barbary, Turkey, Egypt, Syria

1708 (but 1709). USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,605.00
3649 Van Keulen

Coastal Map of Newfoundland

1708 (but 1709). USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,391.00
3676 Catlin

Buffalo Dance

beginning in 1844 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,284.00
3680 Goya

Lluvia de Toros (Raining Bulls)

1877 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,177.00
3671 Kohler & Weigel after Pardies

Celestial Chart (Pegasus, Cetus, Aries, Andromeda, Aquarius, Pisces, Phoenix)

1719 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,123.50
3739 Elliot

Yellow-billed Loon (Colymbus Adamsii)

1866-1869. USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,123.50
3615 De Vito

Gaeta Mill (Mola di Gaeta)

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,070.00
3647 Van Keulen

Coastal Map of Holland

1708 (but 1709). USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,070.00
3672 Kohler & Weigel after Pardies

Celestial Chart (Ursa major, Draco, Bootes, Cygnus, Cepheus, Cassipea, Andromeda, Perseus)

1719 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,016.50
3744 Catesby

Hooping Crane (Whooping Crane) with Bullet Bush. 1-75

1731-1743. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 909.50
3612 Piranesi

The Temple of the Sibyl, Tivoli

1649 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 856.00
3712 Wendel's Nederlandsche Flora en Pomona

Volume with 41 Fruit Chromolithographs

1876-1879. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 856.00
3604 David Roberts

View Under the Grand Portico, Philae

1846-1849. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3610 Merian

4 Dance of Death Engravings

1649 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 802.50
3611 Piranesi

The so-called Villa of Maecenas at Tivoli, Interior with two figures in the opening of an arch above

1649 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3617

Pair of Original Watercolors of Chinese Boat or Junk

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 802.50
3657 Cellarius

Ptolemy's Hypothesis of Planetary Movement [Hypothesis Ptolemaica sive Communis Planetarum Motus Per Eccentricos et Epicyclos Demonstrans]

1708 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3675 Catlin

Buffalo Hunt, White Wolves attacking a Buffalo Bull. 10

beginning in 1844 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 802.50
3689 Maitres Affiches

10 Poster Lithographs

1896-1900 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3737 Gould

4 Falcon & Pigeon Lithographs

1850-1883 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 722.25
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.