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Bonhams: Discovery on Madison

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Auction Name Discovery on Madison Total Sales (USD) 44,185.60
Auction Date April 25, 2024 - April 25, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 73,320.00
Sale Number #30096 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 115,100.00
Total Lots 88
Sold Lots 84 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 76,320.00
% of Lots Sold 95.45% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 119,500.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 36.98%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36 LOUISIANA and GULF OF TEXAS.

Voyage de la Louisiane

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,072.00
46

Gazette of the United States, No. 6.

1789 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,432.00
51 Chennault, Claire Lee. 1893-1958. and Whiting Willauer. 1906-1962.. Co-Founders of CAT.

The partial company archive of the Civil Air Transport Company. China and Taipei: 1946 - 1958.

1940s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
110 David Yarrow

Warrior Portrait, The Omo, Ethiopia

2013 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
21 LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPT---IRMALOGION.

Slavonic liturgical manuscript on paper.

c. 1798 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,536.00
23 BLAKE, WILLIAM. 1757-1827.

Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, ...

1987 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,408.00
26 CASTRO, JOACHIM MACHADO DE. 1731-1822.

Descripcao Analytica de Execucao de Estatuta Equestre Erigida em Lisboa a do Gloria Senhor Rei Fidelissimo D. Jose I.

1810 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,408.00
48 ANDY WARHOL. 1928-1987.

Washington Monument. Bill Miller's Wallpaper Studio, Inc.,

1974 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,408.00
61 WORLD WAR II: SIGNED ENOLA GAY PHOTOGRAPH.

Collection of 54 photographs of the USAAF in Europe and the Pacific, including a photograph of the Enola Gay signed by Paul Tibbetts.

1940s. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,280.00
67 TOSA SCHOOL

Six Scenes from The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) Edo period (1615-1868),

17th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,088.00
52

COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN AND AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF JAPAN BY WILLIAM CONRAD REED, C.1944

C.1944 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,024.00
79 AFTER OGATA KORIN

A Small Inlaid-Lacquer Three-Case Inro Edo period (1615-1868),

18th century USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,024.00
28 NAVARRE, MARGUERITE DE. 1492-1549.

Les Nouvelles de Marguerite de Navarre. [Heptameron francais].

1780-1781. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
44

8 engraved prints of Washington, including

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 960.00
47 TRUMBULL, JOHN, after.

General Washington.

1781 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 896.00
9 MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD. 1830-1904.

Animal Locomotion.

no date but 20th century?] USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 832.00
122 Kohei Yoshiyuki

Untitled (Plate 1 from the series 'Love Hotel')

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 832.00
5 ARMSTRONG-SIGNED POSTAL COVER.

Postal envelope with a Fleetwood cachet featuring the flag-planting, Apollo 11 crew,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 704.00
38 POCKET GLOBE; FOREST, J.

[Globe Terrestre.]

c.1930. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 704.00
66 Sekino Jun'ichiro (1941-1988) and Rey Morimura (b.1948)

Showa (1926-1989) or Heisei (1989-) era

circa 1960, circa 2008 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 704.00
80 AFTER OGATA KORIN

A Small Three-Case Inlaid Gold-Lacquer Inro

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 588.80
130 Toshio Shibata

Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture

2006 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 588.80
13 LINDBERGH, CHARLES. 1902-1974.

Document Signed ("Charles A. Lindbergh"), being an announcement for a banquet in his honor,

1927 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 563.20
111 Edward S. Curtis

Selected Images

1903 and 1907 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 563.20
10 BULL, RENE. 1872-1942.

Original pen and ink and watercolor, "Prince Igor,"

1924 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 537.60
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