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Auction Name Old Masters - Prints Total Sales (USD) 29,375.00
Auction Date October 26, 2016 - October 26, 2016 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 27,500.00
Sale Number #12109 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 38,100.00
Total Lots 10
Sold Lots 9 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,800.00
% of Lots Sold 90.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 38,600.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 76.10%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
41

Attavante degli Attavanti (1452-c.1525), AN ILLUMINATED BORDER FROM A MISSAL OF POPE LEO X, illuminated manuscript on vellum [Florence, c.1520].

 c.1520 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
31 FRANZ MICHAEL REGENFUSS (1712-1780)

Auserlesene Schnecken, Muscheln und andere Schaalthiere (‘Choix de Coquillages et de Crustacés’): four plates

 1758 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,000.00
40

THE MYSTIC MARRIAGE OF ST CATHERINE, illuminated charter of religious profession of Sister Maria Eleanora Pisani, Parma, 5 December 1768.

 1768 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,125.00
32 GIOVANNI-BATTISTA PIRANESI (1720-1778)

Veduta degli Avanzi del Tablino della Casa Aurea di Nerone…, from Vedute di Roma

 1757 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,500.00
28 DOMENICO DEL BARBIERE (c. 1506-1565/75) AFTER FRANCESCO PRIMATICCIO (1504-1570)

The Banquet of Alexander the Great

 circa 1540-50 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,500.00
29 ODOARDO FIALETTI (1573-1638)

Venus regarding Cupid who is cutting a new bow, from: Scherzi d’Amore

 1617 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,125.00
43

A DANCING CIRCLE, historiated initial ‘E’ cut from an illuminated choirbook on vellum [Florence, c.1490s]

 c.1490s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,125.00
30 AEGIDIUS SADELER II (circa 1570-1629) AFTER TITIAN (circa 1488-1576)

Portrait of Laura Dianti

 circa 1600-1620 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 625.00
44

AN ILLUMINATED INITIAL ‘D’ cut from a manuscript choirbook on vellum [Bologna, final 3rd 14th century]

 final 3rd 14th century USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 375.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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