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Romantic Agony Book and Print Auctions: Books and Prints, Part I

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Auction Name Books and Prints, Part I Total Sales (EUR) 321,962.50
Auction Date November 24, 2017 - November 24, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 139,310.00
Sale Number #112417 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 195,740.00
Total Lots 728
Sold Lots 487 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 229,630.00
% of Lots Sold 66.90% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 318,480.00
Unsold Lots 241 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 101.09%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
144 [DE VOS, Maarten, attr.]

Adam and Eve after the Expulsion

s.d. EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 10,250.00
279 DIX, Otto

Liebespaar Lovers

1921 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 8,750.00
209

Icones principum virorum doctorum, pictorum chalcographorum, statuariorum nec non amatorum pictoriae artis numero centum.

s.d. (c. 1650) EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
309 MATISSE, HENRI

Jazz. L'enterrement de Pierrot,

 1947 EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,500.00
373 [WOUTERS, Rik]

Personages in het bos

c. 1913 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,875.00
244

41 lithophanies érotiques, 1ère moitié du XIXe s.

XIXe s. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,625.00
310 MATISSE, HENRI

Jazz. Le cirque

1947 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,000.00
580

La Revue comique à l'usage des gens sérieux. Histoire morale, philosophique, politique (...) de la semaine.

1848-1849 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 5,000.00
441 SAN MARTIN, Manuel

52 albumen prints

c. 1870-1880 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,750.00
158 DURER, Albrecht

The dream of the doctor

c. 1498 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 4,250.00
586 VERHAEREN, Émile

Le travailleur étrange et autres récits. Avec 26 bois dessinés et gravés par Frans Masereel. Genève, Edit. du Sablier

1921 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 4,000.00
48

Plus de 400 cartes ou imprimés à pièces mobiles, fin XIXe-XXe s.

fin XIXe-XXe s. EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 3,750.00
117 BERAIN, Jean

Ornemens inventez par J. Berain. Et se vendent chez ledit autheur aux galeries du Louvre. Avec privilège du roy.

c. 1711 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,500.00
280 FEININGER, Lyonel

Marine (Die erste Mappe)

1918 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,375.00
278 BECKMANN, MAX

The Tall Man Der grosse Mann

1921 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,250.00
277 BECKMANN, MAX

Merry-Go-Round Das Karussell

1921 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
326 Peiser, Kurt

Anvers quartier du port. Vingt eaux-fortes originales et inédites (...). Préface de Henri Liebrecht

1932 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,750.00
171 WIERIX, Johannes

Melencolia I

1514 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,625.00
28

Miniature globe

s.d. 19th c.. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,500.00
147

Grotesques

s.d. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,500.00
379 DOUDELET, Charles

Beatrijs.

1901 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,500.00
1 APIANUS, Petrus

Cosmographia rev. Gemma Frisius

1551 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 2,375.00
462

Ca.90 cartes porcelaine concernant exclusivement des lithographes, imprimeurs et papeteries, belges pour la plupart, milieu XIXe s. 

milieu XIXe s.  EUR 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,375.00
119

God the Father Enthroned

1517 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,250.00
312 MELLERY, Xavier

Religieuse en prière

s.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,250.00
  • 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.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: McCarthy (Cormac). Cities of the Plain, N.Y., 1998, First Edn., signed on hf. title; together with Uncorrected Proof and Uncorrected Advance Reading Copies, both signed by the Author. €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Stanihurst (Richard). De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis, Libri Quattuor, sm. 4to Antwerp (Christi. Plantium) 1584. First Edn. €525 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Fleischer (Nat.) Jack Dempsey The Idol of Fistiana, An Intimate Narrative, N.Y., 1929, First Edn. Signed on f.e.p. by Rocky Marciano. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Smith - Classical Atlas, Lond., 1820. Bound with, Smiths New General Atlas .. Principal Empires, Kingdoms, & States throughout the World, Lond. 1822. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Rare Auction Catalogues – 1856: Bindon Blood, of Ennis, Co. Clare: Sotheby & Wilkinson. €320 to €450.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Mavor (Wm.)] A General Collection of Voyages and Travels from the Discovery of America to the Commencement of the Nineteenth Century, 28 vols. (complete) Lond., 1810. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Mc Carthy (Cormac). Outer Dark, N.Y. (Random House)1968, Signed by Mc Carthy. €250 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Three signed works by Ted Huges - Wodwo, 1967; Crow from the Life and Songs of the Crow, 1970; and Tales from Ovid, 1997. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: The Garden. An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Horticulture in all its Branches, 7 vols. lg. 4to Lond. 1877-1880. With 127 colored plates. €200 to €300.
    Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Book & Collectors Sale
    24th April 2024
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: Procter (Richard A.) Saturn and its System: Containing Discussions of The Motion (Real and Apparent)…, Lond. 1865. First Edn. €160 to €220.
    Fonsie Mealy, Apr. 24: [Ashe] St. George, Lord Bishop of Clogher, A Sermon Preached to the Protestants of Ireland, now in London,... Oct. 23, 1712, London 1712. Second Edn. €130 to €180.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • 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.
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