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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) 40,887.00
Auction Date November 02, 2017 - November 02, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 61,300.00
Sale Number #110217 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 135,375.00
Total Lots 146
Sold Lots 101 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 86,600.00
% of Lots Sold 69.18% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 185,225.00
Unsold Lots 45 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 22.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
315 David Roberts

Roberts - Approach of the Simoon, Desert of Gizeh

1846-1849 USD 4,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,135.00
301 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Vatican Basilica

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 2,500.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,375.00
346 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Fruit & Moth Metamorphosis. 43

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,320.00
344 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Moth Metamorphosis. 38

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,265.00
339 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Pomegranate & Moth Metamorphosis. 57

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 990.00
243 John James Audubon

Audubon - 20 First Edition Bird Lithographs

1840 USD 750.00 - 2,000.00 USD 825.00
259 Prideux John Selby

Selby - White Spoonbill. 10

1819-1834 USD 1,200.00 - 2,000.00 USD 825.00
327 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Rose; Rosa alba Regalis

1817-1824 USD 2,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 825.00
343 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Flower & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 36

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 825.00
296 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Isle of Tiber - 13

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 770.00
245 Prideux John Selby

Selby - Great Auk. 82

1819-1834 USD 500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 687.50
244 John James Audubon

Audubon - 20 First Edition Bird Lithographs

1840 USD 750.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
342 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Flower & Insects. 54

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
345 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Moth Metamorphosis. 39

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
299 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Temple of the Sibyl in Tivoli - 28

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 577.50
341 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Flower & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 51

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 550.00
293 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Basilica of San Giovanni Laterano - 1

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 522.50
329 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Rose; Rosa sepium flore submultiplici

1817-1824 USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 USD 522.50
337 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian - Fig & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 67

1771 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 522.50
275 John Gould

Gould - Common Crane

1862-1873 USD 800.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
295 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore - 7

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
297 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Hadrian's Villa - 16

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
298 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Sculpture Gallery at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli - 18

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
300 Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Piranesi - Grand Cascade at Tivoli - 30

1795-1805, Published in Paris USD 700.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
322 Basilius Besler

Besler - Anemone

1640 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 495.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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