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Auction Name Antiques, Asian and Fine Arts: Prints Total Sales (USD) 86,387.50
Auction Date November 19, 2017 - November 19, 2017 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 70,300.00
Sale Number #111917 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 112,700.00
Total Lots 60
Sold Lots 45 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 101,500.00
% of Lots Sold 75.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 163,800.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 52.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6279 Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920)

Little Red Suckers

1971/2014 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,075.00
8063

Mongolian Buddhist sutra manuscript, the interior of the covers painted with bodhisattvas

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 9,075.00
6280 Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920)

Banana Split

1994 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 8,470.00
6084

Framed hand written and signed legal briefing by Abraham Lincoln dated May 30 1855

1855 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 5,445.00
6281 Richard Diebenkorn (American, 1922-1993)

#36 from a Portfolio of 41 Etchings

1964 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,537.50
6297 Frances Hammel Gearhart (American, 1869-1958)

March Horizons

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,235.00
6301 William Seltzer Rice (American, 1873-1963)

San Francisco Bay

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,095.00
6292A Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915-2012)

Skipping Rope

1958 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,722.50
6089

Matthew Carey's American Pocket Atlas

1796 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,420.00
6321 Massimo Vitali (Italian, b. 1944)

Picnic Allee, from the Landscapes with Figures Portfolio

2006 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,178.00
6316 Patrick Heron (British, 1920-1999)

Abstract Form

1973 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,142.00
6296 Frances Hammel Gearhart (American, 1869-1958)

Twilight Nears

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,057.00
6282 David Park (American, 1911-1960)

Genesis

1935 USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,815.00
6298 Frances Hammel Gearhart (American, 1869-1958)

Solitude

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,815.00
6310 Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950)

Pool

1937 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,694.00
6324 Ruth Bernhard (American, 1905-2006)

Sand Dune

1967 (printed in 1993) USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,464.00
6285 Christopher Wool (American, 1955)

Hypocrite

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,342.00
6292 Emmy Lou Packard (American 1914-1998)

Artichoke Pickers

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,342.00
6300 William Seltzer Rice (American, 1873-1963)

After the Shower

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,342.00
6302 William Seltzer Rice (American, 1873-1963)

Quaking Aspens

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,331.00
6286 Christopher Wool (American, 1955)

Pessimist

1989 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,260.00
6306 Charles William Bartlett (British, 1860-1940)

Ushibuse

1916 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,210.00
6291A Emmy Lou Packard (American 1914-1998)

Front Street

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,197.00
6291 Emmy Lou Packard (American, 1914-1998)

Strawberry Pickers Near Pajaro

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,159.00
6289 Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1932-1997)

As I Opened Fire

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,098.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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