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Clars Auction Gallery: Fine Art - Prints

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Auction Name Fine Art - Prints Total Sales (USD) 18,269.05
Auction Date January 20, 2018 - January 20, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 12,750.00
Sale Number #12018 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 22,650.00
Total Lots 94
Sold Lots 76 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 16,000.00
% of Lots Sold 80.85% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 28,700.00
Unsold Lots 18 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 63.65%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
709 Bill Graham

8 vintage Bill Graham Presents and Family Dog handbills

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,420.00
654 Louis Icart

Print, Louis Icart, Cigarette Memories, 1931

1931 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,694.00
666 Tadashi Nakayama

Print, Tadashi Nakayama

1961 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 605.00
675 Pablo Picasso

Print, Pablo Picasso, Flowers for UCLA

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 574.75
642 Michael & Nicholas Hanhart

Print, Michael & Nicholas Hanhart, San Francisco

1851 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 484.00
41

Chinese Book, Zhanhua Xianzhi

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 423.50
87 Torii Kiyotada =Kotondo

Japanese Woodblock Prints Torii Kiyotada/Kotondo

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 423.50
649 Paul Frenzeny

Paul Frenzeny, The Vintage in California, at Work at the Wine Presses

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 423.50
662 Ben Shahn

Prints, Ben Shahn

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 393.25
665 Karl Hofer

Prints, Karl Hofer

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 393.25
40

Group of Chinese Books

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 363.00
88 Torii Kiyotada =Kotondo

Japanese Woodblock Bijin-ga Prints, Torii Kiyotada/Kotondo

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 363.00
640

Key to the City of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1855

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 363.00
726 Norman Rockwell

Print, Norman Rockwell

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 335.50
85 Yoshida Hiroshi

Japanese Modern Woodblock Print, Yoshida Hiroshi

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 332.75
660 Max Pollak

Print, Max Pollak, San Francisco, California Street

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 332.75
208

Early San Francisco photo album

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 283.50
260

Japanese Art Books on Famous Temples and Sculptures

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 272.25
644A American School 19th century

Print, Telegraph Hill, 1849

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 272.25
676 Katsura Funakoshi

Print, Katsura Funakoshi

1997 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 272.25
681 Rob Loukotka

Print, Rob Loukotka

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 272.25
687 Hanna Barbera Studios

Hanna Barbera Studios multiple animations cels and drawings

1970's USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 272.25
83 Kasamatsu Shiro

Japanese Woodblock Print, Kasamatsu Shiro

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 252.00
75 Yoshida Toshi

Japanese Woodblock Print, Yoshida Toshi

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 242.00
263

(lot of 85) Fiction and Literature book group

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 242.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
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    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
  • 19th Century Shop
    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
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    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
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