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Morton Subastas: Old and Modern Photographs, Lithographs and Engravings

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Auction Name Old and Modern Photographs, Lithographs and Engravings Total Sales (MXN) 1,528,440.00
Auction Date January 23, 2018 - January 23, 2018 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,382,000.00
Sale Number #855 High Estimate of Lots Sold (MXN) 1,744,000.00
Total Lots 296
Sold Lots 108 Low Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 3,359,000.00
% of Lots Sold 36.49% High Estimate of All Lots (MXN) 4,322,500.00
Unsold Lots 188 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 35.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
241B Paalen, Alice.

Sablier Couché.

1938 MXN 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 MXN 96,000.00
31 Kahlo, Guillermo.

Casonas y Calles de la Ciudad de México.

ca. 1905. MXN 60,000.00 - 70,000.00 MXN 79,200.00
159 Heredia, Joaquín de.

Plano que demuestra las tierras litigiosas y sus inmediatas entre las Haciendas de San Vicente propia de Don Vicente Eguia, y de las de Temisco que lo es de los herederos del Capitán Don Gabriel de Yermo, ambas en Jurisdicción de Cuernavaca, levantado de

1819 MXN 80,000.00 - 100,000.00 MXN 72,000.00
225 Manilla, Manuel - Posada, José Guadalupe.

Pruebas de imprenta.

1940 MXN 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 MXN 72,000.00
203 Benoist, Philippe et Félix.

Rome Dans Sa Grandeur.

1870 MXN 35,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 55,200.00
93

Colección de Fotografías Estereoscópicas en Vidrio.

MXN 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 MXN 45,600.00
211 Baz, Gustavo - Gallo, Eduardo L.

History of the Mexican Railway.

1876 MXN 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 MXN 43,200.00
158 Mérida, Carlos.

Trajes Regionales de México.

ca. 1945. MXN 45,000.00 - 55,000.00 MXN 42,000.00
119 Guzmán, Juan (Hans Gutmann Guster).

Frida Kahlo pintando "Retrato de Mi Familia".

1950 MXN 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
186 Gualdi, Pedro - Heredia, Joaquín.

Vistas de la Revuelta Federalista.

ca. 1840. MXN 20,000.00 - 26,000.00 MXN 36,000.00
46

Vistas Estereoscópicas de México.

1873 - 1900. MXN 22,000.00 - 26,000.00 MXN 31,200.00
139 Z - Iturbide, Graciela (Fotografías) - Carrión, Luis (Textos).

Avándaro.

1971 MXN 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 MXN 30,000.00
38 Keystone View Company / Underwood & Underwood / American Stereoscopic Company / The London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company / H. C. White Co. / A Braun, A Dornach / Elliott, J.

Vistas de Europa y América y Retratos.

Principios de Siglo XX. MXN 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
57

Vistas de México.

principios del Siglo XX. MXN 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
184 Nebel, Carl.

Bombardment of Veracruz.

1851 MXN 24,000.00 - 28,000.00 MXN 26,400.00
165 Ogilby, John - Montanus, Arnoldus.

Nova Mexico.

1671 MXN 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
191 Prudhomme, C. H. (Editor).

Album Mejicano Tributo de Gratitud al Civismo Nacional.

1843 MXN 12,000.00 - 14,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
244 Mérida, Carlos.

Trajes Regionales Mexicanos.

1945 MXN 22,000.00 - 28,000.00 MXN 24,000.00
157 Dr. Atl (Gerardo Murillo).

Popocatépetl.

MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
224 El Imparcial.

Ilustraciones Conmemorativas del Primer Centenario de la Independencia.

1910 MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 21,600.00
131 Garduño, Flor.

La que Vuela, México 1998.

2008 MXN 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 20,400.00
247 García Bustos, Arturo.

Testimonio de Guatemala. Por que esta Tierra Volverá a Nacer.

1955 MXN 18,000.00 - 20,000.00 MXN 19,200.00
10 Gove and North (Atribuidas).

Vista e Interiores de la Catedral Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México.

ca. 1890. MXN 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
280 García Guerrero, Luis.

Doce Grabados.

1981 MXN 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 MXN 18,000.00
5 Cruces y Campa - Corral y Barroso - T.

Balvanera. Retratos de Damas, Caballeros e Infantes.

ca. 1880. MXN 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 MXN 15,600.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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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