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Bonhams

Auction Info

Auction Name
Discovery on Madison
Auction Date
04/25/2024 - 04/25/2024
Sale Number
#30096
Total Lots
88
Sold Lots
84
Lots Sold
95.45%
Unsold Lots
4
Total Sales (USD)
44,185.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
73,320.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
115,100.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
76,320.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
119,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
36.98%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
36 LOUISIANA and GULF OF TEXAS.

Voyage de la Louisiane

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,072.00
46

Gazette of the United States, No. 6.

1789 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,432.00
51 Chennault, Claire Lee. 1893-1958. and Whiting Willauer. 1906-1962.. Co-Founders of CAT.

The partial company archive of the Civil Air Transport Company. China and Taipei: 1946 - 1958.

1940s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
110 David Yarrow

Warrior Portrait, The Omo, Ethiopia

2013 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
21 LITURGICAL MANUSCRIPT---IRMALOGION.

Slavonic liturgical manuscript on paper.

c. 1798 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,536.00
23 BLAKE, WILLIAM. 1757-1827.

Illustrations to the Book of Job. The Engravings and related material with Essays, Catalogue of States and printings, ...

1987 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,408.00
26 CASTRO, JOACHIM MACHADO DE. 1731-1822.

Descripcao Analytica de Execucao de Estatuta Equestre Erigida em Lisboa a do Gloria Senhor Rei Fidelissimo D. Jose I.

1810 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,408.00
48 ANDY WARHOL. 1928-1987.

Washington Monument. Bill Miller's Wallpaper Studio, Inc.,

1974 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,408.00
61 WORLD WAR II: SIGNED ENOLA GAY PHOTOGRAPH.

Collection of 54 photographs of the USAAF in Europe and the Pacific, including a photograph of the Enola Gay signed by Paul Tibbetts.

1940s. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,280.00
67 TOSA SCHOOL

Six Scenes from The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) Edo period (1615-1868),

17th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,088.00
52

COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN AND AMERICAN OCCUPATION OF JAPAN BY WILLIAM CONRAD REED, C.1944

C.1944 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,024.00
79 AFTER OGATA KORIN

A Small Inlaid-Lacquer Three-Case Inro Edo period (1615-1868),

18th century USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,024.00
28 NAVARRE, MARGUERITE DE. 1492-1549.

Les Nouvelles de Marguerite de Navarre. [Heptameron francais].

1780-1781. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
44

8 engraved prints of Washington, including

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 960.00
47 TRUMBULL, JOHN, after.

General Washington.

1781 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 896.00
9 MUYBRIDGE, EADWEARD. 1830-1904.

Animal Locomotion.

no date but 20th century?] USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 832.00
122 Kohei Yoshiyuki

Untitled (Plate 1 from the series 'Love Hotel')

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 832.00
5 ARMSTRONG-SIGNED POSTAL COVER.

Postal envelope with a Fleetwood cachet featuring the flag-planting, Apollo 11 crew,

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 704.00
38 POCKET GLOBE; FOREST, J.

[Globe Terrestre.]

c.1930. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 704.00
66 Sekino Jun'ichiro (1941-1988) and Rey Morimura (b.1948)

Showa (1926-1989) or Heisei (1989-) era

circa 1960, circa 2008 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 704.00

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  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • 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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