Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books: Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper, 22826, Franklin

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 28, 2026 - February 28, 2026

Page Size: 150 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
8126	Gould	Gould, Asia - Diard's Trogon [Harpactes Diardi]	London	1850-1883.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 321.00
8127	Gould	Gould, Asia - Red & Blue Cissa [Cissa Pyrrhocyanea]	London	1850-1883.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 428.00
8128	Gould	Gould, Asia - Burmese Roller [Coracias Affinis]	London	1850-1883.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 428.00
8129	Seba	Seba - Coral. 116	Amsterdam	1734-1765.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
8130	Seba	Seba - Coral. 119	Amsterdam	1734-1765.	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
8131	Catesby	Catesby, First Ed - Blue-Tailed Lizard with Cherimoya. 2-67	London	1731-1743.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 267.50
8132	Catesby	Catesby, First Ed - Cat Fish. 2-23	London	1731-1743.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 299.60
8133	Catesby	Catesby, First Ed - Hind & Skipjack. 2-14	London	1731-1743.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 288.90
8134	Catesby	Catesby, First Ed - Croker & Squirrel Fish. 2-3	London	1731-1743.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 267.50
8135	Catesby	Catesby, First Ed - Pudding-Wife & Carolina Whiting. 2-12	London	1731-1743.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 299.60
8136	Gould	Gould - Reinwardt's Toucanet	London	1833-1835.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 481.50
8137	Gould	Gould - Humboldt's Aracari or Toucan	London	1833-1835.	USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00	USD 642.00
8138	Sharpe & Gould	Sharpe & Gould - Empress of Germany's Bird of Paradise (Paradisea Augustae-Victoriae)	London	1891-1898.	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 802.50
8139	Elliot	Elliot - Regent Bird	London	1873	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 535.00
8140	Redoute	Redoute, Folio - Bird of Paradise Flower (Strelitzia Reginae). 76	Paris	1802-1816	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
8141	Redoute	Redoute, Folio - African Lily - Agapanthus umbellatus	Paris	circa 1824.	USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 561.75
8142	Redoute	Redoute, Folio - Rose - Rosa gallica aurelianensis	Paris	circa 1824.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 1,123.50
8143	Weinmann	Weinmann - 4 Apple Engravings	Regensberg	1737-1745	USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	USD 588.50
8144	Rabel	Rabel - 4 Anemone & Insect Engravings	Paris	1771	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 561.75
8145	Merian	Merian, Folio - Cocoa Plant & Moth Metamorphosis. 26	Paris	1771	USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	USD 561.75
8146	Brookshaw	Brookshaw, Folio - Strawberries. 1		N/A	USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 508.25
8147	Brookshaw	Brookshaw, Folio - Peaches. 25		N/A	USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 642.00
8148	Thornton	Thornton, Folio - The Oblique-leaved Begonia	London	1787-1812. Each engraving was made using stipple, mezzotint, and aquatint processes and some feature hand-coloring heightened with gum Arabic. The engraving will include the text when available to send with the plate.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,070.00
8149	Thornton	Thornton, Folio - The White Lily	London	1787-1812. Each engraving was made using stipple, mezzotint, and aquatint processes and some feature hand-coloring heightened with gum Arabic. The engraving will include the text when available to send with the plate.	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 1,016.50
8150	Audubon	Audubon, Imperial Folio - Columbian Black-tailed Deer. 106		1845-1851.	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 1,337.50

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.