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Auction Name Premier Auction - Books, Prints Total Sales (USD) 142,299.00
Auction Date November 09, 2019 - November 09, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 65,700.00
Sale Number #12296 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 101,300.00
Total Lots 57
Sold Lots 53 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 172,300.00
% of Lots Sold 92.98% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 261,200.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 54.48%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
231

FLIGHT PORTFOLIO, 1971

1971 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 7,995.00
434

TWELVE U.S. SILVER CERTIFICATES

1886 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 7,995.00
129 THEODOR DE BRY (German/Flemish, 1528-1598)

Five rare copper plate engravings of Virginia Native Americans, from Thomas Hariot, A briefe (sic) and true report of the new found land of Virginia,

1590, USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 6,765.00
19 KOSHIRO ONCHI (Japanese, 1891-1955)

Portrait of the poet Hagiwara Sakutaro, Author of "Ice Island",

1949 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,985.00
412

FOUR UNITED STATES NOTES

1861 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,843.00
430

SET OF THREE EDUCATIONAL NOTES

1896 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 5,843.00
414

SIX U.S. LEGAL TENDER NOTES

1869 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,535.00
454

SEVEN U.S. TREASURY NOTES

1890 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,535.00
415

NINE U.S. LEGAL TENDER NOTES

1875 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,920.00
134 THOMAS JEFFERSON & JAMES MADISON

THOMAS JEFFERSON & JAMES MADISON DOCUMENT

1805 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,613.00
232 JOAN MIRO (Spanish, 1893?1983)

Le Bélier Fleuri,

1971 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,410.00
259 FERNANDO BOTERO (Colombian, 1932)

Les Danseurs

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,998.00
136 SAYER AND BENNET

MAP OF NORTH AMERICA,

1777 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,690.00
233 JOAN MIRO (Spanish, 1893-1983)

Le Roi David,

1972 USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 3,690.00
419

KIRTLAND SAFETY SOCIETY BANK NOTE

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 3,328.00
113 JOHN JAMES AUDUBON (New York, 1785-1851)

Rough legged Falcon, Pl. CLXVI, 1833

1833 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,198.00
418

CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GOLD BANK NOTE

circa 1870 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,198.00
457

THREE 500 DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTES

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,198.00
260 RED GROOMS (Tennessee/New York, born 1937)

Midtown Deli

USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,075.00
258 LESLEY DILL (New York, born 1950)

Poem Dress of Circulation,

1993 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,952.00
417

TWO CONFEDERATE NOTES

1861 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,952.00
455

GROUP OF CONFEDERATE CURRENCY

1861 to 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,952.00
254 CLAES THURE OLDENBURG (New York, born 1929)

Proposal for a Colossal Structure in the Form of a Clothespin-Compared to Brancusi's Kiss,

1972 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,706.00
237 HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (French, 1864-1901)

Divan Japonais,

1895 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,337.00
429

TWO U.S. GOLD CERTIFICATES

USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 2,268.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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