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Rachel Davis Fine Arts: Discovery Auction - Prints

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Auction Name Discovery Auction - Prints Total Sales (USD) 2,982.65
Auction Date May 18, 2019 - May 18, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,120.00
Sale Number #214 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 5,830.00
Total Lots 33
Sold Lots 27 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 5,930.00
% of Lots Sold 81.82% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 10,500.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 28.41%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
62A

30 Original children's illustrations- gouache and acrylic on illustration board, various sizes.

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 484.00
13

8 WWII Posters- paper age toned, some soiling from being handled, folds (as should be), various sizes.

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 332.75
4 William Hole

Hiberniae Anglis, Yuerdon Britannis Erin incolis, Ierna, London

 17th c. USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 242.00
1 after Giovanni Piranesi

Veduta del Tempio di Giove Tonante''-

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 193.60
11

Reverse painted on glass silhouette, framed.

18/19th c. USD 80.00 - 150.00 USD 181.50
61

30 Original children's illustrations- gouache and acrylic on illustration board, various sizes.

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 169.40
62B

30 Original children's illustrations- gouache and acrylic on illustration board, various sizes.

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 169.40
62

30 Original children's illustrations- gouache and acrylic on illustration board, various sizes.

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 157.30
2 after Pierre Joseph Redoute

Cotyledon Hispanica''

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 121.00
60

30 Original children's illustrations- gouache and acrylic on illustration board, various sizes.

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 121.00
18

Rock and Roll poster - Little Richard with The Beatles at The Tower Ballroom - New Brighton Oct. 12, 1962

 1962 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 108.90
3 Louis M. Bonnet after Jollain

Le Bain'' and ''La Toilette''.

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.80
62C

20th c. American School- Christmas card- 8 original watercolors on illustration board, artist include James Cox and John Bradley

 20th c. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 96.80
5 Felix Delamarche

map of Americas 1855

 1855 USD 60.00 - 120.00 USD 60.50
15

6 Movie posters- Jubilee Trail; Gunfire at Indian Gap; Yellow Neck; Angel and The Bad Man; Divided Hearts; The Wild Blue Yonder-

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 60.50
16

6 Movie posters- War of The Wildcats; African Manhunt; Headline Hunters; I Cover The Underworld; Carolina Cannonball; Dick Tracy versus Phantom Empire

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 60.50
17

6 Movie posters- Gates of Paris; The Albert Schweitzer Story; King of The Carnival; International Counterfeiters; Flame of The Islands; The Fighting Chance.

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 60.50
9 after James Gillray (British 1756-1815)

Making Decent- i.e. Broad Bottomites Getting Into Grand Costume'

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 48.40
6 19th c. British skating engraving

Elements of Skating - The Consequence of Going Before The Wind''-

 1805 USD 60.00 - 120.00 USD 36.30
22 after Ogden Pleissner (American 1905-1983)

Dawn on The Duck Marsh'

 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 36.30
24 after Robert Abbett (American 1926-2015)

Man Fishing- off-set lithograph, 1980,

1980 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 36.30
20 after Montaque Dawson (British 1820-1973)

The Rising Wind

 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 24.20
21 after Montaque Dawson (British 1890-1973)

The Thermopylae Leaving Foochour''-

 USD 40.00 - 80.00 USD 24.20
23 after David Maass (American 1929- )

Hasty Departure - Ruffled Grouse''; ''Misty Morning - Great Winged Teal''; ''Misty Morning - Mallards''-

USD 60.00 - 120.00 USD 24.20
14

Movie poster- Jungle Drums of Africa (2 sheets)

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 12.10
  • 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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