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Auction Name Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper Total Sales (USD) 46,183.50
Auction Date August 10, 2019 - August 10, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 65,350.00
Sale Number #81019 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 137,550.00
Total Lots 192
Sold Lots 180 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 69,300.00
% of Lots Sold 93.75% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 145,100.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 31.83%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
10992 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Pineapple & Insects. 1

1730 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,905.00
10975 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Herds of Bison and Elks on the upper Missouri. 47

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,585.00
10973 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. 9

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,145.00
10898 John James Audubon

Audubon - Carolina Parrot or Parrakeet. 278

1840-1844 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,815.00
10896 John James Audubon

Audubon - Passenger Pigeon. 285

1840-1844 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,705.00
10972 Johannes de Laet

Laet - Map of Virginia

1630 USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,595.00
10974 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Idols of the Mandan Indians. 25

1839-1842 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,595.00
10824 John Gould with One Lithograph from Edward Lear

Lot 15 Gould Folio Lithographs; Including 1 by Edward Lear

1800s USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,155.00
10987 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Flower & Moth Metamorphosis. 49

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,100.00
10897 John James Audubon

Audubon - Pileated Woodpecker. 257

1840-1844 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 825.00
10990 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Fruit, Insects, Moth Metamorphosis. 27

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 770.00
10943 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Larger Yellow Ladyslipper. 19

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
10988 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Plant & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 30

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 660.00
10928 Francois Nicolas Martinet & Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon

Martinet & Buffon - Kingfisher. 715

1770-1786 USD 150.00 - 350.00 USD 632.50
10991 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Cocoa Plant & Moth Metamorphosis. 26

1730 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 632.50
10812 Gualtieri, Merian, Buonanni

Lot of 21 Shell & Sea Life Engravings & Lithographs

1700s-1800s USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 522.50
10945 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Sea Squill, Sea Onion. 116

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 495.00
10982 Richard Bowdler Sharpe & John Gould, William Hart

Sharpe & Gould - Southern Golden Bird of Paradise

1891-1898 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
10809 Michael Bernhard Valentini, Johann Theodor de Bry & Matthaus Merian

Valentini - Lot of 28 Botanical Engravings

1719 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 467.50
10952 John Gould

Gould - Roller

1862-1875 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 467.50
10962 John Gould

Gould - Bonaparte's Star-frontlet Hummingbird

1849-1887 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 467.50
10969 Henri Abraham Chatelain

Chatelain - Canada (New France) & Great Lakes. 82

1718-1720 USD 600.00 - 1,000.00 USD 440.00
10860 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Bison or Buffalo. 57

1854 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 412.50
10861 John James Audubon

Audubon - American Bison or Buffalo. 56

1854 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 412.50
10944 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Cultivated Ananas. 455

1802-1816 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 412.50
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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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