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

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Auction Name Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper Total Sales (USD) 54,334.50
Auction Date April 18, 2020 - April 18, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 104,650.00
Sale Number #41820 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 189,900.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 195 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 105,650.00
% of Lots Sold 97.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 191,900.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 28.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
18039 David Roberts

Roberts, RSE Folio - Head of the Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Geezeh

 1842-1849 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,245.00
18189 Dr. Robert John Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The Night-Blowing Cereus (Night-Blooming Cactus)

 1787-1810 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,475.00
18196 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Pineapple & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 2

 1705-1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,475.00
18008 Thomas McKenney [and James Hall]

McKenney & Hall, Folio - Opothle Yoholo, A Creek Chief

 1872-1874 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,035.00
18177 Charles Barney Cory

Cory, Folio - Great Auk; Alca Impennis

 1883 USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,925.00
18174 John Gould

Gould - Rucker's Hermit Hummingbird & Orchid; Glaucis Ruckeri

 1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,815.00
18096 John Ellis; Georg Dionysius Ehret

Ellis - Volume with 40 Originally Hand-colored Coralline Engravings

 1756 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,100.00
18042 Homann Heirs

Homann - 13 Folio Map Engravings

 1730-1740s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,045.00
18038 James Wallis

Wallis, RARE - Sydney, New South Wales. 4

 1821 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 990.00
18040 Thomas Gibson Bowles

Vanity Fair - Volume 1 with 183 Caricature Lithographs

 1869-1871 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 935.00
18002 James Otto Lewis

Lewis - Me-No-Quet, A Distinguish'd Pottowattomie Chief

 1835-1836 USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 USD 880.00
18193 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Oranges & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 43

 1705-1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 825.00
18041 Homann Heirs

Homann - Map of North and South America

 1730-1740s USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 715.00
18180 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Rose; Rosa Orbessanea

 1817-1824 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
18185 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Hyacinth

 1827-1833 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 687.50
18195 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Peppers & Moth Metamorphosis. 55

 1705-1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 687.50
18175 John Gould

Gould - Atala's Emerald Hummingbird & Orchid; Chlorostilbon Atala

 1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
18176 John Gould

Gould - Glittering Emerald Hummingbird; Chlorostilbon Phaethon

 1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
18200 Basilius Besler

Besler - Lily, Centaury

 1713 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 660.00
18190 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Flower & Moth Metamorphosis. 45

 1705-1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 605.00
18187 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute - Dillenia scandens

 1827-1833 USD 900.00 - 1,800.00 USD 577.50
18172 John Gould

Gould - White-throated Emerald Hummingbird; Thaumatias Leucogaster

 1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 550.00
18191 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Flower & Butterfly Metamorphosis. 36

 1705-1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 550.00
18199 Basilius Besler

Besler - Crocus, Siberian Squill, Hepatica

 1713 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 550.00
18095 Pieter Bleeker

Bleeker - Part 13 with 42 Folio Fish Lithographs

 1864 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 522.50
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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