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Auction Name Fine Art - Photographs and Prints - Food and Drink - Illustrated Books Total Sales (USD) 84,660.00
Auction Date July 09, 2020 - July 09, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 95,900.00
Sale Number #704 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 148,700.00
Total Lots 361
Sold Lots 218 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 206,700.00
% of Lots Sold 60.39% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 324,300.00
Unsold Lots 143 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 26.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
4 Mitchell, Joan

Abstract Expressionism

[1960] USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 5,100.00
3 McClure, Michael

Lie, Sit, Stand, Be Still

1995 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,300.00
25 Landeck, Armin

Pop's Tavern

1934 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,700.00
142 Curtis, Edward S.

Elmo Lincoln, The Original Tarzan

[1920's] USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,280.00
103 Robertson, William

Designs in Architecture for Garden Chairs, Small Gates for Villas, Park Entrances, Aviarys, Temples, Boat Houses, Mausoleums, and Bridges; with Their Plans, Elevations, and Sections, Accompanied with Scenery, &c.

1800 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,040.00
55

Encyclopédie des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes au XXème siècle en douze volumes

[1927] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
216 Weston, Brett

Voyage of the Eye [with] Pines in Fog photograph

[1975] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,920.00
186

Entrance to Black Cañon, from Above. Colorado River Series. No. 85

1871 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,320.00
201 Tomatsu, Shomei and Domon, Ken

Document 1961 Hiroshima-Nagasaki

1961 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
302 Colmenera de Ledesma, Antonio; Johanne Georgio Volcamero

Chocolata Inda. Opusculum de Qualitate & Natura Chocolatae [bound with] Opobalsami Orientalis in Theriaces Confectionem Romae Revocati

1644 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
153

Forty-two woodburytype portraits from Galerie Contemporaine

1876-84 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
208

Private album of a late 19th century Russian aristocratic family on a country estate

[c. 1890-1900] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,200.00
220 Lyford, Carrie Alberta

A Book of Recipes for the Cooking School

1921 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,140.00
276 Combrune, Michael

The Theory and Practice of Brewing

1762 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,020.00
280 Worlidge, John

Vinetum Britannicum: Or A Treatise of Cider, and other Wines and Drinks extracted from Fruits Growing in this Kingdom...To which is added, a Discourse teaching the Best way of Improving BEES

1678 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,020.00
310 Rusch, Hermann

The Greenbrier's American-Continental Culinary and Catering Manual, formerly known as Manuscript

1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,020.00
139 Coburn, Alvin Langdon

Men of Mark

1913 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 960.00
215 Weston, Brett

Lily Pad

1977 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 960.00
70 Lassaigne, Jacques

Chagall

[1957] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 900.00
113

Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire... Vol. VII, Nos. 27 et 28

[1952] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 900.00
90 Mead, Syd

Projections in Steel

[1962] USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 840.00
88 Matisse, Henri

Portraits par Henri Matisse

1954 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 780.00
261 Apicius Coelius

De Opsoniis et Condimentis, Sive Arte Coquinaria

1709 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 780.00
200 Sturges, Jock

Vanessa, Fanny & Camille

2001 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 720.00
22 Hondt, Pierre de

Figures de la Bible

1728 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
  • 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.
  • 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
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    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
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