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Auction Name Fine Art Prints, Books - online bidstart 10/23 Total Sales (USD) 61,665.00
Auction Date October 31, 2020 - October 31, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 41,500.00
Sale Number #385 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 76,550.00
Total Lots 43
Sold Lots 38 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 49,300.00
% of Lots Sold 88.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,950.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 70.11%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
112 Roy Lichtenstein (American, 1923 - 1997)

Study for Temple, 1968.

1968 USD 15,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,370.00
78 Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975)

Huck Finn, 1936.

1936 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,717.00
82 Grant Wood (American, 1891 - 1942)

Tree Planting Group, 1937.

1937 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,481.00
72 Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881 - 1973)

Vieillard assis avec une Femme et Danseuse (Seated Old Man with a Woman and Dancer) from Séries 347 (Bloch 1719; Geiser/Baer 1736.B.b.1), 1968.

1968 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,304.00
81 Grant Wood (American, 1891 - 1942)

Seed Time and Harvest, 1937.

1937 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,304.00
110 Leroy Neiman (American 1921 - 2012)

Sinatra in Concert.

1974 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 2,254.00
90 Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991)

Shoe Shine Parlor, Pearl Street, 1938.

1938 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,947.00
97 Salvador Dali (Spanish 1904 - 1989)

Mystery of Sleep.

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,829.00
85 Joan Miro (Spanish, 1893 - 1983)

Céramiques de Miró et Artigas: one plate, 1974.

1974 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,770.00
1426

Hans Christian Andersen Signed Photograph

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,623.00
79 Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975)

Drink of Water, 1937.

1937 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,593.00
89 Berenice Abbott (American, 1898 - 1991)

Tri-Boro Barber School, 264 Bowery, Manhattan, 1935.

1935 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,180.00
95 Wifredo Lam (Cuban, 1902 - 1982)

Le Regard Vertical #1, 1973.

1973 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,180.00
80 Man Ray (American, 1890 - 1976)

Un Monument (Monument), 1968.

1968 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 1,092.00
120 Tsham Mateng (Congolese, b. 1963)

Masque Ponu et Baoule, 2011.

2011 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 956.00
74 Georges Braque (French, 1882 - 1963)

Les Étoiles (Stars), 1959.

1959 USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 USD 885.00
119 Guillaume Azoulay (Morrocan, b. 1959)

Monarque, 2005.

2005 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 708.00
75 After Milton Avery (American, 1885 - 1965)

Reclining Blonde Nude, 1959.

1959 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 602.00
84 Paul Colin (French, 1892 - 1985)

Bonne Année, 1931.

1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 484.00
68 Thomas Bigelow Craig (American, 1849 - 1924)

Cattle grazing next to a creek.

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 460.00
94 Louise Nevelson (American, 1899 - 1988)

Essences 17, 1977.

1977 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 443.00
1427

John F. Kennedy, Christmas Card 1959

1959 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 366.00
93 Louise Nevelson (American, 1899 - 1988)

Black Repetition.

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 319.00
96 John Stockton De Martelly (American, 1903 - 1979)

Economic Discussion, 1937.

1937 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 319.00
77 Marc Chagall (Russian/French, 1887 - 1985)

Solomon is proclaimed a King of Israel (Plate 67), and "Exodus from Egypt" (Plate 33) from Etchings from the Bible, 1956.

1956 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 283.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    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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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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