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Auction Name The Private Collection of Jayne Wrightsman: Online - bidstart 10/1 Total Sales (USD) 139,500.00
Auction Date October 15, 2020 - October 15, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 29,800.00
Sale Number #19200 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 46,200.00
Total Lots 34
Sold Lots 34 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 29,800.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 46,200.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 301.95%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
512 Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)

Woodland Plant

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,500.00
511 A GROUP OF FIFTEEN POSTERS FOR VOGUE AND VANITY FAIR

20TH CENTURY

 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 12,500.00
504 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1906)

Dimanche Matin

 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,000.00
700

GARDENS - Group of 22 books on European gardens and landscape architecture, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library. Some signed by authors or artists, with some inscribed presentation copies.

19th-21st centuries. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 10,000.00
697 JACKIE KENNEDY - DICKINSON, Eric and KHANDALAVALA, Karl ed.

The Kishangarh Paintings.

1959 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 9,375.00
698 KENNEDYS - LINCOLN, Anne.

The Kennedy White House Parties.

1967 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 8,750.00
688

WRIGHTSMAN GALLERIES - Group of nine books on the Wrightsman galleries in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library.

 20-21st centuries. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 6,875.00
693

RUSSIAN DECORATIVE ARTS - Group of nine books on Russian decorative arts, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library, many inscribed presentation copies.

20-21st centuries. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 6,000.00
703 RYAN, Frederick.

Ronald Reagan: The Wisdom and Humor of the Great Communicator.

1995 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 4,750.00
680

VERSAILLES - Group of 14 books on Versailles, its founding, decoration, and patronage, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library.

20-21st centuries. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,500.00
685

ROTHSCHILDS - Group of thirteen books on the Rothschild family and their artistic patronage, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library. Some inscribed presentation copies.

20-21st centuries. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,500.00
701

FRENCH DECORATIVE ARTS - Group of 22 books on French decorative arts, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library. Some inscribed presentation copies.

20th century. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 3,000.00
679 RABUTIN-CHANTAL, Marie de.

Letters of Madame Sevigne.

1927 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,750.00
678 MADAME DE POMPADOUR - CAPEFIGUE, Jean Baptiste Honore Raymond (1801-1872).

Madame de Pompadour.

1908 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,500.00
506 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1906)

Sur l'herbe

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,375.00
505 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Le hamac

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,250.00
682 JEWITT, Llewellyn (1816-1886).

Illustrated Guide to Chatsworth.

1872 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 2,125.00
687

ROXBURGH CLUB - Group of books on or published by the Roxburghe Club, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library, some presentation copies.

20-21st centuries. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,125.00
689

BOOK ARTS - Group of 20 books on great libraries, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library. Some inscribed presentation copies, or including autographed letters.

20-21st centuries. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 2,125.00
691

EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ARTS - Group of 10 books on French, British, Italian and Netherlandish interiors spanning five centuries, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library.

20-21st century. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,750.00
502 After Richard Cosway

Madame Recamier

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,500.00
503 James Jacques Joseph Tissot (French, 1836-1902)

Le Croquet (Wentworth 37)

 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
696

CROWN JEWELS - Group of five books on the English Royal jewels, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library.

21st Century. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,375.00
684

CHATSWORTH - Group of 13 books on the famed British estate Chatsworth, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal library.

Mostly 21st Century. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,250.00
702

FOREIGN POLICY - Group of eight books by Henry Kissinger, from Mrs. Wrightsman's personal collection.

 20th century. USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,250.00
  • 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.
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