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Christies: Selections from the Library of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue

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Auction Name Selections from the Library of Mr. & Mrs. John H. Gutfreund 834 Fifth Avenue Total Sales (USD) 940,000.00
Auction Date January 29, 2021 - January 29, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 351,300.00
Sale Number #19706 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 516,700.00
Total Lots 118
Sold Lots 116 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 363,300.00
% of Lots Sold 98.31% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 534,700.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 175.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
82 PILLONE LIBRARY – CARTARI, Vincenzo (c. 1531-c. 1569?).

Le imagini de i dei de gli antichi.

1580 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 81,250.00
99 [SOLNTSEV, Fedor Grigor'ev (1801-1892, illustrator) and STROGANOV, Sergei Grigor'evich, Count (1794-1882, editor).

Antiquités de l'empire de Russie editees par order de sa Majeste L’Empereur Nicolas I[Drevnosti Rossiiskago Gosudarstva].

1849-1853 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 68,750.00
119 WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941).

The Common Reader.

1925 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 68,750.00
120 YAUVILLE, Jacques d’ (1711-1784).

Traité de vénerie

 1788 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 43,750.00
90

RUSSIA – DASCHKAW FAMILY. Album of watercolors of family members, art objects, etc.

c. 1873-1903. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 37,500.00
106

TONTINE COFFEE HOUSE (NEW YORK CITY). The Constitution and Nominations of the Subscribers to the Tontine Coffee-House.

1796 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 30,000.00
66

FRANCO-DUTCH WARS – Bound manuscript, “Abregé historique de l’année MDCLXXVII. ”

c. 1677. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 27,500.00
35 FONTANA, Carlo (1634-1714).

Templum Vaticanum et ipsius origo.

1694 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,000.00
3

ALEXANDER II – Description du Sacre et du Couronnement de leurs Majestes Imperiales l'Empereur Alexandre II et l'Imperatrice Marie Alexandrovna.

1856 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 22,500.00
49 KIPLING, Rudyard (1865-1936); Paul JOUVE (1878-1973, illustrator) and François-Louis SCHMIED (1873-1941, designer).

Le Livre de la jungle

 1919 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 21,250.00
27

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 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 18,750.00
61 LOUIS XV (1710-1774), King of France –

Le Sacre de Louis XV, Roy de France & de Navarre, dans l'Eglise de Reims, Le Dimanche XXV Octobre MDCCXXII.

 1722?]. USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,500.00
37 HALL, Samuel Carter (1800-1889), editor.

The Book of Gems. The Poets and Artists of Great Britain

 1836-38. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 15,000.00
57 LODDIGES, Conrad (1738-1826).

The Botanical Cabinet Consisting of Coloured Delineations of Plants, from all Countries

 1817-22. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 15,000.00
16

BOOK OF HOURS, in Latin and French, illuminated manuscript on vellum

15th century]. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,750.00
34 FINE BINDING – SAINT JEAN PERSE (1887-1975).

Chronique

 1960 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 13,750.00
26

Dickinson's Comprehensive Pictures of the Great Exhibition of 1851

 1854 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 12,500.00
43 GENEALOGY & HERALDRY – PITHON-CURT, Jean Antoine (1705-1780).

Histoire de la noblesse du Comté-Venaissin, d'Avignon et de la Principautéd’Orange, dressée sur les preuves

 1743-50. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 12,500.00
45

GENEALOGY & HERALDRY – Carta Executoria of Don Thomas Antonio Pérez de Anda, issued by Carlos III of Spain, illuminated manuscript on vellum, officially drawn up and attested by Don Julian Joseph Brochero, principal king of arms of Spain,

1780 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 12,500.00
42 GENEALOGY & HERALDRY – CHEVILLARD, Jean-Louis (1680-1751).

Bound manuscript album, “Gouverneurs, capitaines, et lieutenans generaux, prevosts des marchands, échevins, procureurs du Roy, greffiers, receveurs, conseillers, quartiniers de la ville de Paris. Par Chevillard, rue Neuve Notre Dame à la Providence. ”

 c. 1731. USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,250.00
2

ACADEMIE ROYALE DES MEDAILLES & DES INSCRIPTIONS. Medailles sur les principaux evénéments du règne de Louis le Grand

 1702 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,625.00
113

VERSAILLES – 4 copies of the second edition of Le Clerc’s celebrated engravings of the Labyrinth of Versailles, depicting its 39 fountains each representing one of Aesop’s fables.

USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,625.00
24 CROZE-MAGNAN, Simon-Célestin (1750-1818).

Le Musée français, recueil complet des tableaux, statues et bas-reliefs, qui composent la collection nationale

 1803-1809. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,750.00
39 GAUTIER D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien (1716-1785).

Chroa-Génésie ou génération des couleurs, contre le systeme de Newton

 1750-51. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 8,125.00
68 MINIATURE BOOKS – PICKERING, William (1796-1854), publisher.

A collection of 11 Diamond Classics

 [1821-31]. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,125.00
  • 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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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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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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  • 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.
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