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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) 62,672.50
Auction Date February 20, 2021 - February 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,400.00
Sale Number #22021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 175,200.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 190 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 87,100.00
% of Lots Sold 95.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 182,000.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 34.44%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
28800 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - The Cougar. 97

1842-1848 USD 5,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,235.00
28617 Theodor de Bry

De Bry - Allegory of The Discovery of America or Americae Retectio - Series of Four Plates - Commemorating the discoveries of America by Christopher Columbus, Americus Vespucci, Ferdinand Magellan

1590-1594 USD 8,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 4,015.00
28799 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Sea Otter. 137

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,915.00
28748 David Roberts

David Roberts - Edfou

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 2,805.00
28797 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Douglass Squirrel. 48

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,255.00
28798 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Musk Rat-Musquash. 13

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,255.00
28611 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Map of Philippines Islands including Tandaya, Panai, Mindora, Lucon of Luconia

1724-1726 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,815.00
28616 Johann Jakob Scheuchzer

Scheuchzer - Astrological Map, Celestial (Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth)

1731-1735 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 1,595.00
28789 John Gould

Gould - 5 Hummingbird Lithographs

1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,045.00
28733 Rex Brasher

Brasher - Burrowing & Florida Burrowing Owl. 378

1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 990.00
28747 David Roberts

David Roberts - Part of the Portico of Edfou

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 880.00
28731 Rex Brasher

Brasher - Roseate Spoonbill. 183

1931 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 825.00
28673 Joseph Antoine Risso

Risso, Rare Folio - Squid; Sagillatus Todarus. 11

1854 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 742.50
28613 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Map of Malaysia and Sumatra (Singapore)

1724-1726 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 715.00
28749 David Roberts

David Roberts - Dendera

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 715.00
28609 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - One of the Earliest Maps of Staten Landt, New Zealand charted by Abel Tasman; View of Koningen or Three Kings Islands

1724-1726 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 687.50
28746 David Roberts

David Roberts - Fragments of the Great Colosi, at the Memnonium

1846-1849 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 687.50
28755 Basilius Besler

Besler - 3 Botanical Engravings

1713 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 660.00
28651 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - Mermaid, Sawfish, Fish. 52

1724-1726 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 632.50
28795 John Gould

Lear & Gould - Swallow-tailed Kite

1832-1837 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 632.50
28681 Abbe Laurent Berlese

Berlese - 11 Camellia Engravings

1843 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 605.00
28723 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - Greater ?Amakihi or Honeycreeper (Extinct); Viridonia Sagittirostris

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 577.50
28722 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - O?ahu ?Alauahio or Creeper; Oreomyza Maculata

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 550.00
28608 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - One of the earliest printed maps of Cape Town, South Africa

1724-1726 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 522.50
28720 Lionel Walter Rothschild, J. G. Keulemans, F. W. Frohawk

Rothschild, Hawaii - Creeper; Oreomyza Newtoni

1893-1900 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 522.50
  • 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.
  • 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
    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.
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