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Auction Name Jewelry, Fine Art, Furniture and Decorative Art, Asian Art Total Sales (USD) 16,606.25
Auction Date March 20, 2021 - March 20, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 13,400.00
Sale Number #32021 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 22,800.00
Total Lots 82
Sold Lots 70 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 15,050.00
% of Lots Sold 85.37% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 25,900.00
Unsold Lots 12 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.12%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5499 Truman, Harry

Truman, Harry. Archive in a Custom Bluebook box safe, comprising Inaugural Address; (3) Programs for the Inaugural address, dinner and ball; (3) invitations in original envelopes, (2) tickets, 13"h x 10"w

 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 2,000.00
5267 James Rizzi

"Smell the Flowers"

1985 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,500.00
5298 Thomas Pownall

1783, "A New Map of North America, with the West India Islands"

1783 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
5304 Sebastian Munster

"Description Novelle d'Europe"

1552 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 687.50
5312 Ting Shao Kuang

(lot of 3) Ting Shao Kuang (Chinese, 20th Century,) Dance of Blue Peacock, Peaceful Garden, and Peaceful Moment

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 687.50
5258 Leopoldo Mendez

"The Harvest"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 562.50
5313 Peter Max

"Flowers in Vase"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
5237 After Conrad Kiesel

"Preparing for the Fancy Ball"

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
5278 Anton Bruehl

"Photographs of Mexico"

1933 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 437.50
5251 Paul Pletka

"Mahohewas"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 406.25
5693

(lot of 30) Large collection of magazines bearing signatures, including "The Athletics Magazine"

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 375.00
5855 Kawase Hasui, Arai Yoshimune

(lot of 3) Japanese woodblock prints, the first by Kawase Hasui, the second by Arai Yoshimune

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
5268 James Rizzi

"Flowers for my Love"

1989 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 343.75
5497 Truman Capote

Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's

 1958 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 343.75
5236 After Pierre Cottin

"Le Tasse a la Cour de Ferrare" and "Shakespeare a la Cour d'Elisabeth"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
5308 Jacques Etienne Victor Arago

"Ooro, Lun des Principaux chefs d'Ouriouriou, Roi des iles Sandwich"

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 312.50
5689

(lot of 5) San Francisco Giants photographs bearing signatures

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 312.50
5232

(lot of 9) Imagery of Mexico, engravings with hand coloring, each titled lower center, engraved by various artists, 19th century, overall (each/with frame): 14"h x 15.5"w. Provenance: Property from the estate of Frank Caulfield III a founding partner of K

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
5249 David Schneuer

The Night Out

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 281.25
5852 Toyohara Chikanobu

Japanese woodblock triptych by Toyohara Chikanobu

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 281.25
5239

(lot of 4) "Vue Particuliere de Paris, Prise du Point Royal" Autre Vue Particuliere du Paris, Depuis Notre Dame and "Vue de L'hotel de Ville de Paris"

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 250.00
5256 Pablo Picasso

"Two Satyrs and Goat"

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 218.75
5260 After Salvador Dali

French Riviera Cadaques

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 218.75
5233 After John James Audubon

"American Flamingo"

1838 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 187.50
5234

Rubricollis, from the five volume "Nederlandsche Vogelen" Cornelius Nozeman and Christiaan Sepp,

 1770 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
  • 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
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    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.
  • 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.
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [RUTH, George Herman “Babe” (1895-1948)]. Signed photograph. Circa 1930s. 191 x 248 mm. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HARRISON, Benjamin. Document signed (“Benj Harrison”) as governor of Virginia, certifying the service of Daniel Cumbo, a Black Revolutionary soldier. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: ONE OF THE FIRST PRINTED ANNOUNCEMENTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    Starting 10AM CST
    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: FIRST PRINTING OF LINCOLN’S IMMORTAL GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: HIGHLY IMPORTANT MORMON ARCHIVE. ALLEY, George. Archive of 23 Autograph Letters Signed by Mormon Convert George Alley to His Brother Joseph Alley. $10,000 to $20,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [AVIATION]. [ARMSTRONG, Neil A.] Aviation Hall of Fame Gold Medal MS64 NGC, Awarded to Neil Armstrong in 1979. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    April 18, 2024
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: NEWLY DISCOVERED FIRST PRINTING OF "WITH MALICE TOWARDS NONE... " FROM THE ONLY NEWSPAPER ACTUALLY ALLOWED TO PARTICIPATE IN LINCOLN’S SECOND INAUGURAL PROCESSION. $4,000 to $8,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: THE MOST IMPORTANT GEORGE WASHINGTON DOCUMENT IN PRIVATE HANDS; GEORGE WASHINGTON’S COMMISSION AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, 1775, ONE OF ONLY TWO ORIGINALS. $150,000 to $250,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: A VERY RARE ACCOUNT OF BLACKBEARD’S DEATH AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PIRATE ITEMS EXTANT. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Potter & Potter Auctions
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    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: EDISON, Thomas. Patent for Edison’s Improvements on the Electric-Light, No. 219,628. [Washington, D.C.: U.S. Patent Office], 16 September 1879. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: [VIETNAM WAR]. The original pen used by Secretary of State William P. Rogers to sign the Vietnam Peace Agreement, Paris, 27 January 1973. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Potter & Potter, Apr. 18: SONS OF LIBERTY FOUNDER COLONEL BARRÉ ANNOTATED TITLE-PAGE, “WHICH OUGHT TO ROUSE UP BRITISH ATTENTION”. $4,000 to $6,000.
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