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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) 64,592.00
Auction Date May 08, 2021 - May 08, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 74,550.00
Sale Number #50821 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 167,500.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 199 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 74,850.00
% of Lots Sold 99.50% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 168,300.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 38.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
31000 John Gould

Gould - Citron-throated Toucan (Ramphastos Citreolaemus)

1833-1835 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 9,845.00
30978 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Bachman's Hare. 108

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,355.00
30979 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Black Footed Ferret. 93

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,255.00
30977 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Fremont's and Sooty Squirrel. 149

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,705.00
30980 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Ring-tailed Bassaris. 98

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,485.00
30827 John Senex

Senex - A New Map of London

1721 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,265.00
30976 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Cotton Rat. 30

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,265.00
30993 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute, Folio - Crinum or Spider Lily (Crinum Asiaticum). 348

1802-1816 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,155.00
30999 Daniel Giraud Elliot & Joseph Wolf

Elliot & Wolf - Twelve-wire Bird of Paradise (Seleucides Alba)

1873 USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 1,045.00
30825 John Senex

Senex - The Dutch Netherlands or the Seven United Provinces commonly called Holland

1721 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 935.00
30987 John James Audubon

Audubon - Pileated Woodpecker. 257

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 935.00
30990 John James Audubon

Audubon - Roseate Spoonbill. 362

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 880.00
30989 John James Audubon

Audubon - Wild Turkey, Male. 287

1840-1844 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 742.50
30992 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Guava, Spiders, & Ants. 18

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 687.50
30812 Theodor de Bry

De Bry - Florida - Mode of drying fish, wild animals and other provisions. 24

1590-1594 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 660.00
30834 Johann Zahn

Zahn - Concentric Table (Conserva Tempus et Devita a Malo)

1696 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 605.00
30998 Daniel Giraud Elliot & Joseph Wolf

Elliot & Wolf - Wallace's Bird of Paradise (Semioptera Wallacii)

1873 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 605.00
30991 Maria Sibylla Merian

Merian, Folio - Moth Metamorphosis. 38

1730 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 577.50
30997 Daniel Giraud Elliot

Elliot & Wolf - Golden Sparrow-Hawk

1866-1869 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 577.50
30829 Pieter van der Aa

Van der Aa - Historic Work of John Smith's Travels with 7 Originally Hand-colored Engravings

1705 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 550.00
30955 Cornelius Nozeman

Nozeman - Long-eared Owl with Egg

1770-1789 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 550.00
30958 John Gould

Gould - Wilson's Erythronote Hummingbird

1849-1887 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 522.50
30995 Jean Louis Prevost

Prevost - Rose Mallow - Rameau de Passerose. 15

1805 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 522.50
30923 Louis Renard

Renard, Rare Folio - Fish. 22

1754 USD 500.00 - 1,200.00 USD 495.00
30942 Basilius Besler

Besler - Balloon Plant, Pea Plant; Pisum cordatum, Halicacabum

1713 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 495.00
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    Catalogue 198 just published
    19th Century Shop. Darwin and Wallace, first printing of the first paper on natural selection
    19th Century Shop. Shakespeare’s Poems, first collected edition
    19th Century Shop. Walt Whitman portrait inscribed with a Leaves of Grass poem
    19th Century Shop. Major Elizabeth Barrett Browning manuscript notebook
    19th Century Shop. Spock's Baby Book, original MS
    19th Century Shop. Cellarius, Harmonia Macrocosmica, the great celestial atlas
  • Potter & Potter Auctions
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    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
    How History Unfolds on Paper:
    Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection
    Part IX
    April 18, 2024
    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.
  • Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: [Langland (William)]. The vision of Pierce Plowman, nowe the seconde time imprinted..., Roberte Crowley, 1550. £8,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: [Shakespeare (William)]. [Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies], second folio edition, [by Tho.Cotes, for Robert Allot], [1632]. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Bible, Czech Biblia Bohemica, first complete Bible printed in the Czech vernacular, Prague, August 1488. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Shabthai Tzvi.- Collection of four printed and illustrated broadsides detailing the appearance, rise and fall of the false messiah, Shabthai Tzvi, Augsburg, 1666-67. £40,000 to £60,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Leaf from the Beauvais Missal, in Latin, illuminated manuscript on parchment, [Northern France (perhaps Beauvais or Amiens)], [fourteenth century (c.1310)]. £4,000 to £6,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Aubrey (John). [Remaines of Gentilisme and Judaisme], manuscript in English, Latin and Greek, [c. 1693]. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: Byron (George Gordon Noel, Lord). Poems on Various Occasions, first edition, Harriet Maltby's copy, Newark, Printed by S. & J. Ridge, 1807. £30,000 to £40,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Tolkien (J.R.R.) The Hobbit, first edition, second impression with dust-jacket, 1937 [but 1938]. £7,000 to £10,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Blake (William).- Thornton (Robert John). The Pastorals of Virgil, 2 vol., engraved plates by William Blake, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th March 2024
    Forum Mar. 28: America.- Mount (William J.) & Thomas Page. The English Pilot…, [bound with] The Fourth Book, describing The West Indies Navigation from Hudson's-Bay to the River Amazones, 1721. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Oldfield (Henry Ambrose), Rajman Singh Chitrakar & others. An album of 160 photographs and 13 original artworks, (1833-1919), [c. 1850s-1880s]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum Mar. 28: Audubon (John James) [and William MacGillivray]. Ornithological Biography…, 5 vol., first edition, presentation copy inscribed by Audubon, Edinburgh, 1831-49 [i.e. 1831-39]. £10,000 to £15,000.
  • 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
  • Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG BEADED JUDICIAL COLLAR. $80,000 - $120,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: ONLY KNOWN COPY OF THE ONLY BOOK BY THE REMARKABLE EVE ADAMS. $8,000 - $12,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A COMPLETE RUN OF VISIONAIRE MAGAZINE THROUGH 2010. $6,000 - $9,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: LAW REVIEW OFFPRINT SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY RUTH BADER GINSBURG. $3,000 - $5,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: META REBNER'S WORKING SCRIPT OF THE LOVED ONE. $1,500 - $2,000
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A KATHY GROVE PORTRAIT OF CYNDI LAUPER FOR THE FEBRUARY 1989 DETAILS COVER. $800 - $1,200
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A PLASTIC COAT BY MILLIE DAVID FEATURED IN SOHO NEWS STYLE SECTION, FROM THE COLLECTION OF ANNIE FLANDERS. $500 - $700
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A RUTH BADER GINSBURG JEWELRY BOX. $600 - $900
    Bonhams, Mar. 22 – Apr. 2: A SET OF JONI MITCHELL LYRICS FOR "IF I HAD A HEART." $2,000 - $3,000
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