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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) 86,361.00
Auction Date July 24, 2021 - July 24, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 118,850.00
Sale Number #72421 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 244,700.00
Total Lots 200
Sold Lots 198 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 119,150.00
% of Lots Sold 99.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 245,400.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 35.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
33064 Frederik de Wit

De Wit - Map of the World published 1670 - Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula ex Officina F. de Wit Amstelodami

1670 USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 5,775.00
33065 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

1590-1595 USD 8,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 3,575.00
33199 John Gould

Gould - Curl-crested Aracari (Toucan) (Pteroglossus Beauharnaisi)

1852-1854 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,575.00
33200 John Gould

Gould - Osculant Toucan (Ramphastos Osculans)

1852-1854 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 3,465.00
33173 Jules Cheret; Artist: Alphonse Mucha

Maitres de l'Affiche by MUCHA - La Samaritaine. 166

1899 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,355.00
33059 William Faden; Lt. Henry Roberts

Faden - A General Chart Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Captn. James Cook in this and two preceding voyages… (1784)

c1808 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,805.00
33190 John Gould

Gould - Eagle Owl

1862-1875 USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 2,695.00
33198 Frederick Catherwood

Catlin, Folio - Ball Play

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,695.00
33037 Frederick Catherwood

Catherwood - Idol at Copan. 1

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,925.00
33056 Johann Baptist Homann

Homann - Map of North America

1731 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,815.00
33062 Francois Valentijn

Valentijn - First Printed Map of Formosa, Taiwan

1724-1726 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,815.00
33196 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Pennants Marten or Fisher. 41

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,705.00
33040 Frederick Catherwood

Catherwood - Castle at Tuloom. 23

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,595.00
33195 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Oregon Flying Squirrel. 15

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,595.00
33182 Scott Barchard Wilson and Arthur Humble Evans

Wilson & Evans, Hawaii - ?I?iwi or Scarlet Honeycreeper (Vestiaria Coccinea)

1890-1899 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,320.00
33060 Captain James Cook

Captain Cook, Elephant Folio - A General Chart: Exhibiting the Discoveries made by Captain James Cook in this and his two preceeding Voyages, with the Tracks of the Ships under his Command

1785 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,210.00
33038 Frederick Catherwood

Catherwood - Broken Idol at Copan. 4

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,155.00
33194 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Douglasses Spermophile. 49

1842-1848 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,045.00
33039 Frederick Catherwood

Catherwood - Las Monjas Chichen Itza. 21

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 990.00
33044 David Roberts

David Roberts - The Great Sphinx, Pyramids of Gizeh

1846-1849 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 990.00
33036 Frederick Catherwood

Catherwood - Back of an Idol at Copan. 3

1844 USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 935.00
33191 Pierre Joseph Redoute

Redoute, Folio - Red Turk's Cap Lily - Lilium Chalcedonicum. 276

1802-1816 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 935.00
33150 Dr. Robert John Thornton

Thornton, Folio - Flora dispensing Her Favours on the Earth

1787-1810 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 880.00
33197 John James Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - American Badger. 47

1842-1848 USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 880.00
33058 William Faden

Faden - Northern Hemisphere

c1808 USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 770.00
  • 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
  • 19th Century Shop
    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.
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