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Nye & Company Auctioneers: The Designer's Eye: A Graciously Appointed Interior, April 2024

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Auction Name The Designer's Eye: A Graciously Appointed Interior, April 2024 Total Sales (USD) 22,988.80
Auction Date April 24, 2024 - April 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 20,250.00
Sale Number #42424 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 36,450.00
Total Lots 28
Sold Lots 23.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 21,450.00
% of Lots Sold 82.14% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 38,400.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 59.87%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
94 Roy Lichtenstein

Shipboard Girl (C. II.6), 1965

 1965 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 10,240.00
93 Andy Warhol

Cow Wallpaper

 1971 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,120.00
96 Richard Diebenkorn

Untitled (From Harvey Gantt Portfolio), 1990

 1990 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,280.00
104 Shusaku Arakawa

A Forgettance (Exhaustion Exhumed)

 USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 USD 768.00
101 Pablo Picasso

L'Atelier Du Peintre

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 640.00
301

19th Century British Parlor Game

 19th Century USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 640.00
100 Fernand Leger

Elements Mecaniques

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 544.00
95 Stevan Dohanos

State Fair

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 448.00
103

Burgundiae inferioris quae duvatus Nomine Censetur des 1584.

1584 or later. USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 416.00
106 Erte

Firebird

 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 352.00
107

Noir et Blanc

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 352.00
89 Roy Lichtenstein

Crying Girl

 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 320.00
90 Georges Rouault

Christ de Profil

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 288.00
88 Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Le Chapeau Epingle

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
92

Six Colored Engravings of U.K. Scenes

 19th C. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
102

Map of Worcestershire

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 224.00
98 Roger Selden

P.D.A.

 75 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 192.00
256

Three Mughal Manuscript Pages. Probably depicting one of the Shahs, figures at various pursuits.

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 192.00
87 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Yvette Guilbert

 1894 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 128.00
97 Shuji Wako

Galaxy of the Past

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 128.00
91

"Port of London, in 1839,"

USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 89.60
105 Erte

Selection of a Heart

 1978 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 64.00
299 Ulfert Wilke

Portfolio, "Fragments from Nowhere"

 1958 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 51.20
  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
  • <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Francesco Colonna. <i>Hypnerotomachie,</i> Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Nausea. <i>De principiis dialectices Gorgias,</i> and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 17:</b> Billon. <i>Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur,</i> Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000. <center><b>Sotheby’s<br>Book Week<br>December 9-17, 2025</b></center> <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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