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Thomaston Place Auction Galleries: Japanese Art and Antiques

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Auction Name Japanese Art and Antiques Total Sales (USD) 32,512.50
Auction Date May 02, 2025 - May 02, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 31,150.00
Sale Number #50225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 44,950.00
Total Lots 110
Sold Lots 102.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 33,250.00
% of Lots Sold 92.73% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 48,050.00
Unsold Lots 8 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 67.66%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1430

RARE PERRY EXPEDITION TO JAPAN PRINT 1853 The American Expedition Under Commodore Perry, Landing in Japan

 1853 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
1235 TOMIO KINOSHITA (JAPAN, 1923-2014)

Two Heads

 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,187.50
1419 TSUCHIYA KOITSU (JAPAN, 1870-1949)

Spring Rain at Matsushima, Tsuchiya Koitsu (1870--1949)

 -1936 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,187.50
1241 UMETARO AZECHI (JAPAN, 1902-1999)

Three Singers

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,062.50
1418 PAUL JACOULET (JAPAN/FRANCE,1902-1960)

Le Mandarin aux Lunettes (Mandarin with Glasses)

 1935 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 875.00
1393 UTAGAWA KUNISADA / TOYOKUNI III (JAPAN, 1786-1865)

Kabuki Theatre Samurai Warrior from "Lives of a Hundred Heroes of High Renown" (Meiko hyakuyu den)

 circa 1848-49 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 812.50
1399

(10 VOL SET) JAPANESE CHILDREN'S CREPE BOOK

 1920s USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 812.50
1415 HIROSHI YOSHIDA (JAPAN, 1876-1950)

Sarusawa Pond ("Sarusawa Ike")

 1933 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 812.50
1397

(5) JAPANESE PRINTS OF WESTERNER, TRAINS, SHIP; UNFRAMED

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 750.00
1495 ANDO HIROSHIGE (JAPAN, 1797-1858)

View from Yeido Mishu

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 750.00
1164 KAWASE HASUI (JAPAN, 1883-1957)

Tokaido Nissaka (Nissaka on Tokaido Road).

 1942 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 687.50
1230 MORI YOSHITOSHI (JAPAN, 1898-1992)

Movable Shrine

 undated USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 687.50
1416 KOKUNIMASA UTAGAWA (JAPAN, 1874-1944)

True Record of the News Received by Telegraph: Bandits Destroying the Manchurian Railway

 circa 1904 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 687.50
1291 FRAMED JAPANESE POTTERY MAP BY SERIZAWA KEISUKE (1895-1984)

Traditional Potteries in Present Japan"

 1963 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 625.00
1341 JOICHI HOSHI (JAPAN, 1913-1979)

Evening tree (red) 1972

 1972 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 625.00
1231 MORI YOSHITOSHI (JAPAN, 1898-1992)

Farmers in Village

 1958 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 593.75
1335 ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Station 26 Nissaka: Distant View of Mukenzan from Sayononakayama, (Nissaka, Sayonoyamanaka Mukenzan enbo)

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 562.50
1249 TSUCHIYA KOITSU (JAPAN, 1870-1949)

Evening at Ushigome

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 500.00
1255 KIYOSHI SAITO (JAPAN, 1907-1999)

Maiko, Kyoto (apprentice geisha)

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 500.00
1266 YOSHITO ARICHI (JAPAN, 1947 - )

Spacetime, 83-5

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 500.00
1329 ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Station 40 Chiryu: The Former Site of the Irises at Eightbridge Village, (Chiryu, Yatsuhashimura kakitsubata no koseki)

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 500.00
1275 NISHIJIMA KATSUYUKI (JAPAN, 1945 - )

Tea House of Kosatsu

 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 468.75
1276 HIROYUKI TAJIMA (JAPAN, 1911-1984)

Scribble a Wall

 ca 1970 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 468.75
1331 ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

Station 50 Tsuchiyama: The Suzuka Foothills and Suzuka River, (Tsuchiyama, Suzuka no fumoto, Suzukagawa)

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 468.75
1332 ANDO HIROSHIGE (1797-1858)

View 21 Mariko: Selling the Famous Yam Soup at the Station, (Mariko, Ekichu meibutsu tororojiru o hisagu)

 USD 300.00 - 400.00 USD 468.75
  • <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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  • <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.