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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) 63,595.45
Auction Date February 28, 2026 - February 28, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 151,900.00
Sale Number #22826 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 281,400.00
Total Lots 150
Sold Lots 137.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 213,400.00
% of Lots Sold 91.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 402,400.00
Unsold Lots 13 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 15.80%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
8043 Turgot's Plan of Paris

Turgot's Plan of Paris, pub. 1739 - Impressive Large Scale Map

1739 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 6,420.00
8045 Danckerts

Danckerts - Map of Northeast North America (New Netherlands) [Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae]

circa 1684. USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 3,210.00
8057 Edward Curtis

Edward Curtis, Folio - Bow River - Blackfoot

1928 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,156.50
8028 Bode

Bode, Elephant Folio - Constellation or Star Chart: Cetus Monstrum Mainum (Sea Monster)

1801 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,247.00
8055 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Herds of Bison and Elk on the Upper Missouri. 47

1839-1842. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,086.50
8044 Hennepin

Hennepin - Map of North America

1697 USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 1,979.50
8027 Bode

Bode, Elephant Folio - Constellation or Star Chart of the Northern Sky or Hemisphere (Coelum Stellatum Hemisphaerium Arietis)

1801 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,872.50
8054 Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer - Dacota Woman and Assiniboin Girl. 9

1839-1842. USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,605.00
8150 Audubon

Audubon, Imperial Folio - Columbian Black-tailed Deer. 106

1845-1851. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,337.50
8065 Miro

Miro, Rare, Signed - Illustration of the Childhood of Ubu

1975 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,284.00
8142 Redoute

Redoute, Folio - Rose - Rosa gallica aurelianensis

circa 1824. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,123.50
8148 Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The Oblique-leaved Begonia

1787-1812. Each engraving was made using stipple, mezzotint, and aquatint processes and some feature hand-coloring heightened with gum Arabic. The engraving will include the text when available to send with the plate. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,070.00
8030 Bevis

Bevis, Rare - Constellation or Star Chart: Virgo [Dedicated to the Princess of Wales]

1747-1786 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,016.50
8149 Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The White Lily

1787-1812. Each engraving was made using stipple, mezzotint, and aquatint processes and some feature hand-coloring heightened with gum Arabic. The engraving will include the text when available to send with the plate. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,016.50
8029 Bevis

Bevis, Rare - Constellation or Star Chart: Libra (Scales) [Dedicated to Reverend John Conybear]

1747-1786 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 856.00
8056 Edward Curtis

Edward Curtis, Folio - Assiniboin Mother & Child

1928 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 856.00
8138 Sharpe & Gould

Sharpe & Gould - Empress of Germany's Bird of Paradise (Paradisea Augustae-Victoriae)

1891-1898. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
8067 Mucha

Mucha, Folio - 5 Design or Motif Lithographs

1902 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 722.25
8042 Mercator

Mercator, pub. 1630 - Map of Asia

1630 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 668.75
8137 Gould

Gould - Humboldt's Aracari or Toucan

1833-1835. USD 2,500.00 - 4,500.00 USD 642.00
8147 Brookshaw

Brookshaw, Folio - Peaches. 25

N/A USD 1,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 642.00
8143 Weinmann

Weinmann - 4 Apple Engravings

1737-1745 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 588.50
8072 Maitres Affiches

Maitres Affiches - 7 Poster Lithographs

1896-1900. USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 561.75
8141 Redoute

Redoute, Folio - African Lily - Agapanthus umbellatus

circa 1824. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 561.75
8144 Rabel

Rabel - 4 Anemone & Insect Engravings

1771 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 561.75
  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.