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Nye & Company Auctioneers: Something to Love: A February Discovery Auction.

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Auction Name Something to Love: A February Discovery Auction. Total Sales (USD) 4,140.80
Auction Date February 05, 2026 - February 05, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,180.00
Sale Number #20526 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 20,440.00
Total Lots 58
Sold Lots 49.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,120.00
% of Lots Sold 84.48% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 24,340.00
Unsold Lots 9 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 17.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
676 Betty Page

Group of Assorted Betty Page Ephemera

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 371.20
276 Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali, Spanish 1904-1989, Autumn, Drypoint Engraving

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 281.60
295 Eduardo Chillida

Eduardo Chillida Lithograph for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games

1972 USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 243.20
364 Eduardo Bolioli

Eduardo Bolioli, Absolut Vodka Statehood Series - Hawaii Print

1976 USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 243.20
673

Group of Assorted Guido Crepax Erotic Story Books

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 166.40
288 Mary Nimmo Moran

Mary Nimmo Moran, 1842-1899, California Forest Interior, Drypoint Etching

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 153.60
303 Kaoru Kawano

Kaoru Kawano Japanese Woodblock Print "Girl with Mask"

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 153.60
362 Thomas McKnight

Two Thomas McKnight Signed Prints, "Montauk" & "Vengera"

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 153.60
361

Group of Assorted Framed Artwork

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 140.80
299

Eight Prints of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards

1847 USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 128.00
305

Group of Botanical Prints

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 128.00
324

Seven Small Works of Art

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 128.00
353

Group of Black and White Prints

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 128.00
357 Philip Hicken

Philip Hicken, Abstract Fruit Silkscreen

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 115.20
281 William Jewett

William Jewett, Mt. Washington on New York Island, Lithograph

1847 USD 20.00 - 50.00 USD 102.40
360

Group of Assorted Works of Art

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 102.40
307

Three Prints of New York

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 89.60
399

Group of Assorted Trading Cards

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 89.60
559

Chew Mail Pouch Tobacco Advertising Sign

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 76.80
310

Print of King George IV in Military Uniform

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 64.00
407

Group of Vintage Photographs of Youth Sports Teams

Early 20th C. USD 20.00 - 40.00 USD 64.00
415

British Exchequer Recept Dated 1665

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 64.00
301 Maurice Utrillo

Maurice Utrillo Print

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 57.60
306

Three Assorted Prints

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 57.60
334 Emile Lecomte

Emile Lecomte, 1866-1938, Landscape, Print

USD 50.00 - 500.00 USD 57.60
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Book of Hours.- Heures a lusaige de Romme, printed on vellum, with 14 full-page illuminated miniatures, Paris, N. Higman for J. de Brie, [c.1521]. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: France.- Book of Hours, perhaps Use of the Abbey of Saint-Gildas de Rhuys, with thirteen miniatures surviving from an original cycle of at least twenty, [c. 1430]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Milton (John). Paradise lost. A Poem in Ten Books, first edition, Pforzheimer's sixth state, S. Simmons, 1669. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Blake (William). Illustrations of the Book of Job, one of 215 first issue "Proof" copies, this one of 65 copies on "French" paper, Published by the Author, March 8, 1825 [but March, 1826]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    26th March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 26: Christie (Agatha). The ABC Murders, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Halley (Edmund). Astronomiae Cometicae Synopsis, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, no. 297, pp.1882-99, March 1705. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Haytham (Ibn al) [known as Alhazen]. Opticae Thesaurus...Item Vitellonis Thuringopoloni libri X..., first edition, Basel, August, 1572. £20,000-30,000
    Forum, Mar. 26: Kepler (Johannes). Dioptrice seu demonstratio eorum quae visui & visibilibus propter conspicilla non ita pridem inventa accidunt, first edition, Augsburg, David Frank, 1611. £12,000-18,000
  • Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Andrews (H.C.) Coloured Engravings of Heaths, 4 vol. in 2, first edition, [1710,--94]-1802-1809-[1830]. £10,000 - £15,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- Cramer (Pierre) and Caspar Stoll. De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen…,, 5 vol., Amsterdam & Utrecht, 1779-91. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Voyages.- Darwin (Charles) and others. Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty's Ships Adventure and Beagle, 3 vol. in 4, including Appendix to vol.2, first edition, 1839. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Butterflies.- de Graaf (Willem Diederik Vincent). [Inlandsche Kapellen in beeld], 170 fine original watercolours, [Enkhuizen], [1800-40]. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Dresser (Henry Eeles). A History of the Birds of Europe, 9 vol., including supplement, first edition, by the author, 1871-96. £6,000 - £8,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Zoology.- Felines.- Elliot (Daniel Giraud). A Monograph of the Felidæ or Family of the Cats, first edition, for the Subscribers, by the Author, [1878]-1883. £25,000 - £30,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Frisch (Johann Leonard). Vorstellung der Vögel Deutschlandes, 2 vol., first edition, Berlin, Friedr. Wilhelm Birnsteil, [1736]-1763. £40,000 - £60,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Birds.- Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 vol., first edition, by the author, 1862-1873. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum Auctions
    Natural History: The remaining stock of Antiquariaat Junk, 1899-2026
    25 March 2026
    Forum, Mar. 25: Pomology.- France.- Poiteau (A.) Pomologie Française. Recueil des Plus Beaux Fruits cultivés en France, 4 vol., Paris, 1846. £30,000 - £40,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- [Robin (Jean)]. Histoire des Plantes, nouvellement trouvées en l'Isle Virgine…,, 1620; with Geoffrey Linocier L'Histoire des plantes, second edition, 1619-20. £3,000 - £4,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Japan.- Siebold (P.F. von). Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan, 7 parts in 6 vol., first edition, Leyden, [1832]-1852. £35,000 - £45,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Asia.- Valentijn (Francois). Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indiën..., 5 vol. in 8, first edition, Dordrecht [&] Amsterdam, 1724-26. £8,000 - £12,000.
    Forum, Mar. 25: Botany.- Australia.- Redouté (P.J.).- Ventenat (Étienne Pierre). Jardin de la Malmaison, 2 vol.,, Paris, 1803-04[-05]. £30,000 - £40,000.