Auction Reports

Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper
Auction Date
12/20/2025 - 12/20/2025
Sale Number
#122025
Total Lots
150
Sold Lots
128.0
Lots Sold
85.33%
Unsold Lots
22
Total Sales (USD)
112,200.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
210,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
358,250.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
236,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
403,650.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
27.80%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
6085 Pablo Picasso & Honore de Balzac

Pablo Picasso & Honore de Balzac's Le Chef-d'oeuvre inconnu - 13 Original Etchings on Vellum, 20 Reproduced Drawings, and 67 Woodcuts

1931 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 37,450.00
6139 Merian

Merian, Folio - Pineapple with Insects, Cockroaches. 1

1771 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,835.50
6016 Brosses's

Brosses's Histoire des navigations aux terres Australes - Two Volumes with Seven Maps

1756 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 2,568.00
6018 Harris

Harris - Map of the Southern Continent (Australia, New Holland)

1744-1748. USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 2,407.50
6136 Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The Blue Passion Flower

1787-1812. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,193.50
6135 Thornton

Thornton, Folio - The Oblique-leaved Begonia

1787-1812. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,140.00
6034 Captain Cook

Captain Cook - A View of Karakakooa, in Owyhee (Hawaii). 68

1785 USD 500.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,979.50
6148 Gould

Gould - Lady Amherst's Pheasant

1850-1883. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,712.00
6050 Bayer

Bayer - Constellation Chart: Taurus, the Bull

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,551.50
6051 Kircher

Kircher, pub. 1682 - Molten Interior of the Earth Showing Water Bodies as Connected

1682 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,551.50
6146 Elliot

Elliot - Black-throated Golden Pheasant

1870-1872. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,551.50
6047 Bayer

Bayer - Constellation Chart: Andromeda, Chained Woman or Alpheratz and Sirrah

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,498.00
6084 Catlin

Catlin, Folio - Buffalo Hunt, Chasing Back

187 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,498.00
6057 Braun

Braun & Hogenberg, pub. 1575 - View of Paris, France

1575 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,498.00
6049 Bayer

Bayer - Constellation Chart: Ursa Major, Large Bear

N/A USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,444.50
6099 Mucha

Mucha, Folio - Illustration of Draped Woman. 6

1902 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,391.00
6081 Blaeu

Blaeu - Map of Asia

1640s-1660s. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 1,337.50
6100 Mucha

Mucha, Folio - Illustration of Women. 45

1902 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,070.00
6138 Merian

Merian, Folio - Sweet Potato with Moth Metamorphosis. 41

1771 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,016.50
6079 Halma's

Halma's Ptolemy, pub. 1698 - Map of the Ancient World

1698 USD 3,500.00 - 5,500.00 USD 963.00

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  • 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.