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Auction Name Books, Prints Total Sales (USD) 17,679.87
Auction Date January 24, 2014 - January 24, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 7,940.00
Sale Number #12414 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 13,485.00
Total Lots 49
Sold Lots 48 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 8,140.00
% of Lots Sold 97.96% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 13,885.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 127.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
269 After Giovanni Battista Piranesi:

Vedute del Pantheon d'Agrippa; Veduta del Ponte Lugano su l'Anione; Veduta degli avanzi del Forodi Nerva; Altra Veduta degli avanzi del Pronao del Tempio della Concorchia; and Verduta interna della chiesa della Madonna degli Angiolo, from "Vedute di Roma"

 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,042.00
99 Alexander von Humboldt

Voyage Aux Regions Equinoxiales Du Nouveau Continent,

 1820 USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 1,170.00
106

Johannes Balbus, Leaf from a 1460 Catholicon Manuscript

 1460 USD 20.00 - 40.00 USD 1,111.50
103 M. Breton

La Chine En Miniature,

1811 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 994.50
264 Italian School:

Four Architectural Views

 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 994.50
270 After Giovanni Battista Piranesi:

Two Urns

 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 936.00
284

Chrysathemum: Four Plates

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 877.50
277

Group of Three Sunflower Prints

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 760.50
290 German School:

Geese

 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 702.00
98

Caroli a Linne, Systema Naturae, 1766 and 1758, 1767, 1767

 USD 50.00 - 75.00 USD 555.75
274 After Mark Catesby (1694-1773):

"Petite Grive," "Le Roitelet Hupé," "Chardonneret de l'amerique"

 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 526.50
304 After W. L. Walton, Bufford Sons Lithographers:

"The International Contest Between Heenan and Sayers at Farnborough, on the 17th, of April 1860"

 1860 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 526.50
266 Italian School:

Palazzo Cornaro; Palazzo Lezze; and Porte de l'Asenale

 USD 350.00 - 550.00 USD 438.75
263 George Richardson:

"The House & Offices for The Rev'd Dr. Synge at Lislee in the County of Cork, Ireland,"

 1805 USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 409.50
295 Bachelor's Hall:

Six Sporting Plates

 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 409.50
100 J.M. Moreau

Choix de Chansons Mises en Musique par M. De La Borde, Ornees D'Estampes,

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 380.25
299 Francis Dodd (1874-1949):

"Mrs. Mack"

 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 380.25
265 French School:

Landscape with Fishermen

 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 321.75
268 After Ia. Collins:

"An Exact Prospect of the City of Rochester Taken from Finbery Windmill;" and "A Prospect of Chatham Dock, from the Same Place"

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 321.75
308

Group of Thirty-Three Lithographs, Screenprints and Etchings

 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 263.25
109 Edmond Rostand

Signed Letter from Edmond Rostand, French Poet and Dramatist, November 1910

 1910 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 234.00
111 Attributed to Eduard Luttich:

Scheherazade Frontispiece

 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 234.00
296 Attributed to Adriaen Van Ostade (1610-1685):

The Empty Jug (B., Holl., G.15), c.1653

 USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 234.00
101

Auction Catalogue of the Late Lord Northwick's Collection at Thirlestane House, Cheltenham

 1859 USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 175.50
283 Currier & Ives:

"View on Hudson River, From Ruggles House, Newburgh," (Cunningham 6434)

 1860 USD 150.00 - 200.00 USD 175.50
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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