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Auction Name Prints, Books Total Sales (USD) 23,674.95
Auction Date July 19, 2014 - July 19, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 9,200.00
Sale Number #71914 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 15,275.00
Total Lots 43
Sold Lots 42 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 9,700.00
% of Lots Sold 97.67% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 15,975.00
Unsold Lots 1 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 148.20%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
555

Group of Tooled Leather-Bound Books

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 3,802.50
31 Kiyoshi Saito

Street Scene

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 2,691.00
553

Collected Works

John Murray, London, 1852 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 2,691.00
120 Attributed to Abraham Munting (1626-1683)

Botanical Engravings

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 2,632.50
104 Alexander Calder (1898-1976)

Pyramids

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,111.50
123 European School

Snakes Six Plates

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,111.50
102 After Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

Berührung (Contact)

c. 1924 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 936.00
4 Diana Vreeland

Allure , First Edition Printing with Laid in Hand-Written Christmas Note-Card, 'From Jackie to Kenneth'

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 877.50
151 Style of French School

Sylvie and Mignonne

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 877.50
119 French School

Le Bon Genre Four Plates

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 585.00
65 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Untitled, from Divine Comedy

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 555.75
68 Jean Louis Forain (1852-1931)

Les Trois Hommes

1892 USD 100.00 - 300.00 USD 468.00
552

Group of Nine Leather-Bound Book Spine Panels

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.00
62 Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Figures

1967 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 438.75
111 American School

A New and Accurate Map of Connecticut and Rhode Island

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 438.75
113 After W.S.L. Jewett

The First Peal for Liberty, from Harper's Weekly

USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 438.75
101 After Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

Celebration '76 July 3 & 4 Fort Worth

1978 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 409.50
132

Gallery Exhibition Posters

1960's USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 380.25
129 After March Chagall (1887-1985)

La Jongleuse, Self Portrait; Le Cirque; La Maison; Le Village; and Le Couple Devant L'arbue

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 321.75
74 20th Century School

At the Coiffeur

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 263.25
92 Ernest Trova (1927-2009)

Untitled, from Falling Man Series

1967 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 234.00
22 20th Century Schoool

Conchology

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 175.50
117 Arthur Wilder (1857-1945)

Coastal Landscape

USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 175.50
128 After Marino Marini (1901-1980)

Figures

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 175.50
94 Robert P. Efoors

Untitled; and Unititled

1969 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 146.25
  • 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
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
  • 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.
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