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Auction Name Contemporary Editions - online bidstart 7/9 Total Sales (USD) 1,714,625.00
Auction Date July 16, 2019 - July 16, 2019 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 978,200.00
Sale Number #16783 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,469,100.00
Total Lots 146
Sold Lots 126 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,188,700.00
% of Lots Sold 86.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,778,600.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 96.40%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
32 FRANK STELLA (B. 1936)

Pergusa Three, State I, from Circuits

1983 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 81,250.00
105 ROBERT LONGO (B. 1953)

Men in the Cities: two prints

1985 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 75,000.00
41 CY TWOMBLY (1928-2011)

Natural History Part II

1975-76 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 62,500.00
12 HELEN FRANKENTHALER (1928-2011)

Tales of Genji II, from Tales of Genji

1998 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 60,000.00
81 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Fiesta Pig

1979 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 60,000.00
7 JOAN MITCHELL (1925-1992)

Sunflower I, from Sunflower Series

1992 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 52,500.00
68 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Mao: one plate

1972 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 52,500.00
113 AFTER JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Rome Pays Off

2004 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 50,000.00
72 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

The Witch, from Myths

1981 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 43,750.00
83 DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Views of Hotel Well I, from Moving Focus

1984-5 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,750.00
34 JASPER JOHNS (B. 1930)

Scent

1976 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 40,000.00
80 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Love

1983 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 40,000.00
2 JOSEF ALBERS (1888-1976)

SP: three plates

1967 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 37,500.00
115 JEFF KOONS (B. 1955)

Balloon Swan (Magenta), Balloon Monkey (Orange) and Balloon Rabbit (Violet)

2017 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 37,500.00
82 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Turtle

1985 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 35,000.00
107 NINA CHANEL ABNEY (B. 1982)

Two Years and Counting

2018 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,000.00
62 TOM WESSELMANN (1931-2004)

Amy Reclining

1985 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 32,500.00
69 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Skulls: one plate

1976 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
70 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Skulls: one plate

1976 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,500.00
84 DAVID HOCKNEY (B. 1937)

Painted Environment III

1994 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 27,500.00
86 JONAS WOOD (B. 1977)

Matisse Pot 1, from Matisse Pot 1, Matisse Pot 2, Matisse Pot 3

2017 USD 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 25,000.00
99 CHRISTOPHER WOOL (B. 1955)

My House II

2000 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 25,000.00
106 ROBERT LONGO (B. 1953)

Joseph, from Men in the Cities

2000 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 23,750.00
66 ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987)

Tattooed Woman Holding Rose

circa 1955 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 22,500.00
100 ROBERT COTTINGHAM (B. 1935)

American Signs

2009 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,500.00
  • 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
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    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
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