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Auction Name Online Sale: Modern and Contemporary Editions and Works on Paper Total Sales (GBP) 16,312.00
Auction Date February 25, 2020 - February 25, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 11,100.00
Sale Number #2141 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 16,750.00
Total Lots 75
Sold Lots 44 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 23,800.00
% of Lots Sold 58.67% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 35,300.00
Unsold Lots 31 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 46.21%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
7 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Elijah (from Our Historical Heritage) (Field 75-4J; M&L 758)

1975 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,474.00
32 Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) (after)

Untitled

1916-1949 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 975.00
1 Julian Trevelyan (1910-1988)

Spinnakers (Turner 247)

1972 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 715.00
68 Stik

Standing Figure (Blue)

2015 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 687.50
66 Blek Le Rat (b.1951)

Rat No 5

2019 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 650.00
9 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) (after)

From 'Grâce et mouvement'

1943 GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 624.00
28 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

La Botte Violette (The Violet Boot) (M&L 359f) (Field 68-6)

1969 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 624.00
29 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Le Torse (Torso) (M&L 362f; Field 68-6-M)

1969 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 624.00
5 John Piper (1903-1992)

San Marco, Venice (Levinson 116)

1961 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 520.00
20 Pierre Alechinksy (b.1927)

Untitled

1973 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 520.00
3 Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005)

War Games Revised

1967 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 494.00
38 Julian Opie (b.1958)

Woman taking off man's shirt (Cristea p.244)

2003 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 468.00
24 Roberto Sebastián Matta (1911-2002)

Torotoro

1955 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 442.00
27 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Hippofemme (from Femmes et Chevaux) (Field 73-4B; M&L 586-a)

1973 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 442.00
30 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Vigour of Youth (M&L 930f; Field 79-1-A)

1977 GBP 400.00 - 500.00 GBP 416.00
31 Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

Femme au clown (Field 69-1E; M&L 302k)

1968/1969 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 416.00
47 Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

Overseas Culture Interchange

1992 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 416.00
40 Andy Warhol (1928-1987)(after)

I Love Your Kiss Forever Forever (Sunday B. Morning)

2013 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 390.00
53 Antoni Tapies (1923-2013)

Untitled

signed and numbered from the edition of 30 in pencil GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 390.00
65 Jonas Wood (b.1977)

Large Shelf Still Life 2017

2017 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 390.00
2 Kenneth Martin (1905-1984)

Chance and Order III

1971-1972 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 338.00
33 David Hockney (b.1937)

Composition Red & Blue (Momart)

2005 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 338.00
13 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

Composition au verre a pied (Bloch 431; Mourlot 77)

1947 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 286.00
39 Julian Opie (b.1958)

Walking in Melbourne 1

2018 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 286.00
73 Shepard Fairey (b.1970)

Collage Icon Triptych

2016 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 286.00
  • 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
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    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
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
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