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Nye & Company Auctioneers: Discovery in the Backyard Sale

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Auction Name Discovery in the Backyard Sale Total Sales (USD) 2,901.00
Auction Date March 19, 2020 - March 19, 2020 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,340.00
Sale Number #31920 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 3,465.00
Total Lots 89
Sold Lots 66 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,970.00
% of Lots Sold 74.16% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 6,215.00
Unsold Lots 23 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 46.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
548 Kunihiro Amano

Woodblock, Black Swan in Reeds, Kunihiro Amano

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 294.00
553 Joseph Stella

Etching, Tree Trunk, Joseph Stella

USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 154.00
576

Framed Print, Picasso, Flowers and Hands

USD 20.00 - 40.00 USD 128.00
551 Itzchak Tarkay

Itzchak Tarkay Serigraph The Reading Signed

USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 115.00
567

Print of Greenland Mother Nursing Child

USD 20.00 - 40.00 USD 115.00
685 Julius Erving

Autographed Julius Erving Print

USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 102.00
755

Group of Assorted Antique Silver Books

USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 102.00
565 Pierre Bonnard

Etching, "Le Graveur" Pierre Bonnard

USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 77.00
99 Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro Woodblock Print

USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 64.00
100 Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro Wood Block Print Of Geisha

USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 64.00
539

Pair of Colored Prints, Country Scenes

1797 USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 64.00
563

Print, 1548 Hand Colored Map of Paris

1548 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 64.00
564 Churchill Ettinger

Etching, "Black Duck Blind" Churchill Ettinger

USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 64.00
741 Richard Avedon

Richard Avedon Observations Photographs

USD 100.00 - 125.00 USD 64.00
744

Stuarts Atlas of the State Of Maine 1901-2

1901-2 USD 40.00 - 60.00 USD 64.00
555

Two Asian Colored Prints of Abstract Herons

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 58.00
578

Print, Avanti, Cubist Style, "Un Violon Rouge"

USD 20.00 - 40.00 USD 58.00
743

Olof Rudbecks Book Of Birds 1986

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 58.00
405 Currier & Ives

Currier & Ives Print

USD 2.00 - 10.00 USD 51.00
729 T. Stevens

Four T. Stevens, Silk Stevengraph Bookmarks

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 51.00
559

Three Assorted Prints

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 45.00
111

Pair of Antique Asian Hand Colored Engravings

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 38.00
115

Japanese Wood Block Print of Bird On Branch

USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 38.00
541 David Phillips

Set of David Phillips Black and White Photographs

USD 20.00 - 30.00 USD 38.00
557 Sparrow & Bee

Japanese Woodblock Print Sparrow & Bee

ca. 1900 USD 60.00 - 80.00 USD 38.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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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