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Auction Info

Auction Name
Japanese Antiques and Works on Paper Online Auction - bidstart 2/2
Auction Date
04/23/2024 - 04/23/2024
Sale Number
#42324
Total Lots
53
Sold Lots
36
Lots Sold
67.92%
Unsold Lots
17
Total Sales (USD)
22,510.75
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
17,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
26,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
24,400.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
36,450.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
61.76%

Top twenty by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2099 UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (Japanese 1797-1858)

Pilgrimage to the Original Shrine of Benzaiten in the Cave at Enoshima, circa 1850

circa 1850 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,540.00
2079 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese 1907-1997)

Kaki no Aizu(16) 1976

1976 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
2098 UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI I (Japanese 1797-1861)

Yoshitsune and his Nineteen Loyal Retainers, 1855

1855 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,524.00
2097 ANDO HIROSHIGE (Japanese 1797-1858)

Kameido Tenjin Shrine from famous views of Edo in Winter (Edo Meisho).

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,397.00
2111 HIROSHIGE

FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK BY ANDO HIROSHIGE

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,016.00
2114 UTGAWA KONIYOSHI

NINE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY UTGAWA KONIYOSHI

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 952.50
2077 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese 1907-1997)

Clay Image circa 1962

circa 1962 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 825.50
2021 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Aizu no le (F), 1973

1973 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 762.00
2054 SEITEI (SHOTEI) WATANABE (Japanese 1851-1918)

Ten (10) woodblock prints,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 762.00
2115 UTGAWA KONIYOSHI

NINE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY UTAGAWA KUNISADA

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 698.50
2043 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Maiko Kyoto(I), 1961

1961 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
2113

ASSORTED JAPANESE WELL-CONSERVED WOODBLOCK PRINTS

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 635.00
2081 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese 1907-1997)

Onri-An Kyoto(L), 1965

1965 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 571.50
2023 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Buddha Asyura (D), 1959

1959 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 508.00
2102 TOYOHARA KUNICHIKA (Japanese 1835-1900)

Seven woodblock prints,

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 508.00
2108 HIRONSHIGE III

SEVEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY HIRONSHIGE III

USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 508.00
2048 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Saga Kyoto(D), 1955

1955 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 476.25
2107 ANDO HIROSHIGE I

SIX JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY ANDO HIROSHIGE I

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 476.25
2022 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Miidera Otsu, 1970

1970 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 444.50
2045 KIYOSHI SAITO (Japanese, 1907-1997)

Katsura Kyoto(H), 1962

1962 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 444.50

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  • 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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    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
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