Bonhams: Fine Books & Manuscripts, 29535, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
December 18, 2024 - December 18, 2024
Page Size: 159 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
105 ROBINSON, WILLIAM HEATH. 1872-1944.

Ink and monochrome watercolor on board, "How to Know When there is an Incendiary in the Loft," highlighted in a few places in white gouache,

undated (1941), USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,680.00
106

Ink and monochrome watercolor on board, "The New Scissor Anti-Tank Trap,"

undated (1940), USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,328.00
107 STEADMAN, RALPH. B. 1936.

Ink on board, "Enoch Powell as a Pussycat,"

USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 6,400.00
108 STEADMAN, RALPH. B. 1936.

Ink on paper, Richard Nixon's Head on a Platter,

USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 7,040.00
109 VAN ALLSURG, CHRIS. B.1949.

Original storyboard illustration, for The Wretched Stone,

1991], USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
110 MELVILLE, HERMAN. 1819-1891. KENT, ROCKWELL, Illustrator.

Moby Dick; or The Whale.

Chicago 1930 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 7,680.00
111

Intermezzi, Opus IV, 1881.

Nuremberg 1881 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
112

This Book is an Object.

San Francsico 1989 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 76.80
113 HOMER. FL. 8TH CENTURY B.C.E.

L'Odyssee.

Paris 1978 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,024.00
114

A group of fourteen gelatin silver photographs of artists, dancers, and film personalities by Jack Mitchell,

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 4,352.00
115 OVID. 43 B.C.E.-17 A.D.E. PABLO PICASSO. 1881-1973. Illustrator.

Metamorphoses.

Lausanne 1931 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 6,144.00
116 PICASSO, PABLO. 1881-1973.

Paris: Editions Cahiers d'Art, 1948.

Paris: 1948 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,840.00
117 PICASSO, PABLO. 1881-1973.

Picasso Sketchbook.

London 1960 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
118 RODIN, AUGUSTE. 1840-1917.

Autograph Note Signed ("Rodin") to Mr. [Leon] Goulette, thanking him for a note in ,

1892 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
119 COBURN, ALVIN LANGDON. 1882-1966.

Portrait of John Singer Sargent. Photogravure print, proof before letters (no printed plate number or facsimile signature),

USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,664.00
120 SCHMIED, FRANCOIS-LOUIS, illustrator; and JOSEPH-CHARLES MARDRUS.

Histoire charmante de l'adolescente sucre d'amour.

Paris 1927 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
121

Two rare pre-publication advance "dummy" copies of Verve with lithographs by Chagall and Matisse including:

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,536.00
122 WARHOL, ANDY. (1928-1987).

Andy Warhol: Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia 1965 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
123 WHILHELM, RICHARD. translator.

A Suite of Daze.

Chicago 1977 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,024.00
124 WHISTLER, JAMES MCNEILL (AFTER). 1834-1903. JOSEY, RICHARD, engraver.

Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother.

London. 1878 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,024.00
125 YUAN-PIEN, HSIANG. 1525-1590.

Noted Porcelains of Successive Dynasties.

Beijing 1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,816.00
126

A group of 2 works in 3 volumes:

19TH CENTURY. USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 76.80
127

Autograph Postcard, in Hungarian, to Janos Busitia, regarding collecting recorded samples of Romanian folk music,

1912 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,536.00
128 BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN. 1770-1827. And ARTURO TOSCANINI. 1867-1957.

Autograph Note Signed ("Arturo Toscanini"), with three bars of music,

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
129

Musical Quotation Signed ("Hector Berlioz"), being 1 bar of music from ,

1862 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,560.00
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