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Rago Arts and Auctions: Curated: The Library and Design Collection of James Zemaitis

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Curated: The Library and Design Collection of James Zemaitis	Total Sales (USD)	128,804.00
Auction Date	June 06, 2025 - June 06, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	28,100.00
Sale Number	#60625	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	41,250.00
Total Lots	66
Sold Lots	66	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	28,100.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	41,250.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	312.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
148		George Nakashima monographs, eleven		USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 17,780.00
103		French Art Deco surveys, monographs, and collections, seventeen		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 13,970.00
104		French Style monographs, nineteen		USD 700.00 - 900.00	USD 12,065.00
141		Italian Design and Architecture monographs, sixteen		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 8,890.00
140		Carlo Mollino monographs, five		USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 6,096.00
151		Tiffany Studios monographs, thirty-three		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 5,080.00
111	Lucien Herve 1910--2007 follow artist	Jean Prouve; Pierre Jeanneret (two works)	1950/printed later, 1955	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,826.00
100		Important Eileen Gray auction catalogs, two		USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 4,064.00
145		Isamu Noguchi monographs, eight		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 4,064.00
146		Danish Design surveys and monographs, sixteen		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 2,794.00
126		American Studio Furniture and Woodworking monographs, seventeen		USD 700.00 - 900.00	USD 2,540.00
143		Scandinavian Design monographs, nine		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 2,540.00
117		French Modern Design: Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, Pierre Jeanneret et al. monographs, fifteen		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 2,286.00
178		Contemporary Design monographs, twenty		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,159.00
163		Brazilian Architecture and Design monographs, fourteen		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,905.00
106		Jean Prouve monographs, eight		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,651.00
132		Scandinavian Design surveys and exhibition catalogs, nine		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,651.00
120		Bauhaus and German Design monographs, twenty		USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 1,270.00
136		Alvar Aalto monographs, six		USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,270.00
128		American and European Modernism: Primary Sources 1928-1942 monographs, eleven	1928-1942	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,080.00
122		Bauhaus and the Americas monographs, fifteen		USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,016.00
154		Italian Radical Design monographs, fourteen		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 1,016.00
189		Phillips Design auction catalogs 2001-2021, sixty-two	2001-2021	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 1,016.00
160		Modern Architecture and Furniture by Architects monographs, eighteen		USD 600.00 - 800.00	USD 953.00
169		Harry Bertoia monographs, nine		USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 953.00

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: Ian Fleming. Casino Royale, London, 1953. First edition, first printing. $58,610.

Sotheby’s: A.A. Milne, Ernest Howard Shepard. Winnie The Pooh, United Kingdom, 1926. First UK edition. $17,580.

Sotheby’s: Ernest Hemingway. Three Stories And Ten Poems, [Paris], (1923). First edition of Hemingway’s first published book. $75,000.

Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: L. Frank Baum. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, 1900. First edition. $27,500.

Sotheby’s: Man Ray. Photographs By Man Ray 1920 Paris 1934, Hartford, 1934. $7,860.

Sotheby’s: Thomas Pennant. Zoologia Britannica, Augsburg, 1771. $49,125.
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