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Litchfield County Auctions: Summer Antiques & Estates Auction
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Summer Antiques & Estates Auction | Total Sales (USD) | 23,569.00 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | June 24, 2026 - June 24, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 11,620.00 |
| Sale Number | #62426 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 20,650.00 |
| Total Lots | 98 | ||
| Sold Lots | 65.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 18,770.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 66.33% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 31,950.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 33 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 73.77% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 390 | Picasso Pablo | Le Desir attrape par la queue |
1941 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 3,510.00 |
| 394 | Picasso Pablo | Hommage a Pablo Picasso |
1966-1967 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,990.00 |
| 389 | Picasso Pablo; Motherwell Robert; Hofmann Hans; Leger Fernand; Newman Arnold; Soulages Pierre; Mathieu Georges; Olitski Jules; Avedon Richard; Rosenberg Harold | 20 Books, including: Picasso: The Recent Years 1939-1946 |
1946; 1944; 1981 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,820.00 |
| 352 | Stille Charles J | A History of Texas, or the Emigrant's Guide to the New Republic |
1844 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 975.00 |
| 418 | Asimov Isaac; Dunsany Lord; Moorcock Michael; Garner Alan | 20 Speculative and Science Fiction Books |
20th century | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 975.00 |
| 341 | Shakespeare William | The Plays and Poems |
1795-1796 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 910.00 |
| 391 | Mourlot Fernand | Picasso Lithographe |
1919-1949 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 343 | Whipple Henry; Alden Abner; Daboll Nathan; Rogers Hester Ann; Garnett James M | 59 Books, including: Whimsical incidents |
1820; 1822; 1818; 1831; 1825 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 715.00 |
| 395 | Picasso Pablo | 29 Books, including: Picasso and Company |
1960; 1961; 1966 | USD 50.00 - 150.00 | USD 715.00 |
| 393 | Zervos Christian | Pablo Picasso |
1963 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 520.00 |
| 367 | Weigall A. | The Life and Times of Cleopatra |
1924 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 487.50 |
| 348 | Scott Walter | The Waverly Novels |
1852-1853 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 455.00 |
| 392 | Picasso Pablo | Verve Revue Artistique et Litteraire |
1951 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 422.50 |
| 400 | 16 Books, including: Ida Kohlmeyer: Thirty Years |
1930s-1940s | USD 50.00 - 100.00 | USD 357.50 | |
| 351 | Kipling Rudyard; Cather Willa; Dumas Alexandre; Moliere | N Books, including: Rudyard Kipling |
1892-1937 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 339 | Perionius Joachim 1499-1559 | De vita rebusque gestis lesu christi |
1553; 1561 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 292.50 |
| 366 | Pictorial Bindings |
N/A | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | USD 292.50 | |
| 401 | Christo; Katz Alex; Escher M.C.; Shahn Ben | 20 Books, including: Christo: Store Fronts |
1930-1948; 1939 | USD 40.00 - 80.00 | USD 292.50 |
| 13 | Grbic Ivo (1931-2020) | Skoljka (Shell) |
N/A | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 355 | Nodier Charles | Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques dans l'Ancienne France |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 357 | Wilde Oscar | The Writings of Oscar Wilde |
1907-1909 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 405 | Giotto; Leonardo da Vinci; Murillo Bartolome Esteban; Rembrandt; Bruegel Pieter; Michelangelo; Rubens Peter Paul; Zuccaro Taddeo; Bernini Gian Lorenzo; Durer Albrecht; Tiepolo Domenico; Guercino; Botticelli Sandro; Lorrain Claude; Veronese Paolo; Piero de | 37 Books, including: The Dutch Painters |
1953; 1961 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 406 | Rumfod Beatrix T.; Weekley Carolyn J.; Kiehl David W.; Mathews Nancy Mowll; Warhol Andy; Stella Frank; Sargent John Singer; Arbus Diane; Graves Morris; Demuth Charles; De Kooning Willem; Johns Jasper; Hopper Edward; Rosenthal Nan; Fine Ruth; Prather Marla | 25 Books, including: Treasures of American Folk Art |
1957; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1974; 1977; 1979; 1980; 1982; 1983; 1986; 1987; 1988; 1989; 1990; 1998 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 331 | Curtiss Marian Foster | N Books, including: Jack and Jill |
circa 1888; 1965 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 227.50 |
| 340 | 14 Books, including: Holy Bible |
1723-1719 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 227.50 |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.