• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Peter Rabbit, 1st privately printed edition, 1901. £40,000-£60,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). Squintina Tabby, Licensed dealer in Tea. £7,000-£10,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix Helen, 1866-1943). A pair of original illustrations from The Tale of Benjamin Bunny. £8,000-£12,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix, illustrator). A Happy Pair, 1st [and only] edition, 1890. £5,000-£8,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter, c. 1920. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Fairy Caravan, 1st (autographed limited) edition, 1929. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st edition, 1903, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £1,500-£2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher, 1st deluxe edition, inscribed by Beatrix Potter. £3,000-£5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, 1st deluxe edition, 1903, rare trial binding. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    2 October
    Beatrix Potter:
    The Private Collection of Thomas & Greta Schuster
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Autograph Illustrated Letter Signed, 26 October 1936. £2,000-£3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). Signed and Inscribed ICAA Christmas Card, 1938. £1,500-£2,000.
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: The Arabian Nights - Alf Laylah wa-Laylah. 1862. Starting price € 25.000
    Gonnelli: Depero futurista. 1927. Starting price € 9.000
    Gonnelli: Dalì, Alchimia dei Filosofi. 1976. Starting price € 3.800
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cicero, Tusculanae disputationes. 1480. Starting price € 4.800
    Gonnelli: Cassini, De cometa. 1653. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli: Cataldi, Trattato della quadratura del cerchio etc. 1612. Starting price € 8.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Cavalieri, Geometria indivisibilibus. 1635. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Diophantus, Arithmeticorum libri sex. 1670. Starting price € 15.000
    Gonnelli: Fontana, Novae coelestium observationes. 1646. Starting price € 10.000
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 63
    Books, Autographs & Manuscripts
    October 7th-9th 2025
    Gonnelli: Galileo, Sidereus nuncius. 1610. Starting price € 100.000
    Gonnelli: Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones nonagentae. 1532. Starting price € 7.000
    Gonnelli: Jansson's Waterworld. 1657. Starting price € 20.000
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Corner-stone Document of Irish Freedom: 1916 PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. €100,000 to €150,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Important 18th Century Gaelic Scribal Manuscript. Ceating (Dochtuir) [Keating, Dr. Geoffrey]. Forus Feasa ar Éirinn. €15,000 to €20,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Irish Provincial Printed 18th Century Herbal. K'eogh (John). Botanalogia Universalis Hibernica, or, A General Irish Herbal, Calculated for this Kingdom… €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Somerville (E.OE.) The Discontented Little Elephant. Inscribed presentation copy. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Broadside: “Great News from Dublin, Giving a True Account of the Seizing of a Ship coming from Ireland, with Fifty Commissions from the late King James…” €800 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Welch (Rbt.) Photographer: Six photographic prints of the Titanic. €800 to €1,200.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Rare Modern Irish Masterpiece. O’Brien (Flann). At Swim-Two-Birds. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Newton (Sir Isaac). Opticks : or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: [Natural History] Donovan (Edward). The Natural History of British Birds; or a Selection of the Most Rare, Beautiful and Interesting Birds which Inhabit this Country. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: The Authors First Publication. Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems. €1,000 to €1,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Oct. 1-2: Heaney (Seamus). Remembering Malibu. €3,500 to €5,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    By a Lady
    1-15 October 2025
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. A long and intimate autograph letter signed ("JA"), to Cassandra Austen. $300,000 to $400,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: Austen, Jane. “Lines on Maria Beckford,” autograph manuscript signed ("Jane Austen"). $100,000 to $150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Oct. 1-15: [Austen, Jane]. Emma, the extraordinary Edgeworth-Butler copy. $250,000 to $350,000.

Auction Reports

Trillium Antique Prints & Rare Books

Auction Info

Auction Name
Fine Art - Antique Engravings & Lithographs - Works on Paper
Auction Date
09/06/2025 - 09/06/2025
Sale Number
#90625
Total Lots
150
Sold Lots
130
Lots Sold
86.67%
Unsold Lots
20
Total Sales (USD)
99,766.80
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
161,450.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
283,200.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
201,900.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
353,100.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
28.25%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3150 Gould

Gould's Family of Toucans - Volume with 33 Originally Hand-colored Lithographs

1833-1835. USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 45,635.50
3035 Seller & Senex

Seller & Senex - Celestial Chart - Celestial Chart - Stellarum fixarum hemisphaerium Australe. The Southern Hemisphere Projected on the Plane of the Aequator in which all the Stars contain'd...

1675-1721 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,568.00
3064 Chatelain

Chatelain - Map of America with Louisiana, Mexico, Florida, Great Lakes, Mississippi River, Virginia, New England, New Spain, part of Canada (inset of Quebec)

1718-1720. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,193.50
3149 Catesby

Catesby, First Ed - American Bison. Sup-20

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,765.50
3066 Van Keulen

Van Keulen, Rare - Chart of the North Sea (Coast of Holland and England)

1708 (but 1709). USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,712.00
3147 Catesby

Catesby, First Ed - Largest Crested Heron, Spotted Eft, Chego, & Cockroach. Sup-10

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,605.00
3146 Catesby

Catesby, First Ed - Little Owl. 1-7

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,605.00
3148 Catesby

Catesby, First Ed - Kingfisher with Narrow Leaved Candleberry Myrtle

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,551.50
3099 Thornton

Thornton, Folio - Large Flowering Sensitive Plant with Hummingbirds

1787-1812. USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,551.50
3027 Hevelius

Hevelius - Pair of Constellation Charts: Aries & Camelopardalus

1690 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 1,177.00
3065 Van Keulen

Van Keulen, Rare - Map of the Atlantic Ocean (Entire Western Shipping Industry) (West Coast of Europe & Africa)

1708 (but 1709). USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,070.00
3138 Catesby

Catesby - Small Rattlesnake (Carolina Pigmy Rattlesnake). 2-42

1750 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,016.50
3019 Merian

Merian - 4 Dance of Death Engravings

1649 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 909.50
3028 Bayer

Bayer - Pair of Constellation Charts: Corona Borealis, Crown & Triangulum, the Triangle

1609 or 1603 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 802.50
3054 Ortelius

Ortelius, pub. 1613 - Map of Africa

1598 in the colophon but Published 1613. USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3089

6 Original Watercolors of Bindweed (Ipomaea) after Herz for Jacquin, Rheede

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 802.50
3145 Catesby

Catesby, First Ed - American Swallow with Lily. Sup-8

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 695.50
3106 Seguy

Seguy - Butterfly or Moth Pochoir. 13

1925 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 695.50
3129 Audubon

Audubon - 9 Sandpiper Lithographs

1840-1844. USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 668.75
3016 Angas

Angas, Australia - Angaston, Evening

1847 USD 800.00 - 1,600.00 USD 642.00

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  • Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: BOETTI, Alighiero - Classifying the thousand longest rivers in the world. Ascoli Piceno: 1977. € 15.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: GOYA Y LUCIENTES, Francisco José - Los desastres de la guerra. Madrid: 1863. € 12.000 - 18.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: HEVELIUS, Johannes - Selenographia sive lunae descriptio. Danzica: 1647. € 10.000 - 15.000
    Il Ponte, Sep. 30-Oct. 1: REDOUTÉ, Pierre-Joseph - Douze Bouquets. Parigi e New York: [s.d., ma ca. 1835]. € 15.000 - 25.000
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