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Rockwell Kent. Rockwell Kent's Personal Photograph Archive of His Home at Asgaard, Excursions to Denmark, Greenland, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Monhegan Island, Circa 1931-1953.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36125 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $80,500.00
[Francis Picabia]. Marie de la Hire, FRANCIS PICABIA. Paris: La Cible Gallery, [1920]. First edition.

Auction 6218 | Lot: 45070 | Sep 4, 2019

Sold For: $36,250.00
Doris Ulmann, photographs. Julia Peterkin, text. Roll, Jordan, Roll. (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6053 | Lot: 36199 | Apr 7, 2011

Sold For: $23,302.50

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$34,954 or more
[Tsuguharu] Foujita. A Book of Cats. Being Twenty Drawings. Poems in Prose by Michael Joseph. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1930. First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is number twenty-eight, and signed by the artist.
Auction 6193 | Lot: 45081 | Sep 13, 2018

Sold For: $22,500.00
Frank Lloyd Wright. Ausgeführte Bauten und Entwürfe von Frank Lloyd Wright. Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth, 1910. First edition.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45175 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $18,750.00
[Picasso]. Honoré de Balzac. LE CHEF-D'OEUVRE INCONNU. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1931. Limited and extra-illustrated edition based on the 1831 first edition.

Auction 6218 | Lot: 45074 | Sep 4, 2019

Sold For: $16,250.00
[Visionaire]. [Karl Lagerfeld, Mario Testino, David Byrne, Alexander McQueen, and Many More, Contributors]. Stephen Gan, Editor-in-Chief. A Remarkable Collection of Visionaire, a Continuous Run of the First Fifty-Six Installments of the Groundbreaking Art Publication. New York: Visionaire Publishing, 1991-2009. Numbers One through Fifty-Six. Limited editions of varying quantity, all numbered. (Total: 58 Items)
Auction 6127 | Lot: 45269 | Aug 5, 2015

Sold For: $16,250.00
[Art and Design]. [Felician Baron Myrbach, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, Alfred Roller, editors]. Die Fläche. Vienna: Anton Schroll, [n.d., ca. 1902-1910]. First editions. Two volumes in three portfolios. Designs in full color. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6108 | Lot: 36185 | Apr 2, 2014

Sold For: $15,000.00
[Art and Design]. [Gustav Klimt, Johanna Hollmann, Minka, Podhajska, et al., contributors]. Die Fläche. Vienna: Anton Schroll, [ca. 1903-1910]. First edition of the full run of Die Fläche ("The Surface"),
Auction 6222 | Lot: 45224 | Mar 4, 2020

Sold For: $13,750.00
[Chromolithography]. Owen Jones and Jules Goury. Plans, Elevations, Sections and Details of the Alhambra, from drawings taken on the spot in 1834 by the late M. Jules Goury and in 1834 and 1837 by Owen Jones. First edition. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6112 | Lot: 45197 | Oct 8, 2014

Sold For: $12,500.00
[William] Ince and [John] Mayhew. The Universal System of Household Furniture. London: sold by Rob[er]t Sayer, no date but [circa 1760].
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45363 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $10,625.00
Antonio Visentini. Urbis Venetiarum Prospectus Celebriores ex Antonii Canal Tabulis XL Aere Expressi. Venetiis: Theodorum Viero, [1742]. Second edition. Oblong folio. Lacking seven of the thirty-eight plates called for, otherwise complete. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards with rubbing and scuffing to extremities. Joints splitting and two-inch portion lacking at head of spine. Thumbing to plate edges with some scattered foxing to preliminary pages and occasionally affecting images. Collating notations in pencil to Tabularum leaf. Overall, very good condition.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36077 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $10,625.00
Marc Chagall. Psaumes de David. Geneva: Gérald Cramer, 1979. Limited to 160 copies on vélin d'Arches, from a total edition of 175, of which this is number 142, signed by Chagall. Additionally inscribed and signed by Chagall to the half-title and with a full-page original drawing opposite the half-title, all in pencil, drawing heightened in blue and red crayon.
Auction 6253 | Lot: 45239 | Jul 27, 2022

Sold For: $10,000.00

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[Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Los Caprichos. Madrid: Published by the Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia, [1799, i.e. 1868]. A complete set of eighty etchings, with aquatint, drypoint, and engraving, some with gray wash. Pulled from the original plates by Calcografia Nacional for the Real Academia, Madrid. Most likely the third edition of 1868.
Auction 6212 | Lot: 42075 | Sep 5, 2019

Sold For: $10,000.00

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$15,000 or more
Andy Warhol and Ralph Thomas Ward. Love is a Pink Cake.
Auction 6278 | Lot: 45293 | Nov 30, 2023

Sold For: $9,687.50

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$14,531 or more
[John Milton]. John Martin (engraver). Mezzotint Collection [from Paradise Lost]. London: 1829. Collection of twenty-four magnificently hand-colored mezzotint plates from the 1927 Septimus Prowett Paradise Lost.
Auction 6201 | Lot: 45157 | Sep 14, 2017

Sold For: $9,375.00
Jacob Lawrence. Eight Studies [for The Book of Genesis]. [New York:] The Limited Editions Club, [1990]. LEC edition, limited to fifty copies, of which this is number nine, with eight large silkscreen studies signed by the artist.
Auction 6186 | Lot: 45275 | Mar 7, 2018

Sold For: $8,125.00
Edward Ruscha. Artist Joseph Cleary's Vast Collection of Books by and about His Friend, Edward Ruscha. [Los Angeles and elsewhere]: 1968-2011. (Total: 21 Items)
Auction 6155 | Lot: 45314 | Apr 6, 2016

Sold For: $7,500.00
[Salvador Dali, Illustrator]. Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Twelve Illustrations with Original Woodcuts and an Original Etching by Salvador Dali. New York: Maecenas Press-Random House, 1969. One of 2,500 numbered portfolios printed on Mandeure paper, this being copy number 1,841, signed by Salvador Dali on the title page.
Auction 6108 | Lot: 36175 | Apr 2, 2014

Sold For: $7,500.00
[Jules Chéret, illustrator]. Ernest Maindron. Les Affiches illustrées. Paris: H. Launette & Cie, 1886, 1896, 1897. First editions; volume I is limited to 500 copies on papier vélin, of which this is number 343, out of a total edition of 525. Inscribed by Chéret on the front blank of volume I: "Exemplaire de Mons. [?] [--] Baronnet / Jules Chéret." Volume II is limited to 1,000 copies on on papier vélin, of which this is number 261, out of a total edition of 1,025. Volume III is limited to 1,000 copies on on papier vélin, of which this is number 908, out of a total edition of 1,050. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6208 | Lot: 45150 | Mar 6, 2019

Sold For: $6,875.00
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Quatorze Lithographies Originales de Toulouse Lautrec Pour Illustrer des Chansons. [Paris: H. Lefebre, 1935]. One of only twenty copies printed in green ink on China paper, from a total edition of 140 (the remaining 120 printed in black).
Auction 6164 | Lot: 45090 | Sep 15, 2016

Sold For: $6,875.00
Giuseppe Vasi. Delle Magnificenze Di Roman Antica E Moderna Libro Primo [-Libro Decimo]... In Roma: Nella Stamperia del Characas Presso S. Maco Al Corso [and others], 1747 [circa 1790] - 1761. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6155 | Lot: 45303 | Apr 6, 2016

Sold For: $6,250.00

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$9,375 or more
Richard Avedon. An Autobiography. [New York: Random House, 1993]. First edition, one of 250 numbered copies (this being number 73) signed boldly by Avedon on the front free endpaper. Folio. [8], [389 unnumbered pages of black and white photographs], [31] pages. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6064 | Lot: 36050 | Feb 8, 2012

Sold For: $6,250.00

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$9,375 or more
John Coleman Burroughs, artist. Cast Bronze Sabre Tooth Tiger Sculpture. [N.d., circa 1934].
Auction 6169 | Lot: 96097 | Oct 27, 2016

Sold For: $6,000.00
[Costumes]. Cesare Vecillio. De gli Habiti Antichi et Moderni de Diverse Parti del Mondo, Libri Due. Venice: Presso Damian Zenaro, 1590. First edition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36283 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,937.50
[Fine Binding by Séguy]. George Barbier, Schmied [illustrators], Albert Flament [text]. Personnages de Comédie. Paris: Meynial, no date [1922]. Limited edition of 150 copies, of which this is number 47, signed by Barbier in pencil to the limitation page and with an additional plate.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45162 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $5,375.00
[Art]. Verve. An Artistic and Literary Quarterly Appearing in December, March, June and October. [Paris]: E. Teriade, 1937-1960]. First editions, mixed English and French issues. [With]: The Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque. [Paris: Verve, 1955]. Together, twenty-three issues (of twenty-six), in thirty-five (of thirty-eight parts), in twenty-nine quarto volumes (some issues of Verve were issued with multiple parts in a single issue; the number of volumes given includes the Intimate Sketchbooks of G. Braque). (Total: 29 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36134 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $5,312.50

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$7,969 or more
Ben Shahn. Rainer M. Rilke. For the Sake of a Single Verse. New York: Atelier Mourlot, 1968. First edition, one of 200 numbered copies with lithographs on Richard de Bas hand-made paper, each signed by Shahn (this being copy number 18), out of a total edition of 950.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36132 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $5,156.25
William Gilkerson. Manuscript Archive for The Scrimshander. [San Francisco: Troubador Press, ca. 1973-1975]. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45526 | Jun 10, 2021

Sold For: $5,000.00
Louis C. Tiffany. The Art Work of Louis C. Tiffany. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, number 79 of 492 copies printed on Japan paper for private distribution, warmly inscribed by Tiffany: "No. 79 / To Miss Agnes Northrop / My dear Miss Northrop / To you, who have helped / me for over thirty years in my / work, I am glad to send you / my book on my sixty seventh birthday. / Louis C. Tiffany / Feb 18 - 1915" on the front free endpaper.
Auction 6108 | Lot: 36191 | Apr 2, 2014

Sold For: $5,000.00
[Architecture]. French Architecture Collection of Mr. Frederick Howland Roosa. 1830 - [1910]. (Total: 63 Items)
Auction 6148 | Lot: 45221 | Nov 4, 2015

Sold For: $4,687.50
[Silvia Rennie, art binder]. Marc Chagall. The Lithographs of Chagall. Introduction by Marc Chagall. Notes and Catalogue by Fernand Mourlot. New York and Boston: George Braziller, Crown Publishers, and Boston Book and Art Shop, [1960-1984].
(Total: 11 Items)
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36148 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $4,687.50

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$7,031 or more
[Modern Art periodicals]. Forty Issues of Derrière Le Miroir. Paris: Editions Maeght, 1950-1982. Forty folio issues. Wonderfully illustrated with original lithographic wrappers and several original lithographs and reproductions. Original wrappers with loose folded pages within, with a few exceptions of specially-bound issues by the publisher. Most issues have light wear to the covers. Some rubbing with modest wear to the edges and extremities. Intermittent offsetting to some images. A few instances of small tears and abrasions to the spine. Otherwise, a very good collection of this beautifully-designed magazine. (Total: 40 Items)
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36068 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $4,687.50

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$7,031 or more
J. - K. Huysmans. L'ART MODERNE. Paris: G. Charpentier, 1883. First edition. Inscribed by Huysmans to the Danish-French artist and illustrator Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) on the half title page.

Auction 6218 | Lot: 45042 | Sep 4, 2019

Sold For: $4,250.00

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$6,825 or more
[Kahlil Gibran, illustrator]. Twenty Drawings. With an Introductory Essay by Alice Raphael. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1919. First edition, limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 100, signed by Gibran on an inserted leaf.
Auction 6091 | Lot: 36122 | Oct 4, 2012

Sold For: $4,062.50
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett. The Antiquities of Athens. London: John Haberkorn and John Nichols, 1762-1794. First edition, first three volumes of an eventual five. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45195 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $4,000.00

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$6,000 or more
[Photography]. Robert Frank. The Americans. Introduction by Jack Kerouac. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. First American edition, hardcover issue.
Auction 6222 | Lot: 45220 | Mar 4, 2020

Sold For: $3,875.00
[Pablo Picasso, illustrator]. Aristophanes. Lysistrata. A new version by Gilbert Seldes with a special introduction by Mr. Seldes.
Auction 6323 | Lot: 45141 | Dec 15, 2025

Sold For: $3,750.00

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$5,625 or more
Antonio Quadri. Il Canal Grande do Venezia. Venice: S. Lazzaro, 1838. Lazzaro edition, fourth overall, appearing a decade after the first (1928), with previous editions also appearing in 1831 and 1834.
Auction 6186 | Lot: 45278 | Mar 7, 2018

Sold For: $3,750.00

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$5,625 or more
[Marc Chagall]. Dessins pour la Bible. [Drawings for the Bible]. (Verve, Vol. X, Nos 37-38) Paris: Editions de la Revue Verve, [1960]. Folio. [30, 96 pages, [16, index]. Fully illustrated by Chagall with ninety-six black-and-white reproductions and twenty-four color lithographs on wove paper. Illustrated paper over boards. Some wear to edges and extremities. Lightly bumped corners and spine ends with minor loss. Top corner of text block lightly bumped. Occasional very light toning or offsetting. Lithographs are clean and bright. Introduction by Gaston Bachelard and index in French. A bright, very good copy of this wonderfully illustrated edition of Chagall's drawings for the Bible. Cramer 42. Mourlot 230-277. Sorlier 75.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36059 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $3,750.00
[Louis Icart, illustrator]. [Jacques Bredelin]. Docteur Jacobus. La Vie des Seins. Paris: Georges Guillot, 1945. Limited to 200 copies, this being one of the Exemplaire d'Artiste edition on Japan paper. Quarto. 30 pages, table, colophon. Illustrated by Louis Icart with fifteen etched plates in color, five of which are double-page, and fifteen two-color vignettes. Loose tissue guards present. Portfolio of loose folded pages laid within printed heavy stock textured paper covers. Housed in a matching folder and slipcase. Folder and slipcase with some sunning. Otherwise, a near fine copy of this titillating title.
Auction 6085 | Lot: 36065 | Apr 11, 2012

Sold For: $3,750.00
[Bernhardt Wall, artist]. Francis J. Weber. Following Bernhardt Wall. Austin: The Book Club of Texas, 1994. First edition, one of 195 limited edition copies (copy number 2) signed by Weber on the limitation page. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45172 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $3,500.00
Inigo Jones. The Designs of Inigo Jones, Consisting of Plans and Elevations for Publick and Private Buildings. [London]: William Kent, 1727. First edition.
Auction 6174 | Lot: 45193 | Mar 8, 2017

Sold For: $3,500.00
[Al Hirschfeld, artist]. William Saroyan. Harlem as seen by Hirschfeld.
Auction 6278 | Lot: 45280 | Nov 30, 2023

Sold For: $3,250.00
[Aviation]. [Orville Wright]. [Frank Lemon, illustrator]. Flights. Unforgettable Exploits of the Air. [N.p.]. Wright Aeronautical Corporation, Christmas 1928. First edition, number 427 of only 500 copies of this complete collection of seven prints commemorating milestones in aviation, each signed by the pilot. (Total: 8 Items)
Auction 6108 | Lot: 36025 | Apr 2, 2014

Sold For: $3,250.00
Charles M. Russell. Pen Sketches By Charles M. Russell The Cowboy Artist. [Great Falls, Montana: W.T. Ridgley Printing Company, n.d., 1899]. Apparent variant of the third edition (the second plate if "Blazing the Trail" instead of "Initiated," which is omitted, but the cloth binding appears to be first edition, but the size is a bit larger).
Auction 6094 | Lot: 36160 | Apr 10, 2013

Sold For: $3,250.00
Eugéne Montfort; Raoul Doufy [illustrator]. La Belle-Enfant our L'Amour À Quarante Ans. Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1930. Limited edition of 340 copies, the first 30 of which were printed to "Japon ancien" with an additional suite of plates, of which this is number 22.
Auction 6232 | Lot: 45167 | Jun 9, 2021

Sold For: $3,125.00
Joan Mitchell, John Ashbery, et. al. Abstract Expressionism. 4 Volumes. New York: Tiber Press, 1960.
Auction 6230 | Lot: 45043 | Oct 15, 2020

Sold For: $3,125.00

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