May 1, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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A group of American prints, maps and graphics many in Perry Hopf frames
Estate / Collection: Estate of Kenneth Sausville
[CANADA-NATIVE AMERICANS]
A group of miscellaneous prints, maps and graphics of mostly Canadian and Native American interest. A large group of about 19 items (all but one framed, most in fine Perry Hopf frames) including antique portraits and maps and later reprints and reproductions. No items examined out of frame, sold as a decorative collection and as is.
Portaits and prints include:
The engraved portrait Joseph Thayendaneken The Mohawk Chief. [London: circa 1776.] About 6 x 4 1/2 inches, trimmed to plate mark. This is a scarce portrait of antiquarian interest; The unattributed portrait Hopkins Commandant En Chef, la Flotte Américaine, Paris, circa 1778, 6 x 4 1/4 inches with wider margins and platemarks; A hand-colored lithographed folio-sized portrait Kish-Kallo-Wa. Shawnee Chief from McKenney & Hall; A hand-colored lithographed octavo-sized portrait Kee-She-Wa. A Fox Cheif from McKenney & Hall; four circa 1908 sepia toned small format photographs by Edward S. Curtiseach about 7 1/2 x 5 inches; a later edition of View of the Great Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River, London, no date, hand-colored engraving, 11 x 7 inches; a hand-colored copy of Paul Revere's Bloody Massacre extracted from a book but nicely colored and framed, 6 x 6 inches; and a few others including later graphics.
Maps include:
One sheet only of Antonio Zatta's L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e Parte di Massachusset e Connecticut, circa 1778, hand-colored engraved map, about 17 x 13 inches with wider margins; John Lodge's A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, circa 1750s, 11 1/2 x 17 inches; and a reproduction.
Sold for $1,024
Estimated at $800 - $1,200
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Estate of Kenneth Sausville
[CANADA-NATIVE AMERICANS]
A group of miscellaneous prints, maps and graphics of mostly Canadian and Native American interest. A large group of about 19 items (all but one framed, most in fine Perry Hopf frames) including antique portraits and maps and later reprints and reproductions. No items examined out of frame, sold as a decorative collection and as is.
Portaits and prints include:
The engraved portrait Joseph Thayendaneken The Mohawk Chief. [London: circa 1776.] About 6 x 4 1/2 inches, trimmed to plate mark. This is a scarce portrait of antiquarian interest; The unattributed portrait Hopkins Commandant En Chef, la Flotte Américaine, Paris, circa 1778, 6 x 4 1/4 inches with wider margins and platemarks; A hand-colored lithographed folio-sized portrait Kish-Kallo-Wa. Shawnee Chief from McKenney & Hall; A hand-colored lithographed octavo-sized portrait Kee-She-Wa. A Fox Cheif from McKenney & Hall; four circa 1908 sepia toned small format photographs by Edward S. Curtiseach about 7 1/2 x 5 inches; a later edition of View of the Great Cohoes Falls on the Mohawk River, London, no date, hand-colored engraving, 11 x 7 inches; a hand-colored copy of Paul Revere's Bloody Massacre extracted from a book but nicely colored and framed, 6 x 6 inches; and a few others including later graphics.
Maps include:
One sheet only of Antonio Zatta's L'Acadia, le Provincie di Sagadahook e Main, la Nuova Hampshire, la Rhode Island, e Parte di Massachusset e Connecticut, circa 1778, hand-colored engraved map, about 17 x 13 inches with wider margins; John Lodge's A Map of the British and French Settlements in North America, circa 1750s, 11 1/2 x 17 inches; and a reproduction.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, May 1, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on May 1, 2024 Totals $1.2 Million
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A Medieval Manuscript Rules of St. Augustine Achieves $102k
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Competitive bidding at Doyle’s May 1, 2024 auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps drove strong prices and a sale total that topped $1.2 million, surpassing expectations.
Featured in the sale was a fascinating selection of early manuscripts that achieved exceptional results. Highlighting the group was a 14th century manuscript of the Rules of St. Augustine from an English priory that soared over its $8,000-12,000 estimate to realize a stunning $102,100. The Rule of St. Augustine is among the earliest of all monastic rules, created about 400, and it was an influence on all that succeeded it. Other notable results included a 14th century Etymologiae of St. Isidore estimated at $5,000-8,000 that achieved $51,200 and a 15th century Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier estimated at $10,000-15,000 that sold for $28,800.
A first edition of John James Audubon's octavo Birds of America sold for $41,600, far over its $25,000-35,000 estimate. Published in 1840-1844 in seven volumes, the first octavo edition was the final Birds of America publication overseen by Audubon in his lifetime.
The Fred Rotondaro Collection offered rare books and manuscripts on a range of subjects touching the African American experience in the United States over three centuries. A first edition copy of Frederick Douglass’ 1876 speech at the unveiling of the Freedman's Monument in Washington realized $12,800, far exceeding its $3,000-5,000 estimate. A first edition of the first issue of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin from 1852 also achieved $12,800.
Highlighting the range of offerings from the Ken Harte Collection of Natural History was a first edition Richard Bowdler Sharpe’s beautifully illustrated monograph of Kingfishers, 1868-71, that sold for $14,080, doubling its $6,000-8,000 estimate. It was accompanied by an inscribed copy of the rare unfinished chapter on the anatomy of the kingfisher by James Murie.
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