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Nye & Company Auctioneers: The Gentleman Collector: The Art of the Grand Tour.

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Auction Name The Gentleman Collector: The Art of the Grand Tour. Total Sales (USD) 11,342.50
Auction Date March 11, 2026 - March 11, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 7,300.00
Sale Number #31126 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 11,400.00
Total Lots 22
Sold Lots 18.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 9,000.00
% of Lots Sold 81.82% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 13,900.00
Unsold Lots 4 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 81.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93 Abraham Munting Dutch, 1626-1683

Four Botanical Hand Colored Engravings 18th C. Titled "Salvaia Angustifolia Cretica", "Myrtus Tenuifolia Fructu Albo", "Eupatorium Spicatum", and " Absinthium Longifolium Pentaphylleum"

18th C. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,600.00
168 Inscribed "Willemin del. et sculp",

Four Classical Engravings: one after Giovanni Morghen from the "Antiquities of Herculaneum" collection, one after Tommaso Piroli, titled "Two satyrs butting heads with goats", one of a satyr playing a double flute, and one of Chariot of Jupiter.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,235.00
95 After Johann Wilhelm Weinmann 1683-1741

Three Botanical Coloring Engraving Titled "Palma coccifera triangula, Calappa, Coccus", "Palma Tactilifera, Palmier, Palm oder Daffelbar" and "Imperatoria seu ostrution, Imperatoire, Meiffernoirk"

N/A USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,105.00
114

Five Botanical Hand-Colored Engravings Each a diptych.

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 975.00
167

Il Famoso Satyro colla Capra Two Etchings Depicting, the satyr and the goat, after the antique bronze from Herculaneum in the museum at Naples.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 520.00
250

Religious Scene Print Depicting the Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony of Padua, in elaborate gilt frame.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 520.00
252 Melchior Meier 1572

Apollo and Marsyas and the Judgment of Midas Engraving Some foxing.

1572 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 487.50
254 Nicholas Cochin

Two Anatomy Studies Etching Each man seated with one arm raised.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 487.50
255 Master of the Die

The Triumph of Scipio Engraving Together with an engraving titled "Bacco e Sileno", Giulio Pippi Romano, dipinse and Angelo Gulimi, incise.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 487.50
164

Six Moth Prints 20th C. Some foxing.

20th C. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 455.00
176 Alfred Bareis 1899-1969

Geraniums Watercolor Signed and dated l.r. "Alfred Bareis 1947". Together with two colored copperplate engraving botanical prints, one of raspberries and one of pine cones. 3 pieces

1947 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 357.50
223 Marco Dente 1486-1527

Fortitude Engraving After a design by Raphael, reprint.

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 357.50
253 Alphonse de Lamartine French, 1790-1869

Le Consilabule Engraving Depicting a scene from John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Together with a drawing of the Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, painted by Raphael.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 357.50
229

Three Revolutionary War Prints One of "The Battle of Monmouth, New Jersey, on June 28, 1778", one of "The surrender of Burgoyne", and "The Battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775".

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 325.00
237

Seven American Landscape Prints Comprising, "Albany in New York", "Harper's Ferry", "Boston Lighthouse", "Fort Snelling", "Yale College & State House, New Haven, Connecticut", "Albany", and "Honolulu".

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 325.00
178 Pablo Picasso Spanish, 1881-1973

Apollinaire Les onze mille verges 3 Gravure Signed in the print, numbered in pencil l.l. 43/50. Together with a mixed media of abstract figures and a charcoal drawing of a crouching nude man, signed "Gg Schwarzburger" l.r.

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 292.50
172 Jan "de" Bisschop 1628-1671

Five Classical Prints One titled "Dionysus with a Satyr", "Cain", "Hermes", "Marsyas", and "Hermes".

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 260.00
251

Two Portraits of Jupiter Engravings One of Jupiter seated with an eagle, the other of Jupiter defeating the Titans. Foxing and stains.

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 195.00
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    28th May 2026
    Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, May 28: The Christ Child holding a crystal orb and surrounded by banderoles with devotional exhortations, on a leaf most probably from a Book of Hours, [Southern Netherlands, last decades of the fifteenth century]. £2,000-3,000
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    Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000
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    Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000
    Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, May 28: Ribelles y Helip (José), Attributed to. An album comprising 33 finely executed watercolours of Spanish costume, bull-fighting scenes, and other genre subjects, [circa 1830]. £10,000-15,000