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Litchfield County Auctions: Fine Arts, Antiques & Design
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Fine Arts, Antiques & Design | Total Sales (USD) | 39,318.50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 13, 2026 - May 13, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 19,100.00 |
| Sale Number | #51326 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 28,750.00 |
| Total Lots | 50 | ||
| Sold Lots | 40.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 22,150.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 80.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 34,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 10 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 114.97% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 193 | Rufino Tamayo (1899-1991) | La Familia Jugando |
N/A | USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 26,000.00 |
| 266 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | The Blew-Bird (Blue Bird) |
1771-1810 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,430.00 |
| 230 | Raoul Dufy (1877-1953) | Balcon Sur La Mer (Baigneuse au papillons) |
circa 1925 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,105.00 |
| 267 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Palumbus Migratorius |
1771-1810 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 715.00 |
| 273 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Viper Caudisona Minor |
1771-1810 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 715.00 |
| 274 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Suillus (The Great Hog Fish) |
1771-1810 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 715.00 |
| 265 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | The Red Belly'd Woodpecker, The Hairy Woodpecker and the Black Oak |
1771-1810 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 650.00 |
| 280 | John Hill (1741-1775) | Eden: or, a Compleat body of Gardening |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 650.00 |
| 206 | Massimo Vitali (b 1944) | Cagliari Blue Rectangle |
2006 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 520.00 |
| 276 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Testudo |
1771-1810 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 520.00 |
| 268 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | The Turtle of Carolina |
1771-1810 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 487.50 |
| 275 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Guaperva (The Old Wife Fish) |
1771-1810 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 277 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Pagurus Maculatus and Cancer Chelis Crassissimus |
1771-1810 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 213 | William de Kooning (1904-1997) | William de Koning - Gothem News |
1955 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 269 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | The Great Booby |
1771-1810 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 272 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Anseri Bassano (The Booby) |
1771-1810 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 278 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | Cancer Chelis Rubris (The Red Claw Crab) |
1771-1810 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 279 | Johann Wilhelm Weinmann (1683-1741) | Phytanthoza Iconographia |
N/A | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 270 | Mark Catesby (1683-1749) | The Laughing Gull |
1771-1810 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 283 | Ten framed color lithographs of early Washington, Territory of Columbia (DC) scenes |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 325.00 | |
| 360 | Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management |
1912 | USD 50.00 - 150.00 | USD 260.00 | |
| 282 | John W Hill | Boston Harbor |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 195.00 |
| 292 | Kitagawa Fujimaro; Hosoda Eishi | Outing in the Snow; Hosoda Eishi |
19th c. | USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 195.00 |
| 295 | Utagawa Kunisada; Utagawa Hiroshige | Figure in a blue and white kimono; Sumidagawa, Mimeguri |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 195.00 |
| 264 | John James Audubon (1785-1851) | Mallard Duck and Ruffed Grouse |
N/A | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 162.50 |
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Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Book of Hours.- Heures de nostre dame a l'usaige de Romme, Paris, Antoine Chappiel pour Germain Hardouin, [1504]. £6,000-8,000Forum, May 28: Colonna (Francesco). La Hypnerotomachia di Poliphilo, second edition, Venice, Sons of Aldus Manutius, 1545. £15,000-20,000Forum, 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]. £2,000-3,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Jackson (Shirley). The Haunting of Hill House, first English edition, signed presentation inscription from the author to Claude Fredericks, 1960. £2,000-3,000Forum, May 28: Lennon (John). In His Own Write, first edition, first impression, signed by the author, 1964. £3,000-4,000Forum, May 28: Doves Press.- Keats (John). [Poems], one of 200 copies on paper, Doves Press, 1914. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Rodrigues (João Barbosa). Sertum Palmarum Brasiliensium, 2 vol., first and only edition, Brussels, 1903. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Newton (Sir Isaac). Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica…editio ultima, auctior et emendatior, Amsterdam, Sumptibus Societatis, 1714. £8,000-12,000Forum, May 28: Kepler (Johannes). Ad Vitellionem paralipomena, wuibus astronomiae pars optica traditur, first edition, Frankfurt am Main, 1604. £5,000-7,000Forum Auctions
Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
28th May 2026Forum, May 28: Tagliacozzi (Gaspare). De Curtorum Chirurgia per insitionem, libri duo, first edition, Venice, Gasparo Bindoni, 1597. £7,000-10,000Forum, May 28: Lootsman (Jacobsz). The Lightning Colomne, or Sea-Mirrour, containing the Sea-Coasts of the Northern, Eastern and Western Navigation..., 1670. £8,000-12,000Forum, 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 -
