2011 Lot Description Price - Clars Auction Gallery

Clars Auction GallerySale ResultsMarch 12 ‐ 13, 2011(Lot of 2) Lithograph portfolios, ''Handzeichnungen,'' by Wilhelm Busch (1832‐1908),artist signature inplates; and ''Die Infel/ Mappenwert'', published by Holzschnitt Gravure en bois, October 1899, largest6091 overall: 15.25''h x 11.5''w. $60Finely bound book, ''The Coma'', by Alex Garland, published by Faber and Faber, London, 2004, illustratedthroughout with Nichols Garland's woodcuts, of this edition of The Coma 310 copies were printed of which50 were signed by both the author and the illustrator and are accompanied by one of Nicholas Garland'swoodcuts (in this case, Steps with Shadows) signed by the artist, this volume is copy number 35, clean andcrisp, looks unread, woodcut is housed in a heavy cardboard wrap with tissue guard, book is housed in acustom black fabric clamshell box, scuffing to the front of the box, book appears clean and crisp, looks6092 unread $200Artist portfolio, ''The Dog Bite'', by Barton Benes, unbound folio, signed by the artist, limited edition of 150copies, 1971, ''Press Proof'' inscribed in pen on title page, artist's signature and inscription in pencil on thesame page, housed in a cardboard box bound with matte black paper, box edges are rubbed top and6093 bottom, folio is clean and near fine condition $4006094Portfolio of unframed aquatints, ''Les Chevaux, Dix Eaux‐Fortes Originales de Kaiko Moti'', by Kaiko Moti,published by Lublin Graphics Inc., Paris, 1972, this is copy number 7 of an edition of 150, Portfolio contains10 etchings, each etching printed on handmade paper and housed in a folding loose leaf wrap under tissuepaper and signed by the artist in pencil, overall: 21.25''h x 14.25''w $375Photography portfolio, ''Stieglitz Memorial Portfolio 1864 ‐ 1946'', published by Twice a Year Press, NewYork, 1947, limited edition of 1500 copies, contains 18 loose glossy photographic plates, fine reproductionsof Stieglitz works dating from 1887 (Venetian Boy) to 1931 (Equivalent) in portfolio with a folio softcover 59‐6095 page booklet ''Tributes ‐ In Memoriam'' containing short essays and tributes by a host of cultural luminaries $100Ecclesiastical incunable manuscript leaf, Biblia Latina, Printed by Bonetus Locatelus for Octavianus Scotus,6096 Venice, 1489 $606097 Ecclesiastical incunable manuscript leaf, from the Book of Hours, circa 1490, on vellum $1306098 Ecclesiastical illuminated manuscript leaf, from the Book of Hours, Paris, 1522 $60Ecclesiastical incunable manuscript page, Medieval Game, metal cut on vellum leaf, from a Book of Hours,6099 printed by Phillipe Pigouchet for Simon Vostre, Paris, 1496‐1497 $50Ecclesiastical manuscript leaf, Missale Larogozena, 1511, printed at Laragosa, by Georgis Boci, on vellum,6100 (only one copy known of the Missale) $50Illuminated ecclesiastical parchment leaf, from the Book of Hours, circa 1400, with an illuminated image of a6101 saint reading to a monk and a mythical beast $5006102 Illuminated parchment leaf, circa 1400, from the Book of Hours $6006103 Illuminated parchment leaf, circa 1270, from the Latin Bible Nordfrankreich $750Incunable manuscript leaf, The Adventures of Apollonius, from Heiligenleben, Woodcut, in German, printed6104 by Gunther Zainer, Augsburg, 1475, print has fine bull's head watermark $606105 Ecclesiastical manuscript leaf, Hava Legendia Sugliae, printed by Wynkyn De Worde, 1516 $1106106 Ecclesiastical manuscript page, German, circa 1500, with illuminated capitals $60Ecclesiastical incunable manuscript leaf, Legenda Aurea Sanctorium, 1485, printed at Cologne by Ludwig Von6107 Renchen $50Ecclesiastical manuscript page, German, circa 1500, with illuminated capitals and colored woodblock of6111 Crucifixion $100Ecclesiastical incunable manuscript page, Moralia Sopra La Vita Di Job, by Pontifus Maximus Gregorius I,6112 printed by Nicolaus Laurentii, Florence, 1486 $506113 Ecclesiastical manuscript page, Bible in Armenian, circa 1450, block script, two columns, 26 lines $120Page 50 of 86