Thursday 29 July 2021 at 20:00 EEST
Modern & Contemporary Art, Antiques & Design, The Takis Efstathiou Book Collection.
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Fine Art: Lot 1 – Lot 55 A selection of Modern & Contemporary Greek and International art and 4 important paintings from the famous George Costakis Collection of Russian Avant Garde artists.
Antiques, Design, Decorative Objects & Jewelry: Lot 56 – Lot 110
Celebrating the 200 years of the Greek Independence (1821-2021) we have included objects of Philhellenic interest, additionally this category features a selection of antiques of European and Oriental interest, design, decoration and jewelry.
The Takis Efstathiou Book Collection: Lot 111 – 181
Takis Efstathiou is one of the most important Lafcadio Hearn experts in the world and advisor to the Koizumi-Hearn family.
Theodoros Stamos introduced Lafcadio Hearn work to Takis Efstathiou when Efstathiou was collaborating with Stamos on upcoming exhibitions in Japan. Takis Efstathiou has been collecting Lafcadio Hearn books and objects for over 30 years and has made significant donations to the Met Museum, The Morgan Library and Museum, the Lafcadio Hearn Memorial Museum in Matsue, the Dublin’s Writers Museum in Ireland, the Museum of Asian Art in Corfu, the American College of Greece, and other museums and institutions around the world. Furthermore with his donations he established the Lafcadio Hearn Historical Center in Lefkada, Lafcadio’s birthplace.
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Lots
Showing 121–160 of 181 results
121: Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 24, The Old Woman who Lost her Dumpling, circa 1900
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €193 inc. premium122: Lafcadio Hearn CHIN CHIN KOBAKAMA. Japanese Fairy Tale Series No 25, circa 1900
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €193 inc. premium123: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Kotto, Being Japanese curios, with Sundry cobwebs, Illustrations by Genjiro Yeto, published by the Macmillan Company, London, October 1902
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium124: Barbarous Barbers and other stories edited Ichiro Nishizaki Professor in the Peers’ School published by The Hokuseido Press, 1939 with dedication
Starting Price: €100
Estimate: €100 - €150125: Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs, 1885, 1st edition. Lafcadio Hearn was one of the writers
Starting Price: €100
Estimate: €100 - €150
Sold for €145 inc. premium126: Lafcadio Hearn: Kwaidan, made by the Shimbi Shoin in Tokyo, number 223
Starting Price: €120
Estimate: €120 - €160
Sold for €193 inc. premium127: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Youma, the story of a west-Indian slave, published by Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, New York, 1890
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €108 inc. premium128: Lafcadio Hearn First Edition and Values, Published by the Black Archer Press, Chicago, 1935.
Starting Price: €20
Estimate: €20 - €40
Sold for €24 inc. premium129: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Chita, A Memory of Last Island, published by Harper & Brothers, 1889
Starting Price: €40
Estimate: €40 - €60
Sold for €48 inc. premium130: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Shadowings, hardcover, published by Boston, MA: Little, Brown, and Company, 1900
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €108 inc. premium131: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Kokoro, Hints and Echoes of Japanese inner life, published by Houghton, Miffin and Company, 1896
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50
Sold for €121 inc. premium132: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, In Ghostly Japan, Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1899
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €96 inc. premium133: Japan, an attempt at interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn. Published by The Macmillan Company, 1904
Starting Price: €20
Estimate: €20 - €40
Sold for €180 inc. premium134: Lafcadio Hearn, Insects and Greek poetry, 1926, limited edition of 550 copies
Starting Price: €70
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €121 inc. premium135: Japanese Fairy Tales by Lafcadio Hearn, printed by Peter Pauper Press in U.S.A. 1936 in an edition of 950 copies
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50
Sold for €36 inc. premium136: Lafcadio Hearn: Stray Leaves from Stange Literature, published by Houghton, Miffin and Company, 1897
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70137: Lafcadio Hearn: First Edition, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan in Two volumes (vol I and vol II) printed by Houghton Miffin Company, 1894
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €108 inc. premium138: Japanese Fairy Tales, told in English by Prof. Basil Hall Chamberlain, Tokyo and others. Published by Gowans & Gray, London, Glasgow, 1907
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50139: Lafcadio Hearn: Kwaidan in Italian, Traduzione di B. B. Balbi, Casa Editrice L’Estremo Oreinte Villafranca Di Verona, published 1923
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120140: Lafcadio Hearn: Kotto in Italian, Racconti Giapponesi, tradotti d’all Inglese da Arrico Levasti published by Vallecchi Editore – Firenze, 1919.
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120141: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Le Japon traduit de l’anglais par Marc Loge, Septieme edition. Published by Mercure de France, Paris, 1926
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70
Sold for €60 inc. premium142: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Kokoro, Au coeur de la Vie Japonaise, traduit de l’Anglais par Mme Leon Raynal, published by Dujarric et cie Editeurs, Paris, 1910
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70
Sold for €60 inc. premium143: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Esquisses martiniquaises, traduit de l’anglais par Marc Loge cinquieme edition (fifth edition)
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70
Sold for €60 inc. premium144: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Le Japon incomnnu (Esquisses psychologuque), traduit de l’anglais par Mmr Leon Raynal, Troisieme Edition (third edition)
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70
Sold for €60 inc. premium145: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Youma, Roman martiniquais, tradui par Marc Loge
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70
Sold for €60 inc. premium146: Lafcadio Hearn in French: En glanant dans les Champs de Bouddha, traduit par Marc Loge
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70147: Lafcadio Hearn in French: Esquisses Japonaises, traduit de l’anglais par Marc Loge
Starting Price: €50
Estimate: €50 - €70148: Miniature Japanese Fairy tales, Stoies and Folklore of Old Japan. Published by The Hillside Press, Franklin, New Hampshire, 1962. Hand-set & printed in an edition of 350 copies
Starting Price: €40
Estimate: €40 - €60
Sold for €48 inc. premium149: Reminiscences of Lafcadio Hearn by Setsuko Koizumi (wife of Lafcadio Hearn), 1918
Starting Price: €20
Estimate: €20 - €40
Sold for €242 inc. premium150: Lafcadio Hearn: Japanese Fairy Tales No.23, The Boy who Drew Cats, rendered into English by Lafcadio Hearn, circa 1900
Starting Price: €40
Estimate: €40 - €60
Sold for €48 inc. premium151: Shunga, Japanese erotic book, circa 1800,
Starting Price: €80
Estimate: €80 - €120
Sold for €121 inc. premium152: Japanese book circa 1800
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50
Sold for €36 inc. premium153: Japanese book circa 1800
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50154: Japanese book circa 1800
Starting Price: €30
Estimate: €30 - €50155: Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No 8, Urashima, The Fisher Boy, Translated by B.H. Chamberlain, published by T. Hasegawa, Kami Negishi, Tokyo. Printed by woodblocks in color on hand-creped paper, circa 1900.
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium156: Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No.3 Battle of the Monkey and the Crab. Printed by woodblock in color on hand-creped paper circa 1900.
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium157: Japanese Fairy Tales Series No.4 The Old Man who made the dead trees blossom. Published by T. Hasegawa, Tokyo. Printed by woodblock in color on hand-creped paper circa 1900.
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium158: Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No 4. The Old Man Who Made The Dead Trees Blossom. Printed by woodblocks in color on hand-creped paper. Published by Hasegawa Tokyo.Circa 1900.
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium159: Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No 13. The Silly Jelly-Fish. Told in English by B. H. Chamberlain. Printed by woodblocks in color on hand-creped paper. Published by T. Hasegawa. Circa 1900.
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €84 inc. premium160: Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No 15. My Lord Bag-O’-Rice. Told in English by B.H. Chamberlain. Published by Kobunsha, Tokyo. Printed by woodblocks in color on hand-creped paper. Circa 1900
Starting Price: €60
Estimate: €60 - €80
Sold for €72 inc. premium