Bonhams: Photographs, 31872, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026
Page Size: 125 items in 5 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Irving Penn

Cuzco Children

1948, printed 1973 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 76,700.00
52 Harry Callahan

Barbara, Chicago

1953, printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
53 Willy Ronis

Les qmoureux de la Bastille

1957, printed 1990 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,400.00
54 Marc Riboud

Painter of the Eiffel Tower

1953, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,072.00
55 Ernst Haas

View from Notre Dame, Paris, France

1955, printed posthumously USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
56 Ruth Orkin

American Girl in Italy

1951, printed c. 1980 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 14,080.00
57 Garry Winogrand

New York City (from 'Women are Beautiful')

c. 1971, printed later USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
58 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Matisse, Vence, France

1944, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,120.00
59 Sid Avery

Cast of 'Ocean's Eleven'

1960, printed late 1970s USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
60 Steve Schapiro

'Andy Warhol, Henry Geldzahler, Edie Sedgwick and Entourage, New York'

1965, printed later USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 12,800.00
61 Andreas Feininger

The Photojournalist (Dennis Stock)

1955, printed 1992 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 8,320.00
62 Lee Friedlander

'Canyon de Chelly'

1983, printed 2005 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 Not Sold
63 Tseng Kwong Chi

Hollywood Hills, California

1979, printed posthumously in 1996 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,096.00
64 Tseng Kwong Chi

Cape Canaveral, Florida

1985, printed posthumously in 1997 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
65 Arthur Tress

'"Flying Dream", Queens, N.Y.'

1971, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 5,376.00
66 Arthur Tress

'"Teenage Runners", New York'

1976, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,864.00
67 Larry Sultan

Little Cinderella (from 'The Valley')

1999 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 6,144.00
68 Eikoh Hosoe

'"Witnesses of the End of the Twentieth Century"' (from 'Luna Rossa')

1992 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
69 Harry Callahan

Eleanor, Aix-en-Provence, France

1958, printed later USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 4,096.00
70 Eileen Agar

Figurehead and Ship's Wheel, Charmouth, Dorset

c. 1936, printed later USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 2,560.00
71 Graciela Iturbide

Nuestra Senora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas), Juchitan, Oaxaca

1979, printed later USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,840.00
72 Robert ParkeHarrison

'Flying Lesson'

2000 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,040.00
73 Masao Yamamoto

Untitled #637 and Untitled #619 (from 'Box of Ku')

1997-98, printed 1998 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,152.00
74 Peter Beard

'Giraffes in mirage on the Taru desert, Kenya, June 1960' (for 'The End of the Game')

1960, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 30,720.00
75 Peter Beard

'Loliondo Lion Charge' (for 'The End of the Game')

1964, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,800.00
  • Sotheby's Book Week
    2 June - 9 July
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Smith, Adam. The Wealth of Nations, on its 250th anniversary. $180,000 to $250,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Fontana, Lucio. Concetto Spaziale. 1967. Leporello en papier doré. Bel exemplaire signé. €4,000 to $€,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”. $150,000 to $200,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 25: Washington, George (as First President). Washington decries “an ostentatious imitation, or mimickry of Royalty” in his Presidency. $250,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s, June 17: Lope de Vega. Rare manuscrit autographe signé de la préface dédicatoire de "El Cardenal de Belen" (le cardinal de Bethléem), pièce composée en 1610. €40,000 to €60,000.
  • Leland Little, June 12: The First Illustrated Edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
    Leland Little, June 12: John Morton, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, Signed Pennsylvania Land Survey.
    Leland Little, June 12: The Scarce Jansson Edition of a Remarkable Early View of London.
    Leland Little, June 12: Signed Limited Edition of The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
    Leland Little, June 12: Faden’s Important and Scarce Map of the Southern Campaign of the American Revolution.
    Leland Little, June 12: William J. Tate (NC, 1869-1953), Archive of the "Original host to the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk.”
  • Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Galileo Galilei. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo tolemaico, e copernicano. Firenze, 1632
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Saverio Manetti. Storia naturale degli uccelli. Firenze, 1771-76
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Fortunato Depero. Depero futurista. Rovereto, 1927
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Nicolas Visscher. Atlas minor sive totius orbis terrarum contracta delineat ex conatibus. Amsterdam, circa 1649-95
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Andreas Vesalius. Anatomia. Addita nunc. Antiquorum Anatome. Venezia, 1604
    Aste Bolaffi, June 17-18: Tristan Tzara and Salvador Dalì. Grains et Issues. Parigi, 1935
  • June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: Houdini's biography, boldly signed. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A volume from Abraham Lincoln's library, signed just before heading to Washington for his inauguration. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very early Confederate recruiting manual belonging to the chief commissary in Lee's Army. $600 to $800.
    Doyle, June 25: Rare hand-colored lithographs of the life of Napoleon. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The "Holster Atlas" of the American Revolution. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Jewish ceremonies in fine hand-colored engravings. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A very rare work on Turkish military costume. $1,000 to $1,500.
    June 25, 2026
    Doyle, June 25: The most important illustrated work on the Mexican-American War. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: The finest illustrated book on Afghanistan. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, June 25: Henry Justice Ford St. George rescues the Princess from the horrible Dragon. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Doyle, June 25: A rare work of Prussian Army uniforms under Frederick William II, with exquisite hand-colored engravings. $800 to $1,200.
    Doyle, June 25: Lenny Bruce typed letter signed to a Village bohemian during his obscenity trials, with a manuscript note and drawing. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: Schiff's scarce Shanghai Sketchbook. $300 to $500.
    Doyle, June 25: The first accurate published representation of the American flag. $2,000 to $4,000.
  • Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 123. Celebrate 250 Years of Independence with Original Stars and Stripes (1790) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 20. Keulen's Spectacular Chart of the World Featuring California as an Island (1728) Est. $12,000 - $15,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 42. Schedel's Ancient World Map with Fantastic Humanoid Creatures (1493) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 591. Matching Set of 3 Stunning Globe Gores of Eastern Asia from Coronelli's 3.5 Foot Globe (1688) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 9. Speed's Popular World Map with Allegorical Representations of the Elements (1651) Est. $14,000 - $17,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 168. First Separate Map of Kansas & Nebraska Territories (1854) Est. $5,500 - $7,000
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 43. Only Macrobius Map with Britain Attached to Europe (1515) Est. $800 - $950
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 250. Rare Map of Boston and One of the Earliest Maps of the Revolutionary War (1775) Est. $2,000 - $2,300
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 79. Schenk's Uncommon Map Featuring Two Figurative Title Cartouches (1696) Est. $1,200 - $1,500
    Old World Auctions (June 17): Lot 681. Hand-Colored Image of the Annunciation to the Shepherds (1502) Est. $800 - $950