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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 09, 2026 - April 09, 2026
Page Size: 51 items in 3 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
226 Diane Arbus

Lady in a rooming house parlor, Albion, NY

1963 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 7,680.00
227 Eadweard Muybridge

Animal Locomotion (Plate 247)

1887 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,328.00
228 George Hurrell

Portfolio I

Los Angeles 1979 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 896.00
229 Weegee

Marilyn Monroe on a Pink Elephant (Opening Night of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus)

1955, printed later USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,152.00
230 Umbo

UMBO: 10 Photographien, 1927-1930

Koln 1980 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
231 Philippe Halsman

Le Surrealisme C'est Moi

1954, printed later USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,608.00
232 Philippe Halsman

Philippe Halsman Photographing Salvador Dali

1954, printed later USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
233 Michael Childers

'Hockney at Work / Montcalm Studio' (Los Angeles)

1982, printed later USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
234 George Hurrell

Portfolio II

Los Angeles 1979 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,536.00
235 Garry Winogrand

Apollo 11 Press Conference, Cape Kennedy, Florida

1969, printed later USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,152.00
236 Garry Winogrand

Fort Worth, Texas

1975, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,560.00
237 Mary Ellen Mark

'Leprosy Patient with her Nurse - National Hansen's Disease Center, Carville, LA'

1990, printed 1992 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 537.60
238 Max Yavno

Muscle Beach, Los Angeles

1949, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,536.00
239 Weegee

Untitled (Man Lifting Woman with One Hand)

c.1950, printed later USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 409.60
240 Yousuf Karsh

Albert Einstein

1948, printed later USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
241 Imogen Cunningham

Frida Kahlo

1931, printed posthumously in 1981 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,320.00
242 Wynn Richards

Place Setting

c.1925 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 640.00
243 Berenice Abbott

Gold Leaf Electroscope

c.1960 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 614.40
244 Berenice Abbott

Magnetic Polarity

c.1960 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 537.60
245 Berenice Abbott

Parallax (Candles)

c.1960 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
246 Berenice Abbott

The Operation of Lenses

c.1960 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,536.00
247 Margaret Bourke-White

Toward Mecca (Muslims Praying at Jami Masjid, Delhi, India)

1946 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,096.00
248 Ernest Knee

Selected Images (comprising 'Taos Pueblo, N.M' and 'Rancho de Taos')

c.1940-41 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 409.60
249 Ernest Knee

Selected Images of New Mexico Churches (comprising 'Altarpiece, Laguna Pueblo Church', 'Ortega Chapel, San Buenaventura, Chimayo', and 'Nuestra Senora de los Dolores, Tecolote')

c.1934-35 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 614.40
250 Ernest Knee

Selected Images of New Mexico (comprising 'Truchas' and 'La Manga')

c.1935-41 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 960.00
  • 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