Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs, 50526, Lambertville
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 05, 2026 - May 05, 2026
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Ernst Haas (1921–1986) | Windmill, Greece |
Greece | 1952 / printed 2025 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 865.00 |
| 201 | Robert Doisneau (1912–1994) | Les animaux superieurs |
1954 / printed 1981 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 640.00 | |
| 202 | William Klein (1926–2022) | Snowman, New York |
New York | 1955 / printed 1981 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,280.00 |
| 203 | Dan Budnik (b.1933) | Georgia O'Keefe at the Ghost Ranch with Pots by Juan Hamilton, New Mexico |
New Mexico | 1975 / printed 1996 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,128.00 |
| 204 | Brassai (Gyula Halasz) (1899–1984) | Matisse Drawing Nude Model at Villa d’Alesia |
Paris | 1939 / printed 1973 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 5,120.00 |
| 205 | Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) | Martha’s Vineyard 107B |
1954 / printed later | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 7,040.00 | |
| 206 | Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) | F102 |
1957 / printed later | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 640.00 | |
| 207 | Jerry Uelsmann (1934–2022) | Gone But Not Forgotten |
1964 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 798.00 | |
| 208 | Jerry Uelsmann (1934–2022) | Marilynn and the Sheep, 1964 |
1964 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 865.00 | |
| 209 | Jerry Uelsmann (1934–2022) | Untitled |
1968 / printed later | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 768.00 | |
| 210 | Jerry Uelsmann (1934–2022) | Untitled |
1996 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 211 | Bevan Davies (b.1941) | Permanent & Transient |
1967-68 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 384.00 | |
| 212 | Herman Leonard (1923–2010) | Duke Ellington, Paris |
Paris | 1958 / printed later | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,527.00 |
| 213 | George Tames (1919–1994) | John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office (The Loneliest Job in the World) |
1962 / printed 1967 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,088.00 | |
| 214 | Weegee (1899–1968) | Rescue operation III, New York; Gin Mill Killing, New York |
New York | c. 1940-49 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 215 | Weegee (1899–1968) | Untitled (Man Sleeping on Window Bench) |
c. 1950 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 384.00 | |
| 216 | Weegee (1899–1968) | Telephone Booth, New York |
New York | c. 1940 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,536.00 |
| 217 | George A. Tice (1938–2025) | Alhambra Theatre, Bradford |
Bradford | 1990 / printed 1991 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 218 | Man Ray (1890–1976) | Untitled (Chess Set) |
1919 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 3,840.00 | |
| 219 | Vivian Maier (1926–2009) | Self-Portrait (Reflection in Silver Plate) |
1954 / printed 2014 | USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 | USD 5,985.00 | |
| 220 | Jan Groover | Untitled |
1979 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,536.00 | |
| 221 | George Krause | Cross |
1975, printed 1991 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 512.00 | |
| 222 | Werner Mantz | Heerlen, NL |
Heerlen, NL | 1938 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
| 223 | Laura Gilpin | Fountain Valley School Library, Colorado |
Colorado | c. 1919 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 224 | W. Eugene Smith | Haiti, The Care of Mental Patients Insane Asylum |
Haiti | 1958-59 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
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Sotheby’s
Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
25 June – July 7Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000. -
Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum Auctions
The Private Library:
Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
July 9, 2026Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000 -
Freeman’s, June 30. Thomas Jefferson’s “Birth of the New Nation” letter, carried to Paris with the Treaty of Peace, by a Jewish patriot. $100,000-200,000.Freeman’s, June 30. “The rockets’ red glare.” A British midshipman’s log recording the bombardment of Fort McHenry. $60,000-80,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry Commission signed by James Madison, 1812. $40,000-60,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776. $15,000-25,000.Freeman’s, June 30. One of the Earliest Printed Announcements of American Independence, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000-15,000.Freeman’s, June 30. "The Two Big Guns of the N.Y. Yanks": A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Unique Contemporary Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words to His Followers, the Day Before his Violent Death. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. The State of Minnesota Officially Certifies the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the United States. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York to Queen Anne from the Colony of New York. $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000-12,000.Freeman’s, June 30. A Call to Arms in the Months Following the Declaration of Independence: An Early Continental Army Recruitment Poster. $6,000-9,000.Freeman’s, June 30. Samuel Jones, the Statesman Behind the Newly Discovered "Jones Declaration": His Annotated Set Used in His Working Law Library. $6,000-9,000.