Catawiki B. V.: Photography Books Auction, 42626b, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 26, 2026 - April 26, 2026
Page Size: 38 items in 2 pages
Auction Lot Books
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
102098957 Unknown

The Revolution of light [Complete 4-Vol Set] [Iranian Revolution Photobooks]

1982 EUR 3,900.00 - 4,300.00 EUR 3,815.00
102290601 Alexander Rodchenko / Varvara Stepanova

The Soviet Arctic

1939 EUR 270.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
102440568 Signed; Berenice Abbott; Hank O'Neal

Berenice Abbott American Photographer

1982 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
102625332 Andreas Gursky

Fotografien 1984 bis Heute - Kunsthalle Special Edition

1998 EUR 170.00 - 275.00 Not Sold
102625396 Axel Hutte

En Tierras Extranas

2008 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
102633277 Lola Alvarez Bravo

Recuento fotografico

1982 EUR 180.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
102665361 Enrique Bostelmann

America: un viaje a traves de la injusticia

1970 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 359.70
102681619 Slim Aarons

Slim Aarons: A Wonderful Life [Exemplaire tout neuf numero edition, surprise!]

2006 Not Available EUR 175.49
102835756 Daisuke Yokota

Linger (Teikai) [Collector Edition]

2014 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
102846255 Ansel Adams; Walker Evans; Josef Sudek; et al.

Twelve Instant Images on Polaroid Type 105 Positive/Negative Film [Limited Portfolio ed.]

1978 EUR 400.00 - 475.00 Not Sold
102871101 Edouard Boubat

LA SURVIVANCE [TRUE 1st EDITION, AND MINT CONDITION]

1976 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
102884215 Josef Sudek

Signed! - Praha Panoramaticka

1959 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
102884448 Katsumi Watanabe

Katsumi Watanabe – Shinjuku 1965–97 [First Edition] [Important Post-War Photobook]

1997 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 80.66
102909008 Guy Bourdin

Sighs and whispers Bloomingdale's

1976 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 174.40
102932564 Fan-Ho

Hong Kong, The Living Theatre

2021 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 158.05
102932586 Fan Ho

A Hong Kong Memoir

2021 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 223.45
102934538 Signed; Jonas Bendiksen

Satellites: Photographs from the fringes of the former Soviet Union

2006 EUR 220.00 - 325.00 Not Sold
102942937 Susan Meiselas

strip-tease forain

1976 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
102946239 Roger Ballen

Ballenesque [Collector's Edition w. Print]

2017 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
102960311 Alexander Gronsky

Pastoral / Moscow Suburbs

2013 EUR 325.00 - 400.00 EUR 214.73
102964218 Ed Ruscha

Then & Now: Hollywood Boulevard 1973-2004

2005 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 218.00
102969922 Alexey Brodovitch

Ballet (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED)

2024 EUR 500.00 - 550.00 Not Sold
102969976 SIGNED (8x); Burri, Korda, Corrales, Romero, Salas

Che Guevara (8 VINTAGE SIGNATURES, COLLECTOR'S DREAM)

2003 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
102969993 SIGNED; Alec Soth

Sleeping By The Mississippi (MINT CONDITION)

2008 EUR 400.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
102970023 SIGNED; Larry Clark

Tulsa (FIRST HARDCOVER, ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET, VERY FRESH COPY)

1979 EUR 800.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’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, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, 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. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, 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. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, 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. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, 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. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, 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.