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| Auction Name | Fine Photography & Art - Fine Press & Bindings - Illustrated & Children's Books | Total Sales (USD) | 126,731.25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Auction Date | May 28, 2026 - May 28, 2026 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 123,700.00 |
| Sale Number | #864 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 192,000.00 |
| Total Lots | 344 | ||
| Sold Lots | 229.0 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 201,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 66.57% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 314,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 115 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 40.34% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 286 | Tolstoy Leo | The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 4,687.50 |
| 210 | Jeffers Robinson | Granite & Cypress |
N/A | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 4,375.00 |
| 169 | Ruscha Edward | Every Building on the Sunset Strip |
1966 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 1 | Adams, Ansel; Baer, Morley; Byers, Robert K.; Garnett, William A.; Garrod, Richard; Gilpin, Henry; Scheel, Fred; Sexton, John; Weston, Brett; Worth, Don | Message from West Coast: A Portfolio of Photographs |
ca. 1940; 1975; 1982; 1983; 1976; 1981; 1980; 1971; 1958 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
| 74 | Stereographic Library: Tour of the World |
N/A | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 | |
| 208 | Whitman Walt | Leaves of Grass |
1891-1892 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 13 | Caponigro, Paul | Rock Wall, CT, 1959 |
1959 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 75 | Stoumen Lou | Forty Years |
N/A | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 158 | Piranesi Giovanni Battista | Colonna Antonina |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 159 | Piranesi Giovanni Battista | Veduta dell'avanzo del Castello |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 101 | Danflou Alfred | Les Grands Crus Bordelais |
1866 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 234 | Kirby Maurice Brown; Doust Henry P.; Condon Frank; Chester George Randolph; Cain George M. A.; Leacock Stephen; Maxwell Kee; Pearsall R. J.; Briggs Olive M.; Lessing Bruno; Middleton George; Woodward Alma; Pendexter Hugh; Hart Max; Thompson C. S.; Curtiss | Ninety-eight miniature volumes from Winthrop Press |
1914 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 265 | Hugo Victor | The Novels of Complete and Unabridged of Victor Hugo |
N/A | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 237 | Poe Edgar Allan | The Pit and the Pendulum |
N/A | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 275 | Poe Edgar Allan | The Works of Edgar Allan Poe |
N/A | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 302 | Cruikshank George | Scraps and Sketches |
1876 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 83 | Weston Brett | Broken Windows |
1975 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 244 | Dickens Charles | Bleak House |
N/A | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 266 | Irving Washington | Irving's Works |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 307 | Poe Edgar Allan | The Raven |
N/A | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 162 | Rivera Diego | The Frescoes of Diego Rivera |
N/A | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,187.50 |
| 243 | Burton Richard F. | The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night; Supplemental Nights |
N/A | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 255 | Dickens Charles | Works of Charles Dickens |
N/A | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,125.00 |
| 78 | Thompson Dody | Horse Trail Ferns, 1956 |
1956 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
| 227 | Three Blind Mice |
1978-1979 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,062.50 |
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Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [Queen Anne's War] Extraordinarily Large Manuscript Petition Signed by a Who's Who of Colonial New York Accomplished to Queen Anne. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Mormonism] A Unique Manuscript Account of Joseph Smith's Final Words Offered to His Congregation, the Day Before his Violent Death, 1844. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Declaration of Independence] One of the First Printed Announcements of American Independence, Subscriber Ebenezer Hazard's Copy, in the Exceedingly Rare Original Wrappers, 1776. $10,000/15,000Freeman’s
How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
June 30Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000Freeman’s, June 30: [War of 1812] "We Have Met the Enemy and They are Ours": The Critical Promotion of a Naval Hero, Oliver Hazard Perry is Appointed Master Commandant in the United States Navy, 1812. $40,000/60,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Star-Spangled Banner] Eyewitness Account of the Shelling of Fort McHenry in the War of 1812, in a Manuscript Logbook from the HMS Trave, Present at the Battles of Baltimore and New Orleans, 1814-16. $60,000/80,000Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Thomas Jefferson at the Birth of a New Nation: An Important Letter Carried by a Jewish Patriot Communicating the Definitive Treaty of Paris, January 16, 1784. $100,000/200,000Freeman’s, June 30: [Colonial America] [Plymouth Colony] Plymouth Colony Seeks a Royal Charter: A Rare and Important Plymouth Colony Document, 1690/91. $6,000/9,000 -
Sotheby’s
Selections from The Jay T. Snider Collection of Benjamin Franklin
Live Sale 24 JuneSotheby’s, June 24: (Benjamin Franklin). The founding—and funding—of the Pennsylvania Hospital. $150,000 to $200,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, "the Day of the Declaration of Independence is everywhere annually celebrated”. $80,000 to $120,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin, “probably the most fundamental thing ever done in the field of electricity”. $75,000 to $125,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Benjamin Franklin. One of Franklin's very earliest surviving letters. $40,000 to $60,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: Roger More and Benjamin Franklin. The only complete copy known of Poor Roger. $25,000 to $35,000.Sotheby’s, June 24: John Jerman. The American Almanack ... for 1731 — the only known copy in private hands. $25,000 to $35,000.