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Finarte: Ethnographic Photographs: Around the World in 80+80 Shots

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Auction Name Ethnographic Photographs: Around the World in 80+80 Shots Total Sales (EUR) 33,502.60
Auction Date May 19, 2026 - May 19, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 44,790.00
Sale Number #51926 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 63,910.00
Total Lots 159
Sold Lots 129.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 53,980.00
% of Lots Sold 81.13% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 76,190.00
Unsold Lots 30 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 43.97%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3099 John Thomson (1837 - 1921)

View from the Fort on the landing of the Duke ; Decoration in honour of the Duke

1880s EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,270.00
3024 Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995)

Untitled (Arab Men of Aleppo)

1934, printed 1940s EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,079.50
3118 Kristen Feilberg (1839-1919)

Tribu di Dayak - Interno di Borneo, 1860s

1860s EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,079.50
3130 Anonimo

Native Jarved Meeting House, Ohimnemutu

1870s EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 889.00
3019 Ivan Bianchi (1811 - 1893)

Untitled (Russia)

1870s EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 698.50
3025 Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898 - 1995)

Untitled (Aleppo, interior of an Arabic coffee shop)

1934, printed 1940s EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 698.50
3129 Anonimo

Maori Living House or Whare

1891 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 635.00
3001 Anonimo

Il viaggio di circumnavigazione della Regia Nave Calabria: Europa, America, Oceania, Asia

1899-1901 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 508.00
3002 Anonimo

Costumes de L'Eglise Armenienne

1880s/1890s EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 508.00
3034 Felix Bonfils (1831-1885)

Gerusalemme, Muro delle Lamentazioni, 1870s

1870s EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 508.00
3095 Scuola di Yokoama

Karamon Gate (Shinto) Temple Nikko

1880s EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 482.60
3113 Pierre Joseph Rossier (1829-1886)

Siam, 1860s

1860s EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 482.60
3114 Anonimo

Siam, 1860s

1860s EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 482.60
3141 B. J. Thompson

Jack "Black Foot" indian ; Blackfoot Indian Sun Dance

N/A EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 482.60
3112 Emile Gsell (1838-1879)

Untitled (Tipi, Siam), 1860s

1860s EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 444.50
3134 Anonimo

Canadian People, Indians

1940s EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 444.50
3147 Isaiah West Taber (1830 - 1912)

Burnt Section, Mariposa Grove

1880s/1890s EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 419.10
3010 Guillaume Gustave Berggren (1835 - 1920)

Vue de la batterie de Madjiankale et d'Anatol Kavak

1860s/1870s EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 381.00
3026 Lewis Larsson (1881 - 1958)

Mayor of Jerusalem and White Flag Party meeting the first British outpost

1917 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 381.00
3029 Kurt Lubinski (1899-1955)

Untitled (Arab Village in the Sinai Desert), 1940s

1940s EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 381.00
3081 Anonimo

Congo-Ubagi

1950s EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 381.00
3082 Kurt Lubinski (1899 - 1955)

Nigeria

1940s EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 381.00
3160 Anonimo

Untitled (Travel Album)

N/A EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 381.00
3014 Kurt Lubinski (1899 - 1955)

Untitled (Shop Window, USSR)

1940s EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 355.60
3015 Kurt Lubinski (1899 - 1955)

Untitled (Young Man, Soviet Union)

1940s EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 355.60
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    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] [Mantle, Mickey] Mickey Mantle's First Cover: The Earliest Front-Page Newspaper Image of Mickey Mantle, "Something Good from Joplin". $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’s, June 30: [Baseball] A Striking Type 1 Press Photograph of Lou Gehrig's Hands. $8,000/12,000
    Freeman’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. $10,000/15,000
    Freeman’s
    How History Unfolds on Paper: Important Americana from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part X
    June 30
    Freeman’s, June 30: [American Revolution] Born in the USA: First Day of Printing in the United States, July 4, 1776! $15,000/25,000
    Freeman’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. $40,000/60,000
    Freeman’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. $60,000/80,000
    Freeman’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. $100,000/200,000
    Freeman’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 June
    Sotheby’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.