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Quinn's Auction Galleries: June Fine and Decorative Arts Auction

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Auction Name June Fine and Decorative Arts Auction Total Sales (USD) 512,756.15
Auction Date June 18, 2026 - June 18, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 12,200.00
Sale Number #61826 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 19,700.00
Total Lots 38
Sold Lots 31.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 17,300.00
% of Lots Sold 81.58% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 27,200.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 1885.13%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
481

Indian miniature paintings

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 492,125.00
432 Kloss Gene (1903-1996)

Enduring Sanctuary

c. 1973 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,540.00
123 Campbell Alexander

George Washington on horseback

1775 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 2,032.00
126 Gridley Enoch G; Coles John Jr

Memorial for George Washington

circa 1800 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,524.00
181 Barbier George (1882-1932)

Battle scene with a winged female figure

1918 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,270.00
433 Kloss Gene (1903-1996)

To a Wedding in North House

c. 1973 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,270.00
124 Hinton J; Stampa P

Wisdom Supported by Liberty

1801 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,079.50
132 Collett John

Paul Jones Shooting a Sailor who had attempted to strike his Colours in an Engagement

1779 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,079.50
29 Mapplethorpe Robert (1946-1989)

Susie

1984 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,016.00
107 Bartlett John; Tanner Benjamin

America Guided by Wisdom

circa 1815 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
111

George Washington portraits

N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 889.00
497 Adachi Ginko (1869-1908)

Sino-Japanese War triptych

1894 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 825.50
112

His Excellency George Washington Esq’r, Captain General of all the American Forces

circa 1776 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 635.00
292 Stampa P (1798-1817)

4 Allegorical Emblems

N/A USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 635.00
496 Kataoka Tamako (1905-2008)

Landscape

1967 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 508.00
134

2 Patriotic engravings

early 19th century USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 444.50
2 Tapies Antoni (1923-2012)

Cercle, Croix et collage

N/A USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 381.00
6 Baskin Leonard (1922-2000)

Little Bird Arapahoe

1973 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
115

Genl. Hamilton

N/A USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 381.00
233 Piranesi Giovanni Battista (1720-1778)

Interior of the Temple of Hera, Paestum

1778 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 349.25
29A Matisse Henri (1869-1954)

Sleeping Model

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 317.50
29B Picasso Pablo (1881-1973)

Dove with Sun

N/A USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 285.75
454

Taizo-kai mandara

N/A USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 285.75
231 Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669)

Self Portrait Etching at a Window

1648 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 254.00
232 Rembrandt (1606-1669)

The Descent from the Cross

1775 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 215.90
  • Sotheby’s Geek Week
    14-15 July
    Sotheby’s, July 14: Henry De La Beche. "Awful Changes," 1830. $6,000 to $9,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 11]. Flight Plan, Complete Original Printing Signed by Buzz Aldrin. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Thomas Alva Edison. Documents Establishing and Ending the Edison Electric Railway Company. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: Richard P. Feynman. Feynman's Lectures on Gravitation 1-16, Including the Original Transcriptions of Lectures 12-16 by Morinigo and Wagner, With Richard Feynman's Manuscript Notations, 1971. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [Apollo 9]. A Group of Manuals and Mission Documents used by Stuart Roosa as a member of the Astronaut Support Crew. $5,000 to $8,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 15: [BYTE: The Small Systems Journal]. A collection of early foundational issues of Byte: The Small Systems Journal, with rare hardcover editions. $5,000 to $8,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000