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Auction Info

Auction Name
British and Continental
Auction Date
09/09/2025 - 09/09/2025
Sale Number
#17910
Total Lots
19
Sold Lots
14
Lots Sold
73.68%
Unsold Lots
5
Total Sales (USD)
27,520.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
19,800.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
29,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
45,700.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
70,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
39.31%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
84 David Hockney,

Stanley in a Basket, October, 1986

1986 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,880.00
158

Early Latin Leather and Vellum Antiphonal

17th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,328.00
165 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,

Au Hanneton Woman with dog in a cafe, 1898

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,072.00
27 Johannes Kip

Four Framed Views of English Estates

circa 1720 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,048.00
188 Alberto Giacometti

La mere de l'artiste a la fenetre (The Artist's Mother at the Window) (L. 49), 1949

1949 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,664.00
126 Theodore Gericault,

Mameluck Defendant un Trompette Blesse

1818 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
189 Alberto Giacometti

Mere de l'artist assise II (The Artist's Mother Seated II) (L. 51), 1951

1951 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,280.00
28

On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

1819 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
160 Adam Smith,

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Two Volumes

1792 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,024.00
192 Bernard Buffet,

U.N.O. New York, United Nations Building (designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer)

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 640.00
167 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz,

The Battlefield

1907 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 384.00
191 Bernard Buffet,

Le Canal

1955 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 320.00
197 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Two Prints

1963-1972 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
194 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Two Prints

1963-1972 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 192.00
168 Attributed to Fernand Leger

Les Amoureux, 1954

1954 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Not Sold
159 Dr. [Jean Baptiste Marc] Bourgery, lithographs by N. H. [Nicolas Henri] Jacob

Traite Complet de l'Anatomie de l'Homme, 8 Volumes

1831-[1854], USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
45 Edmund Dulac

Edmund Dulac Original Illustration, 1913, J.P. Morgan Jr. Family Provenance

1919 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
193 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Selbstbildnis (Self-Portrait), (Klepstien, no. 155), 1921

1921, printed 1963-1972 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
196 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Four Prints

1963-1972 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold

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    Beatrix Potter:
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    Dominic Winter, Oct. 2: Potter (Beatrix). The Tailor of Gloucester, 1st privately printed edition, December 1902. £2,000-£3,000.
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