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Auction Info

Auction Name
The Warehouse Auction
Auction Date
12/20/2025 - 12/20/2025
Sale Number
#122025
Total Lots
148
Sold Lots
80.0
Lots Sold
54.05%
Unsold Lots
68
Total Sales (USD)
11,390.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
10,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
19,870.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
19,725.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
36,060.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
31.59%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9642 Ishikawa Toraji -

Reading (Dokusho). Woodblock print

1934 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 458.50
9246

A cased two-volume set of 'The Original Watercolor Paintings, by John James Audubon for the Birds of America'

1966 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 458.50
9607A Toko Shinoda (1913-2021)

Beyond C. Lithograph on paper

USD 600.00 - 700.00 USD 393.00
9644 Kiyoshi Kobayakawa -

After the Bath. Woodblock print

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 393.00
9611A Toko Shinoda (1913-2021)

Irrigate. Lithograph on paper

1976 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 393.00
9164A American School (20th century)

Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 360.25
9618 Ota Masamitsu (1892-1975)

Moritsuna of Ichikawa zebizo IX. Woodblock print

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 294.75
9624 Tatsumi Shimura (1907-1980)

Battle Dore. Woodblock print

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 262.00
9176 David Lance Goines (American, 1945-1923)

Oakland Symphony Fiftieth Season Poster

1983 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 229.25
9648A Ito Shinsui (1898-1972)

Chrysanthemum Flower Arrangement. Woodblock print

circa 1970 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 229.25
9134 Willem van den Berg (Dutch, 1886-1970)

Egret

USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 229.25
9178 David Lance Goines (American, 1945-1923)

Annunciation

1975 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 229.25
9172 Howard Cook (American, 1901-1980)

Bougainville Barracks Bags

1943 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 196.50
9645 Yamakawa Shuho -

Autumn Leaves. Woodblock print

1927 USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 196.50
9107 Leonetto Capiello (Italian, 1875-1942)

Chocolat Rozan

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 196.50
9634 Migita Toshihide (1863 - 1925)

Onna Kusunoki. Diptych print

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 196.50
9648

(lot of 2) Japanese woodblocks prints. Comprising one after Utagawa Hiroshige's No.119 View of the Paulownia Imperiales Trees at Akasaka on a Rainy Evening

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 196.50
9627 Watanabe Tosai Nobukazu (1872-1944)

Kojima Bingo Saburo Takanori. Triptych woodblock prints

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 196.50
9112 After Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973)

Grand Maternite

1963 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 196.50
9163 American School (20th century)

San Francisco

1949 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 196.50

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  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000