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Auction Info

Auction Name
The Estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein
Auction Date
12/18/2025 - 12/18/2025
Sale Number
#121825b
Total Lots
26
Sold Lots
26.0
Lots Sold
100.00%
Unsold Lots
0
Total Sales (USD)
11,102.20
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
4,650.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
7,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
4,650.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
7,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
144.18%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5535 Jonathan Carver

A New Map of North America,

1778 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 917.00
5624 After Peter Brown

Bird Illustrations

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 851.50
5540 French School (20th century)

"Casablanca Maroc" Travel Poster

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 851.50
5571 American School (20th/21st century)

View of San Francisco, digital print

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 786.00
5690

An inscribed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Senator Dianne Feinstein

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 622.25
5574 American School (20th/21st century)

(lot of 3) Untitled (Views of San Francisco Bay Area), photographs

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 556.75
5537 Guillaume de Lisle

Asia divisa in Imperial Regna & Status Map,

1730 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 556.75
5694

A framed poster of the San Francisco Examiners National Democratic Convention, July 16-19, 1984,

1984 USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 556.75
5539 After John Thomson

, Map of Tartary

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 524.00
5541 David Lance Goine

"International House," screenprint poster

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 491.25
5542 Leonetto Cappiello

Cirio Tomatoes Poster

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 491.25
5573

A group of five framed shell reproductive prints

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 458.50
5769

A collection of books on art, design, antiques, San Francisco and the Bay Area.

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 458.50
5782

Two photographs of California Bay Area

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 393.00
5536

The Geographical Journal (1922), and Mount Everest Expedition, 1921, Maps I and III

1922, 1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 393.00
5572 D. Nicholsen Miller and others

A group of five American prints, works on paper and an oil painting

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 393.00
5508

Three framed prints of Tibetan thangka

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 327.50
5626 Lorne Resnick

"Cuba, This Moment, Exactly So," chromogenic print and book in original case

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 294.75
5740 American School (20th century),

Sunset over the Water, digital print

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 294.75
5743

A group of six framed reproductive prints of early scientific illustrations, 20th/21st century

20th/21st century USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 196.50

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  • 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
  • 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.