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Auction Name Depth of Field: Photographs Showcase Auction Total Sales (USD) 75,370.50
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 74,000.00
Sale Number #14221 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 114,300.00
Total Lots 120
Sold Lots 100 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 85,250.00
% of Lots Sold 83.33% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 131,650.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 57.25%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
39096 William Christenberry Jr. (American, 1936-2016)

House and Car, Near Akron, Alabama

1978 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 5,000.00
39017 Lee Friedlander (American, b. 1934)

New Orleans, Louisiana

1991 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,250.00
39098 William Christenberry Jr. (American, 1936-2016)

Horses and Black Buildings, Newbern, Alabama

1979 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,250.00
39100 Bernard Faucon (French, b. 1950)

Le Banquet

1978 Fresson print 12 x 12 inches (30.5 x 30.5 cm) USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,875.00
39001 Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)

The Maypole

1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,750.00
39048 Martin Chambi (Peruvian, 1891-1973)

Hombre Gigante de LLusco, Chumbilicas, Cusco

1925 USD 900.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,250.00
39053 Luis Gonzalez Palma (Guatemalan, b. 1957)

El Leon (The Lion)

1994 Hand painted USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,125.00
39023 Thomas Joshua Cooper (American, b. 1946)

An Indication Piece: Cabot Strait, Looking N., N.E. Towards the Old World, Cape North, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada

1999-2001 Toned USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,000.00
39027 Thomas Joshua Cooper (American, b. 1946)

From: The Great River, Rio Grande River Crossings,The Source to the Sea: First view of the Rio Grande, (A Message to Timothy H. O'Sullivan), The Big Hill, The Big Bend, Brewster County, Texas, U.S.A. (diptych)

1996 Toned USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,000.00
39050 Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, b. 1942)

Jardin de Edward James En Xilitla, 2002

Gelatin silver print 14-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
39063 Edward Steichen (American, 1879-1973)

Marlene Dietrich

1932 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,812.50
39031 Joel-Peter Witkin (American, b. 1939)

Mask and Severed Genitalia as Netsuke, New Mexico

1987 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,625.00
39081 Bunny Yeager (American, 1929-2014)

Bettie Page on the Beach

1954 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,625.00
39022 Ilse Bing (German/American, 1899-1998)

Untitled (Flowers in vase)

1928 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,562.50
39052 Graciela Iturbide (Mexican, b. 1942)

Jardin de Edward James En Xilitla, 2002

Gelatin silver print 14-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches (36.8 x 36.8 cm) USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,562.50
39035 Duane Michals (American, b. 1932)

When I Say This is Now, It Immediately Becomes Then

1980s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
39016 Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984)

Houston, Texas (from Women are Better than Men portfolio)

1977 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,375.00
39015 Gordon Parks (American, 1912-2006)

Group of 4 photographs

1942-1943 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,312.50
39011 Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984)

Beverly Hills, California (from Women are Better than Men portfolio)

1978 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,250.00
39018 Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991)

Martha's Vineyard (Fish in hand)

1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,187.50
39029 Gyorgy Kepes (American/Hungarian, 1906-2001)

Untitled

1941 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,187.50
39086 Nobuyoshi Araki (Japanese, b. 1940)

Untitled (Nude on Couch)

(from Visions of Japan) USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,125.00
39005 Aaron Siskind (American, 1903-1991)

Club Barron, Harlem

circa 1936 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,093.75
39061 Robert Polidori (Canadian, b. 1951)

Senora Luisa Faxas Bedroom, Miramar, Havana, Cuba, No. 2

1997 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,000.00
39083 Bunny Yeager (American, 1929-2014)

Bettie Page in Cheetah Leotard

1954 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
  • Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 962. Baird. United States Exploring Expedition. Philadelphia 1858.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 772. Edith Holland Norton. Brazilian Flowers. Coombe Croft 1893.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 49. Petrarca. Das Gluecksbuch, Augsburg 1536.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 1496. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 8. Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie. Cologne 1480.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 17. Heures a lusaige de Noyon. Paris 1504.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 13. Schedel. Buch der Chronicken. Nürnberg 1493.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 957. Donovan. Insects of China. London 1798.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 123. A holy martyr. Tuscany, Florence, mid-14th century.
    Jeschke Jádi
    Rare Book Auction 155
    Saturday April 26, 2025
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 438. Dante. La Divine Comédie. Paris 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 602. Firdausi. Histoire de Minoutchehr. Paris 1919
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 26: Lot 994. Westwood. Oriental Entomology. London 1848.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
  • Fonsie Mealy’s
    Rare Books & Collectors’ Sale
    April 30th & May 1st
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Taylor (Geo.) & Skinner (A.) Maps of the Roads of Ireland, Surveyed 1777. Lond. & Dublin 1778. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Messingham (Thos.) Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum seu Vitae et Acta Sanctorum Hibernia, Paris 1624. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus). The Haw Lantern, L. (Faber & Faber) 1987, First Edn., Signed and dated. €225 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Valencey (Lt. Col. Chas.) Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, Vols. I-IV, 4 vols. Dublin 1786. €400 to €600.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Powerscourt (Viscount). A Description and History of Powerscourt, Lond. 1903. €350 to €500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Moryson (Fynes). An Itinerary ... Containing His Ten Yeeres Travel Through the Twelve Dominions of Germany, Bohermerland, Sweitzerland…, Lond. (John Beale) 1617. €700 to €1,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: After Buffon, Birds of Europe, c. 1820. Approx. 120 fine hd. cold. plts., mor. backed boards. €125 to €250.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Dunlevy (Andrew). An Teagasg Criosduidhe De Reir Ceasda agus Freagartha... The Catechism or Christian Doctrine by Way of Question and Answer, Paris (James Guerin) 1742. €400 to €700.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: The Georgian Society Records of Eighteen-Century Domestic Architecture in Dublin, 5 vols. Complete, Dublin 1909-1913. €500 to €750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Scale (Bernard). An Hibernian Atlas or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, L. (Robert Sayer & John Bennet) 1776. €625 to €850.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: [Johnson (Rev. Samuel)]. Julian the Apostate Being a Short Account of his Life, together with a Comparison of Popery and Paganism,L. (Langley Curtis) 1682. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Nichlson (Wm.) Illustrator. An Almanac of Twelve Sports, Lond. 1898. €300 to €400.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) trans. The Light of the Leaves, 2 vols., Mexico (Imprenta de los Tropicos/Bunholt) 1999. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Fleming (Ian). Moonraker, L. (Jonathan Cape) 1955. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Apr 30-May 1: Heaney (Seamus) & Egan (Felim) artist. Squarings, Twelve Poems, D. (Hieroglyph Editions Ltd.) 1991. €1,750 to €2,250.
  • Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN'S EXTREMELY RARE FIRST APPEARANCE IN PRINT. "Scene af: Røverne i Vissenberg i Fyen." in Harpen, 1822.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST THREE FAIRY TALE PAMPHLETS, WITH ALL INDICES AND TITLE PAGES. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: THE FIRST FAIRY TALES WITH A SIGNED CARTE DE VISITE OF ANDERSEN AS FRONTIS. Eventyr, fortalte for Børn. 1835-1837.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: KARL LAGERFELD. Original pastel and ink drawing in gold, red and black for Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes (1992), "La cassette de l'Empereur."
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY OF THE SIXTH PAMPHLET FOR PETER KOCH. Eventyr, Fortalte For Børn, Second Series, Third Pamphlet. 1841. Publisher's wrappers, complete with all pre- and post-matter.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN RARE AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED IN ENGLISH from "The Ugly Duckling," c.1860s.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: HEINRICH LEFLER, ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR FOR ANDERSEN'S SNOW QUEEN, "Die Schneekönigin," 1910.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: FIRST EDITION OF ANDERSEN'S FAIRY TALES IN ENGLISH. Wonderful Stories for Children. London, 1846.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: ANDERSEN ON MEETING CHARLES DICKENS. Autograph Letter Signed ("H.C. Andersen") in English to William Jerdan, July 20, 1847.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR EDGAR COLLIN. Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Raekke. 1861.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: DOLL HOUSE FURNITURE BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON, DECORATED WITH FANTASTICAL CUT-OUTS, for the children of Jonna Stampe (née Drewsen), his godchildren.
    Bonhams, Apr. 21-29: PRESENTATION COPY FOR GEORG BRANDES. Dryaden. Et Eventyr fra Udstillingstiden i Paris 1867. 1868.
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