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Auction Name Discovery | Interiors Total Sales (USD) 9,292.80
Auction Date September 18, 2025 - September 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 10,850.00
Sale Number #30991 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 16,900.00
Total Lots 21
Sold Lots 15.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 15,450.00
% of Lots Sold 71.43% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 24,300.00
Unsold Lots 6 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 38.24%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Lockwood de Forest

Forest Landscape at Dusk

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,920.00
148 Carl van Vechten

Selected Portraits (Including Jean Cocteau, Rufino Tamayo, Alexander Calder, and Marie Laurencin, among others)

1934-63 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,792.00
103 Karel Appel

Monday, Bird in Summer Landscape, from Seven Summer Days

1976 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 960.00
72 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes

A Spanish Mounted Knight in the Ring Breaking Short Spears Without the Help of Assistants, Plate 13 from La Tauromaquia

1876 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 640.00
175 Walasse Ting

Thick Eggroll, from the book Hot and Sour Soup

1964 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 563.20
258 Walasse Ting

I Drunk, from the book My Shit and My Love

1961 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 563.20
108 Walasse Ting

Swimming with Crab

1956 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 537.60
11 Bert Stern

Twiggy (for Vogue)

1967 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 486.40
209 Walker Evans

Select images from the First and Last Portfolio 8

1978 USD 600.00 - 1,000.00 USD 486.40
287 After Jasper Johns

Leo Castelli Exhibition Poster

1976 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 460.80
172 Shelby Lee Adams

Selected Images (comprising Lloyd Dean Holding Great-Grand Baby, Noble Boys on 4-Wheelers, Walters Trailer, and Three Sisters)

2010-2014 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 281.60
59 Walasse Ting

All Men Are Brothers

1969 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
16 Arnold Newman

Eleanor Roosevelt

1962 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 204.80
52 David Kessler

Afternoon Light (Diptych)

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 76.80
250 Marcel Jacque (French, 1906--1981)

Attelage en foret a Barbizon

1951 USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 64.00
  • SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.
    SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Odfjell Collection
    Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
    Ending December 4th
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.
    Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
  • Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.
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  • Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.
    Swann
    Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
    December 9, 2025
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.
    Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.