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Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2025 - November 20, 2025
Page Size: 383 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
176 White, Minor

Two typed letters from Minor White to Stuart Oring

New York October 1, 1966; October 11, 1966 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
177 White, Minor

Typed letter from Minor White to Stuart Oring

New York 7 November, 1969 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
178 Winogrand, Garry

Public Relations

New York [1977] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 375.00
179 Ziff, Trisha

Witkin & Witkin

[Mexico] [2016] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
180 Witkin, Joel-Peter

The Bone House

[Santa Fe] 1998 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
181 Witkin, Joel-Peter

Gods of Earth and Heaven

[Altadena, California] [1989] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
182 Yamamoto, Masao

Small Things in Silence

[Barcelona] [2014] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 281.25
183 Ambar Past, Xun Okotz, Xpetra Ernandez, et al.

Incantations of Mayan Women

Chiapas Mexico 2005 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 437.50
184 Laurvik, J. Nilsen

Is It Art?

New York 1913 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
185 Baldessari, John

Zorro (Two Gestures and One Mark)

Cologne 1998 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
186 Beckmann, Max

Adam and Eve

c.1917-18 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
187 Aesop

Fables of Aesop: According to Sir Roger L'Estrange

Paris and New York 1931 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
188 Calder, Alexander

Asymetrie

1972 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
189 Calder, Alexander

Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes

New York 1944 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
190 Cramer, Patrick

Marc Chagall. The Illustrated Books. Catalogue Raisonne

Geneva 1995 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
191 Mandiargues, Andre pieyre de

Chagall

New York / Paris [1974] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
192 Chagall, Marc

Illustrations for the Bible

New York [1956] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
193 Chryssa

Study for Neon

New York c. 1964-68 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
194

Three monographs on Francesco Clemente

1984-1986 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
195 Derain, Andre

La Cene / The Last Supper

c.1912 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
196

Richard Diebenkorn: Works on Paper [with] The Art of Richard Diebenkorn

Houston; New York [1987]; [1997] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
197 Webel, Sophie

L'Oeuvre Grave et les Livres Illustres par Jean Dubuffet

Paris 1991 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 187.50
198 Schwarz, Arturo

The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp

New York [1970] USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 162.50
199 Strich, Christian, editor

Fellini's Films: The four hundred most memorable stills from Federico Fellini's fifteen and a half films

New York [1977] USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
200 Lembark, Connie W.

The Prints of Sam Francis: A Catalogue Raisonne 1960-1990

New York [1992] USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
  • 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.