Rago Arts and Auctions: Photographs, 121125b, Van Nuys, CA

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
December 11, 2025 - December 11, 2025
Page Size: 224 items in 9 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
251 Ernst Haas 1921--1986 follow artist

Albert Einstein on his porch at Princeton, NJ

1951 / printed 2024 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
252 Yousuf Karsh 1908--2002 follow artist

The Roaring Lion (Portrait of Winston Churchill)

1941 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,826.00
253 Gertrude Kasebier 1852--1934 follow artist

Auguste Rodin

1905 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,240.00
254 Roman Vishniac 1897--1990 follow artist

Warsaw

c.1938 / printed c.1975 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,270.00
255 Roman Vishniac 1897--1990 follow artist

In Front of the Synagogue on Saturday

1937 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
256 Roman Vishniac 1897--1990 follow artist

Warsaw

c.1938 / printed c.1975 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Not Sold
257 Minor White 1908--1976 follow artist

Man and Moon, Matchstick Cove

1947 / printed later USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,016.00
258 Minor White 1908--1976 follow artist

Untitled (Woman in Garden)

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,651.00
259 Doris Ulmann 1882--1934 follow artist

Old Mountain Man with Bible, Weaver Hill, NC

1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 635.00
260 Minor White 1908--1976 follow artist

Cobblestone House

1958 / printed later USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 762.00
261 Minor White 1908--1976 follow artist

The Three Thirds

1957 / printed 1959 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
262 Wynn Bullock 1902--1975 follow artist

The Forest

1956 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,207.00
263 Jan Groover 1943--2012 follow artist

Playing Field, New Jersey

1981 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,143.00
264 Wynn Bullock 1902--1975 follow artist

Trees in Snow, Yosemite

1959 / printed later USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,016.00
265 Michael Kenna b.1953 follow artist

Kussharo Lake Tree, Study 1, Kotan, Hokkaido, Japan

2001 / printed 2002 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,032.00
266 Ralph Gibson b.1939 follow artist

The Perfect Future (from the Deja Vu portfolio)

1972 / printed later USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 889.00
267 Michael Kenna b.1953 follow artist

Mill Demolition, Huddersfield, Yorkshire

1985 / printed 1986 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 826.00
268 Michael Kenna b.1953 follow artist

Fierce Wind, Shykushi, Honshu, Japan

2002 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 762.00
269 Michael Kenna b.1953 follow artist

Golden Gate Bridge, Study 9, San Francisco

1990 / printed 1998 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 889.00
270 Max Yavno 1911--1985 follow artist

Knockout

1975 / printed later USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 762.00
271 Harold Edgerton 1903--1990 follow artist

Untitled (Baton Multiflash)

c.1953 / printed later USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 445.00
272 Harold Edgerton 1903--1990 follow artist

Untitled (two works)

1936, 1938 / printed later USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 635.00
273 Harold Edgerton 1903--1990 follow artist

Ouch! (Archery) (from the Ten Photographs series)

1934 / printed later USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 445.00
274 Bruce Davidson b.1933 follow artist

Man Ordering at Drive-In (from the Los Angeles series)

1963 / printed later USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,794.00
275 Andre Kertesz 1894--1985 follow artist

Lost Cloud, New York City

1937 / printed later USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,397.00
  • 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
  • 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 282 - Griffes (Charles). Autograph Manuscript Score for Overture to Hänsel und Gretel, c. 1910. £2,000-3,000
    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