Clars Auction Gallery: The Warehouse Auction, 22126, Oakland

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 21, 2026 - February 21, 2026

Page Size: 136 items in 6 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
6057		A Court Order in Surrogates Court related to the estate of Billie Holiday, dated May 4, 1961.		1961	USD 300.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
6058		A signed letter from Samuel Stiefel to jazz artist Bennie Moten, dated June 20, 1921.		1921	USD 100.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
6059		Two photos of jazz artist Lester Young, framed		N/A	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 65.50
6060		A fourteen piece Duke Ellington collection,		N/A	USD 150.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
6060A	Roy DeCarava, Langston Hughes,	The Sweet Flypaper of Life', First Edition, Simon Schuster publisher,1955		1955	USD 100.00 - 200.00	USD 65.50
6063		A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to a fan at the Taft School in Watertown, CT., 1938.		1938	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 1,310.00
6063A		A rare Billie Holiday handwritten letter to her last husband, Louie Mackay. Signed Lady on Hotel Wilson letterhead. 1957.		1957	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 1,965.00
6064		A Lester Young jazz era concert poster, Mid-Winter Dance, Junior Paradise Girls at the Terrance Ballroom, January 27, 1951.		1951	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 327.50
6065		A large group of over 5000 baseball, basketball, and hockey cards,		N/A	USD 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
6086		Two pairs of framed Victorian pictures, the first pair of reverse paintings with foil of Parliament and the Royal Exchange		N/A	USD 75.00 - 125.00	USD 39.30
6087		A set of four vintage music sheets,		N/A	USD 75.00 - 125.00	USD 98.25
6097		A group of vintage MAD magazines with others,		N/A	USD 50.00 - 75.00	USD 98.25
6123		A group of mainly large-format hardcover art books,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 360.25
6124		Five exhibition catalogs for Steintz, Paris, 2010, 2012, (2) 2014, and 2016, each	Paris,	2010, 2012, (2) 2014, and 2016	USD 150.00 - 250.00	USD 229.25
6125		Sixteen books on Japanese and Chinese photography fashion illustration and calligraphy,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 131.00
6125A		Thirty-two art books on ancient to contemporary art, comprising books on John Constable, Auguste Rodin, Domenico Tiepolo, the Chicano Art Movement,...		N/A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 131.00
6126		Twenty-six art books on design, photography, 19th Century to contemporary art,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 131.00
6127		Forty-eight volumes of late 19th Century leather bound books,		late 19th Century	USD 200.00 - 300.00	USD 131.00
6128		Honore DeBalzac, Thirty volumes of 'The Comedie Humaine'. Publisher, NY Anthenaeum Society, Robert Bros.		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 196.50
6128A		Herbert Howe Bancroft, sixteen volumes of 'Bancrofts Works',		N/A	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 294.75
6129		Sixty five volumes of History, Philosophy and Playwrights, including Vasaris' The Lives of the Most Eminent Painters; ...		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 360.25
6130		Fifty-one volumes of Art, Photography and Illustration books,		N/A	USD 300.00 - 400.00	USD 393.00
6386	After H.F. Farny (American/French, 1847-1916)	Illustrations of Native Americans, lithographs,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
6386A	After H.F. Farny (American/French, 1847-1916)	Illustrations of Native Americans, lithographs,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
6386B	After H.F. Farny (American/French, 1847-1916)	Illustrations of Native Americans, lithographs,		N/A	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold

ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
Sotheby’s
Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
Open for Bidding 2-17 April

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.

Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.