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Sothebys: The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman - bidstart 12/9

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Auction Name The World of Henri Cartier-Bresson: Photographs from the Personal Collection of Peter Fetterman - bidstart 12/9 Total Sales (USD) 714,042.00
Auction Date December 16, 2021 - December 16, 2021 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 455,000.00
Sale Number #N10803 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 679,000.00
Total Lots 95
Sold Lots 63.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 670,000.00
% of Lots Sold 66.32% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 993,000.00
Unsold Lots 32 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 71.91%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
82 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Gy?r, Hungary

 1964, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 37,800.00
1 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Hyères, France

 1932, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 30,240.00
36 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Natchez, Mississippi

 1947, printed later USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 25,200.00
76 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Island of Siphnos, Greece

 1961, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 25,200.00
3 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Behind the Gare St. Lazare, Paris

 1932, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,680.00
53 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Scanno, Italy

 1951, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,420.00
66 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Swan Lake, Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, USSR

 1954, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 21,420.00
78 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Simiane-la-Rotonde, France

 1969, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 21,420.00
49 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Srinagar, India

 1948, printed later USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 20,160.00
35 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Chicago, U.S.A.

 1947, printed later USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 15,120.00
45 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sale of Gold in the Last Days of the Kuomintang, Shanghai, China

 1948, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 15,120.00
54 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Cathedral, Notre-Dame, Paris

 1953, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 15,120.00
4 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Dieppe, France

 1926, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,860.00
84 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Gardens of the Palais-Royal

 1959, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 13,860.00
5 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Madrid, Spain

 1933, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
32 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Easter Sunday, Harlem, New York

 1947, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
46 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Peking (Children Waiting in Rice Line)

 1949, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
60 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Transatlantic Liner Arriving in the Harbor, New York City

 1959, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
63 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Stock Exchange, London

 1955, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
75 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Rome, Italy

 1959, printed later USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,600.00
79 Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Berlin Wall, Federal Republic of Germany

 1962, printed later USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,600.00
80 Henri Cartier-Bresson

The East seen from the West, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany

 1962, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,600.00
95 Henri Cartier-Bresson and Martine Franck

Henri Cartier-Bresson Drawing, rue de Rivoli and 'The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers'

 1992, printed later USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 12,600.00
11 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Leonor Fini, Italy

 1933, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,710.00
14 Henri Cartier-Bresson

Allée du Prado, Marseille, France

 1932, printed later USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,710.00
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    December 15, 2025
    Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.
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  • <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000. <b>Bonhams, Dec. 8-18:</b> Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Book Week
    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.