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Auction Name Photographs Total Sales (USD) 1,184,096.25
Auction Date May 24, 2022 - May 24, 2022 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,073,000.00
Sale Number #8071 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 1,672,000.00
Total Lots 473
Sold Lots 342 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,506,500.00
% of Lots Sold 72.30% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 2,351,500.00
Unsold Lots 131 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 50.36%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
73473 Peter Beard (American, 1938-2020)

Orphaned Cheetah Cubs at Mweiga, near Nyeri, Kenya

1968 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 45,000.00
73115 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)

Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada from Lone Pine, California

1944 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 40,000.00
73239 Herb Ritts (American, 1952-2002)

Djimon with Octopus, Hollywood

1989 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 40,000.00
73421 Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965)

Migrant Mother

1936 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 30,000.00
73301 Robert Mapplethorpe (American, 1946-1989)

Calla Lily

1986 USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 USD 25,000.00
73127 Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)

Hand of the Potter Amado Galvan, Tonala, Mexico

1925 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 20,627.50
73358 Alfred Eisenstaedt (American, 1898-1995)

VJ Day, Times Square, New York

1945 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 20,000.00
73333 Berenice Abbott (American, 1898-1991)

New York at Night

1932 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 18,750.00
73387 Henri Cartier-Bresson (French, 1908-2004)

Rue Mouffetard, Paris

1954 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 16,875.00
73372 Steve McCurry (American, 1950)

Afghan Girl

1984 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 16,250.00
73264 David Bailey (British, 1938)

John Lennon and Paul McCartney

1965 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 15,625.00
73008 Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)

Pepper, No. 34

1930 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 15,000.00
73459 Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, 1955)

Canola Fields, Luoping, Yunnan Province, China

2011 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 15,000.00
73246 Lawrence Schiller (American, 1936)

Marilyn 12 Portfolio (13 works)

1962 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
73118 Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984)

Mt. Williamson from Manzanar, Sierra Nevada, California

1944 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 12,500.00
73158 William Eggleston (American, 1939)

Untitled (Blue Truck with Wisteria), Memphis

1972 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 11,875.00
73025 Edward Weston (American, 1886-1958)

Charis

1934 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 11,250.00
73364 W. Eugene Smith (American, 1918-1978)

The Walk to Paradise Garden

1946 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 10,937.50
73178 Ed Ruscha (American, 1937)

Standard Station, Figueroa

1962 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 10,625.00
73257 Albert Watson (Scottish, 1942)

Snoop Dogg, New York City

1992 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,625.00
73258 Albert Watson (Scottish, 1942)

Tupac Shakur, New York City

1991 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,625.00
73467 David Yarrow (British, 1966)

The King and I

2016 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,625.00
73469 David Yarrow (British, 1966)

It's Only a Matter of Time

2017 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 10,625.00
73416 Man Ray (American, 1890-1976)

W. Watson & Sons, London, Folding Field Camera

1920s USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,000.00
73183 George Tice (American, 1938)

Petit's Mobile Station, Cherry Hill, New Jersey

1974 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,375.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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