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Auction Name Maurice Sendak: Artist, Collector, Connoisseur Total Sales (USD) 4,752,794.00
Auction Date June 10, 2025 - June 10, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 2,966,000.00
Sale Number #23946 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,442,000.00
Total Lots 57
Sold Lots 47.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 3,906,000.00
% of Lots Sold 82.46% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 5,837,000.00
Unsold Lots 10 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 81.43%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
30 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Experience

 1794 [but1793]. USD 1,000,000.00 - 1,500,000.00 USD 1,865,000.00
29 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

Songs of Innocence

 1789 USD 1,000,000.00 - 1,500,000.00 USD 1,260,000.00
24 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

The First Book of Urizen: Plate 3: 'O flames of furious desire'; subsidiary pencil sketch (verso)

 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 176,400.00
11 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

The Lion and Stag

 USD 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 163,800.00
23 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

'With Songs the Jovial Hinds Return from Plow'

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 107,100.00
47 CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG (B. 1949)

'It was wrapped in an apron of steam.' (Cover Illustration for The Polar Express)

 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 94,500.00
25 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

The Pastorals of Virgil: Four Plates

 circa1821 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 81,900.00
6 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

A Tyger (A recumbent Leopard by a Tree)

 1788 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 56,700.00
10 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

Hay-Makers, Reapers

 1791 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 52,920.00
54 MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)

Sendak in Philadelphia

 1995 USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 USD 52,920.00
48 CHRIS VAN ALLSBURG (B. 1949)

'On Christmas Eve, many years ago, I lay quietly in my bed.' (Illustration for The Polar Express)

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 47,880.00
3 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

A Lion Devouring a Horse

 1788 USD 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 USD 44,100.00
8 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

A Lion (A recumbent Lion)

 1788 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 44,100.00
13 WELBY SHERMAN (fl. 1827-1836) AFTER SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)

Evening

 1834 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 44,100.00
46 BEATRIX POTTER (1866-1943)

A Snail guarding their Nest

 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 40,320.00
38 HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901)

Femme au tub - Le tub, from Elles

 1896 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 37,800.00
1 REMBRANDT HARMENSZ VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Angel Appearing to the Shepherds

 1634 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 35,280.00
4 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

Two Tygers

 1788 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 35,280.00
41 PAUL CEZANNE (1839-1906)

Les Baigneurs (Large Plate)

 circa1896-1898 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,280.00
21 WILLIAM BLAKE (1757-1827)

The Bed of Death (recto); and A subsidiary sketch of a figure in a doorway (verso)

 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 30,240.00
55 MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)

Really Rosie

 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 30,240.00
58 MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)

Wild Thing

 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 30,240.00
40 FELIX VALLOTTON (1865-1925)

La Paresse

 1896 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,720.00
57 MAURICE SENDAK (1928-2012)

Literary Lunch

 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,720.00
7 GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)

Two Dogs

 1788 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 25,200.00
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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.
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    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.