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Auction Name	Photographs	Total Sales (EUR)	456,438.00
Auction Date	October 16, 2025 - October 16, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	287,000.00
Sale Number	#101625	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	404,900.00
Total Lots	261
Sold Lots	155.0	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	452,500.00
% of Lots Sold	59.39%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	645,800.00
Unsold Lots	106	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	70.68%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
62	Luigi Ghirri	Bologna, Studio di Giorgio Morandi	1989/90	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 19,650.00
78	Mario Giacomelli	Io non ho mani che mi accarezzino il volto	1961/1963	EUR 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	EUR 19,650.00
38	Francesca Woodman	Untitled, Rome, (Postcard invitation to the exhibition "Images")	1977/1978	EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 14,410.00
33	Shirin Neshat	The Home of My Eyes	2018	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 12,445.00
129	Steve McCurry	Astrologer, India	1983	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 12,445.00
122	Andreas Gursky	La Defense, Panorama	1987	EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 11,790.00
37	Francesca Woodman	MacDowell Colony, Summer	1979/1980	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 11,135.00
61	Massimo Listri	Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli	2002	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 9,170.00
114	Gabriele Basilico	Beirut (Rue Dakar)	1991	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 9,170.00
79	Mario Giacomelli	Io non ho le mani che mi accarezzino il volto	1963	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 8,515.00
253	Oliviero Toscani	Manette, campagna pubblicitaria United Colors of Benetton	1989	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 8,515.00
31	Timothy Greenfield-Sanders	Tera Patrick	2004	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 7,860.00
98	Brassai	La Seine au Pont des Arts	1935	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 7,860.00
128	Steve McCurry	Mother and Child at Car Window, India	1993	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 7,860.00
34	Anton Corbijn	P. J. Harvey, London	1994	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 7,205.00
45	Paolo Ventura	Untitled	2013	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 7,205.00
66	Luigi Ghirri	Modena, Architetture di Aldo Rossi	1983	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,550.00
71	Luigi Ghirri	Napoli	1980	EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 6,550.00
73	Mimmo Jodice	Vedute di Napoli, Museo Nazionale	1980	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 6,550.00
224	Abbas Kiarostami	Untitled, from "Road" Series	1980/2003	EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	EUR 6,432.00
2	Lisetta Carmi	From the series "I travestiti"	1960s/1970s	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 6,030.00
17	Berenice Abbott	Fulton Street Fish Market, New York	1935/1936	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,360.00
99	Marc Riboud	Le Peintre de la Tour Eiffel (Painter of the Eiffel Tower), Paris	1953	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 5,360.00
124	Martin Parr	New York	1999	EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,360.00
22	Man Ray	Patti Birch	1948	EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 5,092.00

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Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 156: Cornelis de Jode, Americae pars Borealis, double-page engraved map of North America, Antwerp, 1593.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 206: John and Alexander Walker, Map of the United States, London and Liverpool, 1827.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 223: Abraham Ortelius, Typus Orbis Terrarum, hand-colored double-page engraved world map, Antwerp, 1575.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 233: Aaron Arrowsmith, Chart of the World, oversize engraved map on 8 sheets, London, 1790 (circa 1800).

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 239: Fielding Lucas, A General Atlas, 81 engraved maps and diagrams, Baltimore, 1823.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 240: Anthony Finley, A New American Atlas, 15 maps engraved by james hamilton young on 14 double-page sheets, Philadelphia, 1826.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 263: John Bachmann, Panorama of the Seat of War, portfolio of 4 double-page chromolithographed panoramic maps, New York, 1861.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 265: Sebastian Münster, Cosmographei, Basel: Sebastian Henricpetri, 1558.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 271: Abraham Ortelius, Epitome Theatri Orteliani, Antwerp: Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601.

Swann
Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books
December 9, 2025

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 283: Joris van Spilbergen, Speculum Orientalis Occidentalisque Indiae, Leiden: Nicolaus van Geelkercken for Jodocus Hondius, 1619.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 285: Levinus Hulsius, Achtzehender Theil der Newen Welt, 14 engraved folding maps, Frankfurt: Johann Frederick Weiss, 1623.

Swann, Dec. 9: Lot 341: John James Audubon, Carolina Parrot, Plate 26, London, 1827.
SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen» [ The South Pole] 1912. First edition in jackets and publisher's slip case.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: AMUNDSEN & NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet» [Farthest North] 1897. AMUNDSEN's COPY!

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON [ed.]: «Aurora Australis» 1908. First edition. The NORWAY COPY.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The heart of the Antarctic» + SUPPLEMENT «The Antarctic Book», 1909.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: SHACKLETON, BERNACCHI, CHERRY-GARRARD [ed.]: «The South Polar Times» I-III, 1902-1911.

SD Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
The Odfjell Collection
Polar – History – Ornithology – Colour Plate Books
Ending December 4th

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: [WILLEM BARENTSZ & HENRY HUDSON] - SAEGHMAN: «Verhael van de vier eerste schip-vaerden […]», 1663.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: TERRA NOVA EXPEDITION | LIEUTENANT HENRY ROBERTSON BOWERS: «At the South Pole.», Gelatin Silver Print. [10¾ x 15in. (27.2 x 38.1cm.) ].

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: ELEAZAR ALBIN: «A natural History of Birds.» + «A Supplement», 1738-40. Wonderful coloured plates.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: PAUL GAIMARD: «Voyage de la Commision scientific du Nord, en Scandinavie, […]», c. 1842-46. ONLY HAND COLOURED COPY KNOWN WITH TWO ORIGINAL PAINTINGS BY BIARD.

Scandinavian Art & Rare Books Auctions, Dec. 4: JAMES JOYCE: «Ulysses», 1922. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPPERS.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Darwin and Wallace. On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties..., [in:] Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Vol. III, No. 9., 1858, Darwin announces the theory of natural selection. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, inscribed by the author pre-publication. £100,000 to £150,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 11: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Autograph sketchleaf including a probable draft for the E flat Piano Quartet, K.493, 1786. £150,000 to £200,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Chappuzeau, Samuel. The history of jewels, first edition in English. London: T.N. for Hobart Kemp, 1671. $12,000 to $18,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.