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Rago Arts and Auctions: Rare Art Posters from a Private Collection

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Auction Name Rare Art Posters from a Private Collection Total Sales (USD) 129,966.00
Auction Date December 17, 2025 - December 17, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 83,600.00
Sale Number #121725a High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 123,700.00
Total Lots 68
Sold Lots 68.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 83,600.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 123,700.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 105.07%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
108

FD-26-OP-1 Grateful Dead 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.0

1966 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 27,940.00
109

BG-38-OP-3 Grateful Dead 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.8

1966 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,890.00
149

VG-IV-OP-1 13th Floor Elevators 1967 Houston Music Theatre CGC 6.0

1967 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 7,620.00
123

BG-8-OP-1 Andy Warhol & The Velvet Underground & Nico 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.4

1966 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,985.00
106

AOR-2.325-OP-1 Joan Baez & Grateful Dead 1966 Mt. Tamalpais Outdoor Theatre CGC 9.8

1966 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,350.00
148

BG-25-OP-1 13th Floor Elevators 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 8.0

1966 USD 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 USD 5,080.00
107

FD-22-OP-1 Grateful Dead & Sopwith Camel 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.8

1966 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
134

NR-2-OP-1 The Miller Blues Band 1967 The Matrix CGC 9.8

1967 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 4,445.00
114

BG-26-OP-1 Jefferson Airplane & Grateful Dead 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.4

1966 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,064.00
121

BG-33-OP-1 The Yardbirds 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.6

1966 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,810.00
155

BG-18-OP-1A The Association 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.8

1966 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,048.00
122

BG-13-OP-1 Lenny Bruce 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.8

1966 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,540.00
113

BG-23-OP-1-A Jefferson Airplane & Grateful Dead 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.2

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,286.00
165

BG-15-OP-1 The Turtles 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.6

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,286.00
132

FD-5-OP-1 Blues Project 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.4

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,159.00
120

BG-37-OP-1 Grateful Dead & Jefferson Airplane 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 8.5

1966 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 2,112.00
112

FD-33-OP-1 Grateful Dead & Oxford Circle 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.0

1966 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,032.00
166

BG-27-OP-1 The Mothers 1966 Fillmore and Scottish Rites Temple CGC 9.4

1966 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,905.00
146

FD-28-OP-1 13th Floor Elevators 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.6

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
167

President Johnson Funeral Motorcade 1967

1967 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 1,524.00
100

FD-38-OP-1 Big Brother & The Holding Company & Oxford Circle 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.8

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,397.00
157

BG-18-OP-1A The Association 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 8.5

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,397.00
164

BG-11-OP-1 The Wailers 1966 Fillmore Auditorium CGC 9.6

1966 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,397.00
128

FD-27-OP-2 Howlin' Wolf & Big Brother & the Holding Co. 1966 Avalon Ballroom CGC 9.6

1966 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,320.00
152

AOR-2.217-OP-1 Human Be-In 1967 San Francisco's Golden Gate Park CGC 8.5

1967 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,143.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary pair of books from George Washington’s field library, marking the conjunction of Robert Rogers, George Washington, and Henry Knox. $1,200,000 to $1,800,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: An extraordinary letter marking the conjunction of George Washington, the Marquis de Lafayette, and Benjamin Franklin. $1,000,000 to $1,500,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: Virginia House of Delegates. The genesis of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. $350,000 to $500,000.
    Sotheby’s
    Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
    27 January 2026
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: (Gettysburg). “Genl. Doubleday has taken charge of the battle”: Autograph witness to the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg, illustrated by fourteen maps and plans. $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: President Lincoln thanks a schoolboy on behalf of "all the children of the nation for his efforts to ensure "that this war shall be successful, and the Union be maintained and perpetuated." $200,000 to $300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Jan. 27: [World War II]. An archive of maps and files documenting the allied campaign in Europe, from the early stages of planning for D-Day and Operation Overlord, to Germany’s surrender. $200,000 to $300,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Plato. [Apanta ta tou Platonos. Omnia Platonis opera], 2 parts in 2 vol., editio princeps of Plato's works in the original Greek, Venice, House of Aldus, 1513. £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Book of Hours, Use of Rome, In Latin, illuminated manuscript on vellum, [Southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), c.1460]. £6,000-8,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Correspondence and documents by or addressed to the first four Viscounts Molesworth and members of their families, letters and manuscripts, 1690-1783. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works, 9 vol., John and Josiah Boydell, 1802. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Joyce (James). Ulysses, first edition, one of 750 copies on handmade paper, Paris, Shakespeare and Company, 1922 £8,000-12,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Powell (Anthony). [A Dance to the Music of Time], 12 vol., first editions, each with a signed presentation inscription from the author to Osbert Lancaster, 1951-75. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Chaucer (Geoffrey). Troilus and Criseyde, one of 225 copies on handmade paper, wood-engravings by Eric Gill, Waltham St.Lawrence, 1927. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Borges (Jorge Luis). Luna de Enfrente, first edition, one of 300 copies, presentation copy signed by the author to Leopoldo Marechal, Buenos Aires, Editorial Proa, 1925. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Nolli (Giovanni Battista). Nuova Pianta di Roma, Rome, 1748. £6,000-8,000
    Forum Auctions
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    29th January 2026
    Forum, Jan. 29: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, 3 vol., first edition, 1842-49. £15,000-20,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Blacker (William). Catechism of Fly Making, Angling and Dyeing, Published by the author, 1843. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, Jan. 29: Herschel (Sir John F. W.) Collection of 69 offprints, extracts and separate publications by Herschel, bound for his son, William James Herschel, 3 vol., [1813-50]. £15,000-20,000
  • Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 26. Company School. An album of 85 Indian mica paintings, Madras, c. 1852. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 28. Ross & Hooker. Notes on the Botany of the Antarctic Voyage, 1st edition, 1843. £4,000-6,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 44. Gould (John). The Birds of Great Britain, 5 volumes, 1st edition, 1862-73. £30,000-40,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 72. Edwards (George). A Natural History of Uncommon Birds… [and] Gleanings of Natural History, 7 volumes, 1st edition, 1743-64. £7,000-10,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 87. Walcott (Charles D. et al.). Geologic Atlas of the United States, 227-volume set, U.S. Geological Survey, 1894-1945. £500-800
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 236. A New Dictionary of the Terms Ancient and Modern of the Canting Crew…, By B. E. Gent., 1st edition, [1699]. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 245. Frost Fair Broadside. Upon the Frost in the Year 1739-40, Printed on the Ice upon the Thames at Queen-Hithe, 1739/40. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 270. Micheli (Antonino di). La Nuova Chitarra di Regole…, 1st edition, Palermo, 1680. £10,000-15,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 280. Elgar (Edward). Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, [1910], signed presentation copy. £500-800
    Dominic Winter
    Books, Maps, Documents & Autographs
    Ornithology, Music, Bookplates
    28th January 2026
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 286 - Walton (William, 1902-1983). Autograph manuscript full score for Belshazzar’s Feast, [1930-31]. £20,000-30,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 304. Churchill (Winston). A terracotta maquette of Churchill by Oscar Nemon, c. 1955. £1,500-2,000
    Dominic Winter, Jan. 28: Lot 364 - Russian Imperial Archaeological Commission. Mecheti Samarkanda..., Fascicule I Gour-Emir, St. Petersburg, 1905. £2,000-3,000