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Clars Auction Gallery: The Estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein

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Auction Name The Estate of Senator Dianne Feinstein Total Sales (USD) 11,102.25
Auction Date December 18, 2025 - December 18, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 4,650.00
Sale Number #121825b High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 7,700.00
Total Lots 26
Sold Lots 26.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 4,650.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 7,700.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 144.19%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
5535 Jonathan Carver

A New Map of North America,

1778 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 917.00
5540 French School (20th century)

"Casablanca Maroc" Travel Poster

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 851.50
5624 After Peter Brown

Bird Illustrations

USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 851.50
5571 American School (20th/21st century)

View of San Francisco, digital print

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 786.00
5690

An inscribed photograph of Queen Elizabeth II and Senator Dianne Feinstein

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 622.25
5537 Guillaume de Lisle

Asia divisa in Imperial Regna & Status Map,

1730 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 556.75
5574 American School (20th/21st century)

(lot of 3) Untitled (Views of San Francisco Bay Area), photographs

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 556.75
5694

A framed poster of the San Francisco Examiners National Democratic Convention, July 16-19, 1984,

1984 USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 556.75
5539 After John Thomson

, Map of Tartary

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 524.00
5541 David Lance Goine

"International House," screenprint poster

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 491.25
5542 Leonetto Cappiello

Cirio Tomatoes Poster

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 491.25
5573

A group of five framed shell reproductive prints

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 458.50
5769

A collection of books on art, design, antiques, San Francisco and the Bay Area.

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 458.50
5536

The Geographical Journal (1922), and Mount Everest Expedition, 1921, Maps I and III

1922, 1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 393.00
5572 D. Nicholsen Miller and others

A group of five American prints, works on paper and an oil painting

USD 75.00 - 125.00 USD 393.00
5782

Two photographs of California Bay Area

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 393.00
5508

Three framed prints of Tibetan thangka

USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 327.50
5626 Lorne Resnick

"Cuba, This Moment, Exactly So," chromogenic print and book in original case

USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 294.75
5740 American School (20th century),

Sunset over the Water, digital print

USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 294.75
5668

An Indian manuscript, the obverse with portrait of a shrike bird within calligraphy borders

USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 196.50
5743

A group of six framed reproductive prints of early scientific illustrations, 20th/21st century

20th/21st century USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 196.50
5538 After Justus Perthes

Map of Central Asia from Stieler's Hand-Atlas, 20th century reprint

20th century USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 163.75
5691

A signed photograph of Senator Dianne Feinstein and Walter Mondale

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 131.00
5689

Two framed pictures presented to Senator Dianne Feinstein, The first Chinese Cultural Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award, and photograph of the Presidio,

USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 65.50
5693

Two photographs of Dianne Feinstein, the first of her delegation in 1979 to Shanghai marking sister city relationship;

USD 100.00 - 150.00 USD 65.50
  • 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