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Swann Galleries: Highlights from the Gooding Family Collection of Posters

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Auction Name Highlights from the Gooding Family Collection of Posters Total Sales (USD) 889,243.00
Auction Date May 21, 2026 - May 21, 2026 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 564,500.00
Sale Number #2741 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 821,200.00
Total Lots 134
Sold Lots 120.0 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 651,000.00
% of Lots Sold 89.55% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 948,700.00
Unsold Lots 14 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 93.73%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Top Sale Price Lots
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3 Designer Unknown

Cycles Gladiator

circa 1895 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 114,300.00
103 Paul George Lawler

Fly to South Sea Isles Via Pan American

circa 1938 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 33,020.00
109 Paul Colin (1892-1985)

La Revue Negre

1925 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 33,020.00
58 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)

[Aristide Bruant dans son Cabaret]

1893 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 30,480.00
55 Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

[The Stars]

1902 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 22,860.00
104 Paul George Lawler

San Francisco - Hawaii Overnight! / Via Pan American - To The Orient

1939 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 22,860.00
51 Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

[Tetes Byzantines]

1897 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 21,590.00
52 Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

Cycles Perfecta

1897 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,780.00
72 Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936)

St. Moritz

1918 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,780.00
11 Leonetto Cappiello (1875-1942)

Cafe Martin

1921 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,510.00
115 Charles Loupot (1892-1962)

Voisin

1923 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,510.00
37 Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949)

Grammophon

1910 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 13,970.00
97 Designer Unknown

Lincoln - Zephyr V-12

1936 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 13,970.00
36 Ludwig Hohlwein (1874-1949)

Confection Kehl PKZ

1908 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 12,700.00
57 Henri Thiriet (1866-1897)

Omega Sans Chaine

1897 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 12,065.00
80 Martin Peikert (1901-1975)

Champery

1955 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 12,065.00
21 Georges de Feure (1868-1943)

Affiches et Estampes Pierrefort

1898 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,430.00
71 Emil Cardinaux (1877-1936)

Jungfrau - Bahn

1911 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,430.00
83 A. Schindeler

Voyage Autour du Monde / Round the World

1891 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 11,430.00
120 Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901-1968)

Sweepstake / Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

1935 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,430.00
84 Evelyn Rumsey Carey (1855-1924)

Pan American Exhibition Buffalo / Niagara

1901 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,795.00
19 Marcello Dudovich (1878-1962)

Marca Zenit / G.B. Borsalino

1911 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,160.00
69 Francisco Tamagno (1851-1933)

Chamonix Mont - Blanc

1910 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 10,160.00
105 Hubert von Herkomer (1881-?)

"Normandie" / French Line

1939 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,900.00
45 Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939)

Gismonda / Theatre de la Renaissance

1894 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 9,525.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Shelf Life: Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper from the Library of Stanley J. Seeger and Christopher Cone
    25 June – July 7
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Ludwig van Beethoven. Autograph sketches for the overture "Die Weihe des Hauses", op.124, [1822], UNPUBLISHED. £150,000 to £200,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice, 1813, first edition, 3 volumes, contemporary half calf. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, Brooklyn, 1855, first edition, first issue, original green cloth, the Doheny copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: Binding—Sangorski & Sutcliffe—Omar Khayyam. Rubaiyat, London, 1872, third edition, in a magnificent jewelled Peacock binding. £15,000 to £20,000.
    Sotheby’s, July 7: George Eliot. Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts. £20,000 to £30,000.
  • Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Hassall (Joan) A large collection of over 300 original woodblocks of engravings for various books, v.d., with Hassall's engraver's glass water-globe (Qty) - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Eragny Press.- [Bradley (Katherine Harris) & Edith Emma Cooper], "Michael Field." Whym Chow, Flame of Love, one of only 27 copies, inscribed by Bradley, the rarest book from the press, 1914. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: [Moore (Thomas Sturge)] [Wood Engravings], 71 wood-engravings printed by David Chambers from the original blocks, the only set on Japanese Hosho paper, from an edition of 5 sets, [1970]. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: La Fontaine (Jean de) Contes et Nouvelles en vers, 2 vol., engraved plates after Eisen, fine early 19th century blue morocco, gilt, by Bradel l'ainé, Amsterdam [Paris], 1762. - Est. £2,000-3,000
    Forum, July 9: Erotica.- Prostitution.- Pretty Women of Paris (The); Their Names and Addresses, Qualities and Faults..., [Paris], privately printed at the Press of the Prefecture de Police, 1883. - Est. £3,000-4,000
    Forum, July 9: Vale Press.- Ricketts (Charles) & Lucien Pissarro. De la Typographie et de l'Harmonie de la Page Imprimée…, [one of 216 copies], bound in dark blue morocco tooled in gilt, by Sarah T.Prideaux, 1898. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Martin (John) Illustrations of the Bible, complete set of 20 mezzotints, good impressions, rarely found in early states, [c.1831-1835]. - Est. £1,000-1,500
    Forum, July 9: Golden Cockerel Press.- Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), one of 500 copies, Mary Gill's copy, Waltham St. Lawrence, 1931 with a signed proof of engraving on japon numbered 10/10 (2) - Est. £5,000-7,000
    Forum, July 9: Boccaccio (Giovanni) The Decameron, 3 vol., vol.1 extra-illustrated by John Buckland Wright with c.150 erotic original drawings in pen & ink and pencil, 1886 [extra-illustrated c.1940]. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum Auctions
    The Private Library:
    Fine Printing & Private Press books, the collection of the late David Chambers
    July 9, 2026
    Forum, July 9: Cox (Morris) Collection of Gogmagog Press Books, 35 vol., rare complete collection of printed books issued by the press, limited editions, most signed by Cox, 1957-83. - Est. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 9: Wynkyn de Worde.- [Terentius Afer (Publius)] [Comedie...], [Paris, Josse Badius: sold in London by Wynkyn de Worde, & others], [15 July 1504]. - Est. £4,000-6,000
    Forum, July 9: Mosley (James) Ornamented Types. Twenty-Three Alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée, 2 vol., one of 10 copies for presentation, from an edition of 210, 1992-93. - Est. £1,000-2,000
  • Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Inundation papyrus. P.Michael 4, the ‘Inundation papyrus’, a geographical account of the Nile near Canopus, in Greek, remains of two columns from a manuscript scroll on papyrus, Egypt, second century CE. £12,000-18,000
    Forum, July 16: Book of Hours, use of Sarum, manuscript on vellum, 6 full-page miniatures, with famous Middle English inscriptions, Southern Netherlands for the English market, [c.1430]. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Qu'ran, Arabic manuscript on burnished, stencilled, and gold-flecked paper, 447ff., Sultanate Gujarat, Ahmadabad, [after 1411 but no later than 1442]. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Turner (William). A New boke of the natures and properties of all wines that are commonly vsed here in England, rare first edition of the first English book on wine, By William Seres, 1568. £20,000-£30,000
    Forum, July 16: Spenser (Edmund). The Faerie Queene. first edition, Printed [by John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, 1590. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Shakespeare (William). The Comedie of Errors, extracted from the first folio, Isaac Jaggard and Edward Blount, 1623. £15,000-20,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Fleming (Ian). Casino Royale, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, 1953. £40,000-60,000
    Forum, July 16: d'Agoty (Jacques-Fabien Gautier). Anatomie de la Tête, first edition, Paris, chez le Sieur Gautier, 1748. £10,000-15,000
    Forum, July 16: Martial Arts.- Lee (Bruce). 'Praying Mantis style' Kung Fu book, containing numerous annotations, diagrams and graphs in Bruce Lee's hand, c. 1960. £50,000-70,000
    Forum Auctions
    The 10th Anniversary Sale
    Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper
    July 16, 2026
    Forum, July 16: Warre (Capt. Henry James). Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory, first edition, rare hand-coloured issue, 1848. £30,000-40,000
    Forum, July 16: Norie (John William). The Marine Atlas, or Seaman's Complete Pilot for all the principal places in the known world..., 1826. £30,000-50,000
    Forum, July 16: Mao Tse-tung.- Kim Il-sung.-[Note book for visitors from China to Korea], signed by Mao and Kim, [Beijing, 1954]. £10,000-15,000