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Auction Info

Auction Name
Marvels of Modern Music
Auction Date
12/18/2025 - 12/18/2025
Sale Number
#732
Total Lots
461
Sold Lots
256.0
Lots Sold
55.53%
Unsold Lots
205
Total Sales (USD)
484,079.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
295,900.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
450,900.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
528,000.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
798,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
60.62%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3470

Leonard Cohen Autograph Letter Signed to His Hydra Muse, Marianne Ihlen

 N/A USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 46,926.00
3008

Beatles Early Signed Photograph (c. 1962)

 1962 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 26,294.00
3005

Beatles Signed Bank of England 5-Pound Banknote

 N/A USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 24,370.00
3307

Jerry Garcia Handwritten Lyrics to 'The Maker'

 N/A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 20,870.00
3007

Beatles (4) Signed Photographs - A Rare Single-Signed, Uninscribed Quartet

 N/A USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 17,248.00
3002

Beatles Signed Rare Color Magazine Photograph (ca. Mid-1963)

 1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,709.00
3251

Mick Jagger Handwritten 19-Song Rolling Stones Concert Set List - Sporthalle in Cologne, Germany (June 2, 1976)

 1976 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,774.00
3227

Jimi Hendrix Experience Document Signed (1968) - Hendrix, Redding, and Mitchell Direct Payment of Royalties to their Management Team

 1968 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 14,513.00
3019

John Lennon Signed Royalties Contract for 'Dear Prudence'

 N/A USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 14,271.00
3004

Beatles Signed 1963 PYX Program with Classic Color Dezo Hoffman Cover

 1963 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,654.00
3006

Beatles Rare, Early Signed 1962 Parlophone Promo Card - The First to Feature Ringo Starr

 1962 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 11,229.00
3293

The Who Signed Polydor Mini Promotional Poster (11.5" x 16.25")

 N/A USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 10,478.00
3031

Paul McCartney Signed 'McCartney Productions' Business Check - Two Months After Announcing His Beatles Departure

 N/A USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 7,668.00
3229

Jimi Hendrix Signature

 N/A USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 7,499.00
3221

Bob Dylan Oversized Signed Photograph (Ltd. Ed. #IV/IV) - Biograph, 1965

 1965 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,883.00
3407

Cream Signed Photograph

 N/A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,881.00
3230

Jimi Hendrix (2) Negative Film Strips from the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival

 1970 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,264.00
3035

George Harrison Autograph Letter Signed to EMI Records - Dated Four Months Before the Beatles Breakup

 N/A USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,248.00
3351

Queen (3) Business Checks Signed by Each Band Member

 N/A USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,504.00
3254

Rolling Stones Signed Photograph - Dated to September 1970 During Their European Tour

 1970 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,243.00
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  • ALDE, Apr. 8: GUEVARA (ANTONIO DE). Histoire de Marc-Aurèle, Empereur Romain, vray miroir et horloge des Princes. Paris, Pierre et Galliot du Pré, frères, 1565. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: HEURES DE LA VIERGE. Horæ in laudem beatissimæ virginis Mariæ ad usum Romanum. Paris, Charles L'Angelier, 1556. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: MONTAIGNE (MICHEL DE). Les Essais. Édition nouvelle, trouvée après le deceds de l'autheur… Paris, Abel L'Angelier, 1595. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [ROJAS (FERNANDO DE)]. Celestina, tragicomedia di Calisto et Melibea, tradotta de lingua castigliana in italiano idioma… Venise, 1531. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CAMÕES (LUÍS DE). Os Lusiadas. Lisbonne, Pedro Crasbeeck, 1613. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Bruxelles, Roger Velpius & Huberto Antonio, 1611. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Fables choisies, mises en vers. Paris, Denys Thierry et Claude Barbin, 1678-1694. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE). El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha. Madrid, Joaquin Ibarra, 1780. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: DIDEROT (DENIS) ET JEAN LE ROND D'ALEMBERT. Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. Paris, 1751-1765. €15,000 to €20,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. LAMARTINE (Alphonse de). Les Laboureurs. Poème tiré de Jocelyn… Lyon, J. A. Henry, 1883. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Apr. 8: [LIVRE TISSÉ]. Livre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe au XVIe siècle. Lyon, [A. Roux], 1886. €5,000 to €6,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Books, Manuscripts & Objects from Three Important Collections
    Open for Bidding 2-17 April
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: [Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun]. Le Roman de la Rose, [Geneva or Lyons, c.1481], first printed edition of the most important medieval French vernacular poem. £200,000 to £300,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Castiglione. Il libro del cortegiano. [Venice], April 1528, first edition, in a magnificent binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier. £100,000 to £150,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Jacobus de Cessolis. Schachzabelbuch, Strasbourg, 1483, von der Lasa copy. £50,000 to £70,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: World Championship, 1972. A collection of 84 press photographs of the famed match between Spassky and Fischer. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Sotheby’s, Apr. 2-17: Ben Franklin. Autograph letter signed, to Lord Shelburne, British Prime Minister, during peace negotiations, November 1782. £15,000 to £20,000.