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Auction Name: Rare Art Posters from a Private Collection
Auction Date: 12/17/2025 - 12/17/2025
Sale Number: #121725a
Total Lots: 68
Sold Lots: 68.0
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (USD): 129,966.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 83,600.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD): 123,700.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD): 83,600.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD): 123,700.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 105.07%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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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.