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Auction Name
The Estate of Arthur B. Kouwenhoven Jr. - Day 1
Auction Date
02/24/2026 - 02/24/2026
Sale Number
#20530
Total Lots
32
Sold Lots
31.0
Lots Sold
96.88%
Unsold Lots
1
Total Sales (USD)
21,145.60
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
5,980.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
10,550.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
6,080.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
10,750.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
196.70%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
111 Paul Cadmus, Chuck Howard,

Fire Island, 1950, Photo

 1950 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 5,440.00
114 Paul Cadmus,

Jack Fontan, Cherry Grove, Fire Island

 N/A USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 3,456.00
102 Georges Rouault (1871--1958),

Le Cirque, Aquatint

 N/A USD 400.00 - 700.00 USD 1,792.00
487

Japanese Print of Man and Frog, Framed

 N/A USD 30.00 - 50.00 USD 1,152.00
511

10 Books on Furniture Design

 N/A USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 832.00
497 Bruce Weber

Group of 18 Bruce Weber Photobooks, Some Signed

 N/A USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 768.00
501

10 Books of Male Nudes including George Platt Lynes

 N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 704.00
386

2 Jansen Framed Floor Plans and Another

 N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 704.00
500

12 Franklin Library Leather-Bound Classics

 N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 576.00
120

Unsigned, Dear Dad, Silver Gelatin Photograph

 N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 544.00
502

12 Leather-bound Classics

 N/A USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 544.00
21 After Georges Braque,

The Black Birds, Lithograph

 N/A USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 512.00
491 Aristide Maillol,

Les Georgiques, Woodblock

 N/A USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 384.00
512

11 Books on Modern Painters, Mainly Related to Nudes

 N/A USD 80.00 - 120.00 USD 384.00
504

11 Photography Books, including Andy Warhol

 N/A USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 352.00
506

12 Photography Books, including Duane Michals

 N/A USD 120.00 - 180.00 USD 320.00
513

9 European Interior Books

 N/A USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 288.00
515

10 Books on Interior Design

 N/A USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 256.00
514

9 Books on Contemporary and Modern Art

 N/A USD 50.00 - 100.00 USD 256.00
503

11 Interior Decorating/Decorative Arts books

 N/A USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 224.00
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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.