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Auction Name
Old Masters & 19th Century Art
Auction Date
12/04/2025 - 12/04/2025
Sale Number
#120425
Total Lots
41
Sold Lots
19.0
Lots Sold
46.34%
Unsold Lots
22
Total Sales (USD)
34,345.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
31,300.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
47,300.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
69,300.00
High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
105,200.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
32.65%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
134 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Christ Seated Disputing with the Doctors

 1654 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,445.00
120 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Beggar Woman Leaning on a Stick

 1646 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,445.00
160 Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes 1746--1828 follow artist

El amor y la muerte (Plate 10 from Los Caprichos)

 1797-98 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,302.00
130 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

The Raising of Lazarus (small plate)

 1642 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,413.00
127 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Joseph Telling His Dreams

 1638 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,286.00
114 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

The Remonstrant Preacher Johannes Uytenbogaert

 1635 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,032.00
170 After Domenico Beccafumi 1486--1551

The Crucifixion and other Scenes from the Passion of Christ

 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,905.00
125 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Peter and John Healing the Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

 1659 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,778.00
133 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Jan Antonides van der Linden

 1665 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
118 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Man Drawing from a Cast

 c.1641 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,524.00
166 Federico Barocci 1535--1612

The Annunciation

 c.1585 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 USD 1,524.00
123 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Three works from the Millennium Edition

 1995 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,320.00
129 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

The Cardplayer

 1641 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,270.00
116 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Jan Asselyn, Painter

 c.1647 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,143.00
119 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Jan Cornelis Sylvius

 1633 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
122 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

Old Beggar Woman with a Gourd

 c.1629 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
128 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1606--1669 follow artist

The Tribute Money

 c.1635 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,016.00
169 Nicolo Boldrini 1500--1566

Samson and Delilah (after Titian)

 c.1540 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 254.00
111 William Hogarth 1697--1764

Seven works

 1743/1755-1757 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 132.00
172 Annibale Caracci 1560--1609

Susanna and the Elders (Susanna e l vecchioni)

 1590-95 USD 700.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
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    Rare Books Signature Auction
    December 15, 2025
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    Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.
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    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.
    Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.
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    December 9-17, 2025
    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Hooke, Robert. Micrographia: or some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies made by Magnifying Glasses. London: James Allestry for the Royal Society, 1667. $12,000 to $15,000.
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    Sotheby’s, Dec. 12: Sowerby, James. Exotic Mineralogy, containing his most realistic mineral depictions, London: Benjamin Meredith, 1811, Arding and Merrett, 1817. $5,000 to $7,000.