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Chiswick Auctions: 19th and 20th Century Photographs

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Auction Name	19th and 20th Century Photographs	Total Sales (GBP)	190,992.50
Auction Date	November 24, 2022 - November 24, 2022	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	98,025.00
Sale Number	#112422	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	149,715.00
Total Lots	354
Sold Lots	191	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	203,840.00
% of Lots Sold	53.95%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	309,225.00
Unsold Lots	163	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	61.77%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
567	Horst P. Horst	MAINBOCHER CORSET, PARIS, 1939	1939	GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	GBP 13,281.25
457	The Archaeological Photo Works of Delhi att. c.1890s	A fine late 19th-century photograph album, comprising approx 71 silver gelatin prints	late 19th-century	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 9,375.00
409	Francis Frith	THE TEMPLE OF KOMUMBOO, c.1858	c.1858	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 8,593.75
341	SMITH, Jack	THE BEAUTIFUL BOOK,	1963	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	GBP 5,937.50
504	Winston Link	HOTSHOT EASTBOUND, c.1956, printed 1987	c.1956, printed 1987	GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	GBP 5,625.00
559	Ruth Orkin	COMIC BOOK READERS,1948, gelatin silver print, printed 1981	1948, printed 1981	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 4,062.50
425		3-PART PANORAMA OF VICTORIA HARBOUR, HONG KONG, c.1865	c.1865	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 3,437.50
552	Terry O'Neill	DAVID NIVEN ON SET OF CASINO ROYALE, SHEPPERTON STUDIOS, 1966	1966	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	GBP 3,437.50
301		Archive.- Landmarks in the history of photography.		GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 3,125.00
356		6-PART PANORAMA OF THE FORT OF BOMBAY, c.1870s	c.1870s	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	GBP 3,125.00
424		3-PART PANORAMA OF HONG KONG, c.1860s	c.1860s	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 3,125.00
372	School of William Henry Fox Talbot c.1840s	PHOTOGENIC DRAWINGS OF FERNS c.1847 - 1852	c.1847 - 1852	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,968.75
568	Jacques-Henri Lartigue	RENÉ PERLE RECLINING, 1931, silver gelatin print, printed later	1931	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,812.50
609	Grace Robertson	ON THE CATERPILLAR, 1956, printed 1998	1956, printed 1998	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,812.50
315	Lawson (Charles Allen)	Narrative of the Celebration of The Jubilee of her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India, in Madras		GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,656.25
364	Leonida Caldesi	QUEEN VICTORIA WITH PRINCESS VICTORIA, BUCKINGHAM PALACE, 1857	1857	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 2,656.25
414	Linnaeus Tripe	NO, 46		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,656.25
415	Linnaeus Tripe	NO.115, RANGOON. REAR VIEW OF THE PAGODA, 1855	1855	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 2,656.25
636	Willy Ronis	RUE VILIN, 1959, printed 2001	1959, printed 2001	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,656.25
601	Willy Ronis	RUE MULLER, 1934, printed 2001	1934, printed 2001	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 2,343.75
427		4-PART PANORAMA OF PEKING. THE FORBIDDEN CITY FROM COAL HILL. c.1900	c.1900	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 2,187.50
629	Peter Marlow	THE WINDMILL PUB, Kirby, Liverpool, 1986	1986	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,187.50
586	Aaron Siskind	NEW YORK, 1950	1950	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 2,031.25
588	Alberto Korda	EL QUOIJOTE DE LA FAROLA, 1959	1959	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,031.25
620	Leonard Freed	HARLEM HYDRANT, 1963, printed later	1963, printed later	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 2,031.25

Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.

Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000

Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€

Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €

Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€

Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€

Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€

Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€

Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000

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