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Auction Name Photographs Total Sales (GBP) 1,851,575.00
Auction Date May 07, 2014 - May 07, 2014 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 997,000.00
Sale Number #L14780 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 1,432,000.00
Total Lots 148
Sold Lots 89 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 1,551,000.00
% of Lots Sold 60.14% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 2,207,000.00
Unsold Lots 59 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 83.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
30 JOHN BEASLEY GREENE 1832 - 1856

ALBUM OF EGYPT AND ALGERIA

1852-1856 GBP 100,000.00 - 150,000.00 GBP 482,500.00
92 RICHARD AVEDON 1923-2004

AVEDON/PARIS

1978 GBP 120,000.00 - 180,000.00 GBP 134,500.00
99 ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE 1946-1989

DAN S.

1980 GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 98,500.00
146 IRVING PENN 1917 - 2009

ANEMONE/ ANEMONE CORONARIA: INRA BLUE, NEW YORK

2006 GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 69,700.00
127 PETER BEARD B. 1938

ROTHSCHILD S GIRAFFES

1966/2008 GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 GBP 50,000.00
121 VERA LUTTER B.1960

BATTERSEA POWER STATION, II, JULY 3

2004' GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 GBP 47,500.00
32 CAMILLE SILVY 1834 - 1910

STUDIES ON LIGHT : FOG, LONDON

1859 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 43,750.00
145 MASSIMO VITALI B.1944

ANIMALETTI 2

2004 GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 GBP 40,000.00
29 GUSTAVE LE GRAY 1820 - 1884

PHARE ET JETÉE DU HAVRE

1856/57 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 38,750.00
103 PETER LINDBERGH B. 1944

THE WILD ONES: CINDY CRAWFORD, TATJANA PATITZ, HELENA CHRSITENSEN, LINDA EVANGELISTA, CLAUDIA SCHIFFER, NAOMI CAMPBELL, KAREN MULDER, STEPHANIE SEYMOUR, VOGUE US, BROOKLYN

1991 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
124 ADAM FUSS B. 1961

UNTITLED

2007 GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 GBP 37,500.00
95 IRVING PENN 1917 - 2009

CIGARETTE NO. 82, NEW YORK

1972, printed 1974, GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 36,250.00
23 CHARLES NÈGRE 1820 - 1880

PORTE DES CHATAÎGNES, MIDI DE LA FRANCE, ARLES

C. 1853 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 33,750.00
130 DÉSIRÉE DOLRON B. 1963

XTERIORS III (BRIGITTE)

2001 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 27,500.00
88 HELMUT NEWTON 1920 - 2004

MAITRESSE ET CHAUFFEUR, PARIS

1976 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
139 NICK BRANDT B. 1966

LION BEFORE STORM I, MASA MARA

2006 GBP 12,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 25,000.00
122 HIROSHI SUGIMOTO B.1948

BLACK SEA, INEBOLU

1991 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 22,500.00
22 CHARLES NÈGRE 1820 - 1880

CATHÉDRALE DE CHARTRES, PORTAIL DU MIDI

1855 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 21,250.00
133 DAIDO MORIYAMA B. 1938

KUCHIBIRU (RED)

2007 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 20,000.00
34 CASIMIR ZAGOURSKI 1883 – 1944

L'AFRIQUE QUI DISPARAÎT, RECUEIL ETHNOGRAPHIQUE SUR L'AFRIQUE NOIRE, SÉRIE 1' * 'L'AFRIQUE QUI DISPARAÎT, RECUEIL ETHNOGRAPHIQUE SUR L'AFRIQUE NOIRE, SÉRIE 2' + 'DANCER FROM YAKOMA

C. 1930 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 17,500.00
118 LEE FRIEDLANDER (B. 1934) AND JIM DINE (B. 1935) B. 1934 AND B. 1935

PHOTOGRAPHS & ETCHINGS

1969 GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 17,500.00
144 MASSIMO VITALI B.1944

A PORTFOLIO OF LANDSCAPES WITH FIGURES

2006 GBP 14,000.00 - 18,000.00 GBP 17,500.00
27 HENRI LE SECQ & BISSON FRÈRES 1818 - 1882 & 1814 - 1976/ 1826 - 1900

CATHÉDRALE DE CHARTRES

1850S GBP 14,000.00 - 16,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
33 FREDERICK HENRY EVANS 1853 - 1943

POPLARS ON A FRENCH RIVER

C. 1900 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 16,250.00
20 CHARLES NÈGRE 1820 - 1880

ARLÉSIENNES

C. 1853 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 15,000.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Piccolomini's De La Sfera del Mondo (The Sphere of the World), 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Vellutello's Commentary on Petrarch, With Map, 1525.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Finely Bound Definitive, Illustrated Edition of I Promessi Sposi, 1840.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Rare First Edition of John Milton's Latin Correspondence, 1674.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Giolito's Edition of Boccaccio's The Decamerone, with Bedford Binding, 1542.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of the First Biography of Marie of the Incarnation, with Rare Portrait, 1677.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Aldine Edition of Volume One of Cicero's Orationes, 1540.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Bonanni's Illustrated Costume Catalogue, with Complete Plates, 1711.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Important Incunable, the First Italian Edition of Josephus's De Bello Judaico, 1480.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: First Edition of Jacques Philippe d'Orville's Illustrated Book of the Ruins of Sicily, 1764.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: An Incunable from 1487, The Contemplative Life, with Early Manuscript.
    Leland Little, Apr. 26: Ignatius of Loyola's Exercitia Spiritualia, 1563.
  • Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 546. Christoph Jacob Trew. Plantae selectae, 1750-1773.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 70. Thomas Murner. Die Narren beschwerung. 1558.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 621. Michael Bernhard Valentini. Museum Museorum, 1714.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 545. Sander Reichenbachia. Orchids illustrated and described, 1888-1894.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1018. Marinetti, Boccioni, Pratella Futurism - Comprehensive collection of 35 Futurist manifestos, some of them exceptionally rare. 1909-1933.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 634. August Johann Rösel von Rosenhof. 3 Original Drawings, around 1740.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 671. Jacob / Picasso. Chronique des Temps, 1956.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1260. Mary Webb. Sarn. 1948. Lucie Weill Art Deco Binding.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 508. Felix Bonfils. 108 large-format photographs of Syria and Palestine.
    Jeschke Jadi
    Auction 151
    Saturday, April 27, 2024
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 967. Dante Aligheri and Salvador Dali. Divina Commedia, 1963.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1316. Tolouse-Lautrec. Dessinateur. Duhayon binding, 1948.
    Jeschke Jádi, Apr. 27: Lot 1303. Regards sur Paris. Braque, Picasso, Masson, 1962.
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