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Auction Name British and Continental Total Sales (USD) 27,520.00
Auction Date September 09, 2025 - September 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 19,800.00
Sale Number #17910 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 29,900.00
Total Lots 19
Sold Lots 14 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 45,700.00
% of Lots Sold 73.68% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 70,000.00
Unsold Lots 5 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 39.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
84 David Hockney,

Stanley in a Basket, October, 1986

1986 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,880.00
158

Early Latin Leather and Vellum Antiphonal

17th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,328.00
165 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,

Au Hanneton Woman with dog in a cafe, 1898

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,072.00
27 Johannes Kip

Four Framed Views of English Estates

circa 1720 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,048.00
188 Alberto Giacometti

La mere de l'artiste a la fenetre (The Artist's Mother at the Window) (L. 49), 1949

1949 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,664.00
126 Theodore Gericault,

Mameluck Defendant un Trompette Blesse

1818 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
189 Alberto Giacometti

Mere de l'artist assise II (The Artist's Mother Seated II) (L. 51), 1951

1951 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,280.00
28

On The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

1819 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
160 Adam Smith,

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Two Volumes

1792 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,024.00
192 Bernard Buffet,

U.N.O. New York, United Nations Building (designed by Le Corbusier and Oscar Niemeyer)

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 640.00
167 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz,

The Battlefield

1907 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 384.00
191 Bernard Buffet,

Le Canal

1955 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 320.00
197 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Two Prints

1963-1972 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 256.00
194 Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz

Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz, Two Prints

1963-1972 USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 192.00
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