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Second Story Books

Auction House Name	Second Story Books
Site URL	https://www.secondstorybooks.com/
About Us	Since purchased by Allan Stypeck in 1973, Second Story Books has grown from its small second floor location in northwest Washington, D.C., to become one of the largest used and rare bookstores in the world. During the pre-internet era of bookselling, Second Story Books had six locations from Alexandria to Baltimore, including the famous Georgetown Saville Bookstore location. With the growth of the internet, Second Story Books consolidated its brick-and-mortar presence into our two current locations, the DUPONT CIRCLE store at 20th and P Streets N.W. and the ROCKVILLE WAREHOUSE store at 12160 Parklawn Drive in Rockville, Maryland. Both stores are conveniently located on Metro’s Red Line. USA Today cited Second Story Books as one of the ten best bookstores in the country. The Dupont Circle store, frequently cited as one of the best bookstores in the Washington metropolitan area by Washingtonian Magazine, The City Paper and various consumer polls, marks its 40th anniversary in 2018. The 16,000-square-foot Rockville Warehouse store has received its fair share of praise, as well, from Washingtonian Magazine, Bethesda Magazine and Montgomery Magazine, among others. Washington Post book critic Michael Dirda wrote about stocking up on books at the Rockville store before a snow storm in Browse: The World in Bookshops (Pushkin Press). Read some of our recent press coverage IN THE NEWS.
Who do I contact if I have questions?	rockvillesecondstorybooks@gmail.com
City	Washington, DC
State	Washington D.C.
Country	United States
Zipcode	20036
Contact Number	(301) 770-0477
Buyer's Fee	17% Buyer's Premium plus Invaluable's 3% service fee. The total Buyer's Premium of 20%
Consigner's Fee

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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

Sotheby's
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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
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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
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 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