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Sale Name: CATALOGUE OF VALUABLE & RARE BOOKS AND Illuminated and other Manuscripts, COMPRISING, WORKS ON AMERICA, EDITIONES PRINCIPES AND INCUNABULA, EARLY PRINTED BOOKS WITH WOODCUTS, COPIES OF THE EARLY FOLIO EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE, AND SHAKESPEAREANA; RARE
Auction Date: 12/11/1903 - 12/11/1903
Year of Sale: 1903
Sale Number: #Dec111903
Total Lots: 1058
Sold Lots: 0
Lots Sold: 0.0%
Unsold Lots: 0
Price Unknown: 1058

Total Sales (GBP): 0.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: NaN%
Currency: GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 0.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1034	Nordenskiold (A. E.)	Facsimile Atlas to the early History of Cartography	1889	GBP -	Unknown
263	ELYOT (Sir T.)	The Boke named the Gouernour	1531	GBP -	Unknown
264		Episteln und Evangelia	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown
1035		Notariat und Rhetoric Teucsch bes einem Notarien Redner oder Schreiber oiler practic &c.	1546	GBP -	Unknown
1031	Nider (Johannes)	Formicarii Libsr		GBP -	Unknown
776		KELMSCOTT PRESS. A COMPLETE SET OF THE PUBLICATIONS, viz.: The Story of the Glittering Plain...		GBP -	Unknown
773	VOLTAIRE (F. M. A. de)	LA BATAILLE DE FONTENOY, Poeme	1745	GBP -	Unknown
1033		Nonius Marcellus, Festus Pompeius	1498	GBP -	Unknown
520		Officium Beate Marie secundum usum Romanum	1512	GBP -	Unknown
518		Nouveau Testament (Le) C'est a dire...	1675-1678	GBP -	Unknown
516		Newe Almanacke and Prognostication (A) for the yere of Oure Lorde God MDLXXI	(1571)	GBP -	Unknown
517	Noel (Le Pere)	Los Livres Classiques de l'Empire de la Chine	1784	GBP -	Unknown
519		Officium B. Mariae Virg. (cum Calendario, &c.) nuper reformatum et Pii V. P. M. jussu editum...	1677	GBP -	Unknown
260	Dury (Andrew)	A New General and Universal Atlas	1761	GBP -	Unknown
775	Zola (Emile)	Le Capitaine Burle, comment en meurt, pour une Nuit d'Amour, Aux Champs, La Fete a Coqueville, l'Inondation	1883	GBP -	Unknown
774	Zola (Emile)	Therese Raquin, Drame en quatre actes	1875	GBP -	Unknown
777	F. S. Ellis, editor	KELMSCOTT PRESS. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer	1896	GBP -	Unknown
1032	NIESIRCKI (K.)	Korana Polska przy Zlotey Wolnozci, &c.	1728-43	GBP -	Unknown
1061		PSALTERIUM DAVIDIS SECUNDUM USUM ROMANUM. Accedunt Cantica. Biblia	SAEC. XV. (c. 1480-90)	GBP -	Unknown
8		Almanach Royal	1781	GBP -	Unknown
7		Almanach Royal...	1757, 1771, 1774-1777	GBP -	Unknown
6	[Allot (Robert, Editor of England's Parnassus)]	Wits Theater of the little World	1599	GBP -	Unknown
5		Alcoran des Cordeliers...		GBP -	Unknown
4		Album Amicorum of John Gastil of Augsburg		GBP -	Unknown
262	Egan (P.)	Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logie	n. d.	GBP -	Unknown

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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
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 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.
Sotheby's
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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