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Auction Info

Sale Name
Books and Autographs
Auction Date
06/17/2004 - 06/17/2004
Year of Sale
2004
Sale Number
#2453
Total Lots
88
Sold Lots
51
Lots Sold
58.0%
Unsold Lots
37
Price Unknown
0
Total Sales (EUR)
255,674.00
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
210,000.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
257,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
317,500.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
386,000.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
66.24%
Currency
EUR
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars
335,632.00

Top twenty five by sale price

View All Auction Lots.
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
82 LEVI, Carlo (1902-1975). Spero di non essere eclettico

EUR 120,000.00 - 140,000.00 117,800.00
56 LEOPARDI, Giacomo (1798-1837) Bella lettera autografa firmata

1828

EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 32,240.00
27 various UNA COLLEZIONE DI AUTOGRAFI

EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 27,280.00
69 TERESA de Cepeda y Ahumada Preziosissimo oggetto devozionale della Santa

EUR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 19,840.00
34 BEMBO, Pietro (1470-1547) Lettera interamente autografa firmata

1538

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 3,472.00
91 SOFFICI, Ardengo (1879-1964) Bellissimo insieme epistolare del grande pittore toscano

EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,728.00
53 GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832) Lettera firmata dal Poeta, due pagine 4°

1822

EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 2,728.00
88 LONGANESI, Leo Dieci illustrazioni originali per la rivista L'Italiano

EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 2,480.00
25 WAGNER, Richard (1813-1883) Bella lettera autografa firmata, in tedesco, due pagine

1881

EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 2,480.00
81 LARIONOV, Michail Fiodorovich (1881-1964). Ritratto del pittore Filippo De Pisis

EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,232.00
17 PUCCINI, Giacomo Bellissimo cimelio del compositore: fotografia non comune ...

EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 2,232.00
79 DE PISIS, Filippo. Nudo maschile. Acquarello su carta

EUR 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 1,984.00
30 various ARCHIVIO CORRADO BARBIERI

EUR 2,000.00 - 2,400.00 1,984.00
71 VOLTA, Alessandro (1745-1827) Lettera autografa firmata

1816

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,984.00
57 MANZONI, Alessandro (1785-1873) Breve lettera autografa

EUR 1,500.00 - 1,600.00 1,736.00
78 DE PISIS, Filippo (pseudonimo di Luigi Filippo TIBERTELLI, 1896-1956) Nudo maschile. Acquarello su carta

EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 1,736.00
33 BARETTI, Giuseppe (1719-1789) Tre interessantissime lettere autografe firmate dal grande letterato piemontese. ...

1760

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,612.00
58 MARCONI, Guglielmo (1874-1937) Bella fotografia di grande formato

[1914]

EUR 1,300.00 - 1,400.00 1,612.00
41 CANOVA, Antonio (1757-1822) Bella lettera autografa firmata

1826

EUR 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 1,612.00
72 CARRA', Carlo (1881-1966). Bel gruppo di cinque lettere e una cartolina postale autografe firmate....

EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 1,612.00
38 BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero (1711-1787) Bella lettera autografa firmata

EUR 600.00 - 800.00 1,488.00
61 MURATORI, Ludovico Antonio (1672-1750) Bell'insieme di nove lettere autografe firmate dall'erudito e storico modenese.

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 1,364.00
59 METASTASIO, Pietro Due lettere autografe firmate

EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 1,364.00
80 DE PISIS, Filippo. Nudo maschile. Acquarello su carta

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,400.00 1,240.00
70 (Toscana) MARRADI, Giovanni (1852-1922) Notevole gruppo di autografi del poeta livornese, ...

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 1,116.00

  • 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
  • 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
    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