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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

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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
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.

ALDE: Ancient Books of the 15th to 19th Century, 30425, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: March 04, 2025 - March 04, 2025

Page Size: 237 items in 10 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	APIAN (Peter).	Cosmographie, ou description des quatre parties du monde, contenant la situation, division, & estendue de chascune region & province d'icelles.	Anvers	1581	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
2	APOLLODORE D'ATHENES.	Bibliothikis i peri Theon. Bibliotheces, sive de deorum origine. S.l. [Heidelberg],	Officina Commeliniana	1599	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
3	ARATOS DE SOLES.	Phainomena kai Diosimeia.	Paris	1559	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 563.00
4	ARIAS MONTANO (Benito).	Antiquitatum Judaicarum libri IX, in quis, praeter Judaeae, Hierosolymorum et Templi Salomonis accuratam delineationem, praecipui sacri ac profani gentis ritus describuntur.	Leyde	1593	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,750.00
5	ARISTOPHANE.	Komodiai ennea. Comoediae novem.	Venise	1498	EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	EUR 23,750.00
6	ARISTOPHANE.	Komodiai ennea... Comoediae novem cum commentariis antiquis...	Florence	1525	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 2,250.00
7	ARISTOPHANE.	Komodiai endeka... Comoediae undecim cum scholiis antiquis.	Geneve	1607	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,875.00
8	ARISTOTE.	Ad Nicomachum filium de moribus, quae Ethica nominantur, libri decem.	Paris	1540	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
9	[AUVERGNE].	[Les Coustumes du hault et bas pays d'Auvergne]. Clermont, Nicolas Petit, 28 mars 1538 -- [Ordonnances royaulx sur le faict de la justice et abbreviation des proces]. [Paris, Galliot du Pre],		1539	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,500.00
10	BARGAGLI (Scipione).	I Trattenimenti.	Venise	1587	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
11	[BAUDOUIN DE FLANDRES].	L'Hystoire et cronicque du noble et vaillant Baudouyn conte de Flandres lequel espousa le dyable.	Paris	s.d. [vers 1510].	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 23,125.00
12	[BAYARD]. [MAILLES (Jacques de)].	La Tres joyeuse, plaisante et recreative hystoire, composee par le Loyal Serviteur, des faiz, gestes, triumphes et prouesses du bon chevalier sans paour et sans reprouche le gentil seigneur de Bayart.	Paris	1527	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 15,625.00
13	BELLEFOREST (Francois de).	Harengues militaires, et concions de princes, capitaines, embassadeurs, et autres manians tant la guerre que les affaires d'Estat.	Paris	1573	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,375.00
14	[BERLAIMONT (Noel de)].	Colloquia et dictionariolum septem linguarum... Colloques ou dialogues, avec un dictionaire, en sept language : flamen, anglois, allemand, latin, italien, espaignol, & francois.	Liege	1589 [au colophon 1591].	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 500.00
15	BEROALDE DE VERVILLE (Francois).	Les Apprehensions spirituelles, poemes et autres oeuvres philosophiques. Paris, Timothee Jouan, 1584. -- Les Souspirs amoureux.	Ibid.	1584	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 2,250.00
16	[BIBLIA	quae retinet sequitur sic metricus ordo].	Venise	1484	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,250.00
17	BOCCACE.	Genealogie cum micantissimis arborum effigiacionibus cuiusque gentilis dei progeniem, non tam aperte quam summatim declarantibus cumque praefoecunda omnium quae in hoc libro sunt ad finem tabula.	Paris	1511	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,250.00
18	CALVIN (Jean).	Institution de la religion chrestienne, mise en quatre livres et distinguee par chapitres en ordre & methode bien propre.	Geneve	1562	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,125.00
19	CICERON.	Tusculanae quaestiones novissime.	Venise	1525	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
20	[CROME (Francois Morin de)].	Dialogue d'entre le Maheustre & le Manant. S.l.n.n., 1594. -- Censure d'un livret nagueres imprime a Paris, en forme de dialogue, soubs les noms du Manant & du Maheutre entreparleurs. Paris, [Federic Morel], 1594. -- Satyre menippee de la vertu du Catholi		1594	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
21	DANTE ALIGHIERI.	[La Divina Commedia].	Brescia	1487	EUR 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	EUR 13,750.00
22	DEMOSTHENE.	Kata Philippou. Contra Philippum oratio prima. Ejusdem de pace. Paris, Chretien Wechel, 1546. -- O peri tes ton Rodion eleutherias logos. De Rhodiorum libertate oratio. Paris, Andre Wechel, 1557. -- O pros ton Leptinin logos. Oratio ad Leptinem. Paris, Ch	Paris	s.d. [vers 1532].	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 3,000.00
23	DENYS LE PERIEGETE.	Tis oikoumenis periigisis upomnematisthesia. De situ orbis libellus.	Paris	1547	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,250.00
24	DU BELLAY (Joachim).	La Defense et illustration de la langue francoise, avec L'Olive de nouveau augmentee, la Musagnaeomachie, L'Anterotique de la vieille et de la jeune Amie, Vers lyriques, etc.	Paris	1561	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 2,750.00
25	DU CHOUL (Guillaume).	Discours de la religion des anciens Romains, de la castrametation et discipline militaire d'iceux, des bains et antiques exercitations grecques et romaines.	Lyon	1581	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 563.00

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000

Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000

Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000

Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000

Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000

Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.

Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.

Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.

Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.

Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.

Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.

Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.

Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.

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