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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: Chaye-Petritzi Library: Greece and the Levant - Atlases & Travel Books - Natural History, 42425, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 24, 2025 - April 24, 2025

Page Size: 293 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	[ALLOM (Thomas)]. GALIBERT (Leon) et Clement PELLE.	L'Empire ottoman illustre. Constantinople ancienne et moderne.	Paris	s.d. [vers 1840].	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,500.00
2	BAUD-BOVY (Daniel) et Frederic BOISSONNAS.	En Grece par monts et par vaux.	Geneve	1936	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 375.00
3	BELON (Pierre).	Les Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvees en Grece, Asie, Judee, Egypte, Arabie, et autres pays estranges.	Paris	1588	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,000.00
4	BLAQUIERE (Edward).	The Greek Revolution; its origin and progress: together with some remarks on the religion, national character, etc., in Greece.	Londres	1824	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 625.00
5	BONFILS (Felix).	Ensemble 8 photographies de monuments atheniens,		s.d. [vers 1870].	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 438.00
6	BOS (Jacob).	[Ercole Farnese].	S.l. [Rome	1562	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 625.00
7	BOSCHINI (Marco).	Il Regno tutto di Candia.	S.l.n.n.	1651	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,000.00
8	BRONSTED (Peter Oluf).	Voyages dans la Grece accompagnes de recherches archeologiques.	Paris	1826-1830.	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 2,625.00
9	BRUYN (Cornelis de).	Voyage au Levant, c'est-a-dire, dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie Mineure, dans les isles de Chio, Rhodes et Chypre, etc., de meme que dans les plus considerables villes d'Egypte, de Syrie et de la Terre Sainte.	Paris	1714	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
10	CASSAS (Louis-Francois), d'apres.	Vue de la ville d'Athenes.	S.l.	n.d. [vers 1820].	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 1,250.00
11	CASTELLAN (Antoine-Laurent).	The World in Miniature... Turkey, being a description of the manners, customs, dresses, and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitants of the Turkish Empire.	Londres	s.d. [1821-1822].	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 500.00
12	CHALCONDYLE (Laonicus).	L'Histoire de la decadence de l'Empire grec et establissement de celuy des Turcs.	Paris	1650	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 2,750.00
13	CHENAVARD (Antoine-Marie).	Voyage en Grece et dans le Levant fait en 1843-1844.	Lyon	1849	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 2,000.00
14	[CHOISEUL-GOUFFIER (Gabriel-Auguste de)].	Voyage pittoresque de la Grece.	Paris	1782-1822.	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
15	CLARKE (Edward Daniel).	Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa. Part the first : Russia, Tartary and Turkey. [-- Part the second : Greece, Egypt and the Holy Land].	Londres	1810-1816.	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,000.00
16	CORONELLI (Vincenzo).	Description geographique et historique de la Moree reconquise par les Venitiens, du royaume de Negrepont, et d'autres lieux circonvoisins.	Paris	1686-1687.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,000.00
17	CORONELLI (Vincenzo).	An historical and geographical account of the Morea, Negropont, and the maritime places, as far as Thessalonica.	Londres	1687	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	EUR 875.00
18	[CRETE].	A description of Candia, in its ancient & modern state : with an account of the siege thereof, begun by the Ottoman Emperour, in the year 1666, continued in 1667 and 1668, and surrendred the latter end of 1669.	Londres	1670	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 1,500.00
19	CRUSIUS (Martin).	Turcograeciae libri octo.	Bale	[1584].	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 3,000.00
20	DAPPER (Olfert).	Description exacte des isles de l'Archipel et de quelques autres adjacentes, dont les principales sont Chypre, Rhodes, Candie, Samos, Chio, Negrepont, Lemnos, Paros, Delos, Patmos, avec un grand nombre d'autres.	Amsterdam	1703 In-folio, veau marbre, dos orne, tranches rouges (Reliure de l'epoque).	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,750.00
21	DAVY (John).	Notes and observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta: with some remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of quarantine as present conducted.	Londres	1842	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 625.00
22	DODWELL (Edward).	Classical and topographical Tour through Greece, during the years 1801, 1805, and 1806.	Londres	1819	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,875.00
23	DODWELL (Edward).	Views in Greece.	Londres	1821	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 22,500.00
24	DUMONT (Jean).	Voyages en France, en Italie, en Allemagne, a Malthe et en Turquie.	La Haye	1699	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 750.00
25	DUPRE (Louis).	Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople, ou collection de portraits, de vues et de costumes grecs et ottomans, peints sur les lieux, d'apres nature, lithographies et colories.	Paris	1825	EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00	EUR 43,750.00

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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