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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic 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.
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
Dominic Winter Book Auctions: Printed Books, Maps & Documents. Travel, Exploration & Natural History, 30525, Gloucestershire
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 05, 2025 - March 05, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | Stow (John). | A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, 2 volumes, 5th ed., 1720 |
London | 1720 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,708.00 |
| 52 | Taylor (James). | The Royal Brighton Guide..., 1842 |
Brighton | 1842 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 390.40 |
| 53 | Aldam (W. H.) | A Quaint Treatise on Flees..., 1st edition, 2nd issue 1876 |
London | 1876 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,342.00 |
| 54 | Alken (Henry). | The National Sports of Great Britain, 1st edition, 1825 |
London | 1825 | GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 55 | Bacon (Francis). | Sylva Sylvarum, 3rd edition, 1631 |
London | 1631 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 561.20 |
| 56 | Baxter (William). | British Phaenogamous Botany, 6 volumes, 1834-43 |
Oxford | 1834-43 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 610.00 |
| 57 | Bell (Thomas). | A History of British Quadrupeds, 1st edition, 1837 |
London | 1837 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 244.00 |
| 58 | Bell (Thomas). | A History of the British Stalk-Eyed Crusacea, 1st edition, 1853 |
London | 1853 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 158.60 |
| 59 | Bewick (Thomas). | A History of British Birds, 2 volumes, 1821 |
Newcastle: | 1821 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 60 | Bradley (Richard). | Philosophical Account of Works of Nature, 1st edition, 1721 |
London | 1721 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 463.60 |
| 61 | Buffon (Comte de). | The System of Natural History, 2 volumes, 1800 |
Edinburgh: | 1800 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 463.60 |
| 62 | Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc de) | Histoire Naturelle, 43 volumes bound in 21, 1785-87 |
Paris | 1785-87 | GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 512.40 |
| 63 | Buffon (Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de). | Buffon's Natural History, 4 volumes, 1831 |
London | 1831 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 488.00 |
| 64 | Company School. | Exotic Birds, five watercolours on wove paper |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 4,044.80 | ||
| 65 | Couch (Jonathan). | A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 volumes, 1864-65 |
London | 1864-65 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 439.20 |
| 66 | Couch (Jonathan). | A History of the Fishes of the British Islands, 4 volumes, 1877-78 |
London | 1862-65 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 463.60 |
| 67 | Culpeper (Nicholas). | The English Physitian Enlarged, London, 1684 |
London | 1684 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 219.60 |
| 68 | Curtis (John). | Farm Insects, 1883 |
London | 1883 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 183.00 |
| 69 | Curtis (William). | Practical Observations on the British Grasses, 6th edition, 1824 |
London | 1824 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 610.00 |
| 70 | Curtis (William). | The Botanical Magazine or Flower-Garden Displayed, 6 vols (plus an index), 1810-28 |
London | 1810-28 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,281.00 |
| 71 | Darwin (Charles). | On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860 |
London | 1860 | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 3,904.00 |
| 72 | Darwin (Charles). | On the Origin of Species, 5th edition, (Tenth Thousand), 1869 |
London | 1869 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 512.40 |
| 73 | Darwin (Charles). | On the Origin of Species, 6th edition, (Eleventh Thousand), 1872 |
London | 1872 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 561.20 |
| 74 | Darwin (Charles). | A Monograph on the Sub-Class Cirripedia, 1st edition, 1851 |
London | 1851 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 268.40 |
| 75 | Darwin (Charles). | The Descent of Man..., 2 volumes, Seventh Thousand, 1871 |
London | 1871 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 244.00 |
