• 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
  • 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.

Koller Auctions: Books and Autographs - Online Only, ibid150b, Zurich

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 02, 2025 - April 02, 2025
Page Size: 208 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9501 Walser, Gabriel

APPENZELL - Neue Appenzeller Chronik oder Beschreibung des Cantons Appenzell der Innern- und Aussern-Rooden...

St. Gallen 1740 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 500.00
9502

BASEL - Costumes balois du 16me d'apres Holbein: 21 anciennes gravures sur cuivre, coloriees. Mit gest. und kolor

Basel -1886 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9503 Bundner Wirren

Blutige Sanfftmuet der Calvinischen Predicanten : warhaffte Relation auss einer glaubwurdigen Person Sendschreiben ...

O.O. 1621 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 400.00
9504 Razumovsky, G(rigory Kirillovic)

JURA - Histoire naturelle du Jorat et de ses environs...

Lausanne 1789 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9505 Girard, Jean-Francois

MILITARIA - Histoire abregee des officiers suisses qui se sont distingues aux services etrangers dans des grades superieurs, rangee par ordre alphabetique (...) avec des notes genealogiques sur chaque famille

Fribourg 1781-1782 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 325.00
9506 Lang, Carl Nikolaus

MINERALOGIE - Historia lapidum figuratorum Helvetiae, . . . Sed insuper adducuntur eorum loca nativa

Venedig 1708-1709 CHF 600.00 - 900.00 CHF 937.50
9507 Ruchat, A.

Etat Et Delices De La Suisse. Ou Description historique et geographique des treize cantons suisses et de leurs allies

Neuchatel 1778 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 625.00
9508 Scheuchzer, Johann Jacob

Alphabeti ex diplomatibus et codicibus Thuricensibus Specimen

Zurich 1730 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9509 Stumpf, Johannes

(Schwytzer Chronica. Ausz der grossen in ein handbuchle zusamen gezogen: in welcher nach der jarzal begriffen ist gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft zeyt, harkummen ... thaaten unnd handel, biss auff das jar Christi 1546)

Zurich 1554 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 1,000.00
9510 Stumpf, Johannes

Schweytzer Chronick: Das ist, Beschreybunge Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnoschafft Stetten, Landen, Volcker und dero Chronickwirdigen Thaaten... gebesseret, gemehret... und biss auf das gegenwirtige 1606

Zurich 1606 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 1,187.50
9511 Tschudi, Aegidius

Chronicon Helveticum. Oder Grundliche Beschreibung Der So wohl in dem Heil. Romischen Reich als besonders in Einer Lobl. Eydgnossschafft und angrantzenden Orten vorgeloffenen Merckwurdigsten Begegnussen

Basel 1734-36 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 750.00
9513 Zollikofer, Ruprecht

Das Hungerjahr 1817...

St. Gallen 1818-1819 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9514 Bluntschli, Johann Caspar

Allgemeines Staatsrecht

Munchen 1851-1852 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9515 Imhof, Andreas

Neu-eroffneter Historischer Bilder-Saal

Nurnberg 1720-(1782) CHF 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 CHF 1,125.00
9516 Lundius, Johann

JUDAICA - Die alten judischen Heiligthumer, Gottesdienste und Gewohnheiten, fpr Augen gestellet, in einer ausfuhrlichen Beschreibung des gantzen Levitischen Priesterthums, und funff unterschiedenen Buchern,. Mit gest

Hamburg 1711 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9517 Lucius, Ludwig

Jesuiten - Jesuiter-Histori: Von des Jesuiter-Ordens Ursprung, Namen, Regulen, Beampten, Gelubden, Freyheiten, Regiment, Lehr, Fortpflantzung, Thaaten und Vernichtungen (...)

Basel 1626 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9518

MILITARIA - Konvolut von 5 Titeln uber die Kavallerie, vornehmlich im Konigreich Wurttemberg

1819-1825 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 300.00
9519

MILITARIA - Konvolut zur Schweizer Militargeschichte

Ca. 1788-1831 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 500.00
9520 Vogel, Johann Heinrich

MILITARIA - Artillerie - Kurzer Unterricht in der Artillerie-Wissenschaft, zu Ernst- und Lust-Feuer-Werken

Zurich 1756 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9521 Bosse, Rudolf Heinrich Bernhard

RECHT - Ueber Hochverrath, beleidigte Majestat und verletzte Ehrerbietung gegen den Landesherrn

Gottingen 1802 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
9522 Busch, Johann Georg

WIRTSCHAFT - Theoretisch-praktische Darstellung der Handlung in deren mannigfaltigen Geschaften. Zweite vermehrte und verbesserte Ausgabe

Hamburg 1799 und 1797 (Zusatze) CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 350.00
9523 Lochner, Michael Friedrich

ANTIKE UND ARCHAOLOGIE - Mekonopaignion (graece) sive Papaver ex omni antiqvitate erutum, gemmis, nummis, statuis et marmoribus aeri incisis illustratum

Nurnberg 1713 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9524 Visconti, Ennio Quirino

ARCHAOLOGIE - Iconographie ancienne, ou recueil des portraits authentiques des empereurs, rois, et hommes illustres de l'antiquite

Paris 1811 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9525 Pozzo, Andrea

ARCHITEKTUR - Perspectiva pictorum, et architectorum...

Rom 1741 CHF 700.00 - 1,000.00 CHF 1,062.50
9526

FARBE - Die mit allerhand schonen curiosen und geheimen Wissenschafften angefullte Farbe...

Nurnberg 1707 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 400.00
  • 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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