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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")
Ader: Autograph Letters and Manuscripts, 160634, PARIS
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Henri ALAIN-FOURNIER (1886-1914) | L.A.S., La Chapelle d'Angillon 23 aout 1913, [a Yvonne Brochet de Quievrecourt] |
La Chapelle d'Angillon | 1913 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 4,680.00 |
| 2 | Theodore de BANVILLE (1823-1891) | Poeme autographe signe, Tueur de Monstres |
EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 494.00 | ||
| 3 | Pierre BENOIT (1886-1962) | L.A.S., Ciboure 20 mars 1959, a un ami |
Ciboure | 1959 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | L.A.S., Villa Ochoenea, Ciboure [ete 1926], a un journaliste |
Villa Ochoenea, Ciboure | 1926 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | 2 L.A.S., Clermont [24.X.1928] et [20.XII.1929] |
Clermont | 1928 et 1929 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | Manuscrit autographe signe, Ecrit le 2 novembre [1928] |
1928 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,170.00 | |
| 7 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | Manuscrit autographe d'une partie de La Joie |
EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 8 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | Manuscrit autographe signe, Organisons la Peur |
EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 1,170.00 | ||
| 9 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | L.A.S., Hyeres [13 juin 1933], a une <> [Madeleine Le Chevrel?] |
Hyeres | 1933 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 455.00 |
| 10 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | L.A.S., 26 decembre 1944, [a M. Desy] |
1944 | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | Manuscrit autographe signe, La maladie de la democratie |
EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 975.00 | ||
| 12 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | L.A.S., 30 mai 1946, a un confrere |
1946 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 286.00 | |
| 13 | Georges BERNANOS (1888-1948) | 3 L.A.S., Bar-le-Duc 1924-1925 et s.d., a une dame |
Bar-le-Duc | 1924-1925 et s.d. | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 364.00 |
| 14 | Louis BOUILHET (1821-1869) | L.A.S., Mantes 14 janvier 1862, a Etienne Carjat |
Mantes | 1862 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Antoinette du Ligier de La Garde, Madame DES HOULIERES (1638-1694) | L.A.S. <> a son amie <> |
EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | EUR 3,900.00 | ||
| 16 | Camille DESMOULINS (1760-1794) | L.A.S., Paris 27 octobre 1787, a son ami Grasset |
Paris | 1787 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Paul ELUARD (1895-1952) | Poeme autographe signe, Il y aura une justice, 1948 |
1948 | EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 2,860.00 | |
| 18 | Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880) | L.A., [Croisset] Samedi soir, minuit [8 mai 1852], a Louise Colet |
1852 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 7,540.00 | |
| 19 | Andre GIDE (1869-1951) | Manuscrit autographe, Dieu "Fils de l'Homme" |
EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,430.00 | ||
| 20 | Sacha GUITRY (1885-1957) | L.A.S. a un <> |
EUR 100.00 - 120.00 | EUR 130.00 | ||
| 21 | Sacha GUITRY (1885-1957) | Francois TALMA. Reflexions de Talma sur Lekain et l'art theatral (Paris, Auguste Fontaine, 1856) |
Paris | 1856 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 130.00 |
| 22 | Victor HUGO (1802-1885) | Manuscrit autographe, 3 juillet 1834, [a Juliette Drouet] |
1834 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 8,710.00 | |
| 23 | Victor HUGO (1802-1885) | 2 photographies avec legendes autographes, [Bruxelles 1867] |
Bruxelles | 1867 | EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 5,460.00 |
| 24 | Victor HUGO (1802-1885) | L.A.S. <>, Guernesey, Hauteville house 6 mai 1857, a Alphonse de Lamartine |
Guernesey, Hauteville house | 1857 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 2,860.00 |
| 25 | [Victor HUGO] | Photographie en vue stereoscopique, vers 1857 |
vers 1857 | EUR 400.00 - 500.00 | EUR 585.00 |
