• 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.
  • 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€

Ader: Elie Szapiro Collection - Judaica books and various paintings, 155653, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Page Size: 131 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Johannes Fridericus Fischer

Dissertatio inauguralis de statu et jurisdictione judaeorum secundum leges romanas, germanicas, alsaticas, ...

Strasbourg [1763] EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 379.00
2 Alphonse Levy

Scenes familiales juives.

Paris s.d EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 884.00
3 par Maer Mannheimer

Selihot selon le rite alsacien,

Karlsruhe 1780 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 328.00
4

Michlol Yofi -- Perfectio Pulchritudinis, de Salomon ben Melekh, suivi de Leket Shikhah - Spicilegium, de Jacob Abendana,

Amsterdam 1684 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
5 Bahya b. Joseph ibn Paquda

Sefer hovot ha-levavot ( spr khvbvt hlbbvt Devoirs des coeurs) [traite de philosophie ethique medievale, avec une traduction en yiddish de Samuel de Posen].

Amsterdam 1768 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
6

Sanctes Pagninus. Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca et Latina in Enchiridii formulam redactae.

Paris 1554 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 947.00
7

Sanctes Pagninus. Precationes aliquot celebriores e Sacris Bibliis desumptae, ac in studiosum gratiam lingua Hebraica, Graeca et Latina in Enchiridii formulam redactae.

Paris 1554 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 467.00
8

Prophetes posterieurs (Isaie, Jeremie, Ezechiel et les douze mineurs) - nbyym khrvnym,

Francfort sur l'Oder 1595 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 505.00
9

Sefer Shemot [Livre de l'Exode]; Quinque libri Mosis: Magno labore, & industria, accuraratissime correcti prae omnibus qui hucusque thypis fuere Mandati;

Amstelodami 5527 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 227.00
10

Hamisha Humshe Torah khmshh khvmshy tvrh [Pentateuque avec les cinq Megiloth],

Anvers (Christophe Plantin 1566 EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,022.00
11

Neviim Rishonim: Josue, Juges, Samuel, Rois.

Venise 1525 EUR 8,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 8,467.00
12

Ezechiel,

Paris 1542 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 758.00
13

Hamisha Humshe Torah khmshh khvmshy tvrh [Pentateuque avec les cinq Megiloth],

Anvers (Christophe Plantin 1566 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,074.00
14 par R. Nathan Shapiro de Horodna.

Sefer Biurim (byvrym), super-commentaire du commentaire de Rachi sur la Torah,

Venise [1593] EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
15

Jean Buxtorf fils, Institutio epistolaris hebraica, sive de conscribendis epistolis hebraicis liber, cum epistolarium Hebraicarum centuria...,

Bale 1629 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
16

Levin Avrom Liondor, Mikhtovim, oder ein Neuen Briefensteller (Un nouveau manuel d'ecriture de lettres), yidich

Vilnius 1882 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
17

Officium Beatae Mariae Virginis ... nunc latine, graece et hebraice recusum et auctum.

Vieux-Prague (Vetero-Praga) 1759 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
18

Conversion de M. le docteur Capadose, Israelite portugais,

Imprimerie de K.-Cadaux 1837 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
19

Seder Hatamid.

Avignon 1767 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 379.00
20

Mardochee Cremieu, Maamar Mordekhai,

Livourne 1784 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 379.00
21

Mardochee Venture. Calendrier hebraique, qui contient tous les Roshodes, Samedis, Solemnites et jeunes de l'annee... depuis... 5525 jusqu'a... 5624... 1764 et 65 jusqu'a 1863 et 64...

Amsterdam 1745 [i.e. 1765] EUR 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
22 par Georges Aubert.

Armand Lunel, Esther de Carpentras. Avec un portrait de l'auteur grave sur bois

Paris 1926 EUR 160.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
23

Memoire Pour la Ville de Carpentras dans lequel on prouve que, suivant les transactions passees entre les habitans de cette ville et les Juifs, ...

Aix 1773 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,300.00 EUR 1,263.00
24 [Pierre Desforges]

Memoires anecdotes pour servir a l'histoire de M. Duliz, Fameux juif portugais a la Haye.

Londres 1739 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
25 ARGENS (J.-B. de Boyer marquis d')].

Memoires du comte de Vaxere ou le Faux Rabin, par l'auteur des Lettres juives.

Amsterdam 1737 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 568.00
  • 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.
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