• 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.

Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2697, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [Corydon C. Randall, photographer?]

(ABOLITION.) One of the last carte-de-visite portraits taken of Sojourner Truth

[Detroit, MI?] [11 April 1882?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,500.00
2

(ABOLITION.) "Am I Not a Man and a Brother" wax seal fob. Relief image in red stone (carnelian?)

London? circa 1790s-early 1800s USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,750.00
3

(ABOLITION.) An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered . . . for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade

London 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,500.00
4

(ABOLITION.) An Abstract of the Evidence Delivered . . . for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (second edition)

London 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,000.00
5 Maria Cowper.

(ABOLITION.) Letter of a wealthy English woman describing her opposition to the slave trade

No place 20 December 1791 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,063.00
6 Thomas Clarkson.

(ABOLITION.) History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade

Philadelphia 1808 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,875.00
7 [Thomas Fisher.]

(ABOLITION.) The Negro's Memorial or Abolitionist's Catechism, by an Abolitionist

London 1825 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 9,375.00
8 David Walker.

(ABOLITION.) Walker's Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World

Boston 1830 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 52,500.00
9 Richard Allen of Dublin.

(ABOLITION.) Letter announcing "The cause is won!!" after the final passage of emancipation by Parliament

London 22 May 1838 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 438.00
10

(ABOLITION.) "Alas the poor Africans!": a lawyer is congratulated upon joining the defense team for the Amistad captives

Philadelphia 14 September 1839 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,750.00
11 Wilson Armistead.

(ABOLITION.) A Tribute for the Negro, being a Vindication of the . . . Coloured Portion of Mankind

England 1848 USD 500.00 - 750.00 USD 1,250.00
12

(ABOLITION.) The first (and only?) issue of a colonization newspaper, "The Separationist, and Advocate of Freedom."

Indianapolis, IN November 1849 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,500.00
13

(ABOLITION.) Run of the Anti-Slavery Bugle

Salem, OH January to December 1850 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,250.00
14

(ABOLITION.) Turn Out! Turn Out!! No Compromise with Slavery!!!

Oswego, NY 3 May 1850 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 10,625.00
15

(ABOLITION.) Uncle Tom's Cabin bandanna

No place circa 1850s USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,750.00
16 John G. Whittier and Manuel Emelio.

(ABOLITION.) Little Eva Song: Uncle Tom's Guardian Angel

Massachusetts 1852 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,000.00
17

(ABOLITION.) Cabinet card portrait of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet

Brooklyn, NY circa 1876-1878 USD 5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD 11,250.00
18 Richard D. Webb.

(ABOLITION.) The Life and Letters of Captain John Brown

London 1861 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,500.00
19

(ABOLITION.) Early Southern printing of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, in an issue of "The New South."

Port Royal, SC 4 October 1862 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 938.00
20

(ABOLITION.) Letter describing two refugee women being violently removed from a Washington Civil War camp. Autograph Letter Signed from William Schouler to an unidentified major

Washington 24 October [1864] USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,063.00
21 E.G. Hutchins, artist.

(ABOLITION.) The American Crisis of 1864

White Plains, NY 1864 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 406.00
22

(ABOLITION.) General Granger's "Juneteenth" order, in an issue of the New York Herald

New York 7 July 1865 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,063.00
23

(ABOLITION--HAITI.) Vida de J. J. Dessalines, gefe de los negros de Santo Domingo

Mexico 1806 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,500.00
24

(ABOLITION--MONTSERRAT.) Compensation claim for slaves registered in Montserrat at the time of abolition

London circa 1834 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 688.00
25

(ABOLITION--MEXICO.) Dictamen de la comision de esclavos

Mexico 1821 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,500.00
  • 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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