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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")
PBA Galleries: Fine Literature - Beats, and the Counterculture, 836, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 17, 2025 - April 17, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Albee, Edward | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Play |
New York | 1962 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 2 | Alexander, Lloyd | The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha |
New York | 1978 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Hauser, Thomas | Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times |
New York and elsewhere | 1991 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 4 | [Amory, Thomas] | The Life of John Buncle, Esq; Containing Various Observations and Reflections, Made in several Parts of the World; and Many extraordinary Relations |
London | 1756 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Ashbery, John | Two volumes by John Ashbery |
1956-1984 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 250.00 | |
| 6 | Atwood, Margaret | The Handmaid's Tale |
Boston | 1986 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 7 | Baldwin, James and Steve Schapiro | The Fire Next Time |
[2019] | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 8 | Baldwin, James | Go Tell It On the Mountain |
Franklin Center, PA | 1979 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 406.25 |
| 9 | Barrymore, John | Confessions of an Actor |
Indianapolis | [1926] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Barth, John | The Sot-Weed Factor |
Garden City | 1960 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 11 | Barton, Clara | The Red Cross: A History of This Remarkable Movement in the Interest of Humanity |
Washington, D.C. | 1898 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 125.00 |
| 12 | Baum, L. Frank | Six Oz titles published by the Easton Press |
Norwalk, CT | [1990s] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 13 | Grile, Dod | Cobwebs from an Empty Skull |
London and New York | 1874 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 468.75 |
| 14 | Gilchrist, Alexander | Life of Willilam Blake with Selections from his Poems and Other Writings |
London | 1880 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 15 | Dixon, Franklin W. | The Sinister Sign Post |
New York | [1936] | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 343.75 |
| 16 | Braithwaite, William S., editor | The Book of Elizabethan Verse |
London | 1908 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Butts, Mary | Armed with Madness |
London | 1928 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 18 | Wilbur, Richard, compiler | A Bestiary |
New York | [1955] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 312.50 |
| 19 | Capote, Truman | Breakfast at Tiffany's |
New York | [1958] | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 20 | Capote, Truman | In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences |
New York | [1965] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 531.25 |
| 21 | Carson, Rachel | Silent Spring |
Boston | 1962 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 625.00 |
| 22 | Clark, Walter van Tilburg | The Ox-Bow Incident |
New York | [1940] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 175.00 |
| 23 | Conrad, Joseph | The Secret Agent: A Drama in Three Acts |
London | 1923 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 281.25 |
| 24 | Dixon, Franklin W. | The Short-Wave Mystery. |
New York | [1945] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 25 | Crane, Stephen | The Red Badge of Courage |
New York | [1931] | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
