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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")
Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part III, 1200, Chicago
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 15, 2025 - February 15, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 57 | (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941). | DEVANT, David Mr. David Devant's Animated Photographs |
Circa 1897 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 360.00 | |
| 58 | (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941). | DEVANT, David Four Programmes and One Handbill |
1910s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 59 | (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941). | DEVANT, David Portrait Postcard of David Devant |
ca. 1910. | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 60 | (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941). | DEVANT, David Archive of Devant Ephemera and Clippings |
1900s -- 30s. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 61 | (David Wighton, 1868 -- 1941). | DEVANT, David Eight David Devant Christmas Cards |
1900s -- 30s | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 62 | [DEVANT, David (1868--1941)]. | Signed Glasgow Society of Magicians Portrait |
Glasgow | 1919 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 64 | The Devil's Fan |
Circa 1900 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 720.00 | ||
| 65 | [LEARNED DOG]. Munito, At Home |
[London] | ca. 1819. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 | |
| 66 | ELCOCK, H.K. (1886 -- 1952). | Portrait of Magician Harry Kellar |
London | 1911 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 2,880.00 |
| 67 | ELCOCK, H.K. (1886 -- 1952). | Portrait of The Great Maurice |
London | 1911 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 570.00 |
| 68 | ELCOCK, H.K. (1886 -- 1952). | Portrait of Oswald Williams |
London | 1911 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,880.00 |
| 69 | ELCOCK, H.K. (1886 -- 1952). | Portraits of Two Magicians |
London | 1911 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 3,360.00 |
| 70 | FAY, Anna Eva (1851 -- 1927). | Letter Accepting Membership in the Magic Circle |
1913 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,800.00 | |
| 73 | FINDLAY, James B. (1904 -- 73). | Findlay Conjuring Catalogue Collection |
Glasgow and elsewhere | 1930 -- 72 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,320.00 |
| 74 | CHABERT, Ivanitz. | [FIREPROOF MAN]. The Last Week |
London | ca. 1820. | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 75 | (Albert Levinson, 1895 -- 1976). | FLOSSO, Al Group of Postcards and Ephemera |
1930s -- 60s | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 450.00 | |
| 76 | FOGEL, Maurice (1911 -- 81). | Archive of Fogel Ephemera and Publications |
1940s -- 80s. | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 660.00 | |
| 77 | GOLDIN, Horace (Hyman Goldstein, 1873 -- 1939). | Candid Photographs of Goldin and His Illusion Show |
1930s. | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 4,080.00 | |
| 78 | (William H. Palmer, 1829 -- 78). | HELLER, Robert Autographed Note Signed |
1878 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,020.00 | |
| 79 | Henry, M. M. | Henry's Conversazione |
London | ca. 1825. | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 420.00 |
| 80 | HOGARTH, William (1697 -- 1754), after. | The Humours and Diversions of Southwark Fair |
London | ca. 1750. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,140.00 |
| 81 | (Angelo Lewis, 1839 -- 1919). | HOFFMANN, Professor Professor Hoffmann ALS |
1882 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 82 | (Angelo Lewis, 1839 -- 1919). | HOFFMANN, Professor Instructional ALS from Hoffmann to a Student |
1881 | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,680.00 | |
| 83 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 -- 1926). | The Unmasking of Robert-Houdin |
New York | [ca. 1908]. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 84 | HOUDINI, Harry (Erik Weisz, 1874 -- 1926). | Houdini Theatrical Brochure |
London | ca. 1909. | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 840.00 |
