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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 114 | LEROY, Servais (1865 -- 1953). | The Devil in Evening Dress |
Brighton | ca. 1900. | USD 600.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 115 | LEROY, Servais (1865 -- 1953). | Christmas and New Year's Sentiment |
Hamburg | 1911 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 116 | (Leslie Cole, 1892 -- 1978). | LEVANTE Archive of Correspondence and Ephemera |
1930s -- 70s | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 330.00 | |
| 117 | William Edward (1806 -- 67). | LOVE, Two Ventriloquism Broadsides |
Hull | 1845 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 118 | LYNN, Dr. (J.W. Simmons, 1836 - 99). | Dr. Lynn Programmeme for This Evening |
Keighley | 1880s | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 119 | [MAGICIANS' CLUB]. Group of Magicians' Club Tickets and Invitations |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 150.00 | |||
| 120 | [MAGICIANS' CLUB]. Archive of Magicians' Club Documents and Programmes |
London | 1910s --30s | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 510.00 | |
| 121 | MARSH, Herbert J. (1896 -- 1969). | Scrapbooks of Magic Secrets, Ephemera, and Artwork |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,280.00 | ||
| 122 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | John Nevil Maskelyne Advertising Leaflet |
[London] | 1870s. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 123 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | Maskelyne & Cooke The Royal Illusionists and Anti-Spiritualists |
London | [1876]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 210.00 |
| 124 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | PS1,000 Reward Box Trick Handbill |
London | 1870s. | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 125 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | John Nevil Maskelyne Signed Check |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 270.00 | ||
| 126 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | Portrait of John Nevil Maskelyne |
1915 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 127 | [MASKELYNES]. Two Maskelyne Theatre Advertising Cards |
ca. 1904 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 180.00 | ||
| 128 | MASKELYNE, J.N. (1839 -- 1917). | John Nevil Maskelyne Ephemera Collection |
1870s -- 1920s. | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 129 | [MASKELYNE & COOKE]. | Egyptian Hall Programme |
London | [1893] | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 420.00 |
| 130 | [MASKELYNE & COOKE]. | Three Egyptian Hall/Touring Company Programmes |
1890s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 300.00 | |
| 131 | [MASKELYNE & DEVANT]. | Two Invitations to St. George's Hall |
USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 360.00 | ||
| 132 | [MASKELYNE & DEVANT]. | Mascot Moth Debut Performance Handbill |
London | [1905 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 133 | [MASKELYNE & DEVANT]. | Photograph of the Devant Testimonial at St. George's Hall |
London | [1913]. | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 134 | [MASKELYNE]. | Phantom Shadows 3-D Glasses |
[London] | [1929]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 135 | [MASKELYNES]. | Archive of Maskelyne Family Ephemera |
1910s -- 70s | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 720.00 | |
| 136 | MASKELYNE, Jasper (1902 -- 73). | Collection of Signed Jasper Maskelyne Ephemera |
USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 450.00 | ||
| 137 | OKITO (Tobias Bamberg, 1884 -- 1963). | St. George's Hall Programme and Tickets |
London | 1921 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 270.00 |
| 138 | OKITO (Tobias Bamberg, 1875 -- 1963). | Important TLS from Okito to Edmund Younger |
1939 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 480.00 |
