• Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    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
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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€

Potter and Potter Auctions: The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part III, 1200, Chicago

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 15, 2025 - February 15, 2025
Page Size: 372 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
139 NEIL, C. Lang (d. 1948).

Calling Card of C. Lang Neil/Lang Neil Ltd

Circa 1900 USD 100.00 - 200.00 USD 360.00
140 PETRIE, John Albert (1870 -- 1954).

"Oriental Mazurka" Sheet Music

New Haven, CT. ca. 1891. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 240.00
141

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAGICIANS]. J.H. Steele's Scrapbook of Magician Photographs

British 1890s -- 60s. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 600.00
142

[PHOTOGRAPHS - MAGICIANS]. Eddie Dawes' Scrapbooks of Magician Photographs

USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
143

[PLATES -- SIDESHOW & ENTERTAINMENT]. Collection of Hand-Colored Engravings

Circa 1817 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 1,020.00
144

[PLAYBILLS -- MAGIC]. Six British Variety Playbills Featuring Magicians

1910s -- 30s USD 300.00 - 600.00 USD 330.00
145

[PROGRAMS -- MAGIC]. Collection of Vintage Magicians'

1870s -- 1930s. USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 300.00
146

[PROGRAMS -- MAGIC]. Group of 150 Programmes or Menus for Magic Conventions or Related Gatherings

V.p. ca. 1920s-2000s USD 200.00 - 400.00 USD 240.00
147

[QUICK CHANGE]. Two Mlle. Fregolia Playbills

Liverpool 1913 -- 14. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 300.00
148 SAMEE, Ramo (d. 1850).

Ramo Samee, The Celebrated East Indian, Native of Seringapatam

Brentford 1822 USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 900.00
149 MERRY, Tom (William McChem, 1853-1902).

[SATIRE -- CIRCUS & ENTERTAINMENT]

1887 -- 88. USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 300.00
150 SELBIT, P.T. (1881 -- 1938).

Three Pieces of Selbit Ephemera

1928 USD 150.00 - 300.00 USD 480.00
151 SETTERINGTON, Arthur.

Manuscript "Ideas Book" with Numerous Original Magic Tricks and Set Lists, Including His Award Winning "Cube in a Tube."

Circa 1970-76 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 390.00
152 [BUNKER, Chang and Eng (1811--1874)].

[SIAMESE TWINS]. The Siamese Youths as Now Exhibited at the Egyptian Hall Piccadilly

London 1829 USD 250.00 - 350.00 USD 150.00
153 STEINEL, Kurt (German, 1929 - 2005).

Abra Cadabra

1970 USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 330.00
154

[THROW-OUT CARDS]. Large Collection of Magicians' Promotional, Throw-Out, and Membership Cards

1890s -- 2000s USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 3,360.00
155

[TRADE & CIGARETTE CARDS -- MAGIC]. Collection of Cigarette and Trade Cards with a Magic or Puzzle Theme

USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 USD 1,560.00
156 (Etta Paul, 1878 - 1964).

VONETTA Group of Vonetta Ephemera

1910s -- 30s USD 400.00 - 800.00 USD 1,440.00
157 VONETTA (Etta Paul, 1878 - 1964).

Lobby Portrait of Vonetta

1910s USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 2,640.00
158 WALKER, Val (1890 -- 1969).

Three Christmas Postcards

1916 - 18. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 240.00
159

[WINDOW CARDS]. Collection of British Theatre Magician Window Cards

1950s -- 70s USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 960.00
160 ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74).

The Great Wizard of the North! Professor Anderson

[London] [ca. 1856]. USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 6,000.00
161 BENYON, Edgar (1901 -- 78).

The Incomparable Benyon

Auckland ca. 1950. USD 150.00 - 250.00 USD 108.00
162 CARTER, Charles (1874 -- 1936).

Carter the Great. The World's Weird Wonderful Wizard

Cleveland ca. 1930s. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 390.00
163 CHANG (Juan Jose Pablo Jesorum, 1889 - 1972).

Chang. Half Devil Half Man

Sydney ca. 1930. USD 250.00 - 500.00 USD 270.00
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 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 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 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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