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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 216 | [BLOW BOOKS]. Magic Picture Book and four Other Blow Books |
[German] | [ca. 1885]. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 | |
| 221 | [BOOK TEST]. The Nonpariel Book Mystery |
St. Leonards-On-Sea | 1949 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 1,020.00 | |
| 222 | [BOOK TESTS]. The Herbert Marsh Book Tests |
[Gateshead on Tyne] | [1940s.] | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 223 | [BOOK TESTS]. Herbert Marsh Book Tests |
New York | [1983]. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 269 | ALBO, Robert (1932 -- 2011). | Classic Magic with Apparatus |
[Piedmont] | 1994 -- 95. | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 330.00 |
| 270 | ALBO, Robert. | The Ultimate Okito |
2007 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 480.00 | |
| 271 | ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 -- 74). | The Fashionable Science of Parlour Magic |
[London] | ca. 1846. | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 272 | ASTLEY, Philip (1742 - 1814). | Astley's System of Equestrian Education |
London | [1801]. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 300.00 |
| 273 | BACON, Sir Francis (1561 -- 1626). | Sylva Sylvarum. Or A Natural History, in Ten Centuries |
London | 1670 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 274 | [BADCOCK, John]. | Philosophical Recreations, or Winter Amusements |
London | 1828 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 390.00 |
| 275 | BALDWIN, Samri S. (1848 -- 1924). | Baldwin's Illustrated Butterfly |
Circa 1880 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 276 | BECKMANN, John (1739 -- 1811). | Beckmann's History of Inventions, Discoveries and Origins |
London | 1846 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 277 | (James Bassett, 1853 -- 1907). | BERTRAM, Charles Isn't it Wonderful? |
London | 1896 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 278 | BISHOP, Washington Irving (1855 -- 1889). | Second Sight Explained. A Complete Exposition of Clairvoyance or Second Sight, as Exhibited by the Late Robert Houdin and Robert Heller |
Edinburgh & Glasgow | 1880 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 420.00 |
| 279 | BLACKSTONE, Harry (1885 -- 1965). | Group of Six Works, one Signed... |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 240.00 | ||
| 280 | BLAND, Joseph (d. 1898). | Illustrated Descriptive Catalogue ... of Conjuring Tricks |
London | ca. 1873. | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 780.00 |
| 281 | BLAND, Joseph (d. 1898). | New Supplementary Catalogue of Extraordinary & Wonderful Novelties in Conjuring Tricks and Magical Apparatus |
London | ca. 1883 | USD 300.00 - 600.00 | USD 450.00 |
| 282 | BLIND, Adolphe (1862 -- 1925). | [AUTOMATA]. Les Automates Truques |
Paris | 1927 | USD 250.00 - 500.00 | USD 240.00 |
| 283 | BODIE, Walford (1869 -- 1939). | The Bodie Book |
London | 1905 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 660.00 |
| 284 | Magical Bookie. Stephen Patrick |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 210.00 | |||
| 285 | Boy's Own Conjuring Book |
New York | [1859]. | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 480.00 | |
| 286 | Boy's Own Conjuring Book |
New York | 1860 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 270.00 | |
| 287 | BRADDON, Russell (1921 -- 95). | The Piddingtons |
London | 1950 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 540.00 |
| 288 | BROWN, Derren | Group of 3 Titles on Mentalism and Magic... |
[Humble, TX] | [2000] | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 360.00 |
| 289 | CANNELL, J. C. (1899 -- 1953). | The Secrets of Houdini |
London | (1932). | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 240.00 |
