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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")
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Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 06, 2025 - March 06, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Livingstone (David) | MISSIONARY TRAVELS AND RESEARCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA (First issue) |
London | 1857 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 2 | Baker (Sir Samuel White) | THE NILE TRIBUTARIES OF ABYSSINIA |
London | 1867 | USD 800.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold |
| 3 | Alexander (Sir James Edward) | AN EXPEDITION OF DISCOVERY INTO THE INTERIOR OF AFRICA |
London | 1838 | USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 4 | Selous (F.C.) | A HUNTER'S WANDERINGS IN AFRICA. Author's presentation copy to James Jameson. 'Perhaps the most famous of all hunting books'. |
London | 1881 | USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,173.50 |
| 5 | Campbell (Lieutenant Colin) | EIGHT MONTHS ON AN ARMOURED TRAIN (Presentation copy) |
Cape Town | 1901 | USD 500.00 - 600.00 | USD 1,207.50 |
| 6 | Schreiner (Olive) | CLOSER UNION (Presentation copy to J.C. Molteno) |
London | 1909 | USD 850.00 - 950.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Park (Mungo) | TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR DISTRICTS OF AFRICA |
London | 1799 | USD 350.00 - 450.00 | USD 423.20 |
| 8 | Krenkel (Erich) | GEOLOGY OF AFRICA [3 volumes] (1925-1938) |
Berlin | 1925-1928-1938 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,700.00 | Not Sold |
| 9 | Cumming (Roualeyn Gordon) | FIVE YEARS OF A HUNTER'S LIFE IN THE FAR INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA |
London | 1850 | USD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 10 | Rosenthal (Joseph) | RAISING THE FLAG ON IWO JIMA - ORIGINAL 1945 PRESS PHOTOGRAPH |
1945 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Not Sold | |
| 11 | Dibdin (Thomas Frognall) | A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ANTIQUARIAN AND PICTURESQUE TOUR IN FRANCE AND GERMANY |
London | 1821 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 402.50 |
| 12 | Butler (Capt. H.) | SOUTH AFRICAN SKETCHES |
London | 1841 | USD 600.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 13 | Thompson (George) | TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES IN SOUTHERN AFRICA |
London | 1827 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 | Not Sold |
| 14 | Marloth (Rudolf) | THE FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA |
Cape Town | 1913 - 1932 | USD 350.00 - 450.00 | Not Sold |
| 15 | Bigge (John Thomas, Colebrooke (William M.G) and Blair (W.) | REPORTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF INQUIRY ON THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE |
Cape Town | 1827 | USD 150.00 - 200.00 | USD 115.00 |
| 16 | Blixen-Finecke (Bror von) | AFRICAN HUNTER |
London | 1937 | USD 200.00 - 250.00 | USD 302.45 |
| 17 | Theal (George McCall) | HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA |
Cape Town | 1964 | USD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold |
| 18 | His Majesty's Stationery Office | AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND PORTUGAL ABOUT THE SOUTHERN AFRICA (1912-1920) - LOT OF 3 ITEMS |
London | 1912-1920 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 287.50 |
| 19 | Curle (James Herbert) | THE GOLD MINES OF THE WORLD (1899) |
London | 1899 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold |
| 20 | Klempner (Paul) | THE WITWATERSRAND GOLD MINES (1951) |
London | 1951 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 21 | De Launay (L.) | THE GOLD MINES OF THE TRANSVAAL (1896) |
Paris | 1896 | USD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Katzen (Leo) | GOLD & THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY (1964) |
1964 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 23 | Hirschson (Niel) | THE NAMING OF JOHANNESBURG (1974) |
Johannesburg | 1974 | USD 90.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Reunert (Theodore) | DIAMONDS AND GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA (1893) |
Cape Town Port Elizabeth and Johannesburg | 1893 | USD 600.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 25 | "Imperialist" pseudonym - VERSCHOYLE (John Stuart) | CECIL RHODES: A Biography and Appreciation, with Personal Reminiscences by Dr. Jameson (1897) |
London | 1897 | USD 90.00 - 90.00 | Not Sold |
