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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")
AntiquarianAuctions.com: Antiquarian Book Auction, 122, Constantia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 10, 2025 - April 10, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hawking (Stephen) & Mlodinow (Leonard) | THE GRAND DESIGN (Presentation copy) |
London | 2011 | USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 2 | King (Stephen) | CARRIE (First UK Edition) |
London | 1974 | USD 1,100.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,663.40 |
| 3 | Valentyn (Francois) | OUD EN NIEUW OOST-INDIEN, VERVATIENDE EEN NAAUKEURIGE EN UITVOERIGE VERHANDELINGE VAN NEDERLANDS MOGENTHEYD IN DIE GEWESTEN, |
Dordrecht & Amsterdam | 1774-1776 | USD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 17,250.00 |
| 4 | Bruce (James of Kinnaird) | TRAVELS TO DISCOVER THE SOURCE OF THE NILE |
Edinburgh | 1790 | USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Munting (Abraham) | DE VERA ANTIQUORUM HERBA BRITANNICA with: ALOIDARIUM, SIVE ALOES MUCRANATO FOLIO AMERICANAE MAJORIS |
Amsterdam | 1680-1681 | USD 1,250.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 6 | Jessen ( B.H.) | W.N.MCMILLAN'S EXPEDITIONS AND BIG GAME HUNTING IN SOUTHERN SUDAN, ABYSSINIA & EAST AFRICA |
London | 1906 | USD 800.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 7 | Marloth (Rudolf) | THE FLORA OF SOUTH AFRICA |
Cape Town | 1913 - 1932 | USD 700.00 - 800.00 | USD 724.50 |
| 8 | Thunberg (Carl Peter) | PLANTARUM CAPENSIUM SPECIES NOVAE |
Upsaliae | 1824 | USD 700.00 - 800.00 | USD 690.00 |
| 9 | Thunberg (Carl Peter) | AN ILLUSTRATION OF THE SPECIES LYCIUM |
London | 1808 | USD 100.00 - 125.00 | USD 86.25 |
| 10 | Wood (J. Medley) & Evans (Maurice S.) | NATAL PLANTS |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | USD 345.00 | ||
| 11 | Pappe (L.) | SYNOPSIS OF THE EDIBLE FISHES, at the Cape of Good Hope |
Cape Town | 1853 | USD 60.00 - 70.00 | USD 48.30 |
| 12 | Smith (Andrew) | CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, ETC. |
Cape Town | October 1831 | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | USD 514.05 |
| 13 | Leibbrandt (H.C.V.) | PRECIS OF THE ARCHIVES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE |
Government Printers, Castle Street | 1898-1905 | USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 | USD 1,086.75 |
| 14 | Schoeman (Olivieri), Van Wyk, Sartori, Baistrocchi and others... | NAMIBIA |
USD 465.00 - 465.00 | USD 514.05 | ||
| 15 | Drury (Colonel Heber) | THE USEFUL PLANTS OF INDIA |
Madras | 1873 | USD 100.00 - 125.00 | Not Sold |
| 16 | Mandela (Nelson) | LONG WALK TO FREEDOM |
Johannesburg | 1995 | USD 550.00 - 650.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Wallace (Edgar) | THE MISSION THAT FAILED (1898) - King Kong author's first book |
Cape Town | 1898 | USD 180.00 - 180.00 | USD 148.35 |
| 18 | Sim (Thomas R.) | FOREST FLORA AND FOREST RESOURCES OF PORTUGUESE EAST AFRICA |
Aberdeen, Scotland | 1909 | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | USD 287.50 |
| 19 | Sim (Thomas R.) | THE FORESTS AND FOREST FLORA OF THE COLONY OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE |
Aberdeen, Scotland | 1907 | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | USD 287.50 |
| 20 | Miquel (F.A.W.) | OVER DE AFRIKAANSCHE VIJGE-BOOMEN |
USD 125.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 21 | Harvey (W.H.) | THE GENERA OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS |
Cape Town | 1838 | USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 22 | Harvey (W.H.) | THE GENERA OF SOUTH AFRICAN PLANTS |
Cape Town | 1868 | USD 300.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold |
| 23 | Delegorgue (Louis Adulphe) | TRAVELS IN SOUTHERN AFRICA [2 VOLUMES] (1847) |
Paris | 1847 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 24 | Truscott (S.J.) | THE WITWATERSRAND GOLDFIELDS (1907) |
London | 1907 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 543.95 |
| 25 | Dupont (Henry) | THE GOLD MINES OF SOUTH AFRICA (1890) |
Paris | 1890 | USD 450.00 - 550.00 | USD 316.25 |
