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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.
Chiswick Auctions: Fine Photographs, 52225, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 22, 2025 - May 22, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | Eugene Atget (1857-1927) | LA FONTAINE DE JARENTE, C.1900. |
C.1900. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
2 | Marc Gomme (b.1955) | WHATEVER YOU DO, DO IT WISELY, AND LOOK TO THE END, 2023-2024. |
2023-2024. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
3 | Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) | BRICK AU CLAIR DE LUNE, (THE BRIG ON THE WATER), 1856. |
1856 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Unknown | |
4 | THE SOCIETY FOR PHOTOGRAPHING RELICS OF OLD LONDON, 1867-1878 |
1867-1878 | GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Unknown | ||
5 | Thomas Annan (1829-1887) | HIGH STREET, FROM COLLEGE OPEN, 1868-1871. |
1868-1871. | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Unknown | |
6 | Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) | LONDON, 1909. |
1909 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
7 | Roger Fenton (1819-1869) | PORTRAITS OF THE CRIMEAN GENERALS, 1855. |
1855 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Unknown | |
8 | Roger Fenton (1819-1869) | VOLUNTEER CLASS AT HYTHE, RIGHT WING, FEBRUARY 1860. |
1860 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
9 | Roman Vishniac (1897-1990) | KRAKOW, 1937. |
1937, printed later | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 | Unknown | |
10 | Herb Quick (1925-2006) | KALE LEAVES, 1970. |
1970, printed later | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
11 | Charles Jones (1866-1959) | APPLE ALLEN'S EVERLASTING, c.1900. |
C.1900. | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Unknown | |
12 | Pirkle Jones (1914-2009) | SIX GLASSES, FLEA MARKET, 1976. |
1976 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
13 | Herb Quick (1925-2006) | RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA, 1950. |
1950, printed 1980 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
14 | Charles Jones (1866-1959) | RORALIA AFFINIS, c.1900. |
C.1900. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
15 | Herb Quick (1925-2006) | CAROUSEL, TILDEN PARK, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 1977. |
1977 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown | |
16 | Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) | PORTRAIT OF MOTHER, 1924. |
1924, printed 1960s | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | Unknown | |
17 | Lee Miller (1907-1977) | HAND IN SILHOUETTE, PARIS, FRANCE, 1931. |
1931, printed in 1993 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
18 | Larry Towell (b.1953) | PERQUIN, MORAZAN, EL SALVADOR, 1991. |
1991, printed 2000 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
19 | Jana Sterbak (b.1955) | CONE ON HAND, 1979-96. |
1979-96, printed later | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
20 | Aleksander Rodchenko (1891-1956) | PIONEER WITH A TRUMPET, 1930. |
1930, printed later | GBP 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | Unknown | |
21 | Jozsef Pecsi (1889-1956) | UNTITLED [NUDE], c.1925. |
C.1925. | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown | |
22 | Herbert List (1903-1975) | A PAIR OF ESTATE PRINTS, 1930-1932. |
1930-1932, printed later | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Unknown | |
23 | Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) | LISA WITH HARP, PARIS, 1939. |
1939, printed later | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | Unknown | |
24 | Laure Albin Guillot (1879-1962) | UNTITLED, 1929. |
1929 | GBP 700.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
25 | Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897-1966) | UNTITLED, 1950s. |
1950s. | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | Unknown |