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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.
Christies: Contemporary Edition: New York, 23506, New York
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Song of the Blacks and the Blues |
New York | 1996 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,380.00 |
2 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Night |
New York | 2001 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,820.00 |
3 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Couples |
New York | 2001 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 10,710.00 |
4 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Guilty Girl Is Fragile, from twoandthreezeros: Exit Art Portfolio 2000 |
New York | 2000 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,142.00 |
9 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Caryatid |
New York | 2001 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
10 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Pregnant Caryatid |
New York | 2001 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |
11 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Smile |
New York | 2001 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,890.00 |
12 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Horseshoe |
New York | 2003 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 2,016.00 |
14 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Henriette |
New York | 1998 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,024.00 |
15 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | A Flower In the Forest, from The Geldzahler Portfolio |
New York | 1998 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 8,820.00 |
16 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Bad Mother |
New York | 1998 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,016.00 |
17 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Eight in Bed |
New York | 2000 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,024.00 |
18 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Le Pere et les 3 Fils |
New York | 1999 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,032.00 |
19 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Reply to Stanley Hayter |
New York | 1996 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,024.00 |
21 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | Has the Day Invaded the Night, or Has the Night Invaded the Day?, no. 5 of 9, from What Is the Shape of This Problem? |
New York | 1999 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,410.00 |
22 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Hour Is Devoted to Revenge, no. 7 of 9, from What Is the Shape of This Problem? |
New York | 1999 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,032.00 |
23 | LOUISE BOURGEOIS (1911-2010) | The Ainu Tree |
New York | 1999 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,048.00 |
24 | BETYE SAAR (B. 1926) | Blow Top Blues: The Fire Next Time |
New York | 1998 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 6,048.00 |
25 | PAT STEIR (B. 1940) | Kyoto Chrysanthemum |
Oakland, California | 1982 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,772.00 |
26 | PAT STEIR (B. 1940) | Drawing Wood for The Drawing Center |
New York | 2010 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 756.00 |
28 | ALICE NEEL (1901-1984) | Olivia and the Red Hat |
New York | 1982 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 20,160.00 |
30 | KIKI SMITH (B. 1954) | Las Animas |
West Islip, New York | 1997 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,890.00 |
31 | KARA WALKER (B. 1969) | I'll Be a Monkey's Uncle |
Chicago | 1996 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 8,820.00 |
33 | CHUCK CLOSE (1940-2021) | Untitled (Kate #14) |
2005 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 10,080.00 | |
34 | ELLEN GALLAGHER (B. 1965) | Duke |
New York | 2004 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 8,190.00 |