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Auction Date: January 23, 2025 - January 23, 2025

Page Size: 29 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
138		Two Framed French Illuminated Book of Hours Leaves		15th century	USD 500.00 - 700.00	USD 512.00
139		Framed Innocent XII Papal Bull		circa 1692	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 128.00
140		Three Framed French Illuminated Book of Hours Leaves		15th century	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 448.00
141		Framed French Illuminated Manuscript Leaf		15th century	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
142		Group of Nine Assorted Vellum and Leatherbound Books			USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 1,024.00
143		Three Framed French Manuscript Psalter Leaves		late 13th-15th centuries	USD 300.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
145		Framed Decretum Gratiani Leaf	possibly Italian,	late 15th century	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 96.00
146		Two Framed Missal Leaves	probably Italian,	16th century	USD 200.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
147		Three French Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript Leaves		15th century	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 320.00
148		Two Framed French Book of Hours Manuscript Leaves		c. 1235-1260, (c. 1500s)	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 256.00
151		Framed French Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript Leaf		15th century	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 832.00
152		Framed Illuminated Book of Hours Manuscript Leaf	possibly French,	circa 15th century	USD 600.00 - 900.00	USD 1,088.00
153		Two 16th Century Printed and Hand Illuminated Book Leaves	Basel:	152	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	USD 640.00
181		43 Ethnographic Studies and History Reference Books			USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 320.00
194	Nicolas Sanson	Sanson - Map of North America		circa 1682	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 512.00
195	Denis Diderot and Robert de Vaugondy	Map of the Cartographic Evolution of California	Paris,	circa 1772	USD 300.00 - 500.00	USD 384.00
228	Jose Lopez-Rey and Odile Delenda	Velazquez: The Complete Works		2014	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 128.00
334		Japanese Carved, Painted, and Gilt Hanging Wood Trade Sign		early 20th century	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 64.00
336	William Hogarth	William Hogarth, Marriage A-la-Mode		20th century	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 192.00
344	Winston S. Churchill	A History of the English Speaking People, Four Volumes	London:	1956	USD 200.00 - 400.00	USD 448.00
378	After George Morland	After George Morland, Two Sporting Prints		circa 1789	USD 100.00 - 300.00	USD 256.00
424		Early Photography Group		19th century	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 2,048.00
448	Gordon Grant	Gordon Grant Print, Off Shore			USD 100.00 - 150.00	USD 128.00
457	Christopher Finch	The Art of Walt Disney by Christopher Finch	New York:	1983	USD 50.00 - 100.00	USD 96.00
489		Historic Tennessee Document Group		mostly 19th century	USD 400.00 - 600.00	USD 256.00

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Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD

Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD

Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD

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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
Bonhams, Apr. 8: First report outside of the colonies of the American Revolution, from American accounts. Printed broadsheet, The London Evening-Post, May 30, 1775. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce, James. The earliest typescript pages from Finnegans Wake ever to appear at auction, annotated by Joyce, 1923. $30,000 - $50,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Joyce's Ulysses, 1923, one of only seven copies known, printed to replace copies destroyed in customs. $10,000 - $15,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: ATHANASIUS KIRCHER'S COPY, INSCRIBED. Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell' Accademia del Cimento, 1667. $2,000 - $3,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Bernoulli's Ars conjectandi, 1713. "... first significant book on probability theory." $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Aristotle's Politica. Oeconomica. 1469. The first printed work on political economy. $80,000 - $120,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: John Graunt's Natural and political observations...., 1662. The first printed work of epidemiology and demographics. $20,000 - $30,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: William Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas, 1786. The first work to pictorially represent information in graphics. $15,000 - $25,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Anson's A Voyage Round the World, 1748. THE J.R. ABBEY-LORD WARDINGTON COPY, BOUND BY JOHN BRINDLEY. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: La Perouse's Voyage de La Perouse autour du monde..., 1797. LARGE FINE COPY IN ORIGINAL BOARDS. $8,000 - $12,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Francesca Woodman's Some Disordered Interior Geometries, 1981. Untrimmed publisher's proof sheets. $4,000 - $6,000

Bonhams, Apr. 8: Charles Schulz original 8-panel Peanuts Sunday comic strip, 1992, pen and ink over pencil, featuring Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Lucy as a psychiatrist. $20,000 - $30,000
Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Johnson (C.). A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most Notorious Pyrates, 1724. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ordonez de Cevallos (Pedro). Viage del Mundo, 1st edition, Madrid: Luis Sanchez, 1614. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: North America. Merian (Matthaus), Virginia..., 1627 or later. £1,500-2,500

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: World. Waldseemuller (Martin), Tabula Nova Totius Orbis, Vienne: 1541. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Erasmus (Desiderius). The ... paraphrase of Erasmus... 2 volumes, 1st edition, 1549. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Bible [English]. [The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament, 1562]. £3,000-5,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Smith (Lucy). Biographical Sketches of Joseph Smith the Prophet, 1st edition, 1853. £1,000-1,500

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Derain (Andre). Pantagruel, signed limited edition, Albert Skira, 1943. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Austen (Jane). Pride and Prejudice, illustrated by Hugh Thomson, Large Paper edition, 1894. £1,500-2,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers

April 9
Printed Books, English Bibles, Maps & Decorative Prints

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Ellison (Ralph). Invisible Man, 1st edition, New York: Random House, 1952. £200-300

Dominic Winter, Apr. 9: Taschen Collector's Edition. Annie Leibovitz, limited edition, 2014. £1,000-1,500
Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 1: Bob Dylan, his high school classmate's yearbook with his senior portrait, signed and inscribed to her, 1959. $10,000 to $20,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 4: Various entertainers, Group of 30 items, signed or inscribed, various dates. $1,500 to $2,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 27: John Adams, Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Rush introducing Archibald Redford, Paris, 1783. $35,000 to $50,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 36: Robert Gould Shaw, Autograph Letter Signed to his father from Camp Andrew, Boston, 1861. $10,000 to $15,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 53: Martin Luther King Jr., Time magazine cover, signed and inscribed "Best Wishes," 1957. $5,000 to $7,500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 127: Paul Gauguin, Autograph Letter regarding payment for paintings, with woodcut letterhead, 1900. $6,000 to $9,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 169: Suck: First European Sex Paper, complete group of eight issues, 1969-1974. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 173: Black Panthers, The Racist Dog Policemen Must Withdraw Immediately From Our Communities, poster, 1969. $2,000 to $3,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 187: Marc Attali & Jacques Delfau, Les Erotiques du Regard, first edition, Paris, 1968. $300 to $500.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 213: Andy Warhol, Warhol's Index Book, first printing, New York, 1967. $800 to $1,200.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 215: Cookie Mueller, Archive of 17 items, including 4 items inscribed and signed. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Apr. 10: Lot 249: Jamie Reid, The Ten Lessons / The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle; Sex Pistols, chromogenic print with collage, signed, circa 1980. $20,000 to $30,000.

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