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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
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025

Gonnelli: 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 2025

Gonnelli 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 2025

Gonnelli: 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 2025

Gonnelli: 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 & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [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

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500

Dominic 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.

Gros & Delettrez: Voyages: Books and Maps, 161362, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Date: February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025

Page Size: 290 items in 12 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
229	BRYANT (Edwin).	[Americana]. Voyage en Californie. Description de son sol, climat, de ses mines d'or. Traduit par X. Marmier. Augmente de divers renseignements sur l'etat actuel de la Californie et d'une note scientifique sur l'or et son exploitation	Paris	[1849]	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 204.80
230	BRYANT (Edward).	[Americana]. Voyage en Californie, description de son sol, de son climat et de ses mines d'or	Paris	1849	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	EUR 192.00
231	BELLIN.	[Canada]. Partie orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada pour servir a l'intelligence des affaires et de l'etat present en Amerique	[Nuremberg]	1753	EUR 250.00 - 300.00	EUR 307.20
232		[Americana]. CARTE DE L'AMERIQUE MERID[IONA]LE	Bruxelles	[c.1850]	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
233	CASAS (Bartolome de las).	[Americana]. La decouverte des Indes Occidentales par les Espagnols, et les moyens dont ils se sont servis pour s'en rendre maitres	A Paris	1701	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 268.80
234	CHARLEVOIX (P.-F.-X. de).	[Americana]. Histoire du Paraguay	A Paris	1757	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 256.00
235	[CHETWOOD (William Rufus)].	[Americana]. Les Voyages et avantures du capitaine Robert Boyle; ou l'on trouve l'Histoire de Mademoiselle Villars, avec qui il se sauva en Barbarie	Amsterdam	1730	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	Not Sold
236	DAUXION LAVAYSSE (Jean Francois).	[Americana]. Voyage aux iles des Trinidad, de Tabago...	Paris	1813	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 179.20
237	DEPONS (Francois).	[Americana]. Voyages a la partie orientale de la Terre-Ferme dans l'Amerique Meridionale fait pendant les annees 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804	A Paris	1806	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
238	DIAZ DEL CASTILLO (Bernai) ; HEREDIA (Jose Maria de), trad.	[Americana]. Veridique histoire de la Nouvelle-Espagne	Paris	1877-1881	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 192.00
239	DORVO-SOULASTRE.	[Americana]. Voyage par terre de Santo-Domingo, capitale de la partie espagnole de saint-Domingue, au Cap-Francais, capitale de la partie francaise de la meme isle, entrepris et execute au mois de germinal an VI, par les ordres du general de division Hedo	Paris	1809	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 281.60
240	DOUVILLE (Jean-Baptiste).	[Americana]. 30 mois de ma vie, quinze mois avant et quinze mois apres mon voyage au Congo, ou Ma justification des infamies debitees contre moi ; [suivie de Details nouveaux et curieux sur les moeurs et les usages des habitants du Bresil et de Buenos-Ayr	A Paris	1833	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 640.00
241		[Americana]. Ensemble de 3 ouvrages in-8, broches...			EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 768.00
242	GARCILASO DE LA VEGA.	[Americana]. Histoire des Yncas rois du Perou On joint a cette edition l'histoire de la conquete de la Floride par le meme auteur	A Amsterdam	1737	EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 1,088.00
243	GASNIER (Rene).	[Manuscrit]. [Americana]. Villes Americaines			EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,536.00
244	GONZALEZ LAGUNA (Francisco).	[Americana]. El zelo sacerdotal para con los ninos no-nacidos	En Lima	1781	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 896.00
245	GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC (Bernard Adolphe).	[Americana]. Voyage aux Antilles Francaises, Anglaises, Danoises, Espagnoles; a Saint Domingue et aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique	Paris	1842	EUR 180.00 - 250.00	Not Sold
246	GUINNARD (Auguste).	[Americana]. Trois ans d'esclavage chez les Patagons	Paris	1868	EUR 70.00 - 100.00	Not Sold
247	HELMS (Antoine-Zacharias).	[Americana]. Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale commencant par Buenos-Ayres et Potosi jusqu'a Lima	Paris	1812	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 128.00
248	ISABELLE (Arsene).	[Americana]. Voyage a Buenos-Ayres et a Porto-Alegre, par la Banda Oriental, les missions d'Uruguay et la province de Rio Grande-do-Sul (de 1830 a 1834)	Havre	1835	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 256.00
249	JOUTEL (Henri).	[Americana]. Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure & le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi nommee a present la Riviere de Saint Louis, que traverse la Louisiane. Ou l'on voit l'His	Paris	1713	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 11,520.00
250	LABAT (Jean-Baptiste).	Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ces pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion et le gouvernement des habitans anciens et modernes, les guerres et les evenemens singuliers qui y sont arrivez	A Paris	1722	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,536.00
251	LA SALLE (Rene Robert Cavelier de) ; TONTI (Henri de).	[Americana]. Dernieres decouvertes dans l'Amerique Septentrionale de M. De La Salle, mises au jour par M. Le Chevalier Tonti	A Paris	1697	EUR 6,500.00 - 7,500.00	Not Sold
252	[LAURENT, Charles (possesseur ?)].	[[Photographie]. [Americana]. Album de photographies		[v. 1860?]	EUR 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
253	LONG (John) ; BILLECOCQ (J.-B.-L.-J.), trad.	[Americana]. Voyages chez differentes nations sauvages de l'Amerique septentrionale...	A Paris	[1794]	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 256.00

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000

Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000

Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000

Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000

Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

Ketterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000

Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000

Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.

Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.

Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.

Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.

Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.

Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.

Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.

Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.

Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.

Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.

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