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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")
Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium, 357974, Columbia
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 16, 2025 - February 16, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 51 | VERNE, Jules | Le chancellor: suivi de Martin Paz |
Paris | [1875] | USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 170.00 |
| 52 | CARROLL, Lewis | The hunting of the snark: an agony in eight fits |
London | 1876 | USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 295.00 |
| 53 | various | Uncle Johns Drolleries |
New York | [ca 1876] | USD 1,500.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,000.00 |
| 54 | GASKELL, Elizabeth Cleghorn | The Life of Charlotte Bronte? |
London | 1879 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 235.00 |
| 55 | DEFOE, Daniel | The Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe | Complete edition. |
New York | [ca 1879]. | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 230.00 |
| 56 | LARKE, Julian K. | General Grant and His Campaigns. |
New York | 1879 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 170.00 |
| 57 | SCHIEBLE, Erhard [cartogr.] | [Atlas geographique et historique des Gaules : Campagnes de Jules Cesar] |
Paris | [ca 1880s]. | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 130.00 |
| 58 | TWAIN, Mark | A Tramp Abroad |
Hartford, Conn.; London | 1880 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 280.00 |
| 59 | COLERIDGE, Samuel, et al. | The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge : with memoir, notes, etc. |
Philadelphia | 1881 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 185.00 |
| 60 | POE, Edgar Allan | The Bells. |
Philadelphia | [1881] | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 235.00 |
| 61 | ANDREWS, William | Punishments in the olden time |
London | [1881] | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 62 | PINTO, Alexandre Serpa | How I crossed Africa: from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean, through unknown countries; discovery of the great Zambesi affluents |
Hartford, Conn. | 1881 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 115.00 |
| 63 | TWAIN, Mark | The Prince and the Pauper, A tale for young people of all ages |
Boston | 1882 | USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 485.00 |
| 64 | THORNE, Rosella [edit.] | Treasury of Thought. Mother, Home, and Heaven. |
New York | 1884 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 130.00 |
| 65 | GRANT, Ulysses S | Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant |
New York | 1885-86 | USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 310.00 |
| 66 | LOGAN, John Alexander | The great conspiracy: its origin and history |
New York | 1886 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 260.00 |
| 67 | WILLIS, Nathaniel Parker | Picturesque American Scenery: A Series of Twenty-Five Beautiful Steel Engravings |
Boston | 1886 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 82.00 |
| 68 | HOWELLS, William D | Tuscan Cities |
Boston | 1886 | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 69 | JEAFFRESON, John Cordy | The Queen of Naples and Lord Nelson |
London | 1889 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 98.00 |
| 70 | CUSTER, Elizabeth Bacon | Following the Guidon |
New York | 1890 | USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 71 | KIMBALL, Charles P. | The San Francisco City Directory, by Charles P. Kimball. September 1, 1850. |
San Francisco | 1850 [1890]. | USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 54.00 |
| 72 | DARWIN, Charles | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life. |
[New York | 1891 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 135.00 |
| 73 | JOHNSON, Willis Fletcher | The red record of the Sioux : life of Sitting Bull and history of the Indian war of 1890-91 |
Philadelphia | (c)1891 | USD 399.00 - 800.00 | USD 115.00 |
| 74 | COOKE, John Esten | John Esten Cookes Popular Novels |
Charleston, S.C. | 1893 | USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 | USD 335.00 |
| 75 | GUERNSEY, Alfred; ALDEN, Henry Mills | Harpers Pictorial History of the Civil War |
Chicago, IL | 1894 | USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 185.00 |
