• 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.
  • 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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Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 24, 2025 - April 24, 2025
Page Size: 304 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Bailey (Nathan)

Dictionarium Domesticum, Being a New and Compleat Houshold Dictionary. For the Use both of City and Country

1736 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 1,071.00
2 Blegny (Nicolas de)

Le Bon usage du the, du caffe et du chocolat pour la preservation & pour la guerison des maladies

Paris, 1687 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,260.00
3 Gardening.- Bonnefons (Nicolas de)

Le Jardinier francois, qui enseigne a cultiver les Arbres & Herbes Potageres

Paris, 1692 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 126.00
4 Briggs (Richard)

The English art of cookery, according to the present practice; being a complete guide to all housekeepers

Dublin, 1791 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
5

Dictionnaire portatif de cuisine, d'office, et de distillation;

Paris, 1767 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
6 Fairfax (Arabella)

The Family's Best Friend: or the Whole Art of Cookery made Plain and Easy,

1753 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 693.00
7 [Glasse (Hannah)]

The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy... by a Lady

1751 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 327.60
8 Glasse (Hannah)

The Art of cookery, made plain and easy,

1784 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
9 Harrison (Sarah)

The House-Keeper's Pocket-Book, and Compleat Family Cook,

1777 GBP 500.00 - 700.00 GBP 504.00
10 Haywood (Eliza)

A New Present for a Servant-Maid...The Whole Art of Cookery, Pickling, Preserving &c.

1771 GBP 700.00 - 900.00 GBP 756.00
11 Johnson (Mary)

Madam Johnson's present: or, every young woman's companion, in useful and universal knowledge

1769 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 252.00
12 Milk & dairy products.- Martin (Barthelemy)

Traite du lait, du choix qu'on en doit faire, & de la maniere d'en user

Paris, 1706 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
13 [Menon].

The French family cook: being a complete system of French cookery. Adapted to the Tables not only of the Opulent, but of Persons of moderate Fortune and Condition

1793 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
14 Coffee.- Moseley (Benjamin)

Traite sur les proprietes et les effets du cafe...Avec les observations sur la culture du cafe, par M. Fusee-Aublet, translated by M. Lebreton

Paris, 1786 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 189.00
15 Diet.- Culpeper (Nicholas).- Prevost (Jean)

Medicaments for the poor or Physick for the common people...Secondly Health for the Rich and Poor, by Diet

1670 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 630.00
16 Rabisha (William)

The Whole body of cookery dissected, taught, and fully manifested, methodically, artificially, and according to the best tradition of the English, French, Italian, Dutch, &c.

1673 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 378.00
17 Gardening.- Reid (John)

The Scots Gard'ner in two parts. The first of contriving and planting gardens, orchards, avenues and groves...the second of the propagation and improvement of forest and fruit-trees and kitchen-herbs...

Edinburgh, 1721 GBP 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
18

Young Lady's companion in cookery (The), And Pastry, Preserving, Pickling, Candying, &c.

1734 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
19 Britain.- Speed (John)

The Historie of Great Britain under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans

1632 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
20 Leigh (Edward)

Critica Sacra ... Observations on all the Radices or Primitive Hebrew Words of the Old Testament ...

1662 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
21 Baker (Sir Richard)

A Chronicle of the Kings of England

1674 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 252.00
22 Binding.- Viscountess Anne Bayning.-

Christian Sacrifice (The). A Treatise shewing the Necessity, End and Manner of Receiving the Holy Communion

1675 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 327.60
23

Royal binding.- Book of Common-Prayer (The)

Oxford, 1681 [but c.1689]. GBP 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
24

Binding.- Book of Common Prayer (The), and Administration of the Sacrements ...

1700 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 239.40
25 Bindings.- [Allestree (Richard)]

The Whole Duty of Man

1702 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 819.00
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    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€
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    Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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