• 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.
  • Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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€

De Baecque and Associes: Ancient and Modern Books, 164805, Lyon

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 23, 2025 - April 23, 2025
Page Size: 149 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 [CREVECOEUR (Michel-Guillaume Jean).

Voyage dans la Haute Pensylvanie et dans l'etat de New-York.

Paris an IX. EUR 350.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,430.00
2 GOSSELMAN, Carl August.

Resa Nora Amerika.

Nokoping 1835 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
3 LA ROCHEFOUCAULD-LIANCOURT (Francois-Alexandre

Voyage dans les Etats-Unis d'Amerique, fait en 1795, 1796 et 1797.

Paris an VII (1799). EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
4 Jacques Bazin de BEZONS (vers 1645-1733) marechal de France,

2 L.A.S. vers 1702-1703 ; 2 pages in-4deg.

EUR 20.00 - 30.00 EUR 494.00
4B HEARNE (Samuel).

Voyage du fort du prince de Galles dans la Baie de Hudson a l'Ocean Nord, entrepris par ordre de la Compagnie de la Baie de Hudson dans les annees 1769-1772 et execute par terre, pour la decouverte d'un passage au Nord-Ouest.

Paris an VII [1799] EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
5 MAGRE, P., enseigne de vaisseau.

Le pilote americain contenant la description des cotes orientales de l'Amerique du Nord depuis le fleuve Saint-Laurent jusqu'au Mississipi, suivi d'une notice sur le Gulf-Stream, traduit de l'anglais pr P. Magre, enseigne de vaisseau et publie sur les ord

Paris 1826 EUR 50.00 - 80.00 EUR 52.00
6 St JOHN DE CREVECOEUR (J. Hector).

Lettres d'un cultivateur americain adressees a Wm. S... on Esqr. depuis l'annee 1770 jusqu'en 1786. Traduites de l'Anglois.

A Paris 1787 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 650.00
7 Miss Wright.

Voyage aux Etats-unis d'Amerique ou observations sur la societe, les moeurs, les usages et le gouvernement de ce pays, recueillies en 1818, 1819 et 1820, traduit de l'anglais sur la seconde edition, par J.-T. Parisot.

Paris 1822 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
8 [ASIE]- ELLIOT (Commodore, Robert)

Vues pittoresques de l'Inde, de la Chine, et des bords de la Mer Rouge; dessinees par Prout, Stanfield, Cattermole, Purser, Cox, Austin, &c., sur les esquisses originales du Commodore Robert Elliot, Accompagnees d'un texte historique et descriptif par Emm

Londres s.d. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 169.00
9

Atlas des enfans ou Nouvelle methode pour apprendre la geographie, avec un nouveau traite de la sphere et XXIV cartes enluminees. Nouvelle edition corrigee et augmentee.

Lyon 1784 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 91.00
10 BARTHELEMY (Abbe Jean-Jacques).

Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece

Paris an VII (1798) EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 182.00
11 BARTHELEMY Jean-Jacques, BOCAGE Barbie du (cartographe).

Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece

Paris 1788 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
12 BORY de SAINT-VINCENT, J. B. G. M.

Essais sur les isles fortunees et l'antique Atlantide, ou Precis de l'histoire generale de l'archipel des Canaries.

Paris an XI [1803]. EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 650.00
13 [Ferdinand de Lesseps, canal de Panama] - BULOW, baron A. V.

Karte dexs Isthmus von Nicaragua und Panama in mittel- America mit den verschiedenen Canal project en zur verbindung des atlantischen u Stillen oceans nach J. Bailly, und den besten quellen zusammmenges stellt von... [Esquisse de l'isthme entre le Nicarag

Stuttgart [Et Berlin verlag von Dunker au premier plat] 1851 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 325.00
14 CARNE, John.

Syria, The Holy Land and Asia Minor Illustrated. In a series of views, drawn from nature by W.H. Bartlett, William Purser and Thomas Allom,

London, Paris [vers 1842] EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 234.00
15 Charpenne, Pierre

Mon voyage au Mexique ou Le colon du Guazacoalco,

Paris 1836 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
16 Ciceri (Eug.)

Les Pyrenees dessinees d'apres Nature et lithographiees par E. CICERI.

Luchon s.d. (vers 1860/1870) EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
17 [Congo] - Daye, Pierre et alii.

Le Miroir du Congo Belge. Preface de MM. Jean. et Jerome Tharaud.

Bruxelles/ Paris 1929 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 247.00
18 [CONSTANTINOPLE]

Constantinople ancienne et moderne, comprenant aussi les sept eglises de l'Asie mineure. Illustres d'apres les dessins pris sur les lieux par Thomas Allom, Esq. Premiere -troisieme serie.

Paris et Londres s.d.(c.1840). EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 104.00
19 [Cook]-Kippis, Andrew. Castera, Jean-Henri, traducteur.

Vie du Capitaine Cook, Traduite de l'Anglois du Docteur Kippis, Membre de la Societe Royale de Londres, par M. Castera.

Paris : Rue des Poitevins 1789 EUR 70.00 - 120.00 EUR 286.00
20 Craven (Elisabeth Berkeley).

Voyage en Crimee et a Constantinople, en 1786.

Paris 1789 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 351.00
21 Genoude, Eugene.

Voyage dans la Vendee et dans le Midi de la France, suivi d'un voyage pittoresque dans quelques cantons de laSuisse. Seconde edition, revue, corrigee et augmentee.

Paris - Lyon 1821 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
22 Guinot(Eugene).

L'ete a Bade,illustre par MM. Tony Johannot, Eugene, Lami, Francais et Jaquemot.

Paris s.d. 1847. EUR 80.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
23 Isabelle (Arsene).

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) suivi de Considerations sur l'etat du commerce francais a l'exterieur et principalement au Bresil et au Rio-de-la-P

Le Havre 1835 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 195.00
24 KERGUELEN- TREMAREC, de.

Relation d'un voyage dans la mer du nord aux cotes d'Irlande, du Groenland, de Fero, de Schettland, des Orcades et de Norvege en 1767 et 1768.

Paris 1771 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
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