Aspire Art Auctions: No Reserve Online Auction, 13025, Illovo

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 30, 2025 - January 30, 2025

Page Size: 21 items in 1 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	William Kentridge	Two figures		1991	ZAR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00	ZAR 64,488.00
2	Robert Hodgins	W.m. Sikes Esq. of Little Saffron Hill 1999		1999	ZAR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	ZAR 7,035.00
3	Walter Whall Battiss	Pet Animal			ZAR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	ZAR 7,035.00
4	Peter Clarke	Melody		1965	ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	ZAR 15,242.00
5	Gregoire Boonzaier	Still life with Hibiscus		1979	ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	ZAR 3,048.00
10	Helmut Starcke	Abstract haystacks		1976	ZAR 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	ZAR 586.00
18	Colbert Mashile	Kopanong		2005	ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	ZAR 5,862.00
19	Guto Bussab	Corpus 7 (from the Corpus Urbanus series)		2005	ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	ZAR 2,110.00
20	Jurgen Schadeberg	Nelson Mandela Square		2000	ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	ZAR 3,986.00
21	George Hallett	Mandela first encounter		1994, printed 2004	ZAR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	ZAR 11,139.00
22	Tracey Moffatt	Up in the Sky #12		1997	ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	ZAR 5,394.00
23	Tracey Moffatt	Up in the Sky #3		1997	ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	ZAR 6,449.00
24	Tracey Moffatt	Up in the Sky #16		1997	ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	ZAR 16,415.00
25	Tracey Moffatt	Up in the Sky #5		1997	ZAR 60,000.00 - 80,000.00	ZAR 8,794.00
27	Omar Badsha	Portrait of a man			ZAR 7,000.00 - 10,000.00	ZAR 7,035.00
32	Sandile Goje	Ixesha Lokumala (time for the Bakhwetha food)		1996	ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	ZAR 762.00
33	Richard Penn	LXI		2012	ZAR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	ZAR 2,580.00
38	William Kentridge	Preparing the Flute, exhibition poster		2005	ZAR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	ZAR 9,380.00
40	Joubert, O. (ed).	10 Years 100 Buildings: Architecture in a Democratic South Africa (2009) edited by Prof 'Ora Joubert	Cape Town	2009	ZAR 800.00 - 1,200.00	ZAR 528.00
41	edited by Hilton Judin & Ivan Vladislavic	Architecture, Apartheid & After (1998)	Rotterdam	1998	ZAR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	ZAR 1,172.00
42	Varenka Paschke	April 1616			ZAR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	ZAR 3,752.00

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
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, 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 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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