• 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€
  • 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts, 21625a, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
February 16, 2025 - February 16, 2025
Page Size: 50 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93520381 Nakahama Manjiro Zhong Bang Mo Ci Lang

Reise mit dem Kriegsschiff "Kanrin Maru" als Mitglied der japanischen Gesandtschaft, Marineschule

1860/1870 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 7.63
93520937 Priester

Miseso

1980 Not Available EUR 134.07
93522977 Mgr Frayssinous Ministre des affaires ecclesiastiques et de l'instruction publique.

Diplome de Bachelier Es Sciences

1827 EUR 150.00 - 300.00 EUR 27.25
93523214 [Revolution Francaise - Terreur] Comite Revolutionnaire Commune.Affranchie (Lyon)

Certificat d'allaitement signe pour l'epouse du Citoyen Hallard

1794 EUR 180.00 - 210.00 EUR 124.26
93531552 Doge Marcantonio Giustiniani, nuova nobilta veneta

Raccolta suppliche per aggregazione alla nobilta veneziana per l anno 1684, 10 febbraio

1684 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 1,308.00
93536081 Cinq grands savants arabes 1800

Differents sujets des sciences islamique anciennes

1821 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 EUR 523.20
93542150 Louis XV [secretaire]

brevet signe, contresigne par Choiseul et par Louis de Bourbon

1765 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 122.08
93542537 Felix Bayminy archidiacre de la Cathedrale de de Riez en Provence

Certificat manuscrit signe du bapteme de Vincent Cheylan

1694 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 54.50
93545518 (French Atelier)

Manuscript; "Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century

1400 Not Available EUR 119.90
93545562 (French Atelier)

Manuscript; "Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century

1400 Not Available EUR 75.21
93545600 (French Atelier)

Manuscript; "Amazing Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century

1400 Not Available EUR 69.76
93553963 Le chevalier de Bellerive

Etat des Papiers qui se sont trouves dans les deux coffres ... Manuscrit

1787 Not Available EUR 11.99
93564371 Ibn Sina, Canon Medicinae - lqnwn fy lTb

Materia Medica, Medizin-Handschriften, Drogen, Safte, Lehre, Pathologie, Anatomie, al-Andalus

1450/1420 EUR 425.00 - 800.00 EUR 414.20
93564974 Bible-Aaron ben Moshe ben Asher, Scripture Scholar

Progenitors of Israel- Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, Victim laws, Egypt, Deer Skin

1350/1370 EUR 160.00 - 350.00 EUR 179.85
93565326 Abd ar-Rahman 'bd lrHmn ldkhil Emirate of Cordoba, Scholar

Quran Manuscript with beautiful golden medallions, Cordoba, al-Andalus Spain

1620/1650 EUR 220.00 - 270.00 EUR 9.81
93565563 Seldschuken sljwqyn , Khan Alp Arslan, Wesir Nezam al-Molk

Koran Handschrift, Oghusischer Stamm der Kinik, Kreuzzuge, Konya Sultanat, 13.Jhd

1250/1280 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 61.04
93565806 Samurai-Familien der Minamoto & Taira, Kriegs-Adel-Signaturen

Handschrift Taktik & Kriegsfuhrung Kublai Khan, Gempei-Krieg 1180-1185, 3 Schlacht-Plane

1650/1680 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 45.78
93566212 Wu Jia Minamoto-Krieger, Sanada-Clan mit Siegel

2 Chroniken, Schwert-Adel-Buke, Taira-Prinzen & Nachfahren der kaiserlichen Dynastie, Lehensfurst

1420/1450 EUR 160.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
93566496 Shu Dao -shodo, bedeutende japanische Kunstler & Gelehrte

Schreibmeister-Buch - 330 cm lang, Riesige Japanische Kalligraphie, Prafektur Osaka-Sakai-shi

1450/1480 EUR 170.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
93566747 Fu Gang Tie Zhai Shuseki

Japanese original hand drawn and handwritten book with paintings/illustrator's signature, Gouache

1930/1920 EUR 350.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
93568165 Silvestro Valier (Venezia, 28 marzo 1630 -- Venezia, 7 luglio 1700) Doge Cancelleria Palazzo ducale

Milizie 10 fanti armati e 9 cavalieri alla fortezza di Palmanova

1695 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
93572581 Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Komplette Fursten-Ausgabe der Samurai-Chroniken

Schwert-Adel, Bushido-Ehrencodex, Lehensfurst, Ninja, Samurai & Daimyo, Handschriftliche Chronik

1780/1750 EUR 400.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
93572980 Makoto Azuma, Junichi Kakizaki, Shogo Kariyazaki

Handkolorierte Geisha-Handschriften, Ikebana-Schule & Kloster: Ikenobo Ohara, Siegel Wappen, Honshu

1910/1930 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 21.80
93575630 Onbekend

Fragment van Griekse brief op Papyrus 6e - 7e eeuw

600 EUR 210.00 - 250.00 EUR 347.71
93593341 Lyon King of Arms of Scotland

Coat of Arms of James Haldane

1878 EUR 350.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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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