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    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
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    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
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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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€
    Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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 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 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 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.

Jeschke Jadi Auctions Berlin GmbH: From aristocratic estates and bourgeois property Valuable Books, Prints and Classical Art Zoologia et Ethnologia Collection of Professor Dr. Manfred Niekisch, 155, Berlin

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 26, 2025 - April 26, 2025
Page Size: 1459 items in 59 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Johannes Jovianus (Giovanni) Pontanus

Johannes Jovianus (Giovanni) Pontanus. Amorum libri II. De amore coniugali libri III...

Venedig 1518 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
2 Julius Caesar Scaliger

Julius Caesar Scaliger. Commentarii, et animadversiones, in sex libros de causis plantarum Theophrasti.

Genf) 1566 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 204.72
3 Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca. Von Hulff und Rath in Allem anligen. Des hochweisen furtreflichen Francisci Petrarche zwei Trost bucher Von Artznei beydes des g?ten und widerwertigen Glucks.

Frankfurt 1551 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,838.50
4 Paolo Emili

Paolo Emili. De rebus gestis Francorum ...

Paris 1544 (1543). EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 959.63
5 (Jerome Commelin)

(Jerome Commelin). Rerum Britannicarum, id est Angliae, Scotiae, vicinarumque insularum ac regionum, sriptores vetustio res ac praecipui ...

Heidelberg 1587 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
6 Gentian Hervet

Gentian Hervet. Gentiani Herveti Aurelii De Domini in coelos Ascensione oratio.

Florenz 1552 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
7 Pirro Antonio Ferraro

Pirro Antonio Ferraro. Cavallo frenato ...

Napoli 1602 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
8 Aurelius Augustinus

Aurelius Augustinus. De moribus ecclesie catholicae.

o.O. (Koln um1480 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 8,316.75
9 Basilius Magnus

Basilius Magnus. De legendis libris gentilium.

Ulm 1478 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
10 Michael de Carcano

Michael de Carcano. Sermonarium de peccatis per adventum et per duas quadragesimas. Tl. 2 (v. 2).

Venedig 1476 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,070.80
11

Hore beate Marie Virginis ad Usum Parisiensem totaliter ad longum sine require.

Paris EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
12 Wilhelm Peraldus

Wilhelm Peraldus. Summa de virtutibus.

o.O. Basel nach 1475 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,316.75
13 Hartmann Schedel

Hartmann Schedel. Buch der Chronicken und gedechtnus wirdigern geschihte vo anbegyn u. werlt bis auf dise unssere zeit ...

Nurnberg 1493 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 21,111.75
14 Albertus Magnus

Albertus Magnus. De apprehensione.

Venedig 1504 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
15 Paulus Diaconus

Paulus Diaconus. Homiliarius doctorum qui omeliarius dici solet:

Lyon 1516 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
16 Bearb., Aristoteles u. Petrus Hispanus, Johannes Eck

Johannes Eck, Bearb., Aristoteles u. Petrus Hispanus. Joan. Eckii Theologi in summulas Petri Hispani extempo raria et succincta: et succosa explanatio per superioris Germaniae scholasticis. UND:

Augsburg 1516 bzw.1516 u. 1517 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 Not Sold
17

Ces p(re)sentes heures a lusaige de (Noyon) sont au long sans requerir.

o.O. Paris) um1504. EUR 6,500.00 - 6,500.00 EUR 6,397.50
18 Flavius Josephus

Flavius Josephus. Josephi Judei Historici pre clara opera no(n) parva accuratio(n)e et diligentia rece(n)ter i(m)pressa ...

Paris 1519 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
19 Epictetus

Epictetus. Epicteti Stoici philosophi enchiridion. Cum Angeli Politani interpretatione Latina.

Lyon 1600 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
20 Gregorius (Cyprianus G. Nazianus)

Gregorius (Cyprianus G. Nazianus). Orationes XXX, Bilibaldo. Pirckheimero interprete, nunc primum editae quarum catalogum, cum alijs quibusdam, post epistolam des Erasmi Rot(t)er(dam) uidebis. Beigebunden:

Basel u. Koln 1531 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,400.00 Not Sold
21 Lodovico, Dolce Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)

Lodovico, Dolce Horaz (Quintus Horatius Flaccus). La poetica d'Horatio tradotta per Messer Lodovico Dolce.

In Vinegia Venezia / Venedig o.J. EUR 2.50 - 2.50 Not Sold
22 Publius Ovidius Naso

Publius Ovidius Naso. Le Metamorfosi. Ridotte da Gio.(vanni) Andrea dall'Anguillara in ottava rima.

Venedig 1582 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
23 Antonio Cornazzano

Antonio Cornazzano. Cornazano de re militari novamente impresso.

Venedig 1515 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
24 Francesco Petrarca

Francesco Petrarca. I. Das Glucksbuch / Beydes dess Gutten vnn Bosen / darinn leere vnd trost / ...

Augsburg 1536 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
25 Guillermus Parisiensis

Guillermus Parisiensis. Postilla sive expositio epistolarum tam d(omi)nicalium q(uam) ferialium : necnon quattuor te(m)porum per discursu totius anni. 3 Tle. i. e. Bd.

(Lyon 1508 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 575.78
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    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
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    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
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    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
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    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, 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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