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    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
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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
  • 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.

Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts - Session 4, 58d, Firenze

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025
Page Size: 149 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
462 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, De oratore libri III... Venetiis: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1549.

Venezia 1549 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 126.00
463 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, Rhetoricorum ad Herennium libri quatuor... Venetiis: apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1554.

Venezia 1554 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 252.00
464 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quinctum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii. Venetiis: (Paolo Manuzio), 1558. (Al colophon:) Venetiis: apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi filium, 1559.

Friuli-Venezia Giulia 1558 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 403.00
465 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, Epistolarum Volumen primum... (Al colophon:) Argentorati: Excudebat Josias Rihelius, 1559.

Strasbourg 1559 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
466 Clavius Christophorus

Clavius Christophorus, In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius... Romae: Ex Officina Domenici Basae, 1581.

Roma 1581 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,008.00
467 Colombo Fernando

Colombo Fernando, Historie del Signor D. Fernando Colombo nelle quali s'ha particolare e vera relatione della vita e de' fatti dell'Ammiraglio d. Cristoforo Colombo [...] e dello scoprimento ch'egli fece dell'Indie Occidentali... Venetia: per il Prodocimo

Venezia 1709 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 Not Sold
468 Colonna Fabio

Colonna Fabio, Fabi Columnae Lyncei Phytobasanos cui accessit Vita Fabi et Lynceorum notitia... Florentiae: Aere, & Typis Petri Caietani Viviani, 1744.

Firenze 1744 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 504.00
469 Cook James

Cook James, [Voyage dans l'hemisphere austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseau Voyage dans l'hemisphere Austral, et autour du monde, fait sur les vaisseaux de roi, l'Aventure, & la Resolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775. Ecrit par Jacques Cook..

Paris 1778 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 378.00
470 Croce Giulio Cesare

Croce Giulio Cesare, Bertoldo con Bertoldino e Cacasenno in ottava rima aggiuntavi una traduzione in lingua bolognese con alcune annotazioni nel fine... Bologna: per Lelio dalla Volpe, 1740-1741.

Bologna 1740 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 277.00
471 Croce Giulio Cesare

Croce Giulio Cesare, Bertoldo con Bertoldino e Cacasenno in ottava rima aggiuntavi una traduzione in lingua bolognese con alcune annotazioni nel fine... Bologna: per Lelio dalla Volpe, 1740-1741.

Bologna 1740 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 252.00
472 Daignan Guillaume

Daignan Guillaume, Tableau des varietes de la vie humaine [...] Premiere partie [- seconde]. A Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1786.

Paris 1786 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 378.00
473 Darwin Charles

Darwin Charles, Insectivorous Plants. London: John Murray, 1875.

London 1875 EUR 80.00 - 80.00 EUR 625.00
474 Davini Giovanni Battista

Davini Giovanni Battista, De potu vini calidi dissertatio... Mutinae: Typis Antonii Capponi Impr. Ep., 1725.

Modena 1725 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 239.00
475 De Laet Johannes

De Laet Johannes, De imperio magni mogolis siue India vera commentarius. E varijs auctoribus congestus. Lugduni Batauorum: ex officina Elzeviriana, 1631.

Leiden 1631 EUR 60.00 - 60.00 EUR 150.00
476 Decker Paul

Decker Paul, Ausfuhrliche Anleitung zur Civil Baukunst... Nurnberg: Verlegt und zu finden bey Joh: Christoph Weigel, [c.a. 1720].

Nurnberg 1720 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 239.00
477 Della Casa Giovanni

Della Casa Giovanni, Rime, et prose... In Napoli: appresso Gio. Maria Scotto, 1560.

Napoli 1560 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 756.00
478 Della Casa Giovanni

Della Casa Giovanni, Opere. In Venezia: appresso Angiolo Pasinello, 1728.

Venezia 1728 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 227.00
479 Della Croce Giovanni Andrea

Della Croce Giovanni Andrea, Cirugia universale e perfetta di tutte le parti pertinenti all'ottimo chirurgo [...] Di nuovo con li dissegni di tutti gl'istromenti antichi & moderni in tal'arte necessarij, posta in luce... In Venetia: presso Giordano Zilett

Venezia 1583 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 756.00
480 Denon Dominique Vivant

Denon Dominique Vivant, Viaggio nel basso e alto Egitto illustrato dietro alle tracce e ai disegni del Sig. Denon. Firenze: Giuseppe Tofani, 1808.

Firenze 1808 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,260.00
481 Des Barres Bernard

Des Barres Bernard, Reglement des greffiers de Bourgongne et salaire d'iceux. Dijon: 1583.

Dijon 1583 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
482 Descartes Rene

Descartes Rene, Geometria, a Renato Des Cartes anno 1637 Gallice edita; nunc autem cum notis Florimondi de Beaune, ... in linguam Latinam versa, & commentariis illustrata, opera atque studio Francisci a Schooten, Leydensis... Lugduni Batavorum: ex officin

Leiden 1649 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 3,780.00
483 Desiderius Erasmus

Desiderius Erasmus, Desid. Erasmi Roterodami Colloquia nunc emendatiora. Amstelodami: apud Jodocum Jansonium, 1644.

Amsterdam 1644 EUR 80.00 - 80.00 EUR 189.00
484 Dione Cassius

Dione Cassius, Ton Dionos tou Kassiou tou kokkeianou Romaikon historion ta heuriskomena. Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae libri 46, partim integri, partim mutili, partim excerpti: Ioannis Leunclauii studio tam acti quam expoliti... Hanouiae: typi

Hannover 1606 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 239.00
485 Diophantus Alexandrinus

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex et De numeris multangulis liber unus... Tolosae: excudebat Bernardus Bosc, e regione Collegij Societatis Iesu, 1670.

Toulouse 1670 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
486 Doni Anton Francesco

Doni Anton Francesco, Pitture [...] Nelle quali si mostra di nuova inventione: amore, fortuna, tempo, castita, religione, sdegno, riforma, morte, sonno & sogno, huomo, republica, & magnanimita... In Padova: appresso Gratioso Perchacino, 1564.

Padova 1564 EUR 340.00 - 340.00 EUR 428.00
  • 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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