• 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€

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
487 Du Choul Guillaume

Du Choul Guillaume, Discorso del S. Guglielmo [...] sopra la castrametatione & bagni antichi de i Greci & Romani... [Padova]: appresso Marc'Antonio Olmo, 1559.

Padova 1559 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 202.00
488 Duhamel du Monceau Henri Louis

Duhamel du Monceau Henri Louis, Del governo dei boschi [...] arricchita di Rami, ed ora tradotta in italiano dall'Abate Giulio Perini [...]. Parte prima (-seconda). In Venezia: per Giambattista Pasquali, 1772.

Venezia 1772 EUR 280.00 - 280.00 EUR 350.00
489 Duhamel du Monceau Henri Louis

Duhamel du Monceau Henri Louis, La fisica degli alberi in cui si tratta dell'anatomia delle piante e dell'economia vegetabile [...]. Parte prima (-seconda). In Venezia: Nella Stamperia di Carlo Palese, 1774.

Venezia 1774 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 252.00
490 Emesenus Heliodorus

Emesenus Heliodorus, Historia delle cose ethiopiche... In Vinegia: appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1556.

Venezia 1556 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 428.00
491 Epictetus

Epictetus, Epicteti Enchiridium, una cum cebetis thebani tabula... Lugduni-Batav. & Amstelod.: ex officina Danielis, Abrahami & Adriani a Gaasbeek, 1670. Al colophon: [ex typographia Gaasbequiana, 1670].

Leiden 1670 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 Not Sold
492 Epicuro Marcantonio

Epicuro Marcantonio, Cecaria (...) novamente aggiuntovi un bellissimo lamento del Geloso... (Al colophon:) In Venetia: per Vittor de Ravanni & compagni, 1535.

Venezia 1535 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 328.00
493 Estienne Henri

Estienne Henri, Introduction au Traite de la Conformite des Merveilles Anciennes avec les Modernes... L'an 1566 au mois de Novembre.

Geneve 1566 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 454.00
494 Fabi Evangelista

Fabi Evangelista, Statuta Nobilis Artis Agriculturae Urbis... Romae: apud Georgium Ferrarium, 1595.

Roma 1595 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 227.00
495 Fabroni Angelo

Fabroni Angelo, Elogj di Dante Alighieri, di Angelo Poliziano, di Lodovico Ariosto, e di Torquato Tasso. Parma: dalla Stamperia reale, 1800.

Parma 1800 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 277.00
496 Falaschi Vittore

Falaschi Vittore, La gerarchia ecclesiastica e la famiglia pontificia. Macerata: presso Benedetto di Antonio Cortesi, 1828.

Macerata 1828 EUR 380.00 - 380.00 EUR 554.00
497 Felibien Andre

Felibien Andre, Description de l'Arc de La Place Dauphine presentee a Son Eminence... Paris: Chez Le Petit Pierre, 1660.

Paris 1660 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,071.00
498 Fernandez de Navarrete Domingo

Fernandez de Navarrete Domingo, Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos y religiosos de la monarchia de China [...] Anadense los decretos pontificios, y propositiones calificadas en Roma para la mission chinica... En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real por Iuan G

Madrid 1676 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,394.00
499 Ferrario Giulio

Ferrario Giulio, Prosa e rime del baron de' Ferrari di Vicenza ciambellano di sua maesta Federico il Grande Re di Prussia... Vicenza, nella Stamperia Turra, 1780.

Vicenza 1780 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 126.00
500 Ferraro Pirro Antonio

Ferraro Pirro Antonio, Cavallo frenato... In Venetia: appresso Francesco Prati, 1620.

Venezia 1620 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 239.00
501 Filelfo Francesco

Filelfo Francesco, Epistolae breviores, et elegantiores, atque adolescentibus magis conducentes, ex toto originario exemplari iam denuo transumptae... Veneiis: apud Cominum de Tridino Montisferrati, 1564.

Venezia 1564 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
502 Fiocchi Andrea Domenico

Fiocchi Andrea Domenico, De magistratibus sacerdotiisque Romanorum libellus, iam primum nitori restitutus. Al colophon: (Venetiis: Malchio Sessam, 1535).

Venezia 1535 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 176.00
503 Fontana Fulvio

Fontana Fulvio, L'origine della sacra milizia di Santo Stefano papa, e martire con la serie delle AA. RR. de suoi Gran Maestri, e delle imprese piu segnalate de suoi cavalieri. In Parma: per il Monti, 1718.

Parma 1718 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 428.00
504 Fonticolano Biagio Pico

Fonticolano Biagio Pico, Regula grammaticae speculativae excellentissimi artium & medicinae... Al colophon: (Venetijs: sumptu & requisitione domini Melchioris Sessae, 1539 mense Aprilis).

Venezia 1539 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 227.00
505 Fortunio Giovanni Francesco

Fortunio Giovanni Francesco, Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua. In Vinegia: [Melchiorre Sessa il vecchio, circa 1550].

Venezia 1550 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 756.00
506 Foscolo Ugo

Foscolo Ugo, Tieste tragedia inedita. In Venezia: [s. n.], 1797.

Venezia 1797 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 504.00
507 Foscolo Ugo

Foscolo Ugo, La chioma di Berenice poema di Callimaco tradotto da Valerio Catullo volgarizzato ed illustrato da Ugo Foscolo. Milano: dal Genio Tipografico, 1803.

Milano 1803 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,284.00
508 Fracastoro Girolamo

Fracastoro Girolamo, Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. Veronae, [Niccolini da Sabio], 1530, mese Augusto.

Verona 1530 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
509 Fracastoro Girolamo

Fracastoro Girolamo, Hieronymi Fracastorii Veronensis Opera omnia... Venetiis: apud Iuntas, 1574.

Venezia 1574 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 428.00
510 Frezza Fabio

Frezza Fabio, Massime, regole, et precetti di Stato, & di guerra... In Napoli: per Tarquinio Longo. Ad istanza di Giovanne Ruardo, 1616.

Napoli 1616 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 454.00
  • 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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