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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, 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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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli: 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: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
Forum Auctions: The Library of Barry Humphries, 1172, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 26, 2025 - March 26, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thicknesse (Philip) | Useful Hints to those who make the Tour of France... |
1768 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 819.00 | |
| 2 | [Beckford (William)] | Biographical Memoirs of Extraordinary Painters |
1780 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 3 | [Beckford (William)] | [Vathek] An Arabian Tale |
1786 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 | |
| 4 | [Beckford (William)] | [Vathek] An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory... |
1786 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 5 | [Beckford (William)] | Vathek, Conte Arabe |
Paris | 1787 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 |
| 6 | [Beckford (William)] | Vathek |
1823 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 8,190.00 | |
| 7 | Beckford (William) | Modern Novel Writing, or the Elegant Enthusiast... |
1796 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 5,292.00 | |
| 8 | Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks | [Beckford (William)] Azemia: A Descriptive Novel... |
Sampson Low | 1797 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 |
| 9 | [Beckford (William)] | The Story of Al Raoui, a Tale from the Arabic |
London & Leipzig | 1799 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,008.00 |
| 10 | Beckford (William) | Italy; with Sketches of Spain and Portugal |
1834 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,638.00 | |
| 11 | Irving (David) | Beckford (William).- Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan |
Edinburgh | 1807 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 |
| 12 | Dalrymple (Sir David, Lord Hailes) | Beckford (William).- An Inquiry into the Secondary Causes which Gibbon has assigned for the Rapid Growth of Christianity |
Edinburgh | 1808 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 |
| 13 | [Alison (Sir Archibald) & others] | Beckford (William).- Travels in France, during the years 1814-15 |
1815 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,520.00 | |
| 14 | Sheppard (John) | Beckford (William).- Letters, descriptive of a Tour through some parts of France, Italy, Switzerland, and Germany, in 1816 |
Edinburgh | 1817 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 6,930.00 |
| 15 | Rogers (Samuel) | Beckford (William).- Human Life, a Poem |
1820 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 | |
| 16 | Rutter (John) | Beckford (William).- Delineations of Fonthill and its Abbey |
Shaftesbury | 1823 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 17 | Beckford (William) | [Sale Catalogue] The Valuable Library of Books in Fonthill Abbey... |
Phillips | 1823 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 |
| 18 | Beckford (William) | Hamilton Palace Collection |
1882 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Not Sold | |
| 19 | [Lansdown (Henry Venn)] | Beckford (William).- Recollections of the late William Beckford, of Fonthill, Wilts |
[Bath] | 1893 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 945.00 |
| 20 | [Radcliffe (Ann)] | A Sicilian Romance by the authoress of The Castles of Athlin and Dunbayne |
1790 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 | |
| 21 | [Radcliffe (Ann)] | The Romance Of The Forest: Interspersed With Some Pieces Of Poetry |
1791 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,772.00 | |
| 22 | Lewis (Matthew Gregory) | The Monk: a Romance |
1797 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 23 | Lewis (Matthew Gregory) | Romantic Tales |
1808 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,386.00 | |
| 24 | [Maturin (Charles Robert)], "Dennis Jasper Murphy" | Fatal Revenge... |
1807 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 4,410.00 | |
| 25 | [Utterson (Sarah Elizabeth, editor and translator)] | Tales of the Dead |
1813 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
