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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€ -
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic 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.
Sydney Rare Book Auctions: Antiquarian books; the History of Science; First Editions & Associated copies, 22725, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 27, 2025 - February 27, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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233 | REES, Lloyd. | The Small Treasures of a Lifetime. Some early memories of Australian art and artists. |
Sydney | 1969 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 114.30 |
234 | LENNON, John. | A Spaniard in the Works. |
London | 1965 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 139.70 |
235 | URE SMITH, Sydney & GELLERT, Leon. | Australia Beautiful "The Home" Easter Pictorial 1929. |
Sydney | 1929 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
236 | [McINNES, W. Beckwith] COLQUHOUN, Alexander. | The Work of W. Beckwith McInnes. |
Melbourne | circa 1920. | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
237 | Thirty books on Australian nineteenth-century art. |
AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |||
238 | MICHELL, Keith. | Shakespeare's Sonnets. Foreword by Sir Robert Helpmann. |
Melbourne | 1979 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
239 | SMITH, Julian. | Fifty Masterpieces of Photography. |
Melbourne | 1949 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 |
240 | Ten books on indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceanic cultures: MEAD, Sidney M. Exploring the Visual Art of Oceania: Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. University of Hawaii Press, 1986. |
AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
241 | COOPER, Nelle Grant. | Australians All. Land and Sea Folk in Rhyme. |
Sydney and London | 1939 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
242 | [RACKHAM, Arthur]. BARRIE, J.M. | Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. |
London | 1957 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 76.20 |
243 | STEPHENS, James. | The Crock of Gold. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. |
London | 1926 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
244 | HARROWSMITH, Gwen. | Hoppitty's House. |
Sydney | 1943 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
245 | Eight lovely children's books: WESTON, Edward. Edward Weston Photographer. The Flame of Recognition. |
1923 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
246 | Margaret Mitchell. | Gone With the Wind |
1936 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold | |
247 | PASS, Crispin van de. | Hortus Floridus; The First Book, Contayninge a very lively and true Description of the Flowers of Springe. |
London | 1928 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 |
248 | WESTON, Edward. Edited by Nancy Newhall. | Edward Weston Photographer. The Flame of Recognition. His Photographs accompanied by excerpts from Daybooks & Letters. |
New York | 1965 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
249 | Eleven books of antiquarian Australian poetry |
1877 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | ||
250 | Five books on Australian history |
1892 | AUD 75.00 - 100.00 | AUD 38.10 | ||
251 | Twenty three out of 25 issues from the Australian Children's Pictorial Social Studies, |
1958 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 | ||
252 | C J Dennis with Illustrations by Hal Gye. | The Glugs of Gosh |
Sydney | 1917 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
253 | Henry Lawson. | Popular Verses |
Sydney | 1900 [1906] | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
254 | Henry Lawson. | Song of The Dardanelles |
London | 1916 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
255 | General Sir Hubert Gough. | Unit History The Fifth Army |
London | 1931 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
256 | Hotel, Guest House and Tourist Guide to NSW 1932. |
Sydney | 1932 | AUD 220.00 - 320.00 | AUD 139.70 | |
257 | Four Sydney Items. 1) Gregory's 100 miles 'Round Sydney. Motorist Guide. Paperback. Worn extremities and water damaged. 2) 36 view Sydney: Descriptive and Illustrative |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 88.90 |