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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.
Sothebys: Marc Chagall, Symphony of Dreams. Works from the Artist's Estate, pf2575, Paris
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 09, 2025 - April 09, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | After Marc Chagall | La flute enchantee |
1967 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 27,940.00 | |
2 | Marc Chagall | Paris |
1965 | EUR 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 | EUR 50,800.00 | |
3 | Marc Chagall - Louis Aragon | Celui qui dit les choses sans rien dire. 1976. 25 original color etchings and aquatints. Limitation of 225 copies on Rives vellum. |
Paris, | 1976 | EUR 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | EUR 12,065.00 |
4 | Marc Chagall | Le magicien de Paris II |
1970 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 | |
5 | Marc Chagall | Plate 13, from Arabian Nights |
1948 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | Not Sold | |
6 | Marc Chagall | Plate 11, from Arabian Nights |
1948 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 10,795.00 | |
7 | After Marc Chagall | Aleko |
EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 17,780.00 | ||
8 | Marc Chagall | Frontispiece; and Hommage a Elsa Triolet (Two works) |
1969-72 | EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | EUR 6,350.00 | |
9 | Marc Chagall | L'Arc-en-ciel |
1969 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 13,970.00 | |
10 | Marc Chagall | L' Accordeoniste |
1957 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 11,430.00 | |
11 | Marc Chagall | Der Spaziergang. I, de Mein Leben (The Walk, from My Life) |
1922 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | EUR 6,350.00 | |
12 | Marc Chagall | Das Geschenk (The Gift), from Marc Chagall |
EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 4,064.00 | ||
13 | Marc Chagall - Nicolas Gogol | Les Ames mortes. 1948. 118 original etchings. One of the 50 first copies with a suite on Japan nacre. |
Paris, | 1948 | EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | EUR 38,100.00 |
14 | Marc Chagall - Jean Paulhan | De mauvais sujets. 1958. 10 originals and color etchings. Limited edition at 153 copies. |
Paris, | 1958 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 5,715.00 |
15 | After Marc Chagall | Couleur Amour. 1958. 13 watercolors, gouaches, washes, reproduced by Jacomet. One of the 20 privately printed copies. |
Paris, | 1958 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 8,890.00 |
16 | Marc Chagall - Longus | Daphnis et Chloe. 1961. 42 original lithographs in color. Limited edition of 270 copies on Arches vellum. One of Chagall's masterpieces. |
Paris, | 1961 | EUR 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | EUR 114,300.00 |
17 | Marc Chagall - Homere | L'Odyssee. 1975. 82 original lithographs. Limited publication of 270 copies on Arches vellum. |
Paris, | 1974-1975. | EUR 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | EUR 50,800.00 |
18 | Marc Chagall | La charrette |
1965 | EUR 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | EUR 53,340.00 | |
19 | Marc Chagall | Le couple |
1963 | EUR 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | Not Sold | |
20 | Marc Chagall | Die Grossvater, from Mein Leben (The Grandfathers, from My Life) |
1922-23 | EUR 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | EUR 5,715.00 | |
21 | Marc Chagall | Mein Leben (My Life) (16 Works) |
1922 | EUR 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | EUR 30,480.00 | |
22 | Marc Chagall | Six Lithographs |
1922-25 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 7,620.00 | |
23 | Marc Chagall | Die Sieben Todsunden (The Seven Deadly Sins) (Nine Works) |
1925 | EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | EUR 10,160.00 | |
24 | Marc Chagall | Die Sieben Todsunden (The Seven Deadly Sins) (Eight Works) |
1925 | EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold | |
25 | Marc Chagall | A Collection of Etchings |
1943-44 | EUR 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold |