• 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€
  • 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.

Bonhams: Fine Japanese and Korean Art, including the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection of Japanese Art, 30801, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 128 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
552 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Two Oban Tate-e Horizontal Woodblock Print Diptychs

dated 1885/6 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,536.00
553 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e vertical woodblock print diptych titled Taira Koremochi Togakushiyama kijo taiji no zu (Taira Koremochi Vanquishes a Female Demon at Togakushi Mountain)

dated 1887 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,840.00
554 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e joined vertical woodblock print diptych titled Kintaro rigyo o toru (Kintaro Captures the Carp)

circa 1885 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,480.00
555 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Three Oban Tate-e Horizontal Woodblock Print Diptychs

dated 1885/7 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,536.00
556 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e vertical woodblock print diptych titled Seigen daraku no zu (The Depravity of Seigen), the bottom sheet signed Yoshitoshi and sealed Yoshitoshi, dated Meiji nijuninen and published by Matsui Eikichi

dated 1889 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,664.00
557 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Two Oban Tate-e Woodblock Print Triptychs

19th century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 4,864.00
558 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e joined vertical woodblock print diptych titled Mongaku aragyo no zu (Picture of the Penance of Mongaku)

dated 1885 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,920.00
559 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e joined vertical woodblock print diptych titled Shunkan sozu Kikaigashima ni oite Tamatama Yasuyori no shamen ni ai kito o senbosu no zu (Shunkan Watches Enviously from Kikai Island as Yasuyori Is Unexpectedly Pardoned and Returns to the Cap

circa 1886 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
560 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

13 Chuban Yoko-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,176.00
561 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

13 Chuban Yoko-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,432.00
562 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

An oban tate-e joined vertical woodblock print diptych titled Mongaku aragyo no zu (Picture of the Penance of Mongaku)

circa 1885 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
563 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Two Oban Tate-e Woodblock Print Triptychs

dated 1868/1886 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,200.00
564 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Five Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Mitate Tai Zukushi (Collection of Desires)

dated 1878 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,792.00
565 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Ten Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Fuzoku Sanjuniso (32 Aspects of Customs and Manners)

dated 1888 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,200.00
566 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Five Oban Tate-e Woodblock Print Triptychs

19th century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 8,960.00
567 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Six Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Shinkei Sanjurokkaisen (New Forms of 36 Ghosts)

dated 1889-1892 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,792.00
568 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Three Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Kaidai Hyakusen So (100 Types Selected by Yoshitoshi)

dated 1868 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,200.00
569 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Four Oban Tate-e Woodblock Print Triptychs

19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
570 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Including all 36 oban tate-e woodblock prints from the series, together with a single-sheet table of contents, the series focused on various legendary figures from history and literature containing a supernatural element, each sheet variously signed Yoshi

dated 1889-1892 USD 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 28,160.00
571 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

All titled after the figures portrayed in the prints, the first Kaizoku Gonzo (Gonzo the Pirate), the second Ito Yosota, the third Wakashima Gon'emon, the fourth Kotegara Hanji, the fifth Kimura Matazo, all signed Ikkaisai Yoshitoshi hitsu, the first thre

circa 1867-8 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 7,680.00
572 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Four Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints of Actors

19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
573 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Eight Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
574 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Seven Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
575 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

12 Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,408.00
576 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

15 Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints

19th century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 7,680.00
  • 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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