• 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
577 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892) AND TOMIOKA EISEN (1864-1905)

Nine Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints of Beauties

19th/early 20th century USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,280.00
578 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Nine Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

circa 1885-92 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 12,800.00
579 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

12 Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

circa 1885-92 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,400.00
580 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

11 Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

circa 1885-92 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,800.00
581 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

11 Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon)

circa 1885-1892 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 14,080.00
582 TSUKIOKA YOSHITOSHI (1839-1892)

Eight Oban Tate-e Woodblock Prints from the Series Tsuki Hyakushi (One Hundred Aspects of the Moon) with Table of Contents, Portrait of Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, and Album Covers

circa 1885-92 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,240.00
583 YAMAMURA KOKA (TOYONARI, 1885-1942)

A dai oban tate-e of the actor Ichikawa Ennosuke II in the role of Hayami no Tota

1921 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
584 CHARLES W. BARTLETT (1860-1940)

An oban yoko-e print titled Surf Riders, Honolulu, sealed CWB and signed in red pencil in the lower margin Charles W. Bartlett, published by Watanabe Shozaburo

circa 1921 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 28,160.00
585 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

Two oban tate-e prints from the series Tabi miyage dai sanshu (Souvenirs of Travel III), the first titled Osaka Takatsu (View from Takatsu in Osaka)

1924 and 1928 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,200.00
586 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Hoshizukiyo (Miyajima) (Starlit Night at Miyajima), from the series Tabi miyage dai sanshu (Souvenirs of Travel III)

1928 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,584.00
587 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Akita Tsuchizaki (Tsuchizaki in Akita Prefecture), from the series Tabi miyage dai sanshu (Souvenirs of Travel III)

1928 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,816.00
588 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

The first an oban tate-e print titled Sanshu Zentsuji (Zentsuji Temple in Shikoku), from the series Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen (Collected Views of Japan II, Kansai Edition), the second an oban yoko-e print titled Shinobazu no ike no ame (Shinobazu Pond

1933 and 1929 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
589 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Fukuoka nishi koen (West Park in Fukuoka), from the series Tabi miyage dai sanshu (Souvenirs of Travel III)

1928 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 10,880.00
590 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Omiya, Hikawa koen (Hikawa Park at Omiya)

1930 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,584.00
591 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Ueno Kiyomizu-do no yuki (Snow at Kiyomizu Hall, Ueno)

1929 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 10,240.00
592 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

Two oban tate-e prints, the first titled Nikko kaido (The Road to Nikko)

1930 and 1931 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,200.00
593 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

Two oban tate-e prints, each signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, the first titled Kobe Nagata jinja Yakumobashi (Yakumo Bridge at Nagata Shrine in Kobe), from the series Nihon fukei shu II Kansai hen (Collected Views of Japan

1930 and 1931 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,792.00
594 KAWASE HASUI (1881-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Shato no yuki, Hie jinja (Snow at Hie Shrine)

1931 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,200.00
595 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1973)

Two oban tate-e prints, the first titled Shinagawa

1931 and 1947 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,816.00
596 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Fuji no yukibare (Tagonoura) (Clearing After a Snowfall at Mount Fuji, Taganoura)

1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,816.00
597 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print titled Yuki no Mukojima (Snow at Mukojima)

1931 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,816.00
598 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e titled Harusame (Gokokuji) (Spring Rain at Gokoku Temple)

1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,920.00
599 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

Two Woodblock Prints. The first, an oban tate-e print titled Nezu Gongen no yuki (Snow at the Nezu Gongen Shrine in Tokyo)

1933 and 1935 USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,536.00
600 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

An oban tate-e print Fuji no yukibare (Clearing after a Snowfall on Mount Fuji, Tagonoura), singed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Doi Sadakazu

1932 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,584.00
601 KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957)

Two oban tate-e prints, each signed Hasui and sealed Kawase, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, the first titled Ikegami Honmonji (Honmon Temple in Ikegami)

1931 and 1940 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
  • 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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