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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: Gary Gorton Crime Fiction Collection - Part 6 , 31625, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 16, 2025 - March 16, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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326 | Lawrence L. Lynch. | The Last Stroke. A Detective Story. |
London | 1896 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 190.50 |
327 | Henry Kitchell Webster | The Quartz Eye, A Mystery in Ultra Violet |
Indianapolis | 1928 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 |
328 | Frank L. Packard | The Red Ledger |
New York | 1926 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
329 | William Almon Wolff. | The Trial of Mary Dugan, from the play by Bayard Veiller, |
New York | 1928 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
330 | Asa Baker (Pseudonym of Davis Dress who also wrote as Brett Halliday) | The Kissed Corpse |
New York | 1939 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
331 | Francis Duncan. | Tigers Fight Alone |
London | 1938 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 139.70 |
332 | Alec Brown. | A Time to Kill |
London | 1930 | AUD 700.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
333 | Clement Wood | The Tabloid Murders |
New York | 1930 | AUD 800.00 - 900.00 | AUD 508.00 |
334 | Frank L. Packard | The White Moll |
New York | 1920 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 203.20 |
335 | Hilda Danvers Dearden | The Blonde Madonna: A Modern Spy Story |
London | 1934 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
336 | Annie Haynes | The Crime At Tattenham orner |
London | 1929 | AUD 700.00 - 800.00 | AUD 698.50 |
337 | G M Wilson. | Shot At Dawn |
London | 1964 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
338 | Robert Chapman. | The Downward Path |
London | 1959 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 |
339 | Mike McQuade 1961 | 1) Who's For Dying |
1961 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
340 | George Worthing Yates | The Body That Wasn't Uncle |
New York | 1939 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 139.70 |
341 | E. Phillips Oppenheim. | The Ex-Detective |
London | 1933 | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | AUD 165.10 |
342 | Charles Franklin | Exit Without Permit |
London | 1946 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
343 | Burton E. Stevenson | The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet |
USA | 1929 | AUD 190.00 - 200.00 | AUD 114.30 |
344 | Donald Bayne Hobart | The Clue of the Leather Noose |
Racine, Wisconsin | 1929 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 |
345 | George Goodchild | The Road To Marrakesh |
1931 | AUD 250.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
346 | John Newton Chance. | Twenty Five thrillers |
London | 1960 to the 1980s | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
347 | All very good copies in very good dustwrappers. All | Ten crime novels Published Macmillan in London in the Macmillan Crime Case Series. |
1889 -1992 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
348 | Lee Thayer | Murder Is Out |
1942 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | Not Sold | |
349 | George R. Preedy pseudonym of Gabrielle Long | Violante, Circe and the Ermine |
London | 1932 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | AUD 317.50 |
350 | Ian Fleming. | Casino Royale |
New York | 1954 | AUD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00 | Not Sold |