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    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
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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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    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€
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
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    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€
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    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 AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    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
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    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
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    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 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 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 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.

Old World Auctions: Antique Maps, Charts, Atlases, Engravings, Manuscripts & Books, 31225, Richmond

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025
Page Size: 363 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Augustino Torniello

Situs Partium Praecipuarum Totius Orbis Terrarum, from Annales Sacri et Profani....

1609 (published). USD 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 Not Sold
2 Willem Blaeu

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica ac Hydrographica Tabula, from Toonneel des Aerdrycks.

1635 (published). USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
3 Jean Boisseau

Typus Orbis Terrarum Description de la Terre Universelle.

1660 (circa). USD 550.00 - 700.00 USD 420.00
4 George Anson

Mappa che Dimostra il Giro del Centurione Intorno al Mondo, from Viaggio Attorno al Mondo.

1756 (published). USD 275.00 - 350.00 USD 240.00
5 Louis Brion de la Tour

[Lot of 2] Hemisphere Occidental [and] Hemisphere Oriental, from Atlas General et Elementaire.

1778 (circa). USD 240.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
6 Brouckner/Remondini

Carte Generale du Globe Terrestre Construite sur les Dernieres Observations des Geographes..., from Traite de la Geographie Moderne.

1785 (circa). USD 350.00 - 425.00 Not Sold
7 Rev. John Malham

A General Chart of the World on Mercator's Projection, Exhibiting All the New Discoveries, and the Tracks of the Different Circum-Navigators, from Naval Gazetteer.

1795 (dated). USD 350.00 - 425.00 Not Sold
8 Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

Mappe-Monde ou Carte Generale de Toutes les Parties du Globe, Corrigee et Augmentee des Decouvertes du Cap. Cook, de Celles de la Perouse en 1801, de Vancouver, de Mackensie en 1802....

1804 (dated). USD 140.00 - 170.00 USD 90.00
9 Jan Jansson

Nova et Accurata Poli Arctici et Terrarum Circum Iacentium Descriptio, from Nieuwen Atlas.

1657 (published). USD 750.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
10 Moses Pitt

A Map of the North-Pole and the Parts Adioning, from The English Atlas.

1680 (dated). USD 2,400.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
11 Doppelmayr/Homann

Hemisphaerium Coeli Australe, in quo Loca Stellarum Fixarum Secundum Aequatorem, per Ascensiones Nempe Rectas et Declinationes ad Anum Christi 1730..., from Atlas Coelestis.

1742 (published). USD 750.00 - 900.00 USD 900.00
12 Doppelmayr/Homann

Systema Mundi Tychonicum Secundum Celeberrimorum Astronomorum Tychonis de Brahe et Io. Baptistae Riccioli..., from Atlas Coelestis.

1742 (circa). USD 475.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
13 Timothy Edward Downs

Road Map to the World Wide Web - The World Wide Web Business and Beyond.

1995 (published). USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
14 Abraham Ortelius

Americae sive Novi Orbis, Nova Descriptio, from Theatrum Orbis Terrarum.

1579 (published). USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD 4,800.00
15 Janvier/Santini

L'Amerique Divisee en ses Principaux Etats Assujettie aux Observations Astronomiqes.

1784 (circa). USD 400.00 - 475.00 Not Sold
16 Robert de Vaugondy/Delamarche

Amerique ou Indes Occidentales, avec les Nouvelles Decouvertes du Capite. Cook, Depuis le Detroit de Behrings ou du Nord, dans l'Ocean Pacifique du Nord et Sud.

1812 (dated). USD 300.00 - 375.00 Not Sold
17 Johannes Walch

[Amerique Septentrionale].

1790 (circa). USD 700.00 - 850.00 Not Sold
18 Rigobert Bonne

Amerique Septentrionale.

1790 (circa). USD 120.00 - 150.00 USD 240.00
19 Jean Baptiste Pierre Tardieu

Amerique Septentrionale, from Atlas Complet Du Precis De La Geographie Universelle....

1812 (circa). USD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
20 John Pinkerton

North America, from A Modern Atlas.

1812 (dated). USD 300.00 - 375.00 USD 264.00
21 Pablo Alabern

America Septentrional.

1830 (circa). USD 200.00 - 230.00 USD 144.00
22 Auguste-Henri Dufour

Carte Generale de l'Amerique du Nord et des Iles qui en Dependent.

1836 (dated). USD 180.00 - 220.00 Not Sold
23 Friedrich Wilhelm Streit

Nord-Amerika und West-Indien....

1841 (dated). USD 240.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
24 Johann Baptist Homann

Regni Mexicani seu Novae Hispaniae Ludovicianae, N. Angliae, Carolinae, Virginiae eet Pensylvaniae nec non Insularum Archipelagi Mexicani in America Septentrionali Accurata Tabula.

1720 (circa). USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00 USD 1,320.00
25 Veremondo Rossi

Carta Rappresentante una Parte dlla Baja d'Hudson, e le Region a Maestro dell' America Settentrle, from Il Gazzettiere Americano.

1763 (circa). USD 140.00 - 170.00 Not Sold
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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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