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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.
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
Sydney Rare Book Auctions: First Editions, Illustrated Books, Voyages & Exploration, A145, Ultimo
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 29, 2025 - March 29, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 226 | B.S. Johnson. | The Unfortunates |
1969 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
| 227 | SCOTT, Robert F. | Scott's Last Expedition. Vol. I Being the Journals of Captain Robert R.F. Scott, R.N. Vol. II being the Reports of the Journeys and the Scientific Work undertaken |
London | 1913 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,250.00 | Not Sold |
| 228 | Agatha Christie | Ten Little N...... |
London | 1939 | AUD 800.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 508.00 |
| 229 | Pierre Andrieu. | Fine Bouche: A History of the Restaurant in France |
1956 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 230 | GADDIS, William. | The Recognitions. |
New York | 1955 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 231 | Gerald Murnane. | Landscape with Landscape. |
Melbourne | 1985 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 232 | Gerald Murnane. | A Lifetime on Clouds. |
Melbourne | 1976 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 |
| 233 | Gerald Murnane. | The Plains. |
Melbourne | 1982 | AUD 400.00 - 500.00 | AUD 254.00 |
| 234 | Joseph McElroy. | Women and Men |
1993 | AUD 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 235 | Shirley Hazzard. | Transit of Venus. |
New York | 1980 | AUD 500.00 - 750.00 | Not Sold |
| 236 | Patrick O'Brian. | Letter of Marque |
London | 1988 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 |
| 237 | LEVI, Primo. | If this is a man. Translated from the Italian by Stuart Woolf. |
New York | 1958 | AUD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | Not Sold |
| 239 | AA.VV. | 1) Ancient Chinese Pottery. Earthenware and Funerary pottery in the National Museum of History. |
Taipei | 1977 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 240 | A photograph album with 148 original colour photographs of race horses in action in South Australia from 1940 to 1946. |
AUD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 241 | Attested Copies dated 10th October 1814 Wm Gore Esqre P M (Stands for Provost Marshall) to Mr Joseph Underwood. |
AUD 750.00 - 1,000.00 | AUD 476.25 | |||
| 242 | Daisy Bates | About 20 articles by Daisy Bates from the Newspaper The Sun |
Sydney | 1936 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 317.50 |
| 243 | Edith Cowan to Ion Idriess | A one page handwritten letter, in ink from Edith Cowan to Ion Idriess. Dated 2 September 1933. |
1933 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | |
| 244 | Two Issues of The Derby Bird Club Magazine . Both April-May 1934. |
1934 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 245 | Ion Idriess and W(alter) Cousins. | A collection of approximately 50 Telegrams between Ion Idriess and W(alter) Cousins. 1933, 1934 and 1935 |
1933, 1934 and 1935 | AUD 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 246 | Five typed pages titled 'Charoo' This is a typescript of a talk given by Idriess on the Radio. |
AUD 750.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 247 | The Endeavour Journal of Joseph Banks 1768-1771. Edited by JC Beaglehole. |
Sydney: | 1962 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
| 248 | Edited by Malcolm Sainty and Keith A. Johnson | Census of New South Wales. November 1828 |
Sydney | 1980 | AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | AUD 88.90 |
| 249 | Ion Idriess | Original Ion Idriess manuscript material. 143 pages handwritten in pencil |
AUD 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 250 | Eight lovely children's books: |
1965 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 251 | STEPHENS, James. | The Crock of Gold. |
London | 1926 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
