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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 306 | Winifred Atwell | Signed Winifred Atwell Photograph Black and white publicity photograph of the pianist Winifred Atwell |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 307 | Nellie Melba | Nellie Melba's signature on a sheet of paper |
AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | ||
| 308 | Gladys Moncrieff. | Black and white photograph of Gladys Moncrieff |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 309 | Peter H Lindsay. | Original pencil sketch of May Moore |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 310 | Falkiner Family - Australia's Sheep Farming History |
AUD 600.00 - 700.00 | AUD 381.00 | |||
| 311 | A collection of 26 Poetry books. Good condition. A mix of Russian, German and English Poetry. |
AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 312 | Over 35 issues of Arts of Asia from 2007-2012. |
2007-2012. | AUD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 313 | S T Gill. | The Australian Sketch-Book |
1974 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 314 | In the Vicinity of Moscow. From the History of Russian Manor Culture of the 17th to 19th Centuries. |
1979 | AUD 500.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 319 | 3 books about India Art. |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 320 | Lang Shining hua (Giuseppe Castiglione) | 1) Everlasting verdure of the immortal calyx: an album of flower studies |
1976 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
| 321 | Robert Hughes. | Amish - The Art of The Quilt |
1990 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 322 | Lawson. | 3 Aboriginal Art Catalogues by Lawson. |
2006, 2006 and 2007 | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 323 | 7 books about Architecture in Asia. Hardback and Paperback. |
AUD 200.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 324 | A lot of more than 20 books about European Art from Galleries and Museums. |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 325 | 8 books about Stone Plastic Art of South East Asia. |
AUD 250.00 - 350.00 | AUD 152.40 | |||
| 326 | Colin Eisler. 1996. | 1) Masterworks in Berlin - A City's Paintings Reunited |
AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | AUD 63.50 | ||
| 327 | About 25 large format juvenile books. All paperbacks and |
1940s and 1950s. | AUD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 328 | Bernard Domenech. | Himalaya-Karakoram : Montagnes du Pakistan |
1990 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
| 329 | Carol Jacobi and Lucina Ward. | Love & Desire - Pre-Raphaelite Masterpieces from the TATE |
2018 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
| 330 | 6 books about Illustrated Manuscripts. |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | AUD 101.60 | |||
| 331 | CEW Bean | Three first editions by CEW Bean |
AUD 360.00 - 460.00 | Not Sold | ||
| 332 | St Barnabas 1926 Gallipoli Salonika. |
London | 1926 | AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 203.20 | |
| 333 | Australian Military Books. |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
| 334 | [by Charles Lever] with illustrations by Halbot K[night] Brown (Phiz). | Confessions Of Con. Cregan: The Irish Gil Blas |
[1849] | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
