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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: 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 |
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411 | 12 books about German Art. |
AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |||
412 | Agricola. Illustrated with maps and coloured plates, from original drawings made on the spots, | Description of The Barossa Range and Its Neighbourhood in South Australia |
1979 | AUD 120.00 - 200.00 | AUD 76.20 | |
413 | A box of Cruise Booklets and Menus. More than 60 items. Some are duplicate. |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 152.40 | |||
414 | H C and Luther V. | Kings Cross Calling |
no date | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 1,143.00 | |
415 | 13 books about Australian Art. Hardback and Paperback. Good copies. |
AUD 300.00 - 400.00 | AUD 190.50 | |||
416 | 8 books about Renaissance. Hardback and paperback. |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |||
417 | An Inventory and Condition Survey of Rangelands In The Ashburtton Eiver Catchment, Western Australia Ten large folding maps |
1980s | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | ||
418 | Leslie Alfred Redgrave . | Gwen A Romance of Australian Station Life |
Sydney . | 1913 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 50.80 |
419 | Four Supernatural Stories. All Colonial Editions. All hardcovers. |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |||
420 | Basil Copper. | 1) Necroplis a novel of gothic mystery |
1980 | AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | AUD 127.00 | |
421 | Three Magnet Library detective stories pulps. |
AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |||
422 | Nine Pulps |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
423 | Erik Hornung and Betsy Bryan. | 1) Quest for Immortality: Hidden Treasures of Egypt |
2002 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
424 | Anthony Meyer. | Oceanic Art |
2000 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
425 | Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia. |
1979 | AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 50.80 | ||
426 | Zdenek Vana. | The World of The Ancient Slavs |
1983 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
427 | Aymer Vallance. | The Old Colleges of Oxford |
1912 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | AUD 63.50 | |
428 | Shelf lot of 22 books on wine and viticulture, mostly modern publications and a mixture of hardcover and paperback titles. |
AUD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |||
429 | 24 books on Antarctica and Polar Research, |
AUD 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |||
430 | Four books on Maps and Charts. |
AUD 150.00 - 250.00 | Not Sold | |||
431 | Three books on Australian Natural History. |
AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |||
432 | Three books on Icons. |
AUD 80.00 - 150.00 | AUD 50.80 | |||
433 | Joseph E Worchester | A Dictionary of the English Language |
Philadelphia | 1897 | AUD 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
434 | South Pacific Ocean: The New Hebrides Loyalty, Feejee and Friendly Islands etc. |
Circa1910s | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | Not Sold | ||
435 | Sidney Hall. | United States drawn and engraved by Sidney Hall. |
1826 | AUD 80.00 - 120.00 | AUD 50.80 |