• Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    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
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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 Auctioneers
    May 14
    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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    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 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700), 33125b, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 31, 2025 - March 31, 2025
Page Size: 98 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93510025 Aristotele

de Physico Auditu

1544 EUR 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,199.00
93636205 Alexander Giraffi

Wonderlijcken op, ende ondergang van Tomaso Aniello met de beroerten tot Neapolis

1650 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 86.11
93746115 Joost van den Vondel

[EMBEMATA] Toonneel des menschelyken levens [EN] Vorstelijcke Warande Der Dieren [EN] Helden Godes

1698/1717 EUR 700.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 872.00
93965162 Rocca

Imprese, Stratagemi et Errori Militari

1568 EUR 500.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 332.45
94154656 Caroli Sigonii

Sigonius De Republica Hebreorum

1678 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 163.50
94154756 Torquato Tasso

Il Goffredo, overo Gierusalemme Liberata

1678 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 207.10
94286100 Bichi Celio

Decisiones S.rae Rotae Romanae coram R.P.D. bon mem. Coelio Bichio Patritio Senensi auditore

1671 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 35.97
94288670 Girolamo Albrizzi

Historia di Trieste

1698 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 763.00
94298205 Nicolaes de Clerck

Toneel der keyseren en coningen van Christenrijk met 62 gravures

1615 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 441.45
94308932 Joost van den Vondel

Poezy of Verscheide Gedichten

1682 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 165.68
94311673 Battista Guarini

l Pastor Fido, tragicommedia pastorale.

1640 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 119.90
94320402 Vincentii Guinsii Lucensis

Poesis

1630 EUR 200.00 - 250.00 EUR 75.21
94320403 SN

Manassae Oratio, Esdrae Lib. III & IV

1638 EUR 275.00 - 350.00 EUR 61.04
94327581 Kircherus, A (Kircherius)

Toonneel van China

1668 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 1,199.00
94331742 Dominici de Mussis

Formularium instrumentorum egregij causidici

1559 EUR 275.00 - 400.00 EUR 141.70
94333659 Maxime de TYR.

2 textes : Maximi Tyrii philosophi platonici Sermones sive Disputationes XLI. Graece nunc primum

1557 EUR 275.00 - 500.00 EUR 471.97
94334743 Justus Lipsius

Opervm Ivsti LipsiI [The works of Justus Lipsii (Justus Lipsius 1547-1606)]

1613 EUR 1,400.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
94337797 Petro Berthault

Florus Francicus, sive, rerum a Francis bello gestarum epitome, in 4. libellos distincta.

1653 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 106.82
94342280 Pietro Santi Bartoli

Columna antoniniana Marci Aurelii Antonini Augusti

1672 EUR 400.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
94343039 Lucius Fenestella

De magistratibus, sacerdotiisq[ue] Romanorum libellus, iamprimum nitori restitutus

1527 EUR 220.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
94343259

Hans Schauffelein - In Dutch. "Hoe Fulvius Flaccus die van Celtiberia..." Battle Scene

1541 Not Available EUR 50.14
94343460

Master of Gruninger Workshop, Virgil - Vulcan's Shield: Scenes of Early Rome

1517 Not Available EUR 78.48
94343526 Konrad Klinge

Loci communes theologici

1574 EUR 220.00 - 450.00 EUR 163.50
94343539 F. Laurentio de Portel

Dubia regularia sive accurata brevisque discussio difficultum

1634 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 65.40
94343555 Felipe de Ayala

Caso mayor, y punto de consciencia, acerca de como se ha de predicar

1616 EUR 220.00 - 350.00 Not Sold
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    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
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    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
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    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
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    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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