• 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.

Schilb Antiquarian: Rare Books with NO Reserve, NO Buyer's Premium, 366496, Columbia

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 20, 2025 - April 20, 2025
Page Size: 107 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 SAINTE-MARIE, Suarez de

Conciones viginti tres in tria prima Apocalypsis capita: habitae in celeberrima cathedrali ecclesia Lugdunensi

Lugduni 1599 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 145.00
2 DE SA, Manuel

Notationes in totam Scripturam Sacram : quibus omnia fere loca difficilia breuissime explicantur tum variae ex Hebraeo, Chaldaeo & Graeco lectiones indicantur : opus omnibus Scripturae studiosis vtilissimum

Coloniae 1620 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 92.00
3 ITALICUS, Silius

Silius Italicus de secundo Bello Punico

Amsterodami 1628 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 110.00
4 REIMS, Jean-Francois de

La vraye perfection de cette vie dans lexercice de la presence de Dieu. Livre qui enseigne methodiquement et solidement les principales pratiques de devotion, et tous les degrez de la vie interieure depuis son commencement jusques a? sa fin dans ce?t exer

Paris 1660 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 130.00
5 ERASMUS, Desiderius

Codicille dor ou petit recueil : tire? de lInstitution du prince chrestien compose? par Erasme

[Amsterdam 1668 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 94.00
6 BIROAT, Jacques

La Condamnation Dv Monde, Par Le Mystere De Lincarnation Du Fils De Dieu; Presche?e durant lAdvent dans lEglise de Saint Germain lAuxerrois

A Bruxelles, 1669 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 120.00
7 NICOLE, Pierre

Prejugez legitimes contre les calvinistes

Paris 1673 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 50.00
8 New Testament

Le Martyrologe romain : mis en lumiere par le commandement du pape Gregoire XIII, revu & augmente de lauthorite de Clement X.

A Lyon 1675 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 105.00
9 Boe?ce

Boe?ce console? par la philosophie.

A Paris M. DC. LXXVI. [1676]. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 84.00
10 SALLUST, Gaius Crispus

C. Crispi Sallustii Opera omnia quae exstant

Lugd. Batav. 1677 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 180.00
11 CLAGETT, William

A discourse concerning the worship of the Blessed Virgin and the saints : with an account of the beginnings and rise of it amongst Christians, in answer to M. de Meauxs appeal to the fourth age, in his Exposition and Pastoral letter.

London 1686 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 78.00
12 SAMANIEGO, Jose Jimenez

Relacion de la vida de la venerable madre sor Maria de Jesus, abadesa de el convento de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la villa de Agreda de la provincia de Burgos

En Barcelona 1687 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 68.00
13 Catholic Church

[Missale Romanum... proprium missarum]

Parisiis 1687 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 315.00
14 LETI, Gregorio

La Vie du pape Sixte cinquie?me.

A Paris 1690 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 78.00
15 TATE, Nahum

A duke and no duke : as it is acted by Their Majesties servants : to which is now added A preface concerning Farce, with an account of the personae and larvae, &c. of the ancient theatre

London 1693 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 90.00
16 WYCHERLEY, William

The gentleman dancing-master. A comedy, as it is acted by Their Majesties servants,

1693 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 60.00
17 Academie Francaise

Recueil des harangues prononce?es par Messieurs de lAcademie Franc?oise dans leurs re?ceptions et en dautres decasions diffe?rentes, despuis le?tablissement de lAcade?mie jusqua present

A Paris 1698 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 82.00
18 COLOMIES, Paul

Bibliothe?que choisie

A Amsterdam, M. DC. XCIX. [1699]. USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 70.00
19 ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques

Oeuvres diverses ...

A Soleure 1712 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 125.00
20 MAIRAN, Jean-Jacques Dortous

Histoire de lAcade?mie royale des sciences, Anne?e M. DCCXXII

Amsterdam 1727 USD 499.00 - 1,000.00 USD 365.00
21 SMITH, Samuel

The great assize: or, day of jubilee : in which we must make a general account of all our actions before almighty God. ... Four Sermons upon the 20th chapter of the Revelations.

London 1736 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 470.00
22 LA SUZE, Henriette

Recueil De Pieces Galantes, En Prose Et En Vers

Trevoux (i.e. Paris) 1741 USD 750.00 - 1,600.00 USD 195.00
23

The Scots Magazine, vol 51

Edinburgh 1789 USD 599.00 - 1,200.00 USD 510.00
24 KYD, Stewart

A treatise on the law of bills of exchange and promissory notes.

London 1795 USD 550.00 - 1,200.00 USD 110.00
25 MOLIERE

Oeuvres completes de Molie?re.

A Paris 1827 USD 950.00 - 2,000.00 USD 150.00
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 26th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, 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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