• 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.

Galerie Bassenge: Rare Books, Theology, 125ADT, Berlin-Grunewald

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 08, 2025 - April 08, 2025
Page Size: 260 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
876 Giarre, Gaetano

Alfabeto di lettere iniziali.

Florenz 1797 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
877 Gilly, David

Handbuch der Land-Bau-Kunst. Kupfer-Sammlung 4. Auflage.

Braunschweig 1818 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 384.00
878 Guckkastenblatter

Konvolut von 8 kolorierten Kupferstichen.

Paris 1761-1800 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
879 Halle, Johann Samuel

Werkstate der heutigen Kunste.

Brandenburg und Leipzig 1761-1772. EUR 180.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
880 Halle, Johann Samuel

Werkstate der heutigen Kunste.

Brandenburg und Leipzig 1761-1779. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,048.00
881 Hawich, Christoph

Abbildung des Romischen Monuments in Igel.

Trier 1826 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
882 Hogarth, William - nach

Sammelband mit ca. 94 Kupferstichen.

London 1796-1803 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 EUR 640.00
883 Izzo, Johann Baptisz

Anleitung zur burgerlichen Baukunst fur die deutschen Schulen.

Wien 1795 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
884 Kandel, David

Tabula Cebetis.

Holzschnitt auf Karton. Um 1563 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
885 Kircher, Athanasius

Sphinx mystagoga

Amsterdam, 1676 EUR 3,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 5,632.00
886 Koch, Friedrich

Praktische Anweisung zur Zimmermannskunst.

Ansbach 1810 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,088.00
887 Landon, Charles Paul

Annales du Musee, et de l'Ecole Moderne des beaux arts.

Paris 1805-1808 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 Not Sold
888 Le Clerc, Sebastian

Neue Abhandlung von der Civilbaukunst.

Nurnberg 1781 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 166.40
889 Le Pautre, Jean

Differents Desseins pour faire des Plaques et Eaubenistiers.

Nurnberg um 1670 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 742.40
890 Marolles, Michel de

Tableaux du temple des muses.

Amsterdam 1676 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
891 Montfaucon, Bernard de

Griechische und romische Alterthumer.

Nurnberg 1757 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
892 Neubert, Wilhelm

Schlussel zur bildenden Gartenkunst

Berlin, (um 1855) EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 256.00
893 Penther, Johann Friedrich

Ausfuhrliche Anleitung zur burgerlichen Bau-Kunst.

Augsburg 1744-1748. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
894 Perelle, Gabrielle und Nicolas

Sammelband mit 89 Kupfertafeln aus verschiedenen graphischen Folgen mit Ansichten von Paris, Versailles und Umgebung.

Paris um 1680 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
895 Pernety, Antoine-Joseph

Handlexikon der bildenden Kunste.

Berlin 1764 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 128.00
896 Perrault, Charles

Les portraits des hommes illustres.

Paris 1696-1700. EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
897 Pintz, Johann Georg und Engelbrecht, Martin

Differentes vues dessinees d'apres nature sur le chateau si renomme de Konigstein.

Um 1735 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
898 Piranesi, Giovanni Battista

Konvolut von 7 Veduten uber Rom. Radierungen.

London um 1760-1860 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,024.00
899 Preissler, Johann Daniel

Grundliche Anleitung welcher man sich im Nachzeichnen schoner Landschafften oder Prospecten bedienen.

Nurnberg 1734 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
900 Prospectives des palais et jardins en Italie et en France

Sammelband mit 60 Kupfertafeln.

Italien und Frankreich um 1680. EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 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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