• 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.

Heritage Auctions: Tuesday World Paper Money Select Auction, 282515, Dallas

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 15, 2025 - April 15, 2025
Page Size: 229 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
88001

Albania Korce Region 0.50 Franc 1.12.1918 Pick S149b PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

1918 Not Available USD 234.00
88002

Albania Korce Region 0.50 Franc 10.12.1918 Pick S151a PMG Choice About Unc 58 EPQ.

1918 Not Available USD 192.00
88003

Algeria Banque de l'Algerie 500 Francs 11.8.1939 Pick 82 PMG Very Fine 30.

1939 Not Available USD 540.00
88004

Algeria Banque de l'Algerie 5000 Francs 13.2.1947 Pick 105 PMG About Uncirculated 55.

1947 Not Available USD 660.00
88005

Algeria Banque Centrale d'Algerie 100 Dinars 1.1.1964 Pick 125a PMG Choice Uncirculated 63. Bahrain Currency Board 1/4 Dinar 1964 (ND 1978) Pick 2CS1 Collector Series Specimen PMG Superb Gem Unc 68 EPQ.

1964 Not Available USD 159.00
88006

Andorra Consell General de les Valls D'Andorra 50 Centims 19.12.1936 Pick 5 PCGS Very Choice New 64PPQ.

1936 Not Available USD 169.00
88007

Australia Commonwealth Bank of Australia 10 Shillings ND (1939) Pick 25a R12 PMG Choice Very Fine 35 EPQ.

ND(1939) Not Available USD 54.00
88008

Bahrain Monetary Agency 10; 20 Dinars (ND 1998-2001) Pick 21b; 24 Two Examples PMG Superb Gem Unc 67 EPQ; Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1998-2001) Not Available USD 192.00
88009

Bahrain Monetary Agency 10; 20 Dinars 1973 (ND 1998) Pick 21b; 23 Two Examples PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ; Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ. Lebanon Republique Libanaise 5 Piastres 15.2.1944 Pick 38 PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

1973 (ND 1998) Not Available USD 192.00
88010

Belgium Group of 9 Examples Very Fine-About Uncirculated.

Not Available USD 480.00
88011

Belgium Nationale Bank Van Belgie 500 Francs-100 Belgas 1.2.1943 (ND 1944) Pick 124 PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

1943 (ND 1944) Not Available USD 600.00
88012

Belgium Nationale Bank Van Belgie 100; 500 Francs (1946-71) Pick 126; 135b Two Examples PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 (2).

(1946-71) Not Available USD 312.00
88013

Belgium Nationale Bank Van Belgie 1000 Francs 29.8.1945 Pick 128b PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

1945 Not Available USD 480.00
88014

Belgium Banque Nationale de Belgique 10,000 Francs ND (1992-97) Pick 146 PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

ND(1992-97) Not Available USD 564.00
88015

Bermuda Bermuda Government 5 Shillings 20.10.1952 Pick 18a PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

1952 Not Available USD 186.00
88016

Bermuda Bermuda Government 1 Pound 1.5.1957 Pick 20c PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1957 Not Available USD 228.00
88017

Bolivia Banco Central 100 Bolivianos 20.7.1928 Pick 125a PMG About Uncirculated 55 EPQ. Mexico Banco de Sonora 50 Pesos 2.1.1911 Pick S422s M510s1-2 Specimen PMG Choice About Unc 58 EPQ.

1928 Not Available USD 204.00
88018

Bulgaria Banque Nationale 250 Leva 1929 Pick 51a PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

1929 Not Available USD 504.00
88019

Canada Bank of Canada $5 1935 BC-5 "English Text" PMG Choice Very Fine 35.

1935 Not Available USD 384.00
88020

Canada Bank of Canada $50 1954 BC-34a "Devil's Face" PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

1954 Not Available USD 750.00
88021

Canada Bank of Canada $1 1973 BC-46aS Specimen PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1973 Not Available USD 216.00
88022

Canada Bank of Canada $100 1975 BC-52aS Specimen PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1975 Not Available USD 336.00
88023

Canada Toronto, CW- Colonial Bank of Canada $4 4.5.1859 Ch.# 130-10-04-08 PMG Choice About Unc 58 EPQ. Canada Montreal, LC- Bank of the St. Lawrence Victoria Bridge 50 Views 1857 Advertising Note PMG Choice About Unc 58.

1859 Not Available USD 384.00
88024

China Group of 9 Graded Notes PMG Superb Gem Unc 67 EPQ; Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ (5); Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ (2); PCGS Very Choice New 64PPQ.

Not Available USD 237.60
88025

China Kwangtung Provincial Bank 20 Cents; 10 Yuan (1935-49) Pick S2437s3; S2458 Specimen / Issued Note PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ; Choice Uncirculated 64.

(1935-49) Not Available USD 198.00
  • 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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