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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

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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.

Bonhams: A Modern Antiquarian, The Collection of Graham Slater Part 2, 31403, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Date: April 16, 2025 - April 16, 2025

Page Size: 30 items in 2 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
403		BREVIARY, . Portiforium seu breviarium ad usum ecclesie Sarisburiensis, 3 parts in 1, , sold as bindings not subject to return (6)	Paris	1555	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,280.00
404		London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1781 idem, 1822; and others, miniature/small books (10)		1781, 1822	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 614.40
405	CICERO.	[De Philosophia]. Secundo volumine haec continentur, ALdine, 1523; and others, calf/vellum (10)	Venice	August 1523	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,408.00
406		A group of 8 manuscript antiphonal leaves ON VELLUM from the early 16th to the late 17th century, with 10 incunabula leaves (18)		early 16th to the late 17th century	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,920.00
407		[A Booke of Christian Prayers], [1608]; with a bound volume of 12 leaves printed on vellum (2)		1608	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,536.00
408		Manuscript relating to Aristotlean grammar and logic, possibly relating to works by James Harris, [late eighteenth century]		[late eighteenth century]	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	GBP 2,816.00
409	POSTEL (GUILLAUME)	De Magistratibus Atheniensium liber, ad intelligendam non solum Graecorum, FIRST EDITION, ; and 2 others in red morocco (6)	Paris	1541	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 832.00
410	OWEN (JOHN) and EMANUEL BOWEN	Britannia Depicta or Ogilby Improv'd; Being a Correct Copy of Mr. Ogilby's Actual Survey of All Ye Direct & Principal Cross Roads in England and Wales, FIRST EDITION, Thomas Bowles & Emanuel Bowen, 1720		1720	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 217.60
411		BIBLE, IN ENGLISH, 1686; Rider's Almanch, 1790; Common Prayer, 1570, decorative bindings, (3)		1686; 1790; 1570	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,536.00
412	RUSKIN (JOHN)	Modern Painters, 2 vol., 1885; and other bindings, one from library of A. Trollope (13)		1885	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 486.40
539		A reference library relating predominantly to British delftware and tiles			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 832.00
540		A reference library predominantly relating to British pottery and porcelain			GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 384.00
625	Michael Ayrton	Pour Rita from		1971	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 179.20
628	Dame Elizabeth Frink	Horse	London	1972	GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,024.00
634	John Piper C.H.	Sunflowers at Marignac		1956	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 1,152.00
635	John Piper C.H.	Eye & Camera: Red, Blue and Yellow	London	1980	GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 230.40
636	Julian Trevelyan R.A.	Stone Cutting, from		1970	GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 2,304.00
637	Julian Trevelyan R.A.	Cats and a boat			GBP 150.00 - 200.00	GBP 384.00
638	Eric William Ravilious	Undertaker; Furrier from series	London	1938	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 384.00
639	Edward Bawden R.A.	Three sketches for (each approx.) (3)			GBP 100.00 - 150.00	GBP 960.00
640	Edward Bawden R.A.	Liverpool Street Station		1927-29	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	GBP 1,664.00
641	Edward Bawden R.A.	The Titfield Thunderbolt		1953	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 2,176.00
650	Albert Irvin O.B.E., R.A., R.W.A.	Comet	London	1998	GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 614.40
651	John Hoyland R.A.	The Red Boat		1999	GBP 350.00 - 450.00	GBP 537.60
652	Patrick Heron	4: Eight Drawings for Paintings: 1976; 15: Ten Drawings for Paintings: 1977 from 2	London	1978	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 832.00

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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