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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 2025Gonnelli: 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 & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic 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.
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
Christies: Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds including Rugs and Carpets, 23591, London - King Street
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- May 01, 2025 - May 01, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AN IMPRESSIVE AND EARLY ILLUMINATED KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO |
PROBABLY DAMASCUS, UMAYYAD SYRIA, | 8TH/9TH CENTURY | GBP 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 | GBP 107,100.00 | |
| 6 | A ZIRID KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO |
PROBABLY KAIROUAN, TUNISIA, | 9TH CENTURY | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 22,680.00 | |
| 10 | A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION |
NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, | 9TH/10TH CENTURY | GBP 100,000.00 - 120,000.00 | GBP 113,400.00 | |
| 14 | A QUR'AN SECTION |
ILKHANID IRAN, | LATE 13TH/EARLY 14TH CENTURY | GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | GBP 75,600.00 | |
| 15 | QUR'AN JUZ' I |
PROBABLY IRAN, | 13TH CENTURY | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 | |
| 16 | QUR'AN |
SELJUK IRAN OR ANATOLIA, | CIRCA 1200 | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 27,720.00 | |
| 19 | SIGNED AMIR HAJ IBN AHMAD AL-SAYINI, | QUR'AN JUZ' XXI |
PROBABLY TABRIZ, ILKHANID IRAN, | 734/1334 AD | GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | GBP 126,000.00 |
| 32 | A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN SECTION |
SPAIN OR MOROCCO, | 13TH/14TH CENTURY | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | GBP 18,900.00 | |
| 34 | ISFANDIYAR SLAYS THE SIMURGH |
PROBABLY SHIRAZ, TURKMAN IRAN, | AH 887 / 1482 AD | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 7,560.00 | |
| 37 | MUHAMMAD 'ASSAR TABRIZI (D. AH 779 / 1377 AD): MIHR O MUSHTARI |
PROBABLY AQ QOYUNLU SHIRAZ, | 5 RAMADAN AH 895 / 23 JULY 1490 AD | GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | GBP 163,800.00 | |
| 38 | AFTER MIR 'ALI HARAVI, | A CALLIGRAM IN THE FORM OF A LION |
SAFAVID BUKHARA OR HERAT, | LATE 17TH CENTURY | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 63,000.00 |
| 39 | A YOUTH WITH A CUP |
SAFAVID QAZVIN, IRAN, | LATE 16TH CENTURY | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | GBP 5,040.00 | |
| 40 | BAHRAM CHUBINA DECAPITATES SAVAH SHAH |
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, | 1571 AD | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 3,276.00 | |
| 42 | A YOUTH READING POETRY TO HIS BELOVED |
SHAYBANID BUKHARA, | MID-16TH CENTURY | GBP 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | GBP 12,600.00 | |
| 43 | THE ASSASSIN FLEES |
BUKHARA, UZBEKISTAN, | CIRCA 1570 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 8,820.00 | |
| 44 | A CUERDA SECA POTTERY TILE PANEL |
SAFAVID IRAN, | 17TH CENTURY | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 15,120.00 | |
| 45 | QUR'AN |
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, | MID-16TH CENTURY | GBP 70,000.00 - 100,000.00 | GBP 63,000.00 | |
| 46 | A VELVET PANEL |
SAFAVID IRAN, | LATE 16TH OR EARLY 17TH CENTURY | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 47 | QUR'AN JUZ' XXV |
SAFAVID IRAN, | 17TH CENTURY | GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | GBP 27,720.00 | |
| 48 | PROBABLY MASHHAD, | RASA'IL IKHWAN AL-SAFA' ('EPISTLES OF THE BRETHREN OF PURITY') |
SAFAVID IRAN, | AH 1041-42 / 1631-33 AD | GBP 130,000.00 - 150,000.00 | GBP 277,200.00 |
| 49 | AFTER REZA 'ABBASI, BY ONE OF HIS STUDENTS, | A WHITE-EARED BULBUL |
SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, RABI' I | AH 1046/AUGUST 1636 AD | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 50 | ATTRIBUTED TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, | A PORTRAIT OF MUHAMMAD 'ALI THE GILDER |
SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, | RAMADAN AH 1020/NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1611 AD | GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 51 | ATTRIBUTABLE TO MU'IN MUSAVVIR, | A LADY ON HORSEBACK |
PROBABLY SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN, | 1 JUMADA II AH 1115 / 12 OCTOBER 1703 AD | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold |
| 53 | COPIED FOR AQA'I AQA MIRZA NASRULLAH, SIGNED MIRZA MUHAMMAD 'ALI KHANSARI AND MUHAMMAD 'ALI ISFAHANI, | QUR'AN |
QAJAR IRAN, | AH 1278 / 1861-2 AD | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 17,640.00 |
| 54 | COLOPHON WITH THE NAME OF AHMAD AL-NAYRIZI (fl.1682-1722 AD), | QUR'AN; THE ILLUMINATION AND BINDING, |
SAFAVID ISFAHAN, IRAN; QAJAR MASHHAD, IRAN, | RAJAB AH 1285-RAMADAN 1287/NOVEMBER 1868-DECEMBER 1870 AD | GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | GBP 176,400.00 |
