• 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.

Catawiki B. V.: Science and Nature Books Auction, 41325h, LA Assen,

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
April 13, 2025 - April 13, 2025
Page Size: 44 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93716085 Zeviani

Purga e Salasso

1752 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 152.60
93722263 [Henri Decremps]

[Goochelen] Natuurlyk toverboek, behelzende de verbaazendste geheimen van natuur en konst, VIII dl. in 2 Bnd.

1791/1794 EUR 1,050.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
94183040 [Olafsson]

Atlas du Voyage en Islande

1802 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 430.55
94322283 Rene-Louis de Girardin / Merigot

Promenades et Itineraire des Jardins de Chantilly

1791 EUR 1,100.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 289.94
94328292 Wolfgang Pauli

Uber das Wasserstoffspektrum vom Standpunkt der neuen Quantenmechanik

1926 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
94354970

Cao Hua Bai Zhong 100 kinds of flowering plants (wood printing) Volume 1~ 4

EUR 550.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
94358326 Cervini (Joseph-Antoine de Macerata) et Antoine-Ignace Melling

Voyage pittoresque dans les Pyrenees francaises et dans les departements adjacents, ou collection de

1830/1826 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
94358748 Phipps Constantine John

Voyage au pole Boreal, fait en 1773, par ordre du roi d'Angleterre.

1775 EUR 650.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
94378624 Joseph Roques

Plantes usuelles, indigenes et exotiques

1809 EUR 900.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 415.29
94431735 Auguste Urbain

L'Inde Pittoresque [Splendide Reliure Boutigny]

1840 EUR 500.00 - 650.00 EUR 403.30
94437093 Gaetano de Bottis

Istoria di varj incendi del monte Vesuvio cui s'aggiugne Una breve relazione di un Fulmine che cadde

1786 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,600.00 EUR 1,308.00
94443447 James Bruce

Voyage en Nubie et en Abyssinie pour decouvrir les sources du Nil

1792/1790 EUR 1,300.00 - 1,600.00 Not Sold
94444356 La Martiniere, Pierre-Martin

Voyage du Nort

1700 EUR 750.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 434.91
94444369 Pufendorf

Introduction a l'Histoire Moderne, Generale et Politique de l'Univers

1753 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 EUR 221.27
94444407 Aubry de la Motraye

Voyages du Sieur A. de La Motraye, en Europe, Asie et Afrique

1727 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 340.08
94478392 Gian Rinaldo Carli

Lettere Americane parte prima e parte seconda

1850 EUR 550.00 - 700.00 EUR 201.65
94495298 Keill, J.

Introductiones ad veram physicam et veram astronomiam

1739 EUR 425.00 - 500.00 EUR 130.80
94504198 Manuel da Conceicao

Relacam do monstruoso peixe, que nas prayas do Tejo appareceo ...

1748 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 468.70
94515288 Knoop

Pomologia, dat is beschryvingen en afbeeldingen van de beste soorten van Appels en Peeren

1763/1758 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,100.00 EUR 479.60
94515293 Ellis

Natuurlyke historie van de koraal-gewassen

1753 EUR 550.00 - 650.00 Not Sold
94518913 Diderot (Denis) et Alembert (Jean Le Rond D')

Encyclopedie ou Dictionnaire raisonne des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers [3120 pl.]

1780/1751 EUR 30,000.00 - 35,000.00 EUR 26,432.50
94521627 NN

L'Horticulteur Belge, Journal des Jardiniers et Amateurs

1833/1838 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
94524823 John Papworth

Select Views of London

1816 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 872.00
94524960 Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace

Theorie Analytique des Probabilites

1812 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
94530632 Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny

Dictionnaire universel d'histoire naturelle [1/100 exemplaires]

1861 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 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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