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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.
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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, 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.
Sothebys: Arts of the Islamic World and India, L25220, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 30, 2025 - April 30, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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502 | Abu Nasr Isma'il ibn Hammad al-Jawhari | Taj al-lugha wa sihah al-arabiyya, ('The Crown of Language and the Correct Arabic'), volume 8, copied by Mansur ibn Jama', |
probably Iraq, Abbasid, | 577 AH/ 1181 AD | GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | GBP 88,900.00 |
503 | A small illuminated Qur'an, Near East, Abbasid, |
late 12th/early 13th century | GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | GBP 101,600.00 | ||
504 | An early fragmentary Qur'an leaf in Hijazi script on vellum, Arabian Peninsula, |
second half 7th century AD | GBP 250,000.00 - 350,000.00 | Not Sold | ||
505 | An illuminated Qur'an section in Maghribi script on vellum, |
North Africa or Spain | 13th/14th century | GBP 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | GBP 38,100.00 | |
507 | Suleyman ibn Khalaf ibn Sa'd al-Baji al-Maliki (d.1081 AD), al-nasihat al-waladiyyah, (The Advice of Abu Walid Al-Baji to his Sons), a collection of wisdom, |
North Africa or Andalusia | 13th/14th century | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
510 | A Qur'an, copied by Muhammad ibn Muhammad, Sub-Saharan Africa, |
Nigeria or Chad, | late 19th/early 20th century | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 7,620.00 | |
511 | An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Hadi, |
North Africa, | 1289 AH/ 1872 AD | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | GBP 12,700.00 | |
518 | An illustrated and illuminated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnameh (The Freer Shahnameh): The combat between Hujir and Sepahram, Persia or Baghdad, |
Ilkhanid | circa 1300-40 | GBP 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | GBP 17,780.00 | |
519 | An illustrated leaf from Hafiz-i Abru's Majma' al-Tawarikh: Sultan Malik Shah III enthroned |
, Herat, Timurid | circa 1425-26 | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 27,940.00 | |
520 | A line from the 'Baysunghur Qur'an', attributed to 'Umar al-Aqta, |
Herat or Samarqand | circa 1400 | GBP 300,000.00 - 500,000.00 | GBP 381,000.00 | |
525 | A large illuminated volume from a four-volume Qur'an, |
Persia, Ilkhanid, | early 14th century | GBP 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 | Not Sold | |
529 | Jamal al-Din Abi Mahmud Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hilal ibn Tamim al-Maqdisi | Jamal al-Din Abi Mahmud Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Ibrahim ibn Hilal ibn Tamim al-Maqdisi (d. 1364 AD), Kitab Muthir al-gharam 'ila ziyarat al-Quds wa'l-Sham, on the geography and virtues of Jerusalem and the Levant, copied by Ahmad ibn 'Ali ibn Salamah, |
probably Egypt, Mamluk, | 879 AH/1475 AD | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | GBP 25,400.00 |
530 | Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn | Sa'id ibn Hibat Allah ibn al-Husayn (d.1101 AD), Kitab al-Mughni fi'l-Tibb, copied by Muhammad ibn Radwan ibn Radi ibn Layth, Near East, |
707 AH/1308 AD | GBP 50,000.00 - 70,000.00 | GBP 88,900.00 | |
532 | An early bound Qur'an section in Kufic script, North Africa or Near East, |
Umayyad | circa 700-750 AD | GBP 250,000.00 - 300,000.00 | GBP 317,500.00 | |
533 | A Kufic Qur'an leaf, |
Near East or North Africa, | 8th-9th century | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 44,450.00 | |
534 | A Qur'an leaf in Kufic script on vellum, |
perhaps Damascus, | 9th century | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 12,065.00 | |
535 | A Qur'an leaf in Kufic script on vellum, |
Near East or North Africa, | first half 10th century | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 16,510.00 | |
536 | A Qur'an leaf in Kufic script on vellum, |
Near East or North Africa | 10th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 10,160.00 | |
537 | An early Maghribi Qur'an leaf, |
North Africa or Spain, | 11th or 12th century | GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | GBP 10,160.00 | |
538 | An illuminated Qur'an leaf in Maghribi script on vellum, |
Spain or North Africa | 1250-1350 | GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 20,320.00 | |
539 | A Qur'an bifolium in Eastern Kufic script, |
North Africa or Eastern Mediterranean region | late 10th century | GBP 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,795.00 | |
540 | A Qur'an leaf in three scripts, |
Yemen or Persia | 13th-14th century | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,255.00 | |
541 | A Qur'an leaf with illumination attributed to Sandal, |
Egypt, Mamluk | circa 1300-10 | GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | GBP 8,890.00 | |
542 | Two compiled works by Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328 AD), al-risala al-qubrisyya ('The Cypriot Letter'), ; followed by a chapter on visiting Jerusalem, copied by Talha ibn Muhammad Ibrahim |
Near East | 788 AH/1386 AD; 793 AH/1390-91 AD | GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 | Not Sold | |
544 | Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa ('Epistles of the Brethren of Purity'), |
probably Egypt, Mamluk | 14th century | GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | GBP 279,400.00 |