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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")
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
