• 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.
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Gros & Delettrez: Voyages: Books and Maps

Auction Reports

Auction Name Voyages: Books and Maps Total Sales (EUR) 175,155.20
Auction Date February 06, 2025 - February 06, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 101,210.00
Sale Number #161362 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 131,470.00
Total Lots 290
Sold Lots 200 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 189,040.00
% of Lots Sold 68.97% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 254,210.00
Unsold Lots 90 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
249 JOUTEL (Henri).

[Americana]. Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de la Sale fit dans le Golfe de Mexique, pour trouver l'embouchure & le cours de la Riviere de Missicipi nommee a present la Riviere de Saint Louis, que traverse la Louisiane. Ou l'on voit l'His

1713 EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 11,520.00
104 BRETEZ (Louis).

[Paris]. TURGOT], Plan de Paris, commence l'annee 1734

[XVIIIe s.] EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 10,240.00
132 VISSCHER (Nicolas Joannes).

[Belgique ; Pays Bas]. Theatrum praecipuarum urbium ducatus Brabantiae nec non comitatum Flandriae et Zelandiae

1657 EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,680.00
258 NOLIN (Jean-Baptiste) ; CORONELLI (Vincenzo).

[Americana]. L'Amerique septentrionale, ou, la partie septentrionale des Indes Occidentales

1689 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,144.00
36 BRION DE LA TOUR (Louis).

[Atlas]. [Atlas composite. Monde]

[1783 - An XIII-1799] EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 4,096.00
79

[Manuscrit]. [Haut-de-France]. Cartes des environs de Mardic et de Dunkerque pour faire connoitre le coulemant de eaux du peys de la mer compris la grande rade couverte du banc Brac avec les ondes et chiffre de cinq piece de basse mer

1714 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 4,096.00
185 PEETERS (Jacob).

[Gravure]. [Mediterrannee]. [Recueil factice de 45 gravures sur cuivre publiees par Jacob Peeters]

[v. 1685] EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,840.00
193 POSTEL (Guillaume).

[Proche-Orient]. [Livre du XVIe siecle]. Des histoires orientales et principalement des turkes

1575 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 EUR 3,584.00
214

[Inde]. [Photographie]. [ALBUM DE VOYAGE AUX Indes en Himalaya]

[1894-1895] EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 3,200.00
34 BONNE (Rigobert) ; JANVIER.

[Atlas]. Atlas moderne ou Collection de cartes sur toutes parties du globe terrestre

[1762-1771] EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,944.00
198 LEWIS (John Frederic).

[Turquie]. Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City in the Years 1835-6

[s.d. - v.1838] EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,816.00
265 TORQUEMADA (Fray Juan de).

[Americana]. Primera [segunda & tercera] parte de los veinte i un libros, rituales i monarchia indiana, con el origen y guerras de los Indios ocidentales, de sus poblacones, descubrimiento, conquista, conversion y otras cosas maravillosas de la mesma tier

1723 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,816.00
268

[Caroline du Sud]. A large draft of South Carolina from Cape Roman to Port Royal

[entre 1755 et 1778] EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,560.00
270

[Argentine]. [Photographie]. [Excursion photographique dans les provinces de Tucuman, Sata et Mendoza]

[ca.1909-1910?] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
50 ROBERT DE VAUGONDY (Gilles et Didier).

[Atlas]. Atlas portatif, universel et militaire, compose d'apres les meilleures cartes, tant gravees que manuscrites des plus celebres geographes et ingenieurs

1748 [et 1749] EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,432.00
145 WALDSEEMULLER (Martin).

[Italie]. Tabula Europ. Sexta Italiae

[1513] EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,304.00
183

[Manuscrit]. [Libye]. Plan de la rade de Tripoly Barbarie et l'ordre du bombardement. 1728. [s.l.]

[ca. 1728] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,048.00
53 FER (Nicolas de).

[Europe]. Les frontieres de France et d'Allemagne, dessus et aux Environs du Rhein, de la Meuse, de la Moselle et de la Saare

1689 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,984.00
10 DURAND-BRAGER (Henri).

[Premier Empire]. Sainte-Helene

1844 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
39 DUVAL (Pierre).

[Atlas]. Diverses cartes et tables pour la geographie ancienne pour la chronologie et pour les itineraires et voyages ... [relie a la suite] La chronologie en plusieurs tables. [Et:] [Cartes pour les itineraires et voyages modernes]

1665 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
138

[Manuscrit]. [Italie]. [PIEMONT, TURIN, RAPALLO, PORTOFINO ]

[fin XVIIIe siecle)] EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
177 GIRAULT DE PRANGEY (Philibert-Joseph).

[Architecture mauresque]. Monuments arabes et moresques de Cordoue, Seville et Grenade, dessines et mesures en 1832 et 1833

[1836 ?] - 1837 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
189 LE HAY (Jacques) ; FERRIOL (C. de).

[Proche-Orient]. Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant tirees sur les tableaux peints d'apres nature en 1707 et 1708 par les ordres de M. Ferriol gravees entre 1712 et 1713

1714 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
222 AZARA (Felix de).

[Americana]. Voyages dans l'Amerique Meridionale depuis 1781 jusqu'en 1801

1809 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
15 LA CONDAMINE (Charles Marie de).

Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi a l'Equateur [accompagne de] Mesure des trois premiers degres du meridien dans l'hemisphere austral

1751 EUR 900.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,728.00
  • 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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