• Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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.
  • Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    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
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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
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    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€
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    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€
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    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€
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RR Auction: Fine Autographs and Artifacts

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Auction Name Fine Autographs and Artifacts Total Sales (USD) 1,121,371.00
Auction Date February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 639,200.00
Sale Number #711 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 955,700.00
Total Lots 757
Sold Lots 648 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 821,300.00
% of Lots Sold 85.60% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 1,220,700.00
Unsold Lots 109 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 91.86%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
58 President Theodore Roosevelt

President Theodore Roosevelt Ratifies a Treaty for the Construction of the Panama Canal (1904)

1904 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 49,711.00
8 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Historic Letter Signed as Secretary of State, Announcing Ratification of the Bill of Rights to Governor Josiah Bartlett of New Hampshire

1792 USD 40,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 43,751.00
10 Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson Autograph Letter Signed on Scientific Progress in Europe: "The mass of their people, within which term I include from the king to the beggar, is returning to Gothic darkness"

1816 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 41,250.00
3 George Washington

George Washington Document Signed as President, Commissioning One of Sixteen Original US Marshals

1789 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 25,000.00
38 President Abraham Lincoln

President Abraham Lincoln Appoints a Surveyor General "for the District of Illinois and Missouri," Four Days Before the First Battle of Bull Run

1861 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,154.00
608 Walt Disney

Walt Disney Signed Disneyland Ticket Booklet Cover

1955 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 21,996.00
86 Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter Correspondence Archive of (70) Signed Letters with Broad-Ranging Subject Matter on Religion, Israel and Palestine, Trump, Putin, Baseball, His Health, Billy Carter, and Much More

2003 USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 21,360.00
775 Actors and

Actors and Actresses (6) Autograph Albums with (200+) Signatures

USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 16,879.00
332 Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping Signed Magazine - Time's Man of the Year

1979 USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,500.00
718 Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix Filled Out and Signed 1967 'Birth Certificate' Application, a Requisite for Musicians' Union Membership

no date [circa September 1967] USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 16,444.00
346 Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin Autograph Letter Signed on The Descent of Man: "My book has been almost too much for me"

1871 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,501.00
37 Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Autograph Note Signed as President

1863 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 14,473.00
348 Albert Einstein

Philosopher-Scientist (Ltd. Ed. #180/750)

1949 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 13,750.00
85 Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Rare Signed Check to the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop

1972 USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 12,501.00
4 George Washington

George Washington Hand-Addressed and Signed Free Frank

1787 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,079.00
271 Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman Presidential Telegram to Dwight D. Eisenhower on the 1952 Election: "Congratulations on your overwhelming victory"

1952 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 11,344.00
49 President James A. Garfield

President James A. Garfield Suspends Chinese Emigration and Restricts the Trade of Opium

1881 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 10,208.00
765 Marilyn Monroe

Marilyn Monroe Signed Candid Photograph at Gladstone Hotel in New York City, 1955

1955 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 10,208.00
15 James Madison

James Madison Letter Signed as Secretary of State on the Fruitless Monroe-Pinkney Treaty of 1806

1807 USD 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 9,375.00
67 Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dwight D. Eisenhower Signed Photograph to Captain Kay Summersby, His Intimate WWII Assistant

USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 9,068.00
350 Transatlantic Telegraph

Transatlantic Telegraph Cable Relic by Tiffany's

1858 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 8,659.00
84 Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon B. Johnson Signed White House Card

USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 8,249.00
355 Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull Signature

USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 8,249.00
892 Babe Ruth

Babe Ruth Signed Olympic Airmail Cover

1932 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 8,043.00
89 Ronald and Nancy Reagan

Ronald and Nancy Reagan (2) Signed White House Cards

USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 7,871.00
  • Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    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 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 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 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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