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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")
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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Autographs and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 5,738.85 |
| Auction Date | January 27, 2025 - January 27, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 5,485.00 |
| Sale Number | #12725a | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 7,750.00 |
| Total Lots | 39 | ||
| Sold Lots | 29 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 9,215.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 74.36% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 13,350.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 10 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 42.99% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93158234 | Gilbert du Motier de La Fayette | Tres belle lettre autographe signee pour la grace d'un prisonnier au Mont-Saint-Michel |
1800 | EUR 800.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 926.50 |
| 92977323 | Emile Zola | Lettera / signed letter / L.A.S. |
1902 | EUR 220.00 - 650.00 | EUR 741.20 |
| 93163219 | Alexander von Humboldt (1769--1859) | an Gotthold Eisenstein |
1852 | EUR 500.00 - 900.00 | EUR 572.25 |
| 92975459 | August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (1798 - 1874) | Autographischer Brief |
1869 | EUR 450.00 - 650.00 | EUR 449.08 |
| 93062611 | Empereur Maximilien | Document |
1876 | EUR 750.00 - 900.00 | EUR 392.40 |
| 93069541 | Field Marshall Montgomery | Hand Signed Photograph |
1943 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 386.95 |
| 93045067 | Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip signatures | Royal Family - OBE certificate |
1959 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 352.07 |
| 93098193 | Jean Cocteau | emouvante lettre autographe signee |
1958 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 263.78 |
| 93068819 | Field Marshall Montgomery | Hand Written Letter |
1960 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 209.28 |
| 93051747 | Albert Londres | Lettre autographe signee a ses parents [Debut 1ere guerre mondiale] |
1914 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 194.02 |
| 93165120 | 34 Briefe von Mediziner und Patienten an Professor Daniel Erhard Gunther (1752-1834) in Duisburg | Medizinische Korrespondenz des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, dabei Rezepturen |
1784 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 174.40 |
| 93098493 | Georges-Henri Rouault | Lettre autographe signee |
1930 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 164.59 |
| 92961161 | Ardengo Soffici / Giacomo Manzu / Carlo Busiri Vici | Lettere autografe |
1933 | Not Available | EUR 120.99 |
| 93099511 | Tahar Ben Jelloun | Lot de 5 lettres autographes signees |
1973 | Not Available | EUR 119.90 |
| 93079565 | Kaers, Di Paco, Lapebie... | Dedicaces |
1935 | Not Available | EUR 81.75 |
| 93149089 | [Signed]; astronaut Fred Haise Apollo 13 | Never panic early apollo 13, hand sigend |
2022 | Not Available | EUR 81.75 |
| 93096761 | Oreste Zamor [President de la Republique d'Haiti] | lettre autographe signee |
1914 | Not Available | EUR 65.40 |
| 93096315 | Jean-Nicolas Nissage Saget [President de la Republique d'Haiti] | lettre autographe signee |
1870 | Not Available | EUR 64.31 |
| 93097529 | Michel Domingue [President de la Republique d'Haiti] | lettre autographe signee |
1875 | Not Available | EUR 64.31 |
| 93097149 | Cincinnatus Leconte [President de la Republique d'Haiti] | lettre autographe signee |
1912 | Not Available | EUR 57.77 |
| 93166056 | Grand Aigle General Baraguey d'Hilliers | Au Ministre de la Republique Batave |
1795 | Not Available | EUR 54.50 |
| 93165114 | Professor Daniel Erhard Gunther (1752-1834) in Duisburg | Umfangreiche medizinische Aufzeichnungen aus dem Nachlass + 1 Disseration |
1800 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 44.69 |
| 93095617 | Frederic Mistral | Article autographe "Li cansoun de Provenco" |
1900 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 42.51 |
| 93098925 | Claude Farrere | Lot de 5 lettres autographes signees a Pierre Louys |
1910 | Not Available | EUR 32.70 |
| 93151498 | Henri Millon de Montherlant | Signature de Montherlant |
1970 | Not Available | EUR 32.70 |
