• 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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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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 AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
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    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    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 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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Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen: Books and Antiques, Ancient and Modern Art - Day 2

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Antiques, Ancient and Modern Art - Day 2 Total Sales (EUR) 224,146.00
Auction Date February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 212,890.00
Sale Number #137b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 212,890.00
Total Lots 967
Sold Lots 450 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 432,835.00
% of Lots Sold 46.54% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 432,835.00
Unsold Lots 517 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 51.79%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1610 A.L. Crelle, C.W. Borchardt, u.a. Hrsg.

Journal fur die reine und angewandte Mathematik. Bande 1 (1826) bis 147 (1917) in 147 Banden.

1826-1917 EUR 60,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
1413 Commelin,C.

Horti medici Amstelodamensis rariorum tam orientalis, quam occidentalis Indiae, aliarumque peregrinarum plantarum [...] descriptio et icones

1697 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 12,350.00
1940 Saint-Non,J.C.R.de.

Voyage pittoresque ou description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

1781-86 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 12,350.00
2085 Bobrowski,P.O.

Istorie 13-go Leib-Grenaderskago-Eriwanskago...(kyrill.). Geschichte des 13. Leib-Grenadierregiments von Eriwan seiner Hoheit Michail Fedorowitsch uber 250 Jahre. 1642-1892.

1892-98 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 11,700.00
2018 Mercator,G.

Atlas minor, das ist, Eine kurtze, jedoch grundtliche Beschreibung der gantzen Welt... durch Iodocum Hondium mit vielen Kupffern gebessert und vermehrt

1609 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 6,500.00
2012

Hauptstab der Nationalen Volksarmee. Militargeographisches Auskunftsdokument uber den Westlichen Kriegsschauplatz. Territorium: BRD, Belgien, Niederlande, Luxemburg und Danemark...

1981-89 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 3,380.00
1639 Valentini,M.B.

Museum Museorum, oder vollstandige Schau Buhne aller Materialien und Specereyen.

1704-14 EUR 4,200.00 - 4,200.00 EUR 3,120.00
1679 Castro,C., Rodriguez,G. u. Campillo,J.

Mexico y sus alrededores. Coleccion de vistas monumentales, paisajes y trajes del pais.

1869 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,120.00
1424 Mann,J.G.

Deutschlands wildwachsende Arzney-Pflanzen und deren gewohnlichste Verwechslungen.

1828 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 2,860.00
2034 Bleuler,J.L. Hrsg..

Die Rheingegenden in malerischen Ansichten von Basel bis Holland, inbegriffen die interessantesten Punke der belgischen Eisenbahmen

circa 1840 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 2,860.00
1764 Merian - Zeiller,M..

Topographia Sveviae das ist Beschreib: vnd Aigentliche Abcontrafeitung der furnembste(n) Statt vnd Platz in Ober vnd Nider Schwaben...

1643 EUR 2,700.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 2,340.00
1708 Nieuhof,J.

Die Gesandtschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in den Vereinigten Niederlandern, an den Tartarischen Cham, und nunmehr auch sinischen Keiser

1666 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,080.00
2084 Backmanson,H.

L'Empereur Nicolas Alexandrovitch en tenue de 10 Regiments dont sa Majeste est chef.

1896 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,080.00
1728 Prevost,A.E..

Histoire generale des voyages...

1747-55 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 1,950.00
1705

Chinesisches Blockbuch.

1951 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 1,690.00
1763

Mahlerische Ansichten zu dem Werke des ... (A.W.)Schreiber: Handbuch fur Reisende nach Baden bei Rastatt, in das Murgthal und auf den Schwarzwald.

1823 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,560.00
1665

Usambara-Post. Unabhangiges Organ fur die wirtschaftlichen Interessen von Deutsch-Ostafrika.

1910-1911 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 1,430.00
1461

Konvolut. 10 Werke aus verschied. Gebieten der Medizin.

Meist 18. Jhdt. EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,300.00
1935 Percier,C. u. P.F.L.Fontaine.

Choix des plus celebres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs.

1809 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,300.00
2079 Pococke,R.

Beschreibung des Morgenlandes und einiger anderer Lander. Aus dem Engl. ubersetzt durch C.E. von Windheim. 3 Bde.

1754-55 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,300.00
2146 Mann, Thomas

Mann, Thomas (1875-1955). Eigenhandiger Brief mit Unterschrift an den Photographen Kuster.

1911 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,300.00
1666

Usambara-Post. Zeitschrift fur die Nordbezirke Tanga, Pangani, Wilhelmstal. 4. Jahrgang,

1905 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,235.00
2808 David Gilly, Hrsg.

Preussen. Special Karte von Sudpreussen.

1802-03 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,235.00
1981 Dikenmann,R.

Souvenir de la Suisse (Deckeltitel). Album mit 100 Aquatinta-Tafeln.

um 1840 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,105.00
1711 Kirschner,M.

Tagebuch meiner Reise durch Ceylon und Indien im Fruhjahr 1906.

1906 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 1,040.00
  • 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
    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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