• 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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Kiefer Buch und Kunstauktionen: Books and Antiques, Ancient and Modern Art - Day 3

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Antiques, Ancient and Modern Art - Day 3 Total Sales (EUR) 358,696.00
Auction Date February 14, 2025 - February 14, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 336,955.00
Sale Number #137c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 336,955.00
Total Lots 941
Sold Lots 447 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 557,795.00
% of Lots Sold 47.50% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 557,795.00
Unsold Lots 494 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 64.31%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
3349 Durer, Albrecht

Die hl. Familie mit der Libelle (fruher mit der Heuschrecke).

um1495 EUR 60,000.00 - 60,000.00 EUR 52,000.00
3346 Durer, Albrecht

Die Darstellung im Tempel. Blatt 13 der Folge: Marienleben.

Um 1505 EUR 16,000.00 - 16,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
3839 Picasso, Pablo

Le vieux roi", datiert 6.1.59,

EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 12,350.00
3888 Rembrandt van Rijn, Harmenszoon

Die Grosse Kreuzabnahme (2. Platte).

1633 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 11,700.00
3341 Durer, Albrecht

Die Kreuztragung Christi.

um1498/99 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 11,050.00
3872 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Maria mit dem Christkinde in Wolken.

1641 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 10,400.00
3342 Durer, Albrecht

Joachim auf dem Felde.

1511 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 9,750.00
3351 Durer, Albrecht

Die Satyrfamilie.

1505 EUR 7,500.00 - 7,500.00 EUR 9,750.00
3345 Durer, Albrecht

Maria Himmelfahrt und Kronung. Bl. 19 aus der Folge "Das Marienleben".

1510 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
3551

Recueil de 283 estampes gravees a l'eau forte ... d'apres les desseins des grands maitres, que possedoit autrefois M.Jabach, et qui depuis ont pase au cabinet du Roy.

1754 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
3882 Rembrandt van Rijn, Harmenszoon

Bartiger Mann, stehend an einen Erdhugel gelehnt. Um 1630.

EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
3844 Picasso, Pablo

Jeune sculpteur finissant un platre.

1933 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
3348 Durer, Albrecht

Die Darstellung im Tempel. Bl. 13 aus dem Marienleben.

um1505 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
3878 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Die Flucht nach Agypten - Ubergang uber einen Bach.

1654 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 7,150.00
3344 Durer, Albrecht

Anbetung der Hirten.

1502/1503 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
3873 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Rembrandt mit Saskia.

1636 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,850.00
3343 Durer, Albrecht

Die Kreuztagung. Aus der Kleinen Holzschnitt-Passion.

1509 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
3886 Rembrandt van Rijn, Harmenszoon

Clement de Jonghe, Graphikhandler.

1651 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
3875 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Die Darstellung im Tempel, im Breitformat.

um1640 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 4,940.00
3881 Rembrandt van Rijn, Harmenszoon

Der Zinsgroschen.

um1635 EUR 5,500.00 - 5,500.00 EUR 4,680.00
3877 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Der Zinsgroschen.

um1634 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,420.00
3876 Rembrandt, Harmensz van Rijn

Jesus unter den Schriftgelehrten (kleine Platte).

1630 EUR 4,500.00 - 4,500.00 EUR 3,900.00
3352 Durer, Albrecht

Die heiligen Einsiedler Antonius und Paulus.

um1504 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,380.00
3843 Picasso, Pablo

Figure.

1929 EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 3,380.00
3505 Generalic, Josip

Winterlandschaft in er eine Mutter ihren auf einem Schlitten sitzenden Jungen mit Tannenbaum in der Hand hinter sich herzieht.

1976 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 3,120.00
  • 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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