Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26th

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.
Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts

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
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€

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Hansons: The Library Auction

Auction Reports


Auction Name	The Library Auction	Total Sales (GBP)	72,885.00
Auction Date	February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	44,400.00
Sale Number	#22625	High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)	69,825.00
Total Lots	256
Sold Lots	186	Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	69,660.00
% of Lots Sold	72.66%	High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)	108,845.00
Unsold Lots	70	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	66.96%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
4	HAWKING, Stephen.	STARMUS: 50 Years of Man in Space, first printing [one of only 500 copies that were made available to attendees], SIGNED with thumbprint by Stephen Hawking	2014	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	GBP 11,250.00
2	CHILD, Thomas.	Views of North China. EARLY PHOTOGRAPHY. A collection of 65 albumen prints	1870-80	GBP 2,000.00 - 4,000.00	GBP 9,375.00
16	CRUIKSHANK, George.	The Progress of a Midshipman exemplified in the career of Master Blockhead,	1820	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 5,125.00
7	Ernest Shackleton (1874-1922).	TLS [Typed Letter Signed] on The Trans-Antarctic Expedition letterhead, 17 June 1914, addressed to E. H. Bayliss Esq.,	1914	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 4,625.00
13		Georgian era scrapbook compiled by John Newman (d.1824) of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, London		GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	GBP 3,375.00
74	BOND, Michael.	A Bear Called Paddington	1958	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	GBP 1,875.00
71	TOLKIEN, J. R. R.	[Lord of the Rings].	1963	GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 1,812.50
102	NABOKOV, Vladimir.	Lolita	1955	GBP 1,400.00 - 1,800.00	GBP 1,812.50
1	[Hugh Cecil (1889-1974)].	An original glass plate negative of Edward VIII (1894-1972), produced for the Royal Mint for use on stamps and planned coinage, [1936].		GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00	GBP 1,375.00
52	MASSIE, Chris.	Corridor of Mirrors, manuscript draft [originally titled My Friend Douglas],	1941	GBP 500.00 - 800.00	GBP 1,312.50
50		A large collection relating to the formative years of the Labour Party,		GBP 600.00 - 900.00	GBP 1,000.00
79	P.G. Wodehouse	Collection of Everyman's Library editions of P.G. Wodehouse classics	2000-2015	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 1,000.00
12	BURY, Thomas Talbot (illus.).	Six Coloured Views on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,	1831	GBP 700.00 - 1,000.00	GBP 875.00
10	Albrecht Durer (1471-1528).	Saint Simon	1523	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	GBP 812.50
70	TOLKIEN, J. R. R.	[The Lord of the Rings]. The Fellowship of the Ring	1960-61	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 812.50
132	SOBIESKI STUART, John.	Vestiarium Scoticum	1842	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 812.50
41	Robert Kerr [or Carr], Viscount Rochester, 1st Earl of Somerset (c. 1587-1645).	Autograph Letter Signed to the Earl of Northampton, [c. 1613].	c. 1613.	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	GBP 750.00
53	MASSIE, Chris.	Pity My Simplicity [Love Letters], manuscript draft [originally titled Fata Morgana], entirely handwritten in black ink, [iii]	1944	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 687.50
177		Disorders Inquiry Committee 1919-1920 Report, also known as the Hunter Commission, conducted after the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, or Amritsar Massacre,...	1920	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 600.00
55	MASSIE, Chris.	A collection of nine FIRST EDITIONS, all scarce, each one a PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author, comprising: Penny Whip, ...		GBP 300.00 - 400.00	GBP 500.00
196	KIPLING, Rudyard.	The Works, vols. 1-26 of the Bombay Edition	1913-27	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	GBP 500.00
136	STEWART, Donald William.	Old and Rare Scottish Tartans	1893	GBP 200.00 - 400.00	GBP 500.00
113		A collection of classics, including: Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, in 4 vol.		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 475.00
42	Henry III of France (1551-1589), King of France from 1574 until his assassination in 1589, also King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.	Autograph on document	1577	GBP 400.00 - 600.00	GBP 450.00
254		A quantity of antique maps, including: GIBSON, J. A Map of the New Governments of East and West Florida		GBP 200.00 - 300.00	GBP 450.00

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
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 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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