• 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.
  • 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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Thomson Roddick Auctioneers & Valuers: Lots of Antiquarian and Collectable Books, Prints, and Related Items

Auction Reports

Auction Name Lots of Antiquarian and Collectable Books, Prints, and Related Items Total Sales (GBP) 44,935.20
Auction Date March 06, 2025 - March 06, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 22,170.00
Sale Number #30625 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 34,480.00
Total Lots 241
Sold Lots 99 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 33,620.00
% of Lots Sold 41.08% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 51,830.00
Unsold Lots 142 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 86.70%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
50 SMITH ADAM.

An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

1778 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
84 BECKE EDMUND

BIBLE. (The Byble, That is to Say Al the Holy Scripture)...

1551 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
82

BISHOP`S BIBLE...

GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 3,840.00
60 GILLRAY JAMES

GILLRAY JAMES. The Works ... from the Original Plates with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected

GBP 500.00 - 1,000.00 GBP 3,600.00
22 WELLS H. G.

The War of the Worlds

1898 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 2,280.00
23 RACKHAM ARTHUR (Illus)

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

1906 GBP 400.00 - 600.00 GBP 1,920.00
100 DIO CASSIUS

Ton Dionos Romaikon Historion Eikositria Biblia (Greek)

1548 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 GBP 1,680.00
103

PALESTINE EXPLORATION FUND. Quarterly Statement

1871/72 to 1899/1910 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 1,140.00
24 HUGO VICTOR

The Novels, Complete & Unabridged

1903 GBP 80.00 - 120.00 GBP 1,020.00
21 DARWIN CHARLES

The Descent of Man, & Selection in Relation to Sex

1885 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 960.00
81 FULKE WILLIAM

(BIBLE). The Text of the New Testament of Jesus Christ Translated out of the Vulgar Latine by the Papists of the Traiterous Seminarie at Rhemes ...

1900 GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 GBP 960.00
120 NIEBUHR CARSTEN

Reisebeschreibung Nach Arabien und Andern Umligenden Landern...

1772, 1774 & 1778 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 900.00
85

THE HOLY BIBLE CONTAINING THE OLD TESTAMENT AND THE NEW

GBP 300.00 - 400.00 GBP 660.00
104 BALFOUR FRANCIS

The Forms of Herkern Corrected from a Variety of Manuscripts ...

GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 480.00
83

BIBLE. EDINBURGH 1610

1610 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 456.00
7 LA VALLEE J.

Voyage dans les Departemens de la France Par Une Societe de'Artistes et de Gens de Lettres

1792-1798 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 420.00
53

ANDERSON JOHN (Pubs). Encyclopedia Edinensis or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences & Literature

1827 GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 420.00
101 HOLE WILLIAM

Scotia Regnum

c.1610 GBP 50.00 - 80.00 GBP 384.00
49 PHILO-CALEDON (poss. Lord Belhaven)

A Defence of the Scots Settlement at Darien with an Answer to the Spanish Memorial against it & Arguments to Prove that it is the Interest of England to Join with the Scots

1699 GBP 300.00 - 500.00 GBP 336.00
18 MORE HENRY

Enchiridion Metaphysicum sive de Rebus Incorporeis ... Per H.M. Cantabrigiensem

1660 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 288.00
39 MULLER JOHN

A Treatise Containing the Elementary Part of Fortification...

1694 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 288.00
79 KNOX JOHN

The Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realm of Scotland ...

1732 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 288.00
3 DYSON FREEMAN

Four 1st editions, each signed & dated to the title leaf by the author...

1985 GBP 150.00 - 200.00 GBP 264.00
30 BURNET THOMAS

The Theory of the Earth Containing an Account of the Original of the Earth & of All the General Changes Which it Hath already Undergone

1697 GBP 200.00 - 300.00 GBP 264.00
87

ENGLISH ILLUSTRATOR. Nursery Rhymes

19th/early 20th cent GBP 100.00 - 150.00 GBP 264.00
  • 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€
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