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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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Litchfield County Auctions: Winter Antiques and Design
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Winter Antiques and Design | Total Sales (USD) | 39,793.00 |
| Auction Date | February 05, 2025 - February 05, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 24,405.00 |
| Sale Number | #20525 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 41,285.00 |
| Total Lots | 90 | ||
| Sold Lots | 75 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 27,885.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 83.33% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 47,155.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 15 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 84.39% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 161 | Henri Matisse, French, 1869-1954, | Vierge et EnfantSur Fond Etoile, 1951, lithograph on paper, Cat. Rai. Duthuit, 647 |
USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,940.00 | |
| 160 | Henri Matisse, French, 1869-1954, | Visage 1950-51, lithograph, Cat. Rai. Duthuit, 638 |
USD 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,680.00 | |
| 48 | After Emanuel Leutze (German American, 1816-1868), | "Washington Crossing the Delaware," |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 4,290.00 | |
| 60 | Currier and Ives - After G. H. Durrie (American, 1820-1863). | Winter in the Country, A Cold Morning. |
Circa 1864. | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,860.00 |
| 183 | Jean-Jacques Sempe (French 1932 - 2022) | Lithograph with color. Numbered 177/200. |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,040.00 | |
| 127 | Theophile Alexandre Steinlen, Swiss/French, 1859-1923, | La Traite des Blanches, 1899, |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 975.00 | |
| 284 | F.J.J. Slimak painted pine eyeglass form sign, signed and dated verso 'F J J Slimak (19) 82.' |
(19) 82.' | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 975.00 | |
| 129 | Maurice Sendak, American, 1928-2012, | 2 prints, one signed, includes VACATION READERS HAVE MORE FUN THAN ANYONE EXCEPT OTHER VACATION READERS, along with a print of characters from Where the wild things are |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 910.00 | |
| 293 | Four beverage and ice cream advertisement signs includes Voegel's Ice Cream, lithograph on board , Milprint, Inc. Milwaukee, Wis.,1957; ... |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 910.00 | ||
| 121 | Marguerite Kirmse (1885 - 1954) | Four etchings of Scotties, Titles "The Clausmere" 1931 "My Scotties" "Fuzzy Wuzzy" "When We Were Very Young" |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 845.00 | |
| 126 | Jean de Paleologu (French, 1860-1942) | Folies Bergere Poster. |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 133 | Norman Rockwell, American, 1894-1978, | The Four Freedoms, 1943, includes Freedom of Worship, Freedom From Want, Freedom from Fear, Freedom of Speech, |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 140 | William M. Kent, American, 1919-2012, | The Artist as Target |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 715.00 | |
| 115 | After De Seve - | Two Etchings from Buffon's Histoire Naturelle. De Seve Del. Louis Le Grand Sculpsit bottom right. |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | USD 650.00 | |
| 120 | Marguerite Kirmse (American/English, 1885-1954), | "The 5-15" or "Training Time," etching, signed and titled in pencil below the plate mark. |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 650.00 | |
| 130 | Maurice Sendak, American, 1928-2012, | New York is Book Company, 1979 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 585.00 | |
| 144 | William M. Kent, American, 1919-2012, | Joe Hill, 1879-1915 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 552.50 | |
| 139 | William M. Kent, American, 1919-2012, | Society Ladies Art with 2 rt. hands, 1964 |
1964 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 520.00 |
| 194 | Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco, Cuban, b.1980, | woodcut, titled "No me mires a los ojos" |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 520.00 | |
| 87 | Continental Illuminated Choir Book Leaf, |
17th C. | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 487.50 | |
| 117 | American School, 19th Century, | Two cat lithographs, comprising: "Kittens" ; and "Little White Kitties Fishing" |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 455.00 | |
| 195 | Osmeivy Ortega Pacheco, Cuban, b.1980, | Hung Orchid, woodcut, titled "Con La humedad de mis huesos", |
2014 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 422.50 |
| 288 | 3 Vintage metal ginger ale advertising signs, single sided, includes Vernor's; Canfield's by Donasco 2*52; Pureoxia by The Donaldson Sign Co. Covington Kentucky |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 422.50 | ||
| 290 | NEHI Soda Curb Service tin sign along with B-1 Lemon-Lime Soda, copyright 1940 St. Louis Mo. labeled B-100 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 422.50 | ||
| 92 | French primitive circus advertisement, Human Tower with Flag, ink on canvas |
USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 390.00 |
