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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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Dunbar Sloane: Affordable Art
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Affordable Art | Total Sales (NZD) | 36,717.45 |
| Auction Date | February 12, 2025 - February 12, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) | 17,800.00 |
| Sale Number | #1837 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (NZD) | 34,730.00 |
| Total Lots | 185 | ||
| Sold Lots | 162 | Low Estimate of All Lots (NZD) | 22,360.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 87.57% | High Estimate of All Lots (NZD) | 43,810.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 23 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 83.81% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Robin White (b 1946) | Harbour Cone From Portobello |
1973 | NZD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | NZD 2,856.00 |
| 237 | After Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) | Nature Morte Au Citrons |
NZD 400.00 - 600.00 | NZD 2,023.00 | |
| 239 | After Joan Miro (1893 - 1983) | Composition Sur Tond Vert |
NZD 400.00 - 800.00 | NZD 1,190.00 | |
| 240 | After Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973) | Nature Morte Au Citrons Et Aux Oranges |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 1,130.50 | |
| 245 | Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) | Paysage 48 |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 952.00 | |
| 244 | Fernand Leger (1881 - 1955) | Les Papillons |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 892.50 | |
| 3 | Shane Hansen (b 1972) | Child's Play |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 833.00 | |
| 84 | Juliet Peter (1915 - 2009) | Moth At The Window (unframed) |
1973 | NZD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | NZD 773.50 |
| 236 | After Georges Braque (1882 - 1963) | Le Poisson |
NZD 240.00 - 500.00 | NZD 773.50 | |
| 254 | After Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954) | La Blouse Roumaine |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 654.50 | |
| 18 | Julia Morison (b 1952) | Untitled |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 595.00 | |
| 88 | Stewart MacLennan (1903 - 1973) | Still Life With Gourds & Coffee Pot |
NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 595.00 | |
| 147 | Tom Burnett (b 1958) | Waimahaua |
1983 | NZD 400.00 - 800.00 | NZD 595.00 |
| 45 | Stanley Palmer (b 1936) | Marae Pahaoa |
1988 | NZD 400.00 - 800.00 | NZD 571.20 |
| 83 | John Weeks (1888 - 1965) | 33 Assorted Sketchbook Studies |
NZD 40.00 - 80.00 | NZD 547.40 | |
| 17 | Marilynn Webb (1937 - 2021) | Hills & Cloud Coromandel |
1972 | NZD 300.00 - 600.00 | NZD 523.60 |
| 129 | Wendy Griffin (B 1969) | 1898 Pictorial 3d Huia |
2007 | NZD 120.00 - 240.00 | NZD 523.60 |
| 348 | Stanley Palmer (b 1936) | Norfolk Farm |
1975 | NZD 400.00 - 800.00 | NZD 523.60 |
| 26 | Rosemary Mortimer - | Lake Hawea II |
NZD 180.00 - 300.00 | NZD 499.80 | |
| 136 | Karel Appel (Dutch 1921 - 2006) | Untitled |
1969 | NZD 200.00 - 400.00 | NZD 452.20 |
| 188 | Michael Smither Painter Collector's Edition |
Not Available | NZD 452.20 | ||
| 30 | A Packard - | Twilight Landscape |
NZD 60.00 - 120.00 | NZD 428.40 | |
| 32 | Stewart MacLennan (1903 - 1973) | Trout Fishing |
NZD 100.00 - 200.00 | NZD 428.40 | |
| 193 | Six NZ Arts Yearbooks & Three Others |
Not Available | NZD 428.40 | ||
| 7 | Janet Paul (1919 - 2004) | Kairakau Remembering Giorgione |
1990 | NZD 180.00 - 360.00 | NZD 404.60 |
