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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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Bearnes Hampton and Littlewood: 20th Century and Contemporary
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | 20th Century and Contemporary | Total Sales (GBP) | 11,224.16 |
| Auction Date | February 04, 2025 - February 04, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 6,500.00 |
| Sale Number | #9169 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 10,270.00 |
| Total Lots | 49 | ||
| Sold Lots | 38 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 7,470.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 77.55% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 11,830.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 11 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 94.88% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 97 | David Bailey C.B.E. (British, b. 1938) | Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate |
1984 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 2,361.60 |
| 129 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Song of Songs |
1980 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 1,049.60 |
| 98 | John Piper (British, 1903-1992) | Church and Dutch barn |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 590.40 | |
| 101 | Henri Matisse (French, 1864-1954) | Untitled, from Florilege des Amours de Ronsard,1948 |
GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 590.40 | |
| 99 | John Piper (British, 1903-1992) | Basilica, Venice |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 551.04 | |
| 107 | Advertising posters for the exhibition 'Yves Saint Laurent: 25 Years of Design': 'Les Quatre Saisons' ('The Four Seasons') |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 498.56 | ||
| 217 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Early Decorative Art The Bloomsbury Period' poster design for the exhibition at The Patrick Seale Gallery |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 419.84 | |
| 119 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 393.60 |
| 137 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 393.60 | |
| 102 | Attributed to Richard Bawden (British, 1936-2024) | Scene in a forest |
GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 288.64 | |
| 112 | Chris Chapman (British, Contemporary) | Mona Lisa |
GBP 120.00 - 180.00 | GBP 262.40 | |
| 117 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Two Heads |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 249.28 | |
| 120 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | A nearly complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' |
1980 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 236.16 |
| 114 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Self-Portrait |
GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | GBP 196.80 | |
| 123 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Approximately seventy photographs and postcards with reproductions after his works, including limited edition photographs issued by the Royal Academy of Arts, London Some inscribed or signed, of varying sizes Together with three photographs of the artist, |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 196.80 | |
| 130 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 196.80 |
| 131 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 196.80 |
| 145 | Piero Dorazio (Italian, 1927-2005) | Abstract compositions in colour |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 196.80 | |
| 132 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 183.68 |
| 134 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 183.68 |
| 136 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 183.68 |
| 138 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' |
GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 183.68 | |
| 111 | Tai (American, 20th Century) | Six Lines' |
GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | GBP 170.56 | |
| 133 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 170.56 |
| 135 | Edward Wolfe RA (South African/ British, 1897-1982) | Complete set of illustrations for the 'Song of Songs' with the title page |
1980 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 170.56 |
