• 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€
  • 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.
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Rossini: Paintings, Posters, Lithographs, Works on Paper, Sculptures

Auction Reports

Auction Name Paintings, Posters, Lithographs, Works on Paper, Sculptures Total Sales (EUR) 17,118.20
Auction Date March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 9,686.00
Sale Number #162366 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 16,505.00
Total Lots 270
Sold Lots 181 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 22,676.00
% of Lots Sold 67.04% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 35,495.00
Unsold Lots 89 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 48.23%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
262 VAN DONGEN Kees (1877-1968)

Woman with Merchant Dog on Beach

EUR 3,500.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 4,340.00
23 JORN Asger

Poster for an exhibition at Galerie Breteau, November 2-16, 1948, enhanced

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 768.80
136 FOUJITA Leonard Tsuguharu, after

The Potato Peeler, circa 1960

circa 1960 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 545.60
131 FASSIANOS Alekos (1935-2022)

Blue Profile with Myrtle

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 483.60
28 PICASSO Pablo, after

Mourlot poster, exhibition at the Musee de Lyon on the occasion of the Lyon Charbonnieres Festival, organized by the Lyon Union of Initiatives from June 30 to September 15, 1953,

EUR 1.00 - 100.00 EUR 396.80
66 BASQUIAT Jean Michel, after

Ange

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 384.40
156 HONEGGER Gottfried (1917-2016)

Untitled

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 384.40
135 FOUJITA Leonard Tsuguharu, after

jeune fille a la baguette, circa 1960

circa 1960 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 372.00
237 PICASSO Pablo, after

Young Child with Mask

1953 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 372.00
191 MASSON Andre (1896 - 1987)

Landscape

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 248.00
192 MASSON Andre (1896 - 1987)

Untitled

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 248.00
193 MASSON Andre (1896 - 1987)

Sasn titre

EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 248.00
247 RHEE Seund Ja (1918-2009)

Intimate Musicality, 1974

1974 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 248.00
146 GORIN Jean Albert (1899-1981)

Geometric composition, circa 1975

circa 1975 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 223.20
69 BELLMER Hans (1902-1975)

Untitled 1946

1946 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 198.40
244 REBEYROLLE Paul (1926-2005)

Nailed to the ground, 1982

1982 EUR 50.00 - 100.00 EUR 192.20
268 C215 (born 1973)

Simone Weil

EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 192.20
261 VALADON Suzanne, based on

Maurice Utrillo and his grandmother, 94

EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 186.00
265 VILLON Jacques (1875-1963)

Sujets divers, excerpts from the book les frontieres du matin, Gruslin, ill. by Villon, Vialetay editions, Paris 1962

1962 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 167.40
32

ZOO, museum d'histoire naturelle, hippopotamus, Andre Steiner photgraphe, direction Roger Heim, Mourlot Paris, formerly folded , 57 x 38 cm

EUR 10.00 - 20.00 EUR 155.00
100 CHARCHOUNE Serge (1888-1975)

Composition

EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 155.00
115 DECARIS Albert, after

L'iliade

1953 EUR 60.00 - 80.00 EUR 155.00
171 LJUBA (1934-2016)

Untitled 1976

1976 EUR 120.00 - 180.00 EUR 155.00
109 DALI Salvador, after,

Femmes fleurs,

EUR 80.00 - 120.00 EUR 136.40
70 BERARD Christian Jacques, based on

La danse

EUR 30.00 - 50.00 EUR 130.20
  • 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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