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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.
Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Autographs and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 6,779.80 |
Auction Date | February 16, 2025 - February 16, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 8,890.00 |
Sale Number | #21625a | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 11,420.00 |
Total Lots | 50 | ||
Sold Lots | 44 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 10,470.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 88.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 14,070.00 |
Unsold Lots | 6 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 48.19% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
93531552 | Doge Marcantonio Giustiniani, nuova nobilta veneta | Raccolta suppliche per aggregazione alla nobilta veneziana per l anno 1684, 10 febbraio |
1684 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,600.00 | EUR 1,308.00 |
93494157 | Plusieurs savants anciens | Deux anciens manuscrits arabe ; astronomie et philosophie 1616 |
1616 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | EUR 599.50 |
93536081 | Cinq grands savants arabes 1800 | Differents sujets des sciences islamique anciennes |
1821 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 | EUR 523.20 |
93564371 | Ibn Sina, Canon Medicinae - lqnwn fy lTb | Materia Medica, Medizin-Handschriften, Drogen, Safte, Lehre, Pathologie, Anatomie, al-Andalus |
1450/1420 | EUR 425.00 - 800.00 | EUR 414.20 |
93477048 | Queen Elizabeth II & Prince Philip | MBE Awarded To Archibald Lees with Document, Medals, Letters, Book, Scrapbook |
1964 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | EUR 403.30 |
92513739 | Anoniem | Original Manuscript from a Latin Bible - [France - ca. 13th century] |
1250 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 392.40 |
93575630 | Onbekend | Fragment van Griekse brief op Papyrus 6e - 7e eeuw |
600 | EUR 210.00 - 250.00 | EUR 347.71 |
93476449 | [King William V- Prince of Orange era] | Vellum Dutch Law Document with Wax Seals |
1782 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 225.63 |
93481857 | "Codex of Aleppo" - Masoretic Bible manuscript |
Not Available | EUR 218.00 | ||
93564974 | Bible-Aaron ben Moshe ben Asher, Scripture Scholar | Progenitors of Israel- Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, Victim laws, Egypt, Deer Skin |
1350/1370 | EUR 160.00 - 350.00 | EUR 179.85 |
93501400 | Manager of estates of the Lords De La Croix de Maubray | Belge account book. Manuscript ca. 142 leaves + a lot authograph letters documents |
1788/1760 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 148.24 |
93518246 | Amazigh | Houten Amazigh huwelijkscontracten met stempel |
1930 | EUR 140.00 - 180.00 | EUR 146.06 |
93520937 | Priester | Miseso |
1980 | Not Available | EUR 134.07 |
92932365 | Manuscript | Original leaf from a latin breviary ca. 14th century |
1350 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 130.80 |
93449960 | anonimo | SACROSANTAE VASILICAE |
1779 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 130.80 |
93523214 | [Revolution Francaise - Terreur] Comite Revolutionnaire Commune.Affranchie (Lyon) | Certificat d'allaitement signe pour l'epouse du Citoyen Hallard |
1794 | EUR 180.00 - 210.00 | EUR 124.26 |
93542150 | Louis XV [secretaire] | brevet signe, contresigne par Choiseul et par Louis de Bourbon |
1765 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 122.08 |
93545518 | (French Atelier) | Manuscript; "Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century |
1400 | Not Available | EUR 119.90 |
93486088 | Ignoto | Atto Notarile, Signum Tabellionis, Francia |
1871/1689 | Not Available | EUR 92.65 |
93489602 | Gregorianisches Gesangsblatt |
1400 | EUR 120.00 - 150.00 | EUR 83.93 | |
93223318 | Anoniem | Manuscript sheet from a Book of Hours - 15th century |
1450 | Not Available | EUR 77.39 |
93545562 | (French Atelier) | Manuscript; "Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century |
1400 | Not Available | EUR 75.21 |
93476919 | Gregorianisches Gesangsblatt |
1400 | Not Available | EUR 74.12 | |
93545600 | (French Atelier) | Manuscript; "Amazing Illuminated Medieval Latin Leaf on Vellum" - XV century |
1400 | Not Available | EUR 69.76 |
93565563 | Seldschuken sljwqyn , Khan Alp Arslan, Wesir Nezam al-Molk | Koran Handschrift, Oghusischer Stamm der Kinik, Kreuzzuge, Konya Sultanat, 13.Jhd |
1250/1280 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 61.04 |