• 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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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
  • 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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