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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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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Autographs and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 8,634.98 |
| Auction Date | February 17, 2025 - February 17, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 15,205.00 |
| Sale Number | #21725a | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 19,135.00 |
| Total Lots | 71 | ||
| Sold Lots | 68 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 19,445.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 95.77% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 26,035.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 3 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 33.17% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93538596 | [Premier Empire] Le duc de Wellington | lettre autographe signee |
1839 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 708.50 |
| 93495841 | Wernher von Braun | photographie signee |
1970 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 600.59 |
| 93535663 | Alexandre de Beauharnais | Lettre signee |
1703 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 468.70 |
| 93537629 | [Premier Empire] Le general Montholon | document autographe signe deux fois, relatif a la succession de Napoleon Ier |
1821 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 358.61 |
| 93560145 | Louis Bonaparte, roi de Hollande | document autographe |
1807 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 328.09 |
| 93534093 | Joseph Bonaparte | Lettre autographe signee au sujet de la victoire de Dresde |
1813 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 93534872 | Jerome Bonaparte | Lettre autographe signee |
1808 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 261.60 |
| 93553674 | Charles VI de Habsbourg, Empereur du Saint-Empire [Kaiser Karl VI.] | lettre signee |
1712 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 250.70 |
| 93554112 | Hortense de Beauharnais | Lettre autographe |
1820 | EUR 325.00 - 400.00 | EUR 240.89 |
| 93543410 | Rodolphe Salis - Cabaret Le Chat noir a Montmartre | Lettre autographe signee a Mr Mallet |
1889 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 239.80 |
| 93565198 | Signed, Frank Stella | Hyena Stomp / Damascus Gate |
2014 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 239.80 |
| 93536697 | [Premier Empire] Le marechal Mac Donald | document signe portant egalement les signature du marechal Moreau et du general Rey |
1800 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 228.90 |
| 93463359 | Helmut Newton | The pearl necklace |
EUR 220.00 - 350.00 | EUR 218.00 | |
| 93515041 | [Premier Empire] | lettre adressee a Napoleon Ier par des Francais prisonniers de guerre en Angleterre |
1809 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 214.73 |
| 93523353 | Jean Cocteau | Poeme manuscrit - Seul |
1952 | EUR 190.00 - 300.00 | EUR 196.20 |
| 93493825 | Marcel Pagnol | Dessin autographe |
1950 | EUR 170.00 - 450.00 | EUR 185.30 |
| 93495118 | [Premier Empire] Madame Campan | emouvante lettre autographe signee |
1809 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 175.49 |
| 93487067 | Field Marshall Montgomery | Hand Written Letter |
1948 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 154.78 |
| 93573326 | [Signed] Fernando Botero | Studie mit einem mannlichen Modell |
2000 | EUR 160.00 - 220.00 | EUR 152.60 |
| 93537350 | Le Grand Conde | Lettre signee |
1677 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 141.70 |
| 93536424 | [Premier Empire] Le marechal Mortier | Lettre autographe signee au sujet de Napoleon |
1801 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 131.89 |
| 93536960 | [Premier Empire] Le marechal Moncey | lettre autographe signee |
1821 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 130.80 |
| 93495990 | Frank Borman [spationaute] | photographie signee |
1980 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 127.53 |
| 93541282 | Lazare Carnot | brevet signe |
1796 | Not Available | EUR 120.99 |
| 93472632 | Adolphe Cremieux (1796-1880) Leon Bourgeois (1851-1925) Pierre Baudin (1863-1917) Hommes politique | 7 lettres autograph signe |
1920/1878 | EUR 300.00 - 375.00 | EUR 119.90 |
