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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.
Duke's: Sporting and Natural History
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Sporting and Natural History | Total Sales (GBP) | 3,913.00 |
Auction Date | February 26, 2025 - February 26, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 2,340.00 |
Sale Number | #1116 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 4,340.00 |
Total Lots | 44 | ||
Sold Lots | 33 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 3,150.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 75.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 5,930.00 |
Unsold Lots | 11 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 65.99% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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130 | EJ MALONE | 'IRISH TROUT AND SALMON FLIES' 1984 |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 390.00 | |
249 | A VINTAGE 'SPRATT'S CHICKEN AND POULTRY MEALS' ENAMEL SIGN |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 338.00 | ||
246 | A 'KYNOCH CARTRIDGES' DOUBLE-SIDED ENAMEL SIGN |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 312.00 | ||
253 | GEORGE A. SHORT (1856-1945) | 'Grouse Nestle on a Moorland' |
1901 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 312.00 |
314 | TOM CARR (1912-1977) | Two Hunting Prints |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 312.00 | |
245 | AN 'ELEY CARTRIDGES SOLD HERE' ENAMEL DOUBLE-SIDED SHOP SIGN |
GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 286.00 | ||
132 | HALFORD, F.M. | 'FLOATING FLIES AND HOW TO DRESS THEM' |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 182.00 | |
110 | CHRIS TURNBULL (b. 1950) | 'Crucian Carp Jumping Out Of Lily Pads' |
GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 156.00 | |
272 | GERMAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY | A Pair of Bird Studies |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 156.00 | |
281 | THE HAY CASTLE GAME DIARY 1906-1955 |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 156.00 | ||
276 | KYNOCH LTD, LION WORKS, WITTON, BIRMINGHAM: A PRESENTATION COPY OF AN 1882 CATALOGUE |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 143.00 | ||
251 | A KYNOCH "BONAX" CARTRIDGE SHOP ADVERTISING SIGN |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 130.00 | ||
131 | HALFORD, FREDERICK M. | 'DRY FLY FISHING IN THEORY AND PRACTICE' |
1889 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 117.00 |
336 | RICHARD 'DICK' CURTIS | A HAND COLOURED ENGRAVING |
1820 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 91.00 |
134 | MOSELY, MARTIN E, F.E.S. | 'THE DRY-FLY FISHERMAN'S ENTOMOLOGY' |
1886 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 65.00 |
137 | KELSON, GEORGE | 'THE LAND AND WATER SALMON FLIES 1886-1902' |
1993 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 |
247 | AN 'ELEY CARTRIDGES SOLD HERE' SHOP ADVERTISING SIGN |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | ||
267 | A. THIELE (1841-1919) | 'The Highlands Monarch' |
GBP 20.00 - 40.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
315 | AFTER SIR FRANCIS GRANT (1803-1878) | 'Earl of Portsmouth' |
GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 65.00 | |
248 | 'THE WESTERN GAME FARM LTD' SIGN |
circa 1930s | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 58.50 | |
278 | EDWARDS, LIONEL AND WALLACE, HAROLD FRANK | "HUNTING AND STALKING THE DEER" |
GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 58.50 | |
126 | HARDY'S ANGLERS' GUIDE |
1931 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 39.00 | |
127 | A HARDY'S 1954 ANGLERS GUIDE AND CATALOGUE |
1954 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 39.00 | |
135 | YOUNGER, JOHN | 'RIVER ANGLING FOR SALMON AND TROUT' |
1995 | GBP 50.00 - 100.00 | GBP 39.00 |
136 | WALKER, RICHARD | 'NO NEED TO LIE' |
1964 | GBP 30.00 - 50.00 | GBP 39.00 |