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.

Back

Pierre Berge and Associes: The apartments of the XVIth #6

Auction Reports


Auction Name	The apartments of the XVIth #6	Total Sales (EUR)	9,376.00
Auction Date	February 19, 2025 - February 19, 2025	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	3,730.00
Sale Number	#160920	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	5,430.00
Total Lots	41
Sold Lots	32	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	5,210.00
% of Lots Sold	78.05%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	7,730.00
Unsold Lots	9	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	121.29%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
68		PLEIADES. Contemporary literature. Set of 25 volumes		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 975.00
69		PLEIADES. Nineteenth-century classics. Set of 21 volumes (with slipcase).		EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 650.00
72		PLEIADES. American literature. Set of 19 volumes (with slipcases)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 650.00
65	BAUDELAIRE (Charles).	Les Paradis artificiels. Opium and hashish.	1861	EUR 300.00 - 500.00	EUR 632.00
70		PLEIADES. Foreign literature. Set of 17 volumes (with slipcases)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 585.00
71		PLEIADES. Anglo-Saxon literature. Set of 16 volumes (most with slipcases)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 585.00
54	ANCILLON (Frederic).	Tableau des revolutions du systeme politique de l'Europe, depuis la fin du XVe siecle. New edition (...).	1823	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 569.00
49		Manette. Reunion of 17 titles (most incomplete) in 52 in-12 volumes, 18th century binding, including:		EUR 200.00 - 400.00	EUR 520.00
66		PLEIADES. Eighteenth-century classical literature. Set of 14 volumes (with slipcase)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 455.00
73		PLEIADES. Literature. Set of 15 volumes		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 455.00
67		PLEIADES. Spanish-language literature. Set of 12 volumes (with slipcases)		EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 442.00
177	After Horace VERNET.	Les Enfants de Paris devant Witepsk - Russian Campaign.	1840	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 416.00
223B	Maurice DUFRENE (1876-1955)	Silk department Lithographic poster For a one-act opera-bouffe, music by Manuel Rosenthal. First performed at the Opera-Comique on June 3, 1930.	Circa 1930	EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 260.00
223	Paul JOUVE (1878-1973), After	L'elephant		EUR 80.00 - 120.00	EUR 234.00
61	[Claude JOLY].	Recueil de Maximes veritables et importantes pour l'institution du Roy, contre la fausse et pernicieuse politique du Cardinal de Mazarin, pretendu Sur-Intendant de l'education de Sa Majeste.	1653	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 202.00
55	BULL (Georges).	Defensio fidei Nicaenae, ex scriptis, quae exstant, catholicorum doctorum (...).	1688	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 190.00
60		QUINTE CURCE. De Rebus gestis Alexandri magni (...) Supplementum.	(1545).	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 182.00
45	DIOGENE.	Diogenis laertii de vita et moribus philosophorum libri X (...).	1560	EUR 80.00 - 100.00	EUR 156.00
44	ARISTOTE.	Aristotelis stagiritae. Rhetoricorum libri tres. Eiusdem De Poetica liber unus (...).	1644-1645.	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 143.00
42	MARMONTEL.	Moral tales (...).	1775	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 130.00
52	DU PERRAY (Michel).	Traite historique et chronologique des Dixmes, suivant les conciles, constitutions canoniques, ordonnances & coutumes du Royaume, conformement aux Arrets (...). Nouvelle edition revue, corrigee et augmentee par Mt J. Louis BRUNET (...).	1748	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 126.00
56		Manette Miscellaneous books, 17th, 18th and 19th editions, set of 32 volumes including:		EUR 50.00 - 80.00	EUR 126.00
43	[LE VAYER DE BOUTIGNY (Roland)].	Tarsis and Zelie. New edition.	1774	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 104.00
50		BOILEAU-DESPREAUX. Oeuvres (...). Avec des eclaircissemens historiques donnes par lui-meme, & rediges par M. Brossette ; augmentees de plusieurs pieces, tant de l'auteur, qu'ayant rapport a ses ouvrages ; avec des remarques & des dissertations critiques.	1772	EUR 100.00 - 150.00	EUR 101.00
62	[Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU].	Collection of three texts: - Eloge de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (...).	1778	EUR 60.00 - 80.00	EUR 78.00

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.

Ask Questions