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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.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) | Total Sales (EUR) | 8,960.89 |
| Auction Date | February 20, 2025 - February 20, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 7,460.00 |
| Sale Number | #22025 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 12,475.00 |
| Total Lots | 39 | ||
| Sold Lots | 27 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 11,750.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 69.23% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 19,225.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 12 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 46.61% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 84417317 | Newton / Castiglione | Opuscula Mathematica, Philosophica et Philologica |
1744 | EUR 850.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 1,471.50 |
| 92321527 | Aristoteles / Casaubon | Operum Aristotelis Stagiritae |
1590 | EUR 400.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,202.27 |
| 93562789 | Ariosto / Dolce | Rime - Le Satire |
1560 | EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | EUR 654.00 |
| 92481551 | Tasso | Il Messaggiero / Discorso della Virtu Heroica et della Charita / Discorso della Virtu Feminile e |
1582 | EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 92582711 | Dolce / Ovidius | Le Trasformationi [Metamorfosi] |
1561 | EUR 550.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 93582302 | Ferrari | Practica Iudicialis [Aurea] |
1542 | EUR 350.00 - 600.00 | EUR 403.30 |
| 93349917 | Balbo | Tractatus de Prescriptionibus |
1532 | EUR 400.00 - 800.00 | EUR 381.50 |
| 92001937 | Boccaccio / Betussi | Della Geneologia de gli Dei |
1564 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 86195549 | Ovidius | Opera Omnia: Metamorphoseon, Amores, Heroides... |
1702 | EUR 150.00 - 300.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 92044531 | Botero | Detti Memorabili di Personaggi Illustri |
1608 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 261.60 |
| 92568825 | De Loyola | Esercitii Spirituali di S. Ignatio [24 Tavole] |
1673 | EUR 210.00 - 400.00 | EUR 257.24 |
| 90827197 | Cicero / Fausto da Longiano | Orationi Di Latine Fatte Italiane |
1556 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 249.61 |
| 93294931 | Palma | Historia della Famiglia Alferi [Alfieri] |
1694 | EUR 210.00 - 400.00 | EUR 228.90 |
| 93374025 | Diodorus Siculus / Baldelli | Delle Antiche Historie Favolose |
1547 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 93563722 | Valerius Maximus / Corradi | Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium |
1547 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 92289603 | Zuffi | Institutiones Criminales |
1667 | EUR 220.00 - 400.00 | EUR 207.10 |
| 93104641 | Cartari | Praxis et Theoricae Interrogandorum Reorum |
1618 | EUR 210.00 - 350.00 | EUR 207.10 |
| 93198424 | Appianus / Braccesi | Delle Guerre Civili de' Romani |
1538 | EUR 200.00 - 350.00 | EUR 187.48 |
| 92488637 | Homerus | Odyssea, Batrachomiomachia et Hymni Deorum |
1540 | EUR 200.00 - 350.00 | EUR 174.40 |
| 93444743 | Valerius Maximus | Dictorum Factorumque Memorabilium |
1538 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 174.40 |
| 92055887 | Manzotti | La Notte Saggia |
1775 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 152.60 |
| 93373211 | Castiglione / Ciccarelli | Il Cortegiano |
1606 | EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 146.06 |
| 92405603 | Musso | Delle Prediche Quadragesimali |
1588 | EUR 300.00 - 375.00 | EUR 132.98 |
| 93198422 | Terentius / Fabrini | Il Terentio Latino, Comentato in Lingua Toscana |
1565 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 94.83 |
| 93446292 | Horatius Flaccus / Fabrini da Fighine | L'Opere |
1573 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 94.83 |
