• 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.
  • 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€
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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) 3,780.12
Auction Date February 22, 2025 - February 22, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 4,775.00
Sale Number #22225 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 6,850.00
Total Lots 42
Sold Lots 42 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 4,775.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 6,850.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 55.18%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
93672806 Basilius Besler / Joachim Camerarius / Sebastian Schedel

Hortus Eystettensis, carnation, clove pink or dianthus flowers

1613 EUR 450.00 - 900.00 EUR 425.10
93673955 Basilius Besler / Joachim Camerarius / Sebastian Schedel

Hortus Eystettensis, geraniums or cranesbills flowers

1613 EUR 400.00 - 950.00 EUR 392.40
93683413 Antonio Tempesta

Serie di incisioni sui cavalli

1600 EUR 600.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 354.25
93603311 Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)

1493 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 201.65
93697735 Lyon, de Tournes, 1554/1564

8 Bibel - Holzschnitte von Bernhard Salomon

1564/1554 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 166.77
93603281 Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)

1493 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 164.59
93697723 Strassburg, J. Schott, 1522. J. Geiler von Kaisersberg u. Postill, Teutsch Ewangeli und Epistel.

3 Grosse Holzschnitte der Postinkunabelzeit von Wechtlin und des Meisters "IS" mit der Schaufel.

1516/1522 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 153.69
93712448

Ulrich Tengler & Johann Albrecht - Large Woodcut - Layenspiegel - Rome - 1538

1538 Not Available EUR 110.09
93712478

Jacopo Filippo Foresti (1434--1520) - Very rare large woodcut - Cain and Abel - 1520

1520 Not Available EUR 109.00
93510996 Conrad Gesner

Vogelbuch

1598 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 98.10
93619175

Hans Schauffelein - In Dutch. Lucius Martius - Battle scene. Knights in armour.

1541 Not Available EUR 97.01
93394166 Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut / Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

The Nuremberg Chronicle

1493 Not Available EUR 94.83
93635555

Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Capercaillie, Ortolan Bunting, Goldcrest, ornithology,

1669 Not Available EUR 92.65
93674685

Paul van Somers [Francis Willoughby] Grey Triggerfish, Capriscus : Fish Ichthyology

1686 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 76.30
93511226 Conrad Gesner

Vogelbuch

1598 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 71.94
93601322 Conrad Gesner

Fischbuch

1598 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 70.85
93707455

Johann Joachim Becher (1635-1682) - Incunabula, Zoology - Bear - Ursus

1662 Not Available EUR 66.49
93618288

Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Mussels, Conch, folio with 7 hand coloured woodcuts

1669 Not Available EUR 65.40
93631680

Matthaus Merian (1593-1650) - Two Bears with Handler

1657 Not Available EUR 65.40
93603165 Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut/ Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

The Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum)

1493 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 64.31
93575997 Conrad Gesner

Fischbuch

1598 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 59.95
93604437 Sebastian Munster

Cosmographia

1590 EUR 170.00 - 200.00 EUR 59.95
93618136

Conrad Gesner [1516-1565], Konrad Gessner - Crow, Raven [Cornix], ornithology, folio hand coloured

1669 Not Available EUR 59.95
93696400

Mattioli, P.A. - 2 folios, 6 woodcuts, Botany: Geranium, Ambrosia, Boxthorn

1554 Not Available EUR 59.95
93394965 Hartmann Schedel / Michael Wolgemut / Wilhelm Pleydenwurff

The Nuremberg Chronicle

1493 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 54.50
  • 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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