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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) | 22,043.07 |
| Auction Date | February 24, 2025 - February 24, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 20,480.00 |
| Sale Number | #22425b | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 27,730.00 |
| Total Lots | 71 | ||
| Sold Lots | 56 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 27,195.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.87% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 43,780.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 15 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 50.35% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93665915 | Tadeas Hajek , Joannes Hispalensis ,Klaudiusz Plometeusz | Albumasar -- De Magnis Coniunctionibus Astrologica Opuscula Antiqua \t*\tFragmentum astrologicum vetus |
1564/1515 | EUR 6,600.00 - 7,700.00 | EUR 8,175.00 |
| 93644488 | Jean Petit; [Saint Augustin] | Secunda pars opusculorum divi Augustini qua hec cotinentur [Reliure en veau sur ais de bois] |
1503 | EUR 1,600.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 1,428.99 |
| 93620893 | Claudio Galeno | Claudii Galeni Pergameni, De Sanitate Tuenda |
1549 | EUR 350.00 - 600.00 | EUR 1,199.00 |
| 93718927 | Francois Combefis [Patrologie] | Bibliotheca patrum concionatoria, hoc est anni totius evangelia festa dominica.. |
1662 | EUR 750.00 - 900.00 | EUR 708.50 |
| 93630592 | Joseph Lambert | Ordonnance et evaluation des monnaies d'or et d'argent |
1548 | EUR 500.00 - 800.00 | EUR 610.40 |
| 93681849 | [LUTHER BIBLE] - Biblia, das ist die gantze Heilige Schrifft dess Alten und Neuen Testaments |
1691 | EUR 500.00 - 850.00 | EUR 610.40 | |
| 93570492 | Polybe | Les Cinq premiers Livres des Histoires de Polybe Megalopolitein |
1558 | EUR 850.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 491.59 |
| 93631065 | Jacobus Meyerus | Compendium Chronicorum Flandriae |
1538 | EUR 700.00 - 900.00 | EUR 457.80 |
| 93108431 | Mercuriale, Girolamo 1530-1606 / Christophori Coriolani | De arte gymnastica libri sex Hieronymi Mercurialis De arte gymnastica: libri sex, in quibus |
1672 | EUR 500.00 - 750.00 | EUR 447.99 |
| 93475993 | P.C. Hooft | Nederlandsche Historien [...] met het Vervolg |
1677 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 441.45 |
| 93687109 | Farinacci | Prosperi Farinacii Praxis, et theorica criminalis amplissima : quatuor titulis partita |
1618/1620 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 428.37 |
| 93672856 | Hieronymus Verdussen | Caerte oft Lyste |
1620 | EUR 375.00 - 550.00 | EUR 392.40 |
| 93696047 | Joost de Damhouder / J. Monballyu / Jozef Dauwe | Practycke in civile saecken, seer nut, profijtelyck ende nodigh allen schouten, borghemeesteren, |
1626 | EUR 180.00 - 210.00 | EUR 386.95 |
| 93644702 | Giambattista (Giovan Battista) Marino | Die Wort-zucht-Peitschen dess Ritters Marino (Bethlehemitischer Kinder-Mord) |
1655 | EUR 200.00 - 350.00 | EUR 340.08 |
| 93662081 | Flavius Josephus | Flavius Josephus Hooghberoemde Joodsche Historien ende Boecken, noch Egesippus vande ellendighe |
1647 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 93573378 | Giovanni Boccaccio | Il Corbaccio |
1569 | EUR 200.00 - 350.00 | EUR 305.20 |
| 93674741 | PubliusVirgilius Maro, Germain Vaillant de Guelis Josephi Scaligeri | Et in eum Commentariones, & Paralipomena |
1575 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 305.20 |
| 93652618 | Cicero | Tomus secundus operum Marci Tullii Ciceronis |
1565 | Not Available | EUR 283.40 |
| 93685151 | - | Missale Romanum |
1668 | EUR 220.00 - 450.00 | EUR 261.60 |
| 93708506 | Pavel Stransky | Respublica Bohemiae or Bohemian Republic |
1634 | EUR 275.00 - 750.00 | EUR 261.60 |
| 93697634 | Respublica et status regni Hungariae |
1634 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 239.80 | |
| 93734985 | Johann Kanold | Neu-eroffnete Guldene Kunst-Pforte, Zu Allerhand raren Curiositaten/ Kunst- und Wissenschaften |
1755 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 223.45 |
| 93643540 | Sigmund Gelinius | Divi iustini philosophi ac Martyris opera non ... |
1565 | EUR 950.00 - 2,000.00 | EUR 219.09 |
| 93447069 | Petronio | Satiricon |
1610 | EUR 500.00 - 700.00 | EUR 208.19 |
| 93598653 | Guglielmo Peraldo | Summae Virtutum Ac Vitiorum 2 Tomi |
1554 | EUR 170.00 - 300.00 | EUR 197.29 |
