• Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts Sotheby'sSell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
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    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
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    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
  • GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025 GonnelliAuction 59Antique prints, paintings and mapsMay 20th 2025
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    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    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 AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration Dominic Winter AuctioneersMay 14Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    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 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 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 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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Heritage Auctions: Winter U.S. Colonial Currency Showcase Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name Winter U.S. Colonial Currency Showcase Auction Total Sales (USD) 220,949.20
Auction Date March 09, 2025 - March 09, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 101,000.00
Sale Number #62383 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 151,500.00
Total Lots 281
Sold Lots 281 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 101,000.00
% of Lots Sold 100.00% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 151,500.00
Unsold Lots 0 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 145.84%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
95123

Massachusetts December 7, 1775 22s PMG Choice Fine 15.

1775 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 12,000.00
95054

Continental Currency April 11, 1778 $30 PCGS Apparent Very Fine 35.

1778 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 7,500.00
95052

Continental Currency April 11, 1778 $4 Blue Counterfeit Detector PCGS Gem New 66PPQ.

1778 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 7,200.00
95053

Continental Currency April 11, 1778 $7 PCGS Extremely Fine 45.

1778 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 6,600.00
95281

Thirteen Framed Colonials 1771-86 Not Graded.

1771-86 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 4,920.00
95149

John Hart Signed New Jersey February 20, 1776 PS3 PMG About Uncirculated 55.

1776 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 4,320.00
95165

New Jersey March 25, 1776 PS6 PMG Choice Uncirculated 63.

1776 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 4,080.00
95081

Continental Loan Office in the State of New York Third Bill of Exchange for $36/180 Livres Tournois Payable at Paris July 8, 1779 PMG Choice Extremely Fine 45 EPQ.

1779 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,600.00
95272

Vermont February 1781 40s PCGS Banknote Very Fine 30 Details.

1781 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,600.00
95202

North Carolina April 2, 1776 $20 Rattlesnake PMG Very Fine 25.

1776 USD 720.00 - 1,080.00 USD 3,360.00
95010

Continental Currency November 29, 1775 $2 PMG About Uncirculated 55 EPQ.

1775 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 3,120.00
95039

Continental Currency February 17, 1776 $5 PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

1776 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 3,120.00
95050

Continental Currency May 20, 1777 $2-$3-$4 Partial Uncut Sheet of Three PMG Choice Very Fine 35.

1777 USD 1,400.00 - 2,100.00 USD 3,120.00
95121

Massachusetts August 18, 1775 20s PMG Choice Fine 15.

1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,120.00
95248

Rhode Island July 2, 1780 Half Sheet of Eight $5, $1, $7, $2, $8, $3, $20, $4 Remainders PMG Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ.

1780 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 3,120.00
95122

Massachusetts December 7, 1775 2s 8d PMG Choice Fine 15 Net.

1775 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,000.00
95120

Massachusetts August 18, 1775 5s PCGS Banknote Very Fine 30 Details.

1775 USD 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 USD 2,760.00
95136

New Hampshire June 28, 1776 1s PCGS Apparent Fine 15.

1776 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 2,280.00
95126

Massachusetts June 18, 1776 12s PMG Very Fine 25.

1776 USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 2,220.00
95009

Continental Currency May 10, 1775 $30 PCGS Banknote Choice About Unc 58 PPQ.

1775 USD 560.00 - 840.00 USD 2,040.00
95214

Pennsylvania April 25, 1759 PS5 PMG Very Fine 20.

1759 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,920.00
95229

Pennsylvania April 10, 1775 PS5 PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

1775 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,920.00
95216

Pennsylvania May 1, 1760 PS5 PMG Very Fine 25.

1760 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,860.00
95008

Continental Currency May 10, 1775 $8 PCGS Banknote About Unc 55 PPQ.

1775 USD 720.00 - 1,080.00 USD 1,680.00
95033

Continental Currency February 17, 1776 $2/3 PMG Choice Very Fine 35.

1776 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,680.00
  • Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th Ketterer Rare BooksAuction May 26th
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    Auction May 26th
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    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.
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