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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, 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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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€
Maison Bibelot: Two Florentine Houses
Auction Reports
Auction Name | Two Florentine Houses | Total Sales (EUR) | 10,833.10 |
Auction Date | February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 5,210.00 |
Sale Number | #303 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 7,290.00 |
Total Lots | 106 | ||
Sold Lots | 88 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 6,280.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 83.02% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 8,740.00 |
Unsold Lots | 18 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 123.95% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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189 | Macchina aereobatica fabbricata e diretta da Francesco Orlandi |
first half of the 19th century | EUR 300.00 - 400.00 | EUR 1,041.40 | |
193 | Militaria: National Soldier Medal for the War of Lombardy 1848 |
1849 | EUR 60.00 - 80.00 | EUR 330.20 | |
581 | L'Ekonoscope - Le Mulin a Vent |
late 19th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 330.20 | |
746 | Almanacs and Court Calendars |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 330.20 | ||
166 | Vintage military curiosity a daguerreotype and a cross of the Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis, in a frame |
EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 279.40 | ||
582 | L'Ekonoscope - Le Saut Perilleux |
late 19th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 279.40 | |
178 | Jules Alexandre Grun (1868 - 1934) | Gaite, Rochechouart - T'en as un flair! |
EUR 200.00 - 300.00 | EUR 254.00 | |
130 | Two pages of parchment antiphonary |
16th/17th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 228.60 | |
155 | Charles Levy | Cirque d'Ete |
(19th-20th century) | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 203.20 |
182 | L'Ekonoscope - Le singe e le chien |
late 19th century | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 203.20 | |
157 | Henry Gray (1858 - 1924) | Concert Europeen, circa 1895 |
EUR 150.00 - 250.00 | EUR 190.50 | |
244 | Matthaus Merian (1593 - 1650) | State of the Church with Tuscany |
EUR 50.00 - 60.00 | EUR 177.80 | |
760 | Giovanni Boccaccio | The Decameron by M. Giovanni Boccaccio |
1802 | EUR 80.00 - 100.00 | EUR 177.80 |
781 | Miscellany of books on the Orders of Chivalry |
EUR 120.00 - 200.00 | EUR 177.80 | ||
791 | Niccolo Giorgetti, | Le armi toscane e le occupazioni straniere in Toscana (1537-1860) |
1916 | EUR 120.00 - 160.00 | EUR 177.80 |
240 | Francisco Goya (\u0001, 1746 - \u0001, 1828) | No quieren |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 165.10 | |
293 | Viaggio da Firenze a Roma 1771 |
EUR 80.00 - 120.00 | EUR 165.10 | ||
720 | Telemaco Signorini (1835 - 1901) | A Settignano |
EUR 30.00 - 40.00 | EUR 165.10 | |
773 | Miscellany of books on historical topics: from Grand Ducal Tuscany to the Napoleonic Age |
EUR 40.00 - 60.00 | EUR 165.10 | ||
116 | Militaria d'epoca |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 152.40 | ||
778 | Miscellany of books on Orders and decorations |
EUR 120.00 - 160.00 | EUR 152.40 | ||
780 | Miscellany of books on Orders, decorations, medals |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 152.40 | ||
144 | Charles Levy | Ambassadors |
(19th-20th century) | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 139.70 |
151 | Antoni Utrillo Viadera (1867 - 1944) | Cafe de Novedades Barcelona |
EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 139.70 | |
176 | Ferdinand III [...] Grand Duke of Tuscany | 1814 document of appointment as "Ensign in the Second French Royal Regiment", printed and manuscript, with a grand ducal wax seal, framed |
1814 | EUR 100.00 - 150.00 | EUR 139.70 |