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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.
Clars Auction Gallery: The Warehouse
Auction Reports
Auction Name | The Warehouse | Total Sales (USD) | 24,529.75 |
Auction Date | February 22, 2025 - February 22, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 16,575.00 |
Sale Number | #22225 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 27,580.00 |
Total Lots | 155 | ||
Sold Lots | 99 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 25,775.00 |
% of Lots Sold | 63.87% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 43,830.00 |
Unsold Lots | 56 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 55.97% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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6192 | One box of Major and Minor league 1950's era baseball cards |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 2,489.00 | ||
6880 | Maria Antonia Pinots de Matos | The RA Collection of Chinese Ceramics: A Collector?s Vision |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,572.00 | |
6565 | Boris O'Klein | Commes nos Maitres |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 982.50 | |
6611 | Erte | Symphony in Black |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 720.50 | |
6166 | Three shelves with canceled Stamps on letter |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 655.00 | ||
6290 | An assembled group of Merl Saunders and other music memorabilia and display stands |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | USD 589.50 | ||
6151 | Three posters designed by Joseph 'Joe' Jacinto Mora (1876-1947) |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 556.75 | ||
6575 | After Andy Warhol | Irving Blum Poster |
1969 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 556.75 |
6165 | Worldwide 19th and 20th Century Stamp Collection -- in six blue Scott International albums |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 524.00 | ||
6610 | Erte | Ebony in White |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 524.00 | |
6666 | Travels in the Interior of North America Volume IV |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 524.00 | ||
6234 | A double silhouette in giltwood frame |
19th century | USD 60.00 - 80.00 | USD 491.25 | |
6287 | A group of approximately forty-nine Merl Saunders and other music memorabilia in black frames |
USD 80.00 - 120.00 | USD 491.25 | ||
6596 | American School (20th century) | Block Colors |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 425.75 | |
6566 | Boris O'Klein | Private Bar |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 393.00 | |
6622 | Rene Gruau | Les Girls 1 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 393.00 | |
6614 | Josef Albers | Untitled (Blue Green) |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 360.25 | |
6822 | Japanese School (19th century) | Japanese School (19th century) |
circa 1870-1890 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 327.50 |
6174 | Thor/Marvel Comic book group of (250): over 250 mostly all different and sleeved ranging from 1978- |
1978- | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 294.75 | |
6575A | After Roy Lichtenstein | Arrow and Column |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 294.75 | |
6593 | After Bansky | Slave Labour |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 294.75 | |
6653 | After Salvador Dali | Pegasus |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 294.75 | |
6177 | Captain America/ Marvel comic grouping: over 280 Captain America comics circa 1976-2008 |
circa 1976-2008 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 262.00 | |
6200 | 'Naval sketches of the war in California No 5' |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 262.00 | ||
6577 | After Keith Haring | Lucky Strike |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 262.00 |