• 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€
  • 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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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts - Session 4

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts - Session 4 Total Sales (EUR) 181,343.00
Auction Date March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 77,460.00
Sale Number #58d High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 77,460.00
Total Lots 149
Sold Lots 129 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 88,320.00
% of Lots Sold 86.58% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 88,320.00
Unsold Lots 20 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 205.33%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
457 Champollion Jean Francois

Champollion Jean Francois, Lettre a m. Dacier, secretaire perpetuel de l'Academie Royale des inscription et belles-lettres, relative a l'alphabet des hieroglyphes phonetiques employes par les egiptiens... A Paris: chez Firmin Didot pere et fils, 1822.

1822 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 31,500.00
432 Borel Pierre

Borel Pierre, De vero telescopii inventore [...] Accessit etiam Centuria observationum microscopicarum... Hagae-Comitum: ex typographia Adriani Vlacq, 1655.

1655 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 27,720.00
380

La Corsica a suoi figli. In Campoloro: per Domenico Ascione impressore camerale, 1760.

1760 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 22,680.00
485 Diophantus Alexandrinus

Diophantus Alexandrinus, Arithmeticorum libri sex et De numeris multangulis liber unus... Tolosae: excudebat Bernardus Bosc, e regione Collegij Societatis Iesu, 1670.

1670 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
430 Bordone Benedetto

Bordone Benedetto, Isolario [...] Nel qual si ragiona di tutte l'isole del mondo... 1547 (Al colophon:) In Vinegia: ad instantia & spese del Nobile huomo Federico Toresano, 1547.

1547 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 7,560.00
507 Foscolo Ugo

Foscolo Ugo, La chioma di Berenice poema di Callimaco tradotto da Valerio Catullo volgarizzato ed illustrato da Ugo Foscolo. Milano: dal Genio Tipografico, 1803.

1803 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,284.00
482 Descartes Rene

Descartes Rene, Geometria, a Renato Des Cartes anno 1637 Gallice edita; nunc autem cum notis Florimondi de Beaune, ... in linguam Latinam versa, & commentariis illustrata, opera atque studio Francisci a Schooten, Leydensis... Lugduni Batavorum: ex officin

1649 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 3,780.00
429 Boodt Anselm Boece (de)

Boodt Anselm Boece (de), Le Parfaict Ioaillier, ou Histoire des Pierreries: ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, iuste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facultez medecinales, & proprietez curieuses... A Lyon, chez Jean-An

1644 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,394.00
447 Castiglione Baldassarre

Castiglione Baldassarre, Il libro del cortegiano del conte Baldesar Castiglione. (Al colophon:) In Venetia, nelle case d'Aldo Romano, & d'Andrea d'Asola suo suocero, 1528 del mese d'Aprile.

1528 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,394.00
498 Fernandez de Navarrete Domingo

Fernandez de Navarrete Domingo, Tratados historicos, politicos, ethicos y religiosos de la monarchia de China [...] Anadense los decretos pontificios, y propositiones calificadas en Roma para la mission chinica... En Madrid: en la Imprenta Real por Iuan G

1676 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,394.00
451 Cavalieri Bonaventura

Cavalieri Bonaventura, Geometria indivisibilibus continuorum noua quadam ratione promota. Authore p. Bonauentura Caualerio... Bononiae: ex typographia de Duccijs,1653.

1653 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 2,268.00
396 Acquaviva Andrea Matteo, Plutarchus

Acquaviva Andrea Matteo, Plutarchus, Quae hic contineantur: haec sunt Plutarchi de virtute morali libellus Graecus. Eiusdem libelli translatio... (Al colophon:) Neapoli: ex officina Antonii de Fritiis Corinaldini ciuisque Neapo., 1526 Iunio Mense.

1526 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,890.00
411 Bacon Roger, Bungay Thomas

Bacon Roger, Bungay Thomas, The Most Famous History of the Learned Fryer Bacon... London: Printed for Tho[mas] Norris, [1700].

1700 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,764.00
455 Cervantes Saavedra Miguel (de)

Cervantes Saavedra Miguel (de), L'ingegnoso cittadino Don Chisciotte della Mancia. Composto da Michel di Ceruantes Saauedra... In Roma: nella stamperia di Giuseppe Coruo, e Bartolomeo Lupardi impres. camer., 1677.

1677 EUR 700.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,638.00
372

Raccolta di 116 bandi medicei. Datati seconda meta del XVII secolo -- inizio XVIII secolo.

1700 EUR 90.00 - 90.00 EUR 1,512.00
406 Ariosto Ludovico

Ariosto Ludovico, Orlando furioso [...] ornato di varie figure con alcune stanze, et Cinque canti d'un nuovo libro... In Vinegia: appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari e fratelli, 1551.

1551 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,260.00
480 Denon Dominique Vivant

Denon Dominique Vivant, Viaggio nel basso e alto Egitto illustrato dietro alle tracce e ai disegni del Sig. Denon. Firenze: Giuseppe Tofani, 1808.

1808 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,260.00
399 Alighieri Dante

Alighieri Dante, [La Commedia [...] con la nova esposizione di Alessandro Vellutello]. (Al colophon:) Impressa in Vinegia: per Francesco Marcolini, 1544.

1544 EUR 380.00 - 380.00 EUR 1,134.00
433 Borelli Giovanni Alfonso

Borelli Giovanni Alfonso, De vi percussionis, et motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, sive introductiones & illustrationes physico-mathematicae apprime necessariae ad opus ejus intelligendum De motu animalium [...] Editio prima Belgica... Lugdu

1686 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,134.00
387

Raccolta di 83 opuscoli relativi all'arte telegrafica, ai fossili metallici, alle miniere, all'arte del ferro, ai pesci, ai fiumi, alla torre di Pisa, alla storia toscana, alliagraria, agli animali, alle banche, alla religione ecc. Datati XVII-XX secolo.

1800 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,071.00
497 Felibien Andre

Felibien Andre, Description de l'Arc de La Place Dauphine presentee a Son Eminence... Paris: Chez Le Petit Pierre, 1660.

1660 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 1,071.00
395

Raccolta di 77 pubblicazioni per nozze. Datate 1801 -- prima meta del XX secolo.

1900 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,008.00
441 Caggio Paolo

Caggio Paolo, Iconomica... In Vinegia: al Segno del Pozzo, 1552.

1552 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,008.00
466 Clavius Christophorus

Clavius Christophorus, In sphaeram Ioannis de Sacro Bosco commentarius... Romae: Ex Officina Domenici Basae, 1581.

1581 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,008.00
425 Boccaccio Giovanni

Boccaccio Giovanni, Il Decamerone di m. Giovanni Boccaccio. Tomo 1. [-5.]. Londra [i.e. Parigi]: [Prault], 1757.

1757 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,000.00
  • 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.
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