• 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.
  • 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€
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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts - Session 5

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Autographs, and Manuscripts - Session 5 Total Sales (EUR) 243,151.00
Auction Date March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 95,280.00
Sale Number #58e High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 95,280.00
Total Lots 147
Sold Lots 132 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 107,110.00
% of Lots Sold 89.80% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 107,110.00
Unsold Lots 15 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 227.01%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
577 Ortelius Abraham

Ortelius Abraham, Theatrum orbis terrarum. (Al colophon) Antverpiae: Auctoris aere & cura impressum absolutumque apud Aegid. Coppenium Diesth, xx Maii 1570).

1570 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 28,980.00
573 Napier John

Napier John, Rabdologiae, seu numerationis per virgulas libri duo... Edinburgi: excudebat Andreas Hart, 1617.

1617 EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00 EUR 23,940.00
530 Huygens Christiaan

Huygens Christiaan, Horologium oscillatorium, sive de motu pendulorum ad horologia aptato demonstrationes geometricae. Parisiis: apud F. Muguet, 1673.

1673 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 22,680.00
519 Gouvea Antonio (de)

Gouvea Antonio (de), Innocentia victrix sive sententia Comitiorum Imperij Sinici... In Quam cheu metropoli provinciae Quam tum in regno Sinarum [i.e. Canton], 1671.

1671 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
655 Wilkins Charles

Wilkins Charles, The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon; in Eighteen Lectures; with Notes. Translated from the original, in the Sanskreet, or ancient language of the Brahmans... London: Printed for C. Nourse, 1785.

1785 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 11,970.00
516 Ghisi Andrea

Ghisi Andrea, Laberinto dato novamente in luce [...] nel quale si vede M. CC. LX. figure... In Venetia: per Euangelista Deuchino, 1616.

1616 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 8,820.00
590 Paulus [papa III]

Paulus [papa III], Privilegia, gratiae, favores, immvnitates, exemptiones, et indvlta Canonicorvm regvlarivm S. Saluatoris, Ordinis. S. Augustini... (Al colophon:) Datum Romae in Camera apostolica sub anno a Nativitate Domini Millesimo quingentesimo quadr

1549 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,930.00
523 Hauy Rene-Just

Hauy Rene-Just, Traite de mineralogie. Paris: Bachelier, 1822-23.

1822 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 5,796.00
539 Kepler Johannes

Kepler Johannes, Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae... Francofurti: impensis Ioannis Godefridi Schonwetteri: excudebat Iohan-Fridericus Weissius, 1635.

1635 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 5,292.00
553 List Friedrich

List Friedrich, Das nationale System der politischen Oekonomie... Stuttgart und Tubingen: J. G. Cotta 1841.

1841 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 5,292.00
649 Vergilius Maro Publius

Vergilius Maro Publius, Vergilius cum commentarijs & figuris... (Al colophon:) Impressa vero Venetiis: summa diligentia per Gregorium de Gregoriis impensis vero d. Lucae Antonii de giunta, 1522. die. XX. mensis Nouembris.

1522 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 4,788.00
620 Roubo Andre Jacob

Roubo Andre Jacob, L'art du menuisier... [Parigi: de l'imprimerie de L. F. Delatour], 1769-1775.

1769 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 4,536.00
602 Pius [papa V]

Pius [papa V], Extensio, ampliatio, nova concessio, et confirmatio privilegiorum [...] in sacros ordines, et congregationes claustrales. Pro Canonicis regularibus Ordinis S. Augustini Congregationis domini Salvatoris. Romae: apud haeredes Antonij Bladij,

1567 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,032.00
622 Sacrobosco Ioannes (de)

Sacrobosco Ioannes (de), Spherae tractatus... (Al colophon:) Venetiis: Luceantonii Iunte Florentini, 1531.

1531 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,276.00
543 Le Lorrain Claude

Le Lorrain Claude, Liber Veritatis; or a Collection of Prints [...] Volume the First [- the Third]. London: Messrs. Boydell and Co. Cheapside, 1818-1819.

1818 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 3,024.00
515 Gesuiti

Gesuiti, Lettere annue del Giappone dell'anno 1622. E della Cina del 1621 & 1622... In Milano: appresso Gio. Battista Cerri, 1627.

1627 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,772.00
548 Leopardi Giacomo

Leopardi Giacomo, Canti. Firenze: Presso Guglielmo Piatti, 1831.

1831 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,772.00
563 Marmora Andrea

Marmora Andrea, Della historia di Corfu [...] Libri otto. Venetia: presso il Curti, 1672.

1672 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,772.00
626 Serlio Sebastiano

Serlio Sebastiano, Il primo libro [-secondo] d'architettura, di Sabastiano Serlio, bolognese... A Paris: [Jean Barbe], 1545.

1545 EUR 2,200.00 - 2,200.00 EUR 2,772.00
547 Leopardi Giacomo

Leopardi Giacomo, Operette morali del conte Giacomo Leopardi. Milano: Presso Ant. Fort. Stella e Figli, 1827.

1827 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,520.00
648 Vecellio Cesare

Vecellio Cesare, Habiti antichi ouero Raccolta di figure delineate dal gran Titiano, e da Cesare Vecellio suo fratello, diligentemente intagliate, conforme alle nationi del mondo... In Venetia: per Combi, & LaNou, 1664.

1664 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 2,394.00
561 Manuzio Aldo

Manuzio Aldo, Institutionum grammaticarum libri quatuor... Venetiis: apud Ioannem Andream Valvassorium cognomine Guadagninum, 1552.

1552 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 2,016.00
564 Masini Eliseo

Masini Eliseo, Sacro arsenale, overo Prattica dell'officio della S. Inquisitione ampliata. In Roma: appresso gl'heredi del Corbelletti, 1639. (Al colophon:) In Roma: nella stamperia degl'heredi di Francesco Corbelletti, 1640.

1639 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,016.00
576 Nieuhof Johan

Nieuhof Johan, Legatio Batavica ad magnum tartariae Chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem. Historiarum narratione, quae legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking [...] ab anno 1655 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt... Amstelodami: ap

1668 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,016.00
593 Pesenti Giovanni Paolo

Pesenti Giovanni Paolo, Pellegrinaggio di Gierusalemme fatto, e descritto per Gio. Paolo Pesenti... In Bergamo: Comin Ventura, 1615.

1615 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 2,016.00
  • 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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