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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.
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [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](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
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Catawiki B. V.: Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700)
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Old and Rare Books Auction (pre-1700) | Total Sales (EUR) | 35,891.52 |
| Auction Date | March 03, 2025 - March 03, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 29,360.00 |
| Sale Number | #30325b | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 49,320.00 |
| Total Lots | 125 | ||
| Sold Lots | 98 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 43,000.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.40% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 70,270.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 27 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 51.08% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93786559 | Gratianus | Decretum |
1515 | EUR 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | EUR 3,815.00 |
| 93763313 | Libavius | Commentationum Metallicarum Libri Quatuor De Natura Metallorum, Mercurio Philosophorum, Azotho, Et |
1597 | EUR 1,200.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 3,597.00 |
| 93786432 | Poliziano | Opera |
1553 | EUR 1,400.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 3,379.00 |
| 93748590 | Agrippa | WITCHCRAFT & MAGIC |
1500 | EUR 1,000.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 3,218.77 |
| 93802748 | F. Grisone / Jost Amman (Illustr. in Volume II) | Hippokomike .Kunstlicher Bericht / Angebunden: Ritterliche Reutter Kunst |
1584/1599 | EUR 2,100.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 2,071.00 |
| 93812720 | Vannuccio Biringuccio | Li dieci libri della pirotechnia |
1550 | EUR 900.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 872.00 |
| 93777652 | Girolamo | La vita el transito & gli miracoli del beatissimo Sancto Hieronymo |
1519 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 785.89 |
| 93767649 | Longinus | Secretorum Magicorum |
1611 | EUR 400.00 - 700.00 | EUR 708.50 |
| 93767067 | M. Nostradamus | Les Propheties |
1600 | EUR 300.00 - 600.00 | EUR 655.09 |
| 93804319 | Guilliam van Parijs | De figueren van alle Goude ende Silvere pennin... |
1580 | EUR 650.00 - 1,400.00 | EUR 654.00 |
| 93797626 | Regius, Henricus | Philosophia Naturalis |
1654 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 630.02 |
| 93825040 | Terentius | Habes hic amice lector P. Terentii comoedias |
1538 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 630.02 |
| 93827406 | Bomanus, Matthesilanus, Petrafortia | Singularia plurimorum doctorum |
1535 | EUR 300.00 - 600.00 | EUR 608.22 |
| 93868357 | Guglielmo Grataroli, Mizauld | Harmonia coelestium corporum et humanorum, dialogis undecim astronomice, De conservanda valetudine |
1599 | EUR 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | EUR 501.40 |
| 93865138 | Johann Ludwig Gottfried | Historische Chronyck, Vervattende de Gedenkwaardighste Geschiedenissen - met 102 gravures |
1660 | EUR 375.00 - 450.00 | EUR 458.89 |
| 93840895 | Arias Montanus | Naturae Historia |
1601 | EUR 400.00 - 700.00 | EUR 431.64 |
| 93792175 | Giambattista della Porta | Physiognomoniae Coelestis |
1645 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 405.48 |
| 93823026 | Garzoni | L'Hospidale de' Pazzi Incurabili |
1589 | EUR 400.00 - 700.00 | EUR 381.50 |
| 93883863 | Olaus Magnus or Olof Mansson | Gentium Septentrionalium Historiae Breviarum or Brief History of the Northern Nations |
1669 | EUR 450.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 370.60 |
| 93711308 | Francesco Gucciardini | La historia d'Italia |
1562 | Not Available | EUR 348.80 |
| 93848943 | Simon van Leeuwen | Batavia Illustrata, ofte Hollandsche Chronyck |
1685 | EUR 325.00 - 500.00 | EUR 343.35 |
| 93819185 | Alessandro Tartagni | Alexandri Tartagni Imolensis iuriscons. celeberrimi In primam & secundam Infortiati commentaria : |
1450/1575 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 340.08 |
| 93856281 | Jean Bodin | Universae Naturae Theatrum |
1596 | EUR 350.00 - 400.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 93868813 | Martinus Schodel / Matthias Bernegger | Respublica et Status Regni Hungariae or Republic and State of the Kingdom of Hungary |
1634 | EUR 275.00 - 750.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 93774918 | Jeroen Jeroense = Hieronymus Sweerts (1629-1696). | Koddige en Ernstige Opschriften op Luyffens, Wagens,. Glazen, Uithangborden, en andere Taferelen. |
1690 | EUR 300.00 - 600.00 | EUR 294.30 |
