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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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Sothebys: Modern Discoveries
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Modern Discoveries | Total Sales (USD) | 321,183.00 |
| Auction Date | February 27, 2025 - February 27, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 215,600.00 |
| Sale Number | #N11782 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 305,300.00 |
| Total Lots | 28 | ||
| Sold Lots | 26 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 242,600.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 92.86% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 344,300.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 2 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 93.29% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 209 | Andrew Wyeth | Archie's Corner |
1953 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 60,960.00 |
| 253 | Marcel Duchamp | De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Selavy (La Boite-en-valise), serie B |
1946-54 | USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 50,800.00 |
| 261 | Salvador Dali | Poemes Secrets: Ten Plates (Michler/Lopsinger 189-98; Field 67-10) |
1967 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 25,400.00 |
| 265 | Joan Miro | Sans titre |
1950 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 24,130.00 |
| 204 | Marc Chagall | Springtime in the Meadow, from Daphnis and Chloe (Mourlot 314; see Cramer bks. 46) |
1961 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 17,780.00 |
| 264 | Joan Miro | La Captive (Dupin 489) |
1969 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 269 | Carlos Merida | Las tres doncellas |
1956 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 316 | Pablo Picasso | Cirque: ecuyere, femmes et spectateurs, dont un garagiste deguise (Bloch 1523; Baer 1539) |
1968 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 266 | Joan Miro | La Commedia dell'Arte VIII (Dupin 1113) |
1979 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 312 | Joan Miro | Serie noire et rouge: one plate (Dupin 35) |
1938 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 226 | After Pablo Picasso | Grande Maternite |
1963 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 276 | Jean Dubuffet | Parade nuptiale, from Cahier de l'Herne (Webel 1099) |
1973 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 280 | Andre Kertesz | Washington Square |
1954 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 9,525.00 |
| 313 | Joan Miro | Vers la gauche (Dupin 461) |
1968 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 248 | Mary Cassatt | Lady in Black, in a Loge, Facing Right (Breeskin 24) |
circa 1880 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 |
| 223 | Edward Hopper | The Bull Fight (Levin 50; Zigrosser 3) |
1912-22. | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 5,080.00 |
| 291 | George Bellows | The Tournament (Mason 72) |
1918 | USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 5,080.00 |
| 277 | Imogen Cunningham | Agave Design 2 |
1920s, printed later. | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 |
| 311 | Joan Miro | Aidez l'Espagne (Dupin 17) |
1937 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 3,048.00 |
| 321 | George Silk | Kathy Flicker |
1962 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,778.00 |
| 260 | Leonor Fini | Three Prints |
circa 1970 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 1,651.00 |
| 293 | George Bellows | Murder of Edith Cavell, from War (Mason 53) |
1918 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 314 | Harry Callahan | Eleanor, Chicago |
circa 1949, printed later. | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 1,524.00 |
| 320 | Wynn Bullock | Nude Study |
circa 1940. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,270.00 |
| 294 | George Bellows | Irish Fair (Mason 153) |
1923 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,016.00 |
