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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: Contemporary Discoveries
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Contemporary Discoveries | Total Sales (USD) | 383,032.00 |
| Auction Date | February 28, 2025 - February 28, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 309,500.00 |
| Sale Number | #N11785 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 469,700.00 |
| Total Lots | 47 | ||
| Sold Lots | 34 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 391,800.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 72.34% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 590,400.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 13 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 64.88% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 502 | Andy Warhol | Georgia O'Keefe (Feldman & Schellmann IIIC.45) |
circa 1979 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
| 509 | Banksy | Morons |
2007 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 38,100.00 |
| 526 | Jasper Johns | False Start I (ULAE 9) |
1962 | USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 | USD 21,590.00 |
| 527 | Frank Stella | Then Came a Fire and Burnt the Stick, from Illustrations after El Lissitzky's Had Gadya (see Axsom 175) |
1985 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 21,590.00 |
| 626 | Gregory Crewdson | Untitled (House in the Road) |
2002, printed later | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,320.00 |
| 628 | Gerhard Richter | Ravine |
1997 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,320.00 |
| 491 | Lucian Freud | Head of an Irishman (Hartley 60) |
1999 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 643 | Robert Mapplethorpe | Flowers, Dark Sepia Calla |
1987, printed in 1988 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 16,510.00 |
| 649 | Karel Appel | Owl |
circa 1977 | USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 629 | Gerhard Richter | Domeke I |
1997 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 15,240.00 |
| 501 | Andy Warhol | Gertrude Stein, from Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century (Feldman & Schellmann II.227) |
1980 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 567 | Maurizio Cattelan | Errotin - Le Vrai Lapin |
1995-1999 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 13,970.00 |
| 503 | Chuck Close | Cecily |
2012 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 637 | Rufino Tamayo | Quetzalcoatl (Pereda 248) |
1978 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 644 | Andy Warhol | Flowers (Hand-Colored) (Feldman & Schellmann II.119) |
1974 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 12,700.00 |
| 648 | Jacob Lawrence | Builders No. 3 |
1974 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 11,430.00 |
| 606 | Gerhard Richter | December 2020 A |
2021 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 633 | Christo | Wrapped Building, Project for 1 Times Square, Allied Chemical Tower, New York (Schellmann 154) |
1991 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 10,795.00 |
| 576 | Damien Hirst | Sans Souci, from Veils (H4-1) |
2018 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 8,255.00 |
| 615 | Ellsworth Kelly | Yellow (Jaune), from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (Axsom 5) |
1964-65 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 7,620.00 |
| 650 | Andy Warhol | Cow (Feldman & Schellmann II.12A) |
1976 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,985.00 |
| 575 | Damien Hirst | Nong Nooch, from Veils (H4-5) |
2020 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 6,096.00 |
| 515 | David Shrigley | Untitled (We Must Stop) |
2008 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,715.00 |
| 612 | Ellsworth Kelly | Black, from Suite of Twenty-Seven Color Lithographs (Axsom 4) |
1964-65 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,334.00 |
| 483 | Robert Motherwell | Gesture IV (State II) (Belknap 173; Walker Art Center x) |
1977 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 4,445.00 |
