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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.: French Literature and Illustrated
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | French Literature and Illustrated | Total Sales (EUR) | 16,540.75 |
| Auction Date | March 09, 2025 - March 09, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 18,800.00 |
| Sale Number | #30925b | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 22,540.00 |
| Total Lots | 47 | ||
| Sold Lots | 25 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 39,280.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 53.19% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 45,865.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 22 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 36.06% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93873608 | J.J. Rousseau | Du contract social |
1762 | EUR 1,700.00 - 1,900.00 | EUR 3,815.00 |
| 93829539 | Pablo Picasso / Ramon Reventos | Deux Contes |
1947 | EUR 3,100.00 - 3,500.00 | EUR 2,235.59 |
| 93997223 | Celine / Gen Paul | Mort a credit [exemplaire unique avec dessin original + envoi + 15 HT rehausses et signes de Gen |
1942 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 | EUR 1,117.25 |
| 93999045 | Celine / Gen Paul | Voyage au bout de la nuit [exemplaire unique avec dessin original + envoi + 15 HT rehausses et |
1942 | EUR 1,400.00 - 1,700.00 | EUR 1,040.95 |
| 93892157 | Charles Perrault / Gustave Dore | Les Contes de Charles Perrault. Preface par P.-J. Stahl |
1862 | EUR 450.00 - 600.00 | EUR 727.03 |
| 78186899 | Chapelain Midy / Labisse | Le Sens des Choses [reliure signee Daniel Knoderer] |
1979 | EUR 1,800.00 - 2,200.00 | EUR 708.50 |
| 93854640 | Maurice Denis | Carnets de voyage en Italie. 1921-1922 [1/175 sur Arches] |
1925 | EUR 375.00 - 450.00 | EUR 599.50 |
| 93940568 | Signe ; Vercors | Le Silence de la mer [rare collection d'editions etrangeres] |
1947/1943 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 93966969 | Gustave Dore | Des-agrements d'un voyage d'agrement [album de lithographies] |
1851 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 94030730 | Alexis de Tocqueville | OEuvres completes [edition collective en partie originale] |
1867/1864 | EUR 550.00 - 650.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 93880737 | Flaubert | Madame Bovary. Moeurs de province |
1857 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 479.60 |
| 93894746 | Charles Philipon / Cham, Grandville, Gavarni, Huard, Jacque etc. | Musee ou Magasin comique de Philipon |
1857 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 457.80 |
| 93854215 | Charles Perrault / Gustave Dore | Les Contes de Charles Perrault. Preface par P.-J. Stahl |
1867 | EUR 500.00 - 650.00 | EUR 425.10 |
| 94009811 | Albert Samain | Au jardin de l'infante [reliure mosaiquee] |
1893 | EUR 425.00 - 475.00 | EUR 410.93 |
| 93878928 | Tite-Live / Masson et Boylan | Histoire Romaine de Tite-Live. Traduction nouvelle par Dureau de Lamalle [Reliure signee de Masson |
1824 | EUR 650.00 - 800.00 | EUR 392.40 |
| 93712966 | J.-J. Grandville / Mery / Cte Foelix | Les Etoiles. Derniere Feerie suivi de : Astronomie des dames |
1849 | EUR 375.00 - 450.00 | EUR 343.35 |
| 93879299 | Victor Hugo | Les Miserables [premiere in-12] |
1862 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 337.90 |
| 93855286 | William Sheridan / Jacques Cazotte | Lismor ou le chateau de Clostern |
1800 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 93891764 | Octave Uzanne | L'Eventail. Illustrations de Paul Avril [Reliure maroquin a l'eventail] |
1882 | EUR 375.00 - 450.00 | EUR 285.58 |
| 93941359 | Signe ; Maurice Genevoix / Joseph Oberthur | La derniere harde [reliure mosaiquee] |
1943 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 261.60 |
| 93895591 | Honore de Balzac | Les cent Contes drolatiques colligez ez abbaies de Touraine... |
1838/1837 | EUR 400.00 - 550.00 | EUR 220.18 |
| 94029484 | Colette / Mariette Lydis | Gigi. Illustre de 15 pointes-seches de Mariette Lydis [1/50 avec Suite - Reliure Maroquin] |
1948 | EUR 275.00 - 325.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 94029444 | Abbe Prevost / Tony Johannot / Jules Janin | Histoire de Manon Lescaut et du chevalier des Grieux [Reliure en maroquin de Ritter] |
1839 | EUR 200.00 - 220.00 | EUR 207.10 |
| 93854900 | Maurice Denis | Livre de Tobie. Traduit sur la Vulgate.Illustrations de Maurice Denis, Gravees sur bois [1/200] |
1929 | EUR 200.00 - 220.00 | EUR 196.20 |
| 94008414 | Alexandre Dumas, George Sand, Charles Nodier, Paul de Kock, Arsene Houssaye... | L'Echo des feuilletons [23 annees] |
1863/1841 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 99.19 |
