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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) | 4,628.14 |
| Auction Date | March 12, 2025 - March 12, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 4,060.00 |
| Sale Number | #31225 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 4,905.00 |
| Total Lots | 38 | ||
| Sold Lots | 30 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 7,210.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 78.95% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 8,560.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 8 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 54.07% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 93962432 | Jacques Yver | Le Printemps d'Yver |
1588 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 604.95 |
| 93932597 | Pierre Corneille | Le Theatre. Revu et corrige par l'autheur. I [-II] partie [edition revisee par Corneille] |
1664 | EUR 750.00 - 850.00 | EUR 555.90 |
| 93570797 | Jean de Serres | Le veritable inventaire de l'Histoire de France / Suitte de l'inventaire de l'Histoire de France |
1648 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 446.90 |
| 93985077 | Guillaume Catel | Histoire des comtes de Tolose. |
1623 | EUR 450.00 - 500.00 | EUR 436.00 |
| 94006750 | Ovid, Isaac de Benserade | Metamorphoses D'Ovide |
1676 | EUR 170.00 - 200.00 | EUR 365.15 |
| 93872656 | Amelot de la Houssaye | Histoire du gouvernement de Venise |
1685 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 289.94 |
| 93959605 | [Montanus, alias Arnold van den Berthe (1625-1683)] | Ambassades de la Compagnie Hollandoise des Indes d'Orient, vers l'empereur du Japon [...] |
1696 | EUR 180.00 - 225.00 | EUR 272.50 |
| 93108393 | (Jean De) La Fontaine / (Jean De) Hooghe (Jean De | Contes et nouvelles en vers. Nouvelle edition enrichie de tailles-douces |
1685 | Not Available | EUR 186.39 |
| 93945439 | Ryer | Les histoires d'Herodote mises en Francois |
1658 | Not Available | EUR 185.30 |
| 93713435 | Vies des Saints |
1690 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 137.34 | |
| 93932614 | Louis Maimbourg | Histoire du pontificat de S. Gregoire le Grand |
1686 | EUR 200.00 - 220.00 | EUR 131.89 |
| 93801969 | Abraham van VIcquefort [ou Abraham de Wicquefort ou M.L.P] | Memoires touchant les ambassadeurs, et les ministres publics. Par M.L.P. |
1677 | Not Available | EUR 130.80 |
| 93921278 | Mr. De Scudery | Discours politiques des Rois |
1663 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 94.83 |
| 93940455 | Seneque du Repos et de la Tranquillite de l'Ame, de la Constance du Sage et de la Briefvete de ... |
1663 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 87.20 | |
| 93584750 | Cesar de Plaix | Le Passe-partout des Peres Jesuites, apporte d'Italie par le docteur de Palestine & L'A bany du |
1606 | EUR 200.00 - 250.00 | EUR 77.39 |
| 93947771 | Jacques Basnage de Beauval | Histoire de l'Eglise |
1699 | Not Available | EUR 71.94 |
| 93863380 | Francois-C. Des Maisons | Les definitions du droit canon |
1682 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 62.13 |
| 93713904 | Rene Gaultier | Histoire de la vie, vertus et miracles de la venerable mere Anne De .S. Barthelemy |
1633 | EUR 180.00 - 220.00 | EUR 59.95 |
| 93713930 | Nicolas De Bonnefons | Les Delices de la Campagne, Suite du Jardinier Francois |
1684 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 54.50 |
| 93954616 | Sieur Antoine Varillas | Histoire de Charles IX |
1684 | Not Available | EUR 50.14 |
| 93917073 | Claude de Ferriere | La science parfaite des notaires ou Le moyen de faire un parfait notaire |
1699 | Not Available | EUR 43.60 |
| 93830509 | Pierre Jurieu | Traite de la devotion |
1679 | EUR 150.00 - 200.00 | EUR 38.15 |
| 93851641 | Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy | Tobie, Judith et Esther, traduits en Francois avec une explication |
1696 | Not Available | EUR 38.15 |
| 93798844 | Louis Servin | Recueil de diverses pieces, servant a l'histoire de Henry III, roy de France et de Pologne |
1662 | Not Available | EUR 32.70 |
| 93887347 | Joachim Van Wicquefort | Lettres de M. J. de Wicquefort |
1696 | Not Available | EUR 32.70 |
