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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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Kestenbaum and Company: Auction of Fine Judaica: Rare and Illustrated Books, Ceremonial Objects, Graphic Art & Holy Land Maps.
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Auction of Fine Judaica: Rare and Illustrated Books, Ceremonial Objects, Graphic Art & Holy Land Maps. | Total Sales (USD) | 225,212.50 |
| Auction Date | March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 168,000.00 |
| Sale Number | #110 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 257,750.00 |
| Total Lots | 171 | ||
| Sold Lots | 110 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 353,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 64.33% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 532,350.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 61 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 42.31% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | MOSES BEN MAIMON (MAIMONIDES / | RaMBa'M. |
1551 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
| 148 | N. DE FER. | Terre Sainte Ancienne, Moderne, et Historique. |
1701 / 1705. | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 20,000.00 |
| 139 | SANUTO & VISCONTE / PTOLEMY, C. | Holy Land. |
1482 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 18,750.00 |
| 151 | MARSHALL, I. (J.?). | A New Map of The Land of Promise and the Holy City of Jerusalem. |
c.1790. | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 12,500.00 |
| 215 | ROMAN VISHNIAC. | Group of SIX street scenes and portraits of Jewish life in pre-war Poland. |
1930's; printed 1960's. | Not Available | USD 6,875.00 |
| 149 | DELARGIVE, J. | Nouvelle Carte de la Terre Sainte. |
1722 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 150 | PIETER VAN DER AA. | Ierusalem. |
1729 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 47 | SCHNEERSON, CHAYA-MUSHKA | (The Lubavitcher Rebbetzin / Daughter of R. Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn and wife of the seventh Grand Rabbi of Lubavitch, R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, 1901-88). |
no date. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 |
| 108 | Illuminated Manuscript in Hebrew. Complete Book of Ruth. |
c. 1940. | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 5,750.00 | |
| 188 | OSER, LEOPOLD. Half-length portrait. |
c. 1890. | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 5,750.00 | |
| 189 | SPITZER, KARL HEINRICH. | Group of FIVE portraits. |
c. 1848. | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 5,250.00 |
| 19 | Avraham Klausner. | Minhagim. |
1559 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 147 | ABRAHAM BAR YAAQOV. | From: Haggadah shel Pessah. |
1695 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 5,000.00 |
| 53 | Small Sepher Torah written in an Aschkenazi square Hebrew hand on vellum. |
19th century. | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 4,500.00 | |
| 48 | Complete Scroll of Esther. |
c. 1800. | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,250.00 | |
| 54 | FIFTY TORAH SCROLL SHEETS. |
USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 | ||
| 62 | AGUILLAR, GRACE. | FOUR AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS. Author copy-books of original writings. |
1840's. | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 35 | Sepher Tehilim [Psalms]. |
1648 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,375.00 | |
| 4 | (Hebrew, Pentateuch) Chamishah Chumashei Torah. With Targum Onkelos and commentaries of Rashi, Ramban and ibn Ezra. |
1662 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,250.00 | |
| 78 | MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE OF HERZL'S YOUNGEST DAUGHTER, MARGUERITE HERZL. |
1917 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,125.00 | |
| 21 | Birkath HaMazon - Dos Benschen. ff. 71. |
1722 and 1728. | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,750.00 | |
| 75 | FRANKL, VIKTOR E. | Trotzdem Ja zum Leben Sagen |
1946 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 37 | (David b. Abraham of Modena(?) | Sepher Ohr Tov [text for children]. |
1726 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,125.00 |
| 94 | (KETHUBAH). [Marriage Contract]. |
1886 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 2,125.00 | |
| 101 | Illuminated Manuscript. "The Song of Songs of Solomon." |
Late 19th / early 20th century. | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
