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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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Bonhams: Discovery on Sunset
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Discovery on Sunset | Total Sales (USD) | 26,598.40 |
| Auction Date | March 17, 2025 - March 17, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 27,600.00 |
| Sale Number | #31016 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 42,150.00 |
| Total Lots | 41 | ||
| Sold Lots | 41 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 27,600.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 100.00% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 42,150.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 0 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 63.10% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 | Rufino Tamayo | Personaje con Red |
1982 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 4,096.00 |
| 108 | Rufino Tamayo | Nino Saltando |
1982 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 3,328.00 |
| 110 | Paul Jacoulet | Belle De Yap Et Orchidees. Ouest Carolines; Jeune Fille de Polowat. Est Carolines |
1934; 1948 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,304.00 |
| 142 | Man Ray | Rebus |
1972 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,048.00 |
| 123 | An Ethiopian manuscript Orthodox prayer book, the text in Ge'ez script written in black and red ink, |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,408.00 | ||
| 111 | Pierre-Auguste Renoir | Le chapeau epingle, 3e planche |
c. 1894 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 125 | FRIES, LAURENT. | [Tabula Superioris Indiae & Tartariae Maioris....] |
[after 1522]. | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,024.00 |
| 106 | Jose Pla Narbona | Act VII |
1969 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 960.00 |
| 104 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Limehouse, from Thames Set |
1859 | USD 750.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 124 | POWELL, JOHN WESLEY. 1834-1902. | Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872. |
1875 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 768.00 |
| 117 | James Abbott McNeill Whistler | Two Plates, from Thames Set 2 |
1859 | USD 900.00 - 1,100.00 | USD 704.00 |
| 113 | Larry Rivers | Diane Raised IV (Polish Vocabulary) |
1970-74 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 120 | Albrecht Durer | Pilate Washing His Hands, from The Small Passion |
c. 1509 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 640.00 |
| 105 | Max Ernst | One plate, from Festin |
1974 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | USD 563.20 |
| 130 | YURI GAGARIN | YURI GAGARIN SIGNED POSTCARD. Printed postcard, c.1961, |
c.1961 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 563.20 |
| 134 | Group of 3 mosaic views: LUNAR ORBITER V: LUNAR VIEWS |
1967 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 563.20 | |
| 137 | MARINER 9: GROUP OF 20 MARS PHOTOGRAPHS |
1972-1973 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 537.60 | |
| 131 | APOLLO 11: LUNAR LANDING TRAINING MODULE |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 486.40 | ||
| 139 | Horst Antes | I-Kopf |
1968 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 409.60 |
| 126 | BUSH, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER. 1924-2018. | All the Best. |
1999 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 384.00 |
| 141 | Paul Wunderlich | 6 Prints |
1965; 1967 (3); 1967; 1982 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 358.40 |
| 122 | MAGIC: GROVER GEORGE. | "Triumphant American Tour" George the Supreme Master of Magic. |
[c.1920]. | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 281.60 |
| 143 | Hans Bellmer | Untitled, from Mode d'emploi; Untitled, from Les Marionettes |
1967 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 281.60 |
| 114 | Karel de Mallery | Crucifixion |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 256.00 | |
| 121 | Roberto Sebastian Matta | Two Prints 2 |
1971; 1978 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 256.00 |
