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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000 -
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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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€
![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€")
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Christies: Japanese and Korean Art
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Japanese and Korean Art | Total Sales (USD) | 2,508,534.00 |
| Auction Date | March 18, 2025 - March 18, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 1,224,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #23492 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 1,817,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 127 | ||
| Sold Lots | 111 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 1,437,300.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 87.40% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 2,117,200.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 16 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 118.48% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 230 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ["Great Wave"] |
USD 400,000.00 - 600,000.00 | USD 882,000.00 | |
| 225 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Kanagawa oki nami ura (Under the well of the Great Wave off Kanagawa) ["Great Wave"] |
USD 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 | USD 252,000.00 | |
| 231 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Gaifu kaisei (Fine wind, clear weather) ["Red Fuji"] |
1831 | USD 200,000.00 - 300,000.00 | USD 252,000.00 |
| 233 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Washu Yoshino, Yoshitsune umaarai no taki (Yoshitsune's Horse-washing Falls at Yoshino in Yamato Province) |
circa1832 | USD 40,000.00 - 60,000.00 | USD 94,500.00 |
| 235 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Kinoe no Komatsu (Pining for love) |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 56,700.00 | |
| 215 | KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1787-1867) | Furyu yusuzumi san bijin (Three fashionable beauties cooling off in the evening) |
circa1814-17 | USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 50,400.00 |
| 216 | UTAGAWA TOYOHARU (1735-1814) | Beauties of the Four Seasons |
USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 50,400.00 | |
| 257 | UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) | The Fuji River in snow |
circa1842-44 | USD 30,000.00 - 40,000.00 | USD 37,800.00 |
| 280 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Yuki ni fururu Terajima mura (Evening snow at Terajima Village) |
1920 | USD 12,000.00 - 22,000.00 | USD 37,800.00 |
| 103 | SUGIMOTO HIROSHI (B. 1948) | Cabot Street Cinema, Massachusetts |
1978 | USD 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 35,280.00 |
| 279 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Shiobara Arayu no aki (Autumn in Arayu, Shoibara) |
1920 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 30,240.00 |
| 278 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Zojoji no yuki (Snow at Zojoji temple) |
1953 | USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 27,720.00 |
| 318 | KAMISAKA SEKKA (1866-1942) | Momoyogusa (Flowers of a hundred worlds) |
1909-10 | USD 12,000.00 - 22,000.00 | USD 23,940.00 |
| 315 | TAKAHASHI HIROAKI (SHOTEI) (1871-1945) | Nude playing with a cat |
circa1927-30 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 21,420.00 |
| 101 | SUGIMOTO HIROSHI (B. 1948) | Ligurian Sea, Saviore |
1993 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 20,160.00 |
| 259 | UTAGAWA KUNISADA (1786-1864) | Kan Shojo |
1814 | USD 18,000.00 - 22,000.00 | USD 20,160.00 |
| 281 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Shiba Zojoji (Zojoji Temple, Shiba) |
1925 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 20,160.00 |
| 221 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760--1849) | Mikawa no Yatsuhashi no kozu (Eight-plank bridge in Mikawa province, classic view) |
circa1834 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 18,900.00 |
| 269 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Fukagawa Kaminohashi (Kaminohashi Bridge in Fukagawa) |
1920 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 18,900.00 |
| 224 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Poem by Onakatomi no Yoshinobu Ason |
circa1835-36 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 17,640.00 |
| 229 | KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI (1760-1849) | Edo Surugacho Mitsui mise ryakuzu (The Mitsui Shop at Surugacho) |
circa1830-31 | USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 17,640.00 |
| 268 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Ikaho no natsu (Summer at Ikaho) |
circa1919 | USD 10,000.00 - 20,000.00 | USD 17,640.00 |
| 102 | SUGIMOTO HIROSHI (B. 1948) | Sea of Buddha (011), 1995 |
USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 | USD 13,860.00 | |
| 246 | UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) | Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode (Asakusa Ricefields and Torinomachi Festival) |
1857 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 13,860.00 |
| 283 | KAWASE HASUI (1883-1957) | Ame no Ushibori (Ushibori in rain) |
1929 | USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 13,860.00 |
![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")
