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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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Nadeau's Auction Gallery: Antique & Custom Furnishings, Fine Art and Decorative Accessories
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Antique & Custom Furnishings, Fine Art and Decorative Accessories | Total Sales (USD) | 10,367.50 |
| Auction Date | March 22, 2025 - March 22, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 8,725.00 |
| Sale Number | #32225 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 17,000.00 |
| Total Lots | 73 | ||
| Sold Lots | 53 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 11,325.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 72.60% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 22,400.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 20 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 46.28% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 493 | Approximately 25 Boxes of Mostly Leather Bound Booksto include |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,950.00 | ||
| 492 | Collection of 54 Leather Bound Volumes of "Aldine Edition of British Poets" |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 585.00 | ||
| 296 | Two: Frank Weston Benson (American 1862-1951) | Turnstones circa 1928 |
circa 1928 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 455.00 |
| 475 | John Stobart (American 1929-2023) | Maiden Lane, New York, in 1800 |
1800 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 455.00 |
| 48 | LeRoy Neiman (American 1921-2012) | Volvo Masters 1983 |
1983 | USD 400.00 - 800.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 168 | Three: Phil Greenwood (British B. 1943) | Saplings 1979 |
1979 | USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 357.50 |
| 248 | Steven Sorman (American B. 1948) | Which for Want, 1989 |
1989 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 291 | Two: Johann Christoph Volckamer (German 1644-1720) | from "Nuremberg Hesperides" published 1708 Cedrato Con Fiori e Sugo Doppio |
1708 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 325.00 |
| 434 | Dances of the Cranes, 1970 |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 325.00 | ||
| 499 | 21 Framed 19th Century Engravings |
19th Century | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 325.00 | |
| 341 | Set of Four Oliviero Masi (Italian B. 1948) | Field with Trees, edition 92/150 |
USD 100.00 - 300.00 | USD 260.00 | |
| 292 | Three: Charles Locke (American 1899-1983) | Tramp Steamer, 1939 |
1939 | USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 227.50 |
| 60 | After James Audubon (American 1785-1851) | Snowy Heron or White Egret |
USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 195.00 | |
| 70 | WWI Poster V-Invest Victory Liberty Loan circa 1917 |
circa 1917 | USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 195.00 | |
| 297 | Set of Eight Elizabeth R. Withington (American 1880-1962) | Illustrations for Anne of Green Gables 1925 to include Anne Balanced Herself Uprightly on That Precarious Footing |
1925 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 195.00 |
| 498 | Four Framed Lithographs |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 195.00 | ||
| 57 | Group of Four Framed Botanical Etchings |
USD 150.00 - 300.00 | USD 162.50 | ||
| 66 | Actually Doing 1971 |
1971 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 162.50 | |
| 173 | Four: Phil Greenwood (British B. 1943) | Two "Stormglass", 1978 |
1978 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 162.50 |
| 481 | Owen Jones (British 1809-1814) | Set of Four Framed Patterns from "The Grammer of Omament" |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 162.50 | |
| 65 | After John James Audubon (American 1785-1851) | Ruby-Throated Hummingbird |
USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 130.00 | |
| 67 | Racing |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 130.00 | ||
| 73 | Three: Oliviero Masi (Italian B. 1948) | Field and Trees with Brook, edition 66/99 |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 130.00 | |
| 167 | Pair of Framed Window Still Lifes to include Fern I |
USD 100.00 - 200.00 | USD 130.00 | ||
| 187 | Diminutive Globe |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 130.00 |
