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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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Forum Auctions: Online sale: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Online sale: Travel Books, Maps & Atlases | Total Sales (GBP) | 163,982.70 |
| Auction Date | March 13, 2025 - March 13, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 75,300.00 |
| Sale Number | #977 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) | 106,240.00 |
| Total Lots | 295 | ||
| Sold Lots | 243 | Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 108,950.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 82.37% | High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) | 154,090.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 52 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 106.42% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 56 | Aitken (W., of Ashton-under-Lyne) | A Journey up the Mississippi River, from its Mouth to Nauvoo, the City of the Latter Day Saints |
1845 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 10,710.00 |
| 103 | Anonymous (Liege-based cartographer) | Carte des etats desunis d'Europe |
[circa 1864] | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 5,544.00 |
| 139 | [Choiseul-Gouffier (Marie Gabriel Florent August de)] | Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece |
1792 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 268 | Johnston (Robert) | Travels through part of the Russian Empire and the Country of Poland |
1815 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 4,032.00 |
| 10 | Chesney (Lieut.-Colonel) | A Map of Arabia and Syria Laid down chiefly from Original Surveys... [with 13 others related] |
1850 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 250 | De Ram (Johannes) | Insula Ceilon et Madura Exactsissime delineata... |
c.1685 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 3,780.00 |
| 112 | Daniell (Thomas) | The Sacred Tree of the Hindoos at Gyah, Bahar |
1803 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 3,528.00 |
| 204 | Vertot (Abbe De) | Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem |
1726 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 3,276.00 |
| 256 | Hakluyt (Richard) | The Principall Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation |
1589 | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 271 | Lafreri School (Italian, 16th century) | Three maps of Islands, including 'Peloponnesus N. Morea' [Peloponnese, sometimes called Morea] |
late 16th century | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,772.00 |
| 7 | Malet (H. P.) | Circle of Light, or Dhawalegeri |
1869 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,394.00 |
| 253 | Cook (Captain James) | The Three Voyages of Captain James Cook |
1842 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,394.00 |
| 14 | Mylonas (Cyriacus Dion) | De Smyrnaeorum rebus gestis: pars prima, early portrait photograph to front pastedown |
1866 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 65 | Veitch (James Herbert) | A Traveller's Notes |
1896 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 149 | Frankland (Charles) | Travels to and from Constantinople |
1830 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 248 | Saleh Sarief Bustaman (Raden) | The Attack of the Lion (Die Anfall des Lowen), lithograph with original hand-colouring |
circa 1860s-1870s | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 252 | Anson (George) | A Voyage round the World |
(1872-1943). | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 2,016.00 |
| 162 | Marsigli (Count Luigi Ferdinando) | L'Etat Militaire de l'Empire Ottoman, ses Progres et sa Decadence |
1732 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | GBP 1,890.00 |
| 140 | Cobbold (Lady Evelyn) | Pilgrimage to Mecca |
1934 | GBP 150.00 - 200.00 | GBP 1,764.00 |
| 275 | World.- Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography |
1879-92 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | |
| 68 | Mudie (Robert) | Gilbert's Modern Atlas of the Earth |
1840 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 1,638.00 |
| 61 | Fries (Laurent) | Ta. Superioris Indiae et Tartariae Maioris |
1535 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 120 | Sylvanus (Bernardus) | Decima Asiae Tabula |
c.1511 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 218 | Sylvanus (Bernardus) | Quinta Asiae Tabula |
1511 | GBP 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
| 270 | Lafreri School (Italian, 16th century) | Four battle plans and views of sieges, including 'Bologna in Francia' |
late 16th century | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,512.00 |
