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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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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Autographs and Manuscripts | Total Sales (EUR) | 17,164.23 |
| Auction Date | March 23, 2025 - March 23, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 22,315.00 |
| Sale Number | #32325b | High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) | 32,675.00 |
| Total Lots | 124 | ||
| Sold Lots | 96 | Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 64,630.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 77.42% | High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) | 93,825.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 28 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 18.29% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 94281816 | Dessins originaux de Gustave Dore | Manuscrit enlumine sur peau de velin |
1873 | EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | EUR 2,811.11 |
| 94016923 | TALLEYRAND | Mission extraordinaire de Saliceti |
1801 | EUR 550.00 - 700.00 | EUR 882.90 |
| 94225256 | Collectif | Exceptionnelle collection d'autographes de la Veme Republique |
1961 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 879.63 |
| 93544182 | Llewellyn Edward Crosse | Armorial Book of Designs |
1861 | EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 | EUR 872.00 |
| 80122471 | Unknown | Manuscript from a medieval Book of Hours, Brugge |
1450 | EUR 550.00 - 1,400.00 | EUR 731.39 |
| 94101835 | Boris Vian | Tapuscrit grandement corrige et rature de la main de Boris Vian - Erik XIV - 55 feuillets |
1958/1960 | EUR 450.00 - 1,500.00 | EUR 545.00 |
| 94189884 | Jean Cocteau | Poeme autographe inedit sur Marcel Duchamp |
1953 | EUR 220.00 - 500.00 | EUR 533.01 |
| 94169638 | Gustave Eiffel | Carte autographe signee |
1890 | EUR 325.00 - 550.00 | EUR 512.30 |
| 93868748 | Alexander von Humboldt (1769--1859) | an Gotthold Eisenstein |
1852 | EUR 500.00 - 900.00 | EUR 464.34 |
| 94088691 | Abbe Sauniere (1852-1917) | Carte postale autographe signee [affaire du tresor de Rennes-le-Chateau / Da Vinci Code] |
1916 | EUR 450.00 - 550.00 | EUR 414.20 |
| 94004410 | Anonyme | Manuscrit de dissection et d'anatomie |
1739 | EUR 350.00 - 500.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 94140090 | Joan Miro | Lettre Tapuscrite signee avec enveloppe |
1961 | EUR 325.00 - 500.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 94313828 | Innocent XII | Manuscrit universitaire sur velin avec sceau en cire -- Fin XVIIe siecle (Pontificat d'Innocent XII, |
1691/1700 | EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 | EUR 327.00 |
| 94056465 | Emile Zola | Lettre autographe signee |
1880 | EUR 400.00 - 800.00 | EUR 321.55 |
| 94029184 | Louis XIV [secretaire] | Lettre de Cachet signee Louis |
1703 | EUR 275.00 - 350.00 | EUR 294.30 |
| 94213315 | Herbert von Karajan | [Kinderbrief] emouvante lettre d'enfant autographe signee a sa mere |
1916 | EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00 | EUR 288.85 |
| 94183863 | Innocent X | Papal Bull |
1654 | Not Available | EUR 284.49 |
| 94286537 | Kajiwara Shozen Wei Yuan Xing Quan | Medizin-Handschrift, Anatomie [Knochen,Gelenke,Hufte,Fuss,spinal etc.] Cun Zhen Huan Zhong Tu , Kojiki |
1580/1560 | EUR 250.00 - 300.00 | EUR 243.07 |
| 94289785 | Shuseki Fu Gang Tie Zhai | Japanese original hand drawn and handwritten book with paintings/illustrator's signature, Gouache |
1920/1930 | EUR 250.00 - 600.00 | EUR 239.80 |
| 91488819 | Marcel Pagnol | Lettre autographe signee |
1950 | EUR 220.00 - 500.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 94240094 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Bestallungsurkunde |
1912 | EUR 250.00 - 500.00 | EUR 218.00 |
| 94137022 | Procuratie Palazzo Ducale Venezia | Bolla dogale Doge Carlo Contarini (Venezia, 5 luglio 1580 -- Venezia, 1o maggio 1656) |
1655 | Not Available | EUR 207.10 |
| 94054578 | George Sand | Lettre autographe signee |
1875 | EUR 500.00 - 650.00 | EUR 179.85 |
| 94054305 | Louis-Philippe Ier | Lettre signee |
1844 | EUR 425.00 - 500.00 | EUR 175.49 |
| 94003622 | Anoniem | Original Manuscript from a Latin Bible - [France - ca. 13th century] |
1250 | Not Available | EUR 174.40 |
