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Auction House Name Plumblys
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About Us Antiques, fine art and collectables. Rare and out of print books, maps, illustrations and manuscripts.
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City Dunedin
Country New Zealand
Zipcode 00000
Contact Number 64-3-477 2559
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  • <center><b>Gonnelli<br>Auction 59<br>Antique prints, paintings and maps<br>May 20th 2025</b></center> <b>Gonnelli:</b> Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€ <center><b>Gonnelli<br>Auction 59<br>Antique prints, paintings and maps<br>May 20th 2025</b></center> Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 € <b>Gonnelli:</b> Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€ <center><b>Gonnelli<br>Auction 59<br>Antique prints, paintings and maps<br>May 20th 2025</b></center> <b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€ <center><b>Gonnelli<br>Auction 59<br>Antique prints, paintings and maps<br>May 20th 2025</b></center> <b>Gonnelli:</b> 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€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
    Gonnelli
    Auction 59
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 20th 2025
    Gonnelli: 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 2025
    Gonnelli 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 2025
    Gonnelli: 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 2025
    Gonnelli: 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€
  • <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>May 14<br>Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). <i>Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece,</i> 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000 <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> <i>Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle,</i> by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000 <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Shackleton (Ernest). <i>The Heart of the Antarctic,</i> 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000 <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>May 14<br>Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Drayton (Michael). <i>Poly Olbion...,</i> London: 1622. £2,000-3,000 <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). <i>Ouresiphoites Helveticus,</i> 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000 <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 <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>May 14<br>Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Maffei (Giovanni), <i>Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio...,</i> 1589. £1,200-1,500 <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [1598]. £2,000-3,000 <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 <b><center>Dominic Winter Auctioneers<br>May 14<br>Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration</center></b> <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Taylor (John). <i>All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet...,</i> 1630. £1,000-1,500 <b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [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
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    May 14
    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000
  • <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, <i>Z Mého Detství Drevoryty,</i> Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, <i>Negro Anthology,</i> with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, <i>Woman in the Nineteenth Century,</i> 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, <i>A Raisin in the Sun,</i> inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, <i>Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister,</i> 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 38: Anna Sewell, <i>Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse,</i> 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, <i>Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia,</i> signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, <i>To the Lighthouse,</i> first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, <i>Juste Present,</i> deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000. <b>Swann, May 15:</b> Lot 93: Flor Garduño, <i>The Sonnets of Shakespeare,</i> 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
    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.
  • <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> William Blake | <i>Songs of Innocence and of Experience.</i> Sold: 4,320,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD <b><center>Sotheby's<BR>Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts</center></b> <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for <i>Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.</i> Sold: 1,920,000 USD <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Machiavelli | <i>Il Principe,</i> a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Leonardo da Vinci | <i>Trattato della pittura,</i> ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP <b>Sotheby’s:</b> Henri Matisse | <i>Jazz,</i> Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
    Sotheby's
    Sell Your Fine Books & Manuscripts
    Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP
    Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR