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Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 124: Henri Courvoisier-Voisin, et alia, [Recueil de Vues de Paris et ses Environs], depicting precursors of the modern roller coaster, Paris, [1814-1819?]. $2,000 to $3,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 148: Pablo Picasso & Fernando de Rojas, La Célestine, First Edition, Paris, 1971. $30,000 to $40,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 201: Omar Khayyam & Edward Fitzgerald, Rubaiyat, William Bell Scott's copy of the First Edition, London, 1859. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 223: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, First Edition, extra-illustrated with hand-colored plates by Palinthorpe, London, 1861. $7,000 to $9,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 248: L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, First Edition, inscribed by the illustrator, Chicago & New York, 1900. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 305: Tycho Brahe & Pierre Gassendi, Tychonis Brahei Vita, Paris, 1654. From the Collection of Owen Gingerich. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 338: Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Almagestum Novum, two folio volumes, Bologna, 1651. From the Collection of Owen Gingerich. $8,000 to $10,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 350: Tobias Cohn, Ma'aseh Toviyyah, first edition, Venice, 1707-8. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, Apr. 22: Lot 359: Alan Turing, Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence, first edition, Edinburgh, 1950. $3,000 to $5,000.
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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 -
Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: BELLEFOREST (François de). La cosmographie universelle de tout le monde. €12,000 to €15,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS (Louis Charles). Mappe-monde, ou Carte Generale de la Terre. €5,000 to €6,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: BLAEU (Willem Janszoon & Joan). Theatrum Sabaudiae. €18,000 to €20,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: LINASSI. Ferdinando Ie Maria Anna Carolina nel Litorale in Settembre 1844. €4,000 to €5,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: AMBROSOLI (Francesco). Monumento a Francesco Primo in Vienna. €3,000 to €4,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: Plano de la plaza de Mesina y de su ciudadel y castiglios. €5,000 to €6,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ROCKSTUHL (Alois Gustav), GILLE (Florent A.). 78 Lithographies du Musée de Tzarskoe-Selo. €1,000 to €1,500.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: Chtchedrovski, Ignatiy Stepanovitch. €2,000 to €3,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DE BRUYN (Cornelis). Voyage au Levant. €3,000 to €5,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ABI ISHAQ AHMAD B. IBRAHIM AL-THAʿLABI (M. 1035) : TROISIÈME VOLUME DU KASHF WA-L-BAYAN ʻAN TAFSIRI AL-QURʼAN. €3,000 to €5,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS (Louis Charles). L’Afrique. €3,000 to €4,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DE BRUYN (Cornelis). Voyages de Corneille Le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Indes orientales. €1,500 to €2,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: DESNOS. (Louis Charles). Amérique septentrionale et Méridionale. €4,000 to €5,000.Gros & Delettrez, Apr. 23: ÉLIOT (J.B.) ; MONDHARE (Louis Joseph). Carte du théatre de la guerre actuel entre les anglais et les treize Colonies Unies de l'Amérique Septentrionale. €5,000 to €6,000.
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Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 748. Second volume of Blaeu's atlas featuring 89 maps of the Americas and Asia (1642) Est. $12,000 - $15,000Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 12. A world map with popular cartographic myths and unique embellishments (1788) Est. $3,000 - $3,750Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 30. One of the most sought-after charts from Cellarius' work (1708) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 38. Anti-Vietnam War persuasive cartography on a velvet poster (1971) Est. $350 - $425Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 43. Ortelius' influential map of the New World - second plate (1584) Est. $4,750 - $6,000Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 95. Scarce German map illustrating the French & Indian War (1755) Est. $8,000 - $9,500Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 149. Bachmann's dramatic view of the Mid-Atlantic region (1864) Est. $1,200 - $1,500Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 373. De Jode's very rare map of Europe with costumed figures (1593) Est. $6,000 - $7,500Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 674. De Bry's Petits Voyages, Part VII with all plates and map of Sri Lanka (1606) Est. $1,400 - $1,700Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 704. The first printed map devoted to the Pacific in full contemporary color (1589) Est. $7,500 - $9,000Old World Auctions (April 23):
Lot 734. Superb hand-colored image of the Tree of Jesse (1502) Est. $700 - $850
Clars Auction Gallery: Furniture, Art, Jewelry & Asian Auction, featuring Spring Fine Jewelry & Asian Art, 41825, Oakland
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 18, 2025 - April 18, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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69 | An antique photo album showing thirty-six views of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, |
1906 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | Unknown | ||
409 | Brook Temple (American, 20th century), | (lot of 2) Untitleds, |
1971 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
411 | Ray Parker (American, 1922-1990) | Untitled |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
412 | Ron Davis (American, b. 1937) | Cube III" from "Cube Series," |
1969-1971 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
413 | (lot of 3) James Rizzi (American, 1950-2011) | Oncoming Traffic," "Outgoing Traffic," and "T.G.I.F.," |
1986 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
414 | After Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) | Cow |
1971 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
415 | (lot of 2) Western Pacific Railroad, | The Vista Dome, California Zephyr, San Francisco-Oakland to Chicago and "The California Zephyr in Feather River Canyon," |
circa1950 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
416 | George Roy Partridge (American, 1888-1984) | White Butterfly," |
1912 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown | |
417 | Yoshitomo Nara (Japanese, b. 1959) | Slight Fever |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | ||
418 | Eileen Mayo (British, 1906-1994) | Lunaria |
USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | ||
419 | Henry Moore (British, 1898-1986) | Three Motives |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
420 | Mr. Doodle (British, b. 1944), | "Pretty City," |
2023 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
421 | British School (20th century) | Horniman's Teas, |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | ||
422 | Gan Kolski (Polish/American, 1899-1932) | At Dusk," |
1931 | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | Unknown | |
423 | Kathe Kollwitz (German, 1867-1945), | ?The Prisoners? from ?Peasants War Series |
1908 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | |
424 | Achille Luciano Mauzan (Italian, 1883-1952) | Copertoni Impermeabili Ettore Moretti," |
1921 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Unknown | |
425 | Adolphe Willette (French, 1857-1926) | Demandez Chez Votre Epicier Le Cacao Van Houten |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
426 | Eugene Samuel Grasset (French, 1841-1917) | Chocolat Mexicain, Masson Paris, 1892 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | ||
427 | After Georges Braque (French, 1882-1963) | Saint Dominique, |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | ||
428 | After Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) | Aristide Bruant dans son Cabaret |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
429 | Pierre Brisson (French, b. 1955) | Princess/Vertical |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | ||
430 | Pierre Brisson (French, b. 1955) | Prince/Horizon |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown | ||
431 | Victor Vasarely (French/Hungarian, 1906-1997) | Arany" from the "Lapidaire Portfolio," |
1968 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | Unknown | |
432 | Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) | La Danse" from "The Divine Comedy |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown | ||
433 | Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" from "Five Americans," |
1967 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |