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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USDSotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USDSotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USDSotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USDSotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD -
Gonnelli:
Auction 55
Antique prints, paintings and maps
November 26st 2024Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€ -
Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 37: Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul, most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 66: Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley, long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 102: To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry, illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 154: Catalogue of the Library of the United States, as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 173: New Englands First Fruits, featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 309: Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores, a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500. -
![<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/45a90570-7486-4199-91da-bd2e9a044380.jpg "<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478")
![<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/99566626-91f5-42da-8f8c-05fae35b4c67.jpg "<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491")
Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502Finarte, Nov 20-21: Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516Finarte, Nov 20-21: Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582Finarte, Nov 20-21: Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504Finarte, Nov 20-21: Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy
Auction Reports
Chiswick Auctions
Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Asian Art II
- Auction Date
- 11/06/2024 - 11/06/2024
- Sale Number
- #110624
- Total Lots
- 35
- Sold Lots
- 17
- Lots Sold
- 48.57%
- Unsold Lots
- 18
- Total Sales (GBP)
- 4,511.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 2,980.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP)
- 4,920.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 7,700.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (GBP)
- 11,930.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 37.81%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 816 | A GROUP OF JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS |
GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 756.00 | ||
| 803 | UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) | FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797-1858) |
19th - 20th Century | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 403.00 |
| 801 | UTAGAWA KUNIYOSHI (1797-1861) | Komei |
Edo Period, 19th Century, 1830 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 378.00 |
| 813 | THREE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS |
Edo - Meiji Period, 19th Century | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 328.00 | |
| 812 | UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III (UTAGAWA KUNISADA 1786 - 1865) | 'Higashito Uchika Nomon' |
Edo Period, circa 1847 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 328.00 |
| 797 | KITAGAWA UTAMARO (1753 -- 1806) | Karauta from the House of Choji (Chojiya nai Karauta) from the series Poems on Colorful Paper for the Five Seasons (Hana no Irogami Gosetsu Yomiuta), |
Edo period, 18th - 19th Century | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 302.00 |
| 807 | THREE JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS |
Meiji Period, 19th Century | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 277.00 | |
| 823 | NAMIKI HAJIME (b.1947) | Tree scene |
Executed 2022 | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 804 | TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS | TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS Comprising Utagawa Kunisada III (1848--1920), actor triptych; Watanabe Nobukazu (1872-1944), 'The Incident at Honnoji' |
Meiji Period, Late 19th Century | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 817 | OHARA KOSON (1877 -- 1945) | Waxwings and Red Berries; Moon over White Plum |
Early 20th Century | GBP 200.00 - 400.00 | GBP 252.00 |
| 815 | AFTER UTAGAWA HIROSHIGE (1797 -- 1858) | Two Japanese woodblock prints, oban yoko-e, including No.16 Yui (Travellers on a high cliff by the sea) and No. 17 Okitsu from the series The Fifty-three Stations of the Tokaido Road |
19th - 20th Century | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 189.00 |
| 806 | UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III (UTAGAWA KUNISADA, 1786 - 1865) | FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS BY UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III (UTAGAWA KUNISADA, 1786 - 1865) |
Edo Period, 19th Century | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 164.00 |
| 822 | NISHIJIMA KATSUYUKI (b. 1945) | Yoi-Hi (Fine Spring Day) |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 151.00 | |
| 824 | NISHIJIMA KATSUYUKI (b. 1945) | Fuyumeka (The Coldest Month) |
GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | GBP 151.00 | |
| 809 | UTAGAWA TOYOKUNI III (UTAGAWA KUNISADA 1786 - 1865) | 'Edo Murasaki Sugata Kurabe, No. 9', depicting a woman pulling at the hem of Prince Genji's robe as he reads a letter, |
Circa 1856 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 151.00 |
| 798 | KIKUGAWA EIZAN (1778 -- 1867) | woodblock print, depicting a young mother with a small boy, |
18th - 19th Century | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | GBP 101.00 |
| 805 | Kitao Masanobu, Suzuki Harunobu, Toyota Hokkei, Katsukawa Shunsho, Nishikawa Sukenobu, Utagawa Kunuisada, Ippitsusai Buncho | A GROUP OF TEN JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS |
18th and 19th Century | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 76.00 |
| 818 | OHARA KOSON (1877-1945) | Two Japanese Cranes on Beach with Rising Sun |
Circa 1910 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 808 | FOUR JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINT TRIPTYCHS |
19th Century | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Not Sold | |
| 819 | OHARA KOSON (1877-1945) | Canary and Roses |
Early 20th Century | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
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