Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000

Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25th

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000

Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: The Tubbs Mfg Co. wooden-type cabinet 27” w by 37” h by 22” deep.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: G.P.Gordon printing press 7” by 11” with treadle. Needs rollers, trucks, and grippers. Missing roller spring.

High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wood Type 1 1/4” tall.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.

High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Awt 578 type hi gauge.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.

High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Cents and Pound Signs.

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Wooden type cabinet 27” w by 19” d by 38” h.
ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.

ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.

ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD

Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD

Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD

Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD

Rare Book Monthly

Articles - September - 2008 Issue

BookFinder Announces the Most Sought After Books of the Year

- by Michael Stillman

There is another repeat atop the Top 10 for Crafts, Hobbies and How-To. This is Steve Belichick's Football Scouting Methods. Three hundred pound men attempting to crush each others' skulls is an odd craft or hobby, but enormously popular in America, especially when viewed on TV from the safety of your living room. Runners-up include two titles about knitting, and the ever popular Woodwork Joints by Charles Hayward. Further down the list we find more works on knitting, backpacking, magic, and returning to the Top 10 after a year's absence, horror actor Vincent Price and his wife Mary's A Treasury of Great Recipes. Where better to add a touch of arsenic?

There are no changes atop the list for Fiction and Literature this year. Once again, John L. Parker's tome on running, Once A Runner, is number 1, again followed by Nora Roberts' Promise Me Tomorrow. New at number 10 is the Autobiography of Howard Hughes, one of those rare autobiographies not written by its subject. The whole thing was a fraud perpetrated by Clifford Irving.

In History, last year's number 1 was the story of a short-lived Manhattan Restaurant - Flash in the Pan, by David Blum (now number 4). This year it is the story of a New Orleans hotel famed for fine cuisine: French Quarter Royalty: The Tumultuous Life and Times of the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel, by food writer John DeMers. Runner-up is Tom Lea's 50-year-old book about South Texas' enormous King Ranch, larger than the state of Rhode Island.

Four other categories of books are listed, with the top sought books ranging from Carl Sagan's musings on space to Lindsey Williams' conspiracy theories of The Energy Non-Crisis, that claims there is 200 years worth of oil and gas readily available in Alaska. For a complete look at these interesting lists, go to http://report.bookfinder.com/2008.

Rare Book Monthly

Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel Atlas Shrugged. $30,000 to $50,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. Three Stories & Ten Poems. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. In Our Time. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: The fourth edition of Audubon’s The Birds of America. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Dec. 6: A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s Liber Veritatis from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.
Doyle, Dec. 5: Minas Avetisian (1928-1975). Rest, 1973. $8,000 to $12,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973). Yawning Tiger, conceived 1917. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert M. Kulicke (1924-2007). Full-Blown Red and White Roses in a Glass Vase, 1982. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). L’ATELIER DE CANNES (Bloch 794; Mourlot 279). The cover for Ces Peintres Nos Amis, vol. II. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, Dec. 5: LeRoy Neiman (1921-2012). THE BEACH AT CANNES, 1979. $1,200 to $1,800.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Richard Avendon, the suite of eleven signed portraits from the Avedon/Paris portfolio. $150,000 to $250,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989). Flowers in Vase, 1985. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Nude, 1936. $20,000 to $30,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Edward Weston (1886-1958). Juniper, High Sierra, 1937.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven J. Levn (b. 1964). Plumage II, 2011. $6,000 to $8,000.

Doyle, Dec. 5: Steven Meisel (b. 1954). Madonna, Miami, (from Sex), 1992. $6,000 to $9,000.
Gonnelli:
Auction 55
Antique prints, paintings and maps
November 26st 2024

Gonnelli: 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€

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