-
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 -
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 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€ -
Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
Rare Book Monthly
<i>In The News:</i> One New E-Reader, One Cancelled, A Cavernous Library, Abe's Top 10
The Manchester Central Library.
What do you do when you have 1,500,000 books, some old and valuable, that need to be safely stored for a few years? That's a question that was recently faced by the Manchester (U.K.) Central Library. The library is undergoing major renovations, and needed a safe place to store its large number of books for several years. Their answer was to ship the books off to the salt mines (though hopefully they haven't sent their librarians there too). The mine, in the town of Winsford, is deep underground, thereby maintaining a constancy of temperature (57 degrees F.) and humidity (65%), while being free of light and insects (no mention of bats, however, has been made). The space in the mines is said to be the equivalent of 700 football fields, and while football is something different in the U.K. than America, a field is still quite large. In 2013, when the renovations are complete, the books will reemerge into the light, and onto the 22 miles of shelving they require. What Manchester Central is doing is hardly new. Abandoned mines have often been used for storage of infrequently used documents. Perhaps in the years ahead more old books will find their way underground as digital copies become the norm for research and reading.
AbeBooks released its list of the top 10 highest prices paid on their book-listing site during the month of April. It is hard to find a thread that connects this varied lot beyond the fact that people paid a lot of money to purchase them.
10. The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Covenant by Charles Thomson, published in 1808. Okay, Charles Thomson didn't really write the Bible, but he did translate this edition from Greek. $4,500.
7 (tie). The Vatican Frescoes of Michelangelo, photographs by Takashi Okamura, published in 1991. A two-volume, limited edition elephant folio. $5,000.
7 (tie). The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, by, naturally, numerous authors. A 1980 Easton Press leather-bound limited edition. $5,000.
7 (tie). The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, the June 1915 first appearance of T.S. Eliot's poem in Poetry Magazine. It was the first publication of an Eliot poem outside of a school setting. $5,000.
6. Les Miserables, the Brussels true first edition, published in 1862. $5,500.
5. Treasure Island, a first edition, first printing (1883) of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic. $6,000.
4. Systema Cosmicum in quo Dialogis, by Galileo, the first Latin edition of Galileo's then controversial astronomical work. $6,023.
3. The Romances of Alexandre Dumas, a 48-volume leather bound set published in 1904. $7,500.
2. American Winter Sports - Deer Shooting on the Shattagee by Currier & Ives, an 1855 lithograph. $8,500.
1. The Histories of Herodotus, Isaac Littlebury's 1709 translation into English of a much older work. $9,750.
![<b>ALDE, Dec. 11:</b> CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. <i>De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate,</i> Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b719f220-50aa-4855-9a72-293cad312283.jpg "<b>ALDE, Dec. 11:</b> CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. <i>De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate,</i> Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.")
