• Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Gell (William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity, 1804. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Low (David). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, 1842. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: North America. Moll (Herman)..., This Map of North America..., circa 1725. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Bible [English]. [The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe, 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, newly Printed, 1602. £1,500 to £2,000. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Cuffee (Paul). Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, A Man of Color, Liverpool, 1811. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, signed limited edition, 1928. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, limited signed edition, 1932. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, 1945. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1997. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1954-55. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Wells (H. G.) The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1898. £1,000 to £1,500.
  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • 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.
  • 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

Venator and Hanstein: Books - Prints and Drawings - Autographs, 171, Köln

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 24, 2023 - March 24, 2023
Page Size: 364 items in 15 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
155 Ovidius Naso, P.

Metamorphoseon libri quindecim ... adnotationibus marginalibus Gyberti Longolii illustrati.

Köln 1560 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,008.00
156 Papon, Jean

Instrument du premier notaire.

Lyon 1576 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
157 Plutarch

Summi & philosophi & historici opus, quod parallela et vitas appelant. Guilielmo Xylandro Augustano interprete.

Heidelberg 1561 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
158 Porcacchi, Thomaso

L'isole più famose del mondo.

Venedig 1590 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,276.00
159 Quadratus, Mathurinus

In Ioelem Prophetam Homeliae.

Paris 1582 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
160

Reinicken Fuchs. Ander Teyl des Buchs Schimpff und Ernst/welches nicht weniger kurtzweillig denn Centum Nouella/Esopus/Eulenspiegel/Alte weisen/Weise Meyster / …

Frankfurt a. M. 1556 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,260.00
161 Robe, Jacob (Hrsg.)

Des jüngstgehaltenen, hochheiligen, allgemeinen generals Concilii zu Triende fürnembste unnd besonders verteutschte decreta und satzungen,

Köln 1570 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 239.40
162 Rupertus, Abbas Tuitiensis (von Deutz)

Opera duo: In Matthaeum de gloria & honore filii hominis libri XIII. De glorificatione Trinitatis & processione spiritus sancti libri IX. Aeditio prima [hrsg. von J. Cochlaeus].

Köln 1526 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
163 Sleidanus, Johannes

De statu religionis et rei publicae, Carolo Quinto, Caesare, commentarij.

Straßburg 1556 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 567.00
164 Sleidanus, Johannes

Tabulae in libros historiarum, de religione & republica.

Straßburg 1557 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 163.80
165 Sleidanus, Johannes

Warhafftige und Eigentliche beschreibung der Geistlichen und Weltlichen sachen/ so sich under der Regierung des Großmechtigsten Keysers Caroli diß namens des V. verlauffen.

Straßburg 1557 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 756.00
166 Sleidanus, Johannes

Der Erste Theyl (Der ander Theyl) Ordenlicher Beschreibunge unnd Verzeichnisse/ allerley fürnemer Händel/ so sich in Glaubens und anderen Weltlichen sachen/ …

Straßburg 1579 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 945.00
167 Sleidanus, Johannes

A briefe chronicle of the foure principall empyres. To witte, of Babilon, Persia, Grecia, and Rome.

London 1563 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,890.00
168 Springiersbach, Absalon von

Sermones festivales eruditi & cum primis utiles, iam recens cura D. Danielis Schillinckij eiusdem Coenobij Abbatis aediti.

Köln 1534 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 378.00
169 Staphylus, Friedrich

Apologia D. Friderici Staphyli, cuius praecipua argumenta sunt, De Vero germanoq[ue]; scripturae sacrae intellectu, De Sacrorum Bibliorum in idioma vulgare tralatione, De Luteranorum concionatorum consensione.

Köln 1561 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
170 Straparola

Les facecieuses nuicts. Avec les fables & enigmes, racontées par deux ieunes gentils-hommes & dix damoiselles. / Le second et dernier livre des facecieuses nuicts ...

Lyon 1595-96. EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
171 Sturm, Johannes

Ioannis Sturmii in partitiones oratorias Ciceronis, dialogi quatuor, ab ipso authore emendati & aucti.

Straßburg 1549 1554. EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 756.00
172 Tappe, Eberhard

Germanicorum adagiorum cum Latinis ac Graecis collatorum, centuriae septum.

Straßburg 1539 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
173 Tauler, Johannes

Joannis Tauleri des seligen lerers Predig/ fast fruchtbar zu eim recht christlichen leben. Deren Predigen garnah hie in disem Buch deshalb theyls meer sind denn in andern vorgetruckten buecheren.

Basel 1522 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,016.00
174 Taurellus, Nicolaus

Nikolaus Oechslin]: Medicae Praedictionis Methodus, hoc est, recta brevisque ratio coram aegris praeterita, praesentia, futuraque praedicendi, ...

Frankfurt a. M. 1581 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
175 Toxites, Michael

Scholia Micaeli Toxitae Rheti, poetae et comitis Palatini Caesarei, in Theocriti Idyllion primum. Ex scholis Ioannis Sturmii.

[Zürich:] 1562 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
176

Trier. - Undergerichtsordnung des Erzstifts Thrier.

Mainz: 1537 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 453.60
177

Vade mecum. Missale itinerantium seu misse peculiares valde devote.

Nürnberg 1510 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 12,600.00
178 Viret, Pierre

Ghemeyne ende klare onderwijsinghe der Christelijcker leere aengaende principalic de goddelijcke voorsienicheydt ende predestinatie.

Rotterdam: 1597 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 18,900.00
179 Wolfhart (Lycosthenes), Konrad

Prodigiorum ac ostentorum chronicon, quae praeter naturae ordinem, motum et operationem ... acciderunt.

Basel 1557 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,032.00
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
  • 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.
  • ALDE, Dec. 9: BLAEU (JOAN) ET BORGOGNIO (GIO TOMASO). Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye…, La Haye, 1700. €25,000 to €30,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: BROWNE (JAMES D. HOWE). Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit. London, 1853. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: FELLOWS (CHARLES). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc. London, 1827. €30,000 to €40,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HACQUET (BELSAZAR). Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen…, Leipzig, 1785. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HAWES (BENJAMIN). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, 1828.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: MARTEL (PIERRE) ET WINDHAM (WILLIAM). An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters…, London, 1744. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: PITSCHNER (WILHELM). Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859…, Berlin, 1860-1864. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: SCHEUCHZER (JOHANN JACOB). Natur-Geschichte des Schweizerlandes, samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Zurich, 1746. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: STUMPF (JOANNES). Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnosschaft Stetten, Landen, und Völckeren Chronicwirdiger Thaatenbeschreybung. Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1548. €2,500 to €3,500.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WALTON (ELIJAH) ET BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE). The Peaks and valleys of the Alps. London, 1868. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WYTTENBACH (JACOB SAMUEL). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description. Amsterdam, 1785. €15,000 to €20,000.
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