• 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  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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
205

Faksimile. - Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Ms. 65 aus den Sammlungen des Musée Condé Chantilly. Faksimile und Kommentar. 2 Bde.

Luzern 1984 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
206

Faksimile. - Les très belles heures de Notre-Dame du Duc de Berry. Manuscrit Nouv. acq. lat. 3093 der Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Luzern 1992 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
207

Faksimile. - Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry. Faksimile-Edition [der Monatsblätter] des Manuskripts Nr. 65 des Musée Condé Chantilly.

Luzern 1994 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
208

Faksimile. - Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry. Faksimile der Handschrift Acc. no. 54.1.1. aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, sowie Begleitband in 2 Bdn.

Luzern 2003 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
209

Faksimile. - Les Petites Heures du Duc de Berry. Ms. lat. 18014 der Biliothèque Nationale Paris. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Luzern 1988-89. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 831.60
210

Faksimile. - Bibel aus Léon./ Biblia Visigótica Mozárabe de San Isidoro./ Codex Biblicus Legionensis. Archivo Capitular de la Real Colegiata de San Isidoro (Léon, Spanien). Ms 2. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Léon 1999 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 2,772.00
211

Faksimile. - Gaston Phoebus. Das Buch der Jagd - Le livre de Chasse. M 1044 der Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Faksimile und 2 Kommentarbände in 3 Bdn.

Luzern 2005 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
212

Faksimile. - Das Gebetbuch der Hochfeste./ Missale Remense./ Misal de Reims. Lat. Q. v.1. 78 der Russischen Nationalbibliothek, Sankt Petersburg. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Madrid: 2007 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
213

Faksimile. - Heures de Bruxelles. Ms. 11060-61 Bibliothèque Royale Albert Ier Bruxelles. Faksimile und Kommentar. 2 Bde.

Luzern 1996 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 756.00
214

Faksimile. - Heures de Turin-Milan. Inv. N° 47. Faksimile der Bilderhandschrift des Museo Civico d'Arte Antica Turin. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Luzern 1994-96. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
215

Faksimile. - Das Lorscher Evangeliar. Die Faksimileausgabe vereinigt die beiden Teile des Evangeliars aus der Bibliotheca Documentara Batthyaneum Alba Julia, Ms R II, I. und Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Codex Vaticanus Palatinus Latinus 50. 2 Bde.

Luzern 2000 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 1,890.00
216

Faksimile. - Marco Polo. Das Buch der Wunder. Faksimile der Handschrift Ms. fr. 2810 der Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Bdn.

Luzern 1995 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,197.00
217 Faksimile

Faksimile. - Portolan-Atlas des Battista Agnese von 1546. Faksimile und Kommentarheft in 2 Bdn.

Graz 1993 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 252.00
218

Faksimile. - Das Speyerer Evangelistar. Codex Bruchsal 1 der Badischen Landesbibliothek Karlsruhe.

Luzern 2012 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 5,040.00
219

Faksimile. - Totenbuch auf Papyrus./ El libro de los muertos. (Papiro de Ani)/ The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Papyrus of Ani. The British Museum, London. Ms. ES 10470.

Salamanca 2018 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 1,890.00
220

Faksimile. - Die Trinity-Apokalypse. Faksimile MS R. 16.2 der Trinity College Library, Cambridge.

Luzern 2004 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 756.00
221

Faksimile. - Turiner Gebetbuch. - Die Blätter im Louvre und das verlorene Turiner Gebetbuch. RF 2022 - 2025.

Luzern 1994 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
222

Faksimile. - Vom Einfluss der Gestirne auf die Gesundheit und den Charakter des Menschen. Faksimile des medizinisch-astrologischen Manuscriptes C 54 der Zentralbibliothek Zürich und Kommentarband in 2 Bänden.

Luzern 1981-83. EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
223 [Gay, J. u.] J. Lemonnyer

Bibliographie des ouvrages relatifs a l'amour, aux femmes au mariage et des livres facétieux pantagruéliques, scatologiques, satyriques, etc.

Paris 1894 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 277.20
224 Jombert, Charles-Antoine

Méthode pour apprendre le dessein, ou l'on donne les Regles générales de ce grand Art & des préceptes pour en acquérir la connoissance ... enrichie de cent planches ...

Paris 1755 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 453.60
226

[Lexicon graeco-latinum cum figuris]. Griechisch-lateinisches Bilderwörterbuch. Ohne Titelblatt,

O.O., D. und J. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
227 Mechel, Christian von/ Holbein, Hans

Le triomphe de la mort.

Stuttgart 1780 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 630.00
228 Mencke, Johann Burchard

De charlataneria eruditorum declamationes duae.

Leipzig um1715. EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
229 Madame de Pompadour (Sculp.)

Suite d'estampes gravées. D'après les Pierres gravées de Guay, graveur du Roy.

Paris 1782 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,071.00
230 Rumohr, Carl Friedrich von

Italienische Forschungen. 3 Bde.

Berlin u. Stettin 1827-31. EUR 400.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • 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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