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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Fleming (Ian). Dr. No, 1958; You Only Live Twice, 1964, 1st editions, presentation copies. £20,000-30,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Doyle (Arthur Conan). The Sign of Four, 1st edition, 1890. £5,000-8,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Stenbock (Eric Stanislaus). The Shadow of Death, 1st edition, 1893. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Tolkien (J. R. R.). The Lord of the Rings, 1st one volume edition, signed, 1968. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1945. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Cunard (Nancy, editor). Negro, Anthology made by Nancy Cunard, 1st edition, 1934. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Table Game. [The Little Artist Magic Painter, Austria], circa 1775. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Kirnig (Paul, 1891-1955). Austria, Vienna: Christophe Reisser's Söhne, c. 1930. £700-1,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
December 13/14
Printed Books, Maps & Original Art, Modern First Editions & Illustrated BooksDominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: A collection of letters including from T. S. Eliot, Siegfried Sassoon, Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley et al, from the Lady Ottoline Morrell collection. £700-1,000.Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: The Gentleman's Magazine, or Monthly Intelligencer. 175 volumes, 1731-1844. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, Dec. 13/14: Mont Blanc peepshow. Mr Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc in Miniature, 1854. £1,500-2,000 -
Bonhams: FREDERICK DOUGLASS RETURNS TO AMERICA A FREE MAN. Sold for $353,175.Bonhams: TORTILLA FLAT INSCRIBED TO STEINBECK'S LITTLE SISTER, MARY. Sold for $57,600.Bonhams: A FRAGMENT OF THE ORIGINAL DRAFT OF OF MICE AND MEN, EATEN BY THE DOG. Sold for $12,800.Bonhams: KEPLER INVESTIGATES PLANETARY MOTION. Sold for $1,008,375.Bonhams: AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT DRAFT LEAF FROM DARWIN'S DESCENT OF MAN, SIGNED BY DARWIN AT THE FOOT. Sold for $239,775.Bonhams: AUDOBON, JOHN JAMES. 1785-1851. THE BIRDS OF AMERICA. Sold for $32,000.Bonhams: FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN (1706-1790). AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED. Sold for $38,175.Bonhams: MILNE, A.A. (1882-1956). BOXED SET OF 4 CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Sold for $20,480. -
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Ending 13th December 2023Forum, Dec. 13: Ackermann (Rudolph) [Views of Country Seats...], 146 hand-coloured aquatints from 'Repository of Arts’. £1,000 to £1,500.Forum, Dec. 13: Campbell (Colen) & others. Vitruvius Britannicus, or The British Architect..., 5 vol., [1751-1819]. £7,000 to £10,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Austen (Jane). The Novels, 12 vol., Edinburgh, John Grant, 1911. £1,500 to £2,000.Forum, Dec. 13: Murder broadside.- Horrid and barbarous murder of a female by cutting off her head, arms, and legs,… £200 to £300. -
CHRISTIE’S
Valuable Books and Manuscripts
London auction
13 December
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TREW, Christoph Jacob (1695–1769). Plantae Selectae quarum imagines ad exemplaria naturalia Londini in hortus curiosorum. [Nuremberg: 1750–1773]. £30,000–40,000Christie’s, Explore now
VERBIEST, Ferdinand (1623–88). Liber Organicus Astronomiae Europaeae apud Sinas restituate. [Beijing: Board of Astronomy, 1674]. £250,000–350,000Christie’s, Explore now
PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ALICE & NIKOLAUS HARNONCOURT. Master of Jean Rolin (active 1445–65). Book of Hours, use of Paris, in Latin and French, [Paris, c.1450–1460]. £120,000–180,000Christie’s, Explore now
A SILVER MICROSCOPE. Probably by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723), c.1700. £150,000–250,000Christie’s, Explore now
AN ENGLISH HORARY QUADRANT
C.1311. £100,000–150,000
Tooveys: Antiquarian and Collectors' Books, 121223, West Sussex
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- December 12, 2023 - December 12, 2023
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3501 | CRADDOCK, Harry. | The Savoy Cocktail Book. |
London | 1930 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3502 | Pierre LACOUR. | The Manufacture of Liquors, Wines, and Cordials, without the Aid of Distillation. |
New York | 1863 | GBP 50.00 - 80.00 | Unknown |
| 3503 | William SHAKESPEARE. | Shakespeare's Sonnets, Reprinted From the Edition of 1609... edited by T. Sturge Moore. |
London | 1899 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 3504 | WHITE, John Claude. | Tibet and Lhasa. |
Calcutta | 1908 | GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | Unknown |
| 3505 | TAGORE, Rabindranath. | The Crescent Moon... translated from the original Bengali by the author. |
New York | 1913 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 3506 | WIMBLEDON SKATING CLUB. Arthur DRYDEN (compiler). | Twenty Years' Skating Seasons at Wimbledon Lake 1878-79 to 1897-98. |
N.p. | 1899 | GBP 40.00 - 60.00 | Unknown |
| 3507 | GANDHI, Mahatma. | Young India 1919-1922. |
New York | 1923 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3508 | FLEMING, Ian. | Live and Let Die. |
London | 1954 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3509 | FLEMING, Ian. | Thrilling Cities. |
London | 1963 | GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Unknown |
| 3510 | FLEMING, Ian. | Goldfinger. |
London | 1959 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
| 3511 | FLEMING, Ian. | Thunderball. |
London | 1961 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 3512 | FLEMING, Ian. | Live and Let Die. |
London | 1958 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 3513 | FLEMING, Ian. | From Russia With Love. |
London | 1957 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 3514 | FLEMING, Ian. | Goldfinger. |
London | 1959 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Unknown |
| 3515 | FREEMAN, R. Austin. | The Shadow of the Wolf. |
London | 1925 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 3516 | FORSTER, E.M. | A Passage to India. |
London | 1924 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 3517 | RACKHAM, Arthur (illustrator). - [Charles Lutwidge DODGSON.] 'Lewis Carroll'. | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... With a Proem by Austin Dobson. |
London | 1907 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 3518 | DOSTOEVSKY, Fyodor. | Crime and Punishment... from the Russian by Constance Garnett. |
London | 1914 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 3519 | NORTON, Mary. | The Borrowers. |
London | 1952 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3520 | AUSTEN, Jane. | The Novels of Jane Austen. |
Edinburgh | 1911-12. | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | Unknown |
| 3521 | AUSTEN, Jane. | The Novels of Jane Austen... edited by Reginald Brimley Johnson. |
London | 1894-1898. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | Unknown |
| 3522 | POE, Edgar Allan. | The Works... with a Memoir by Rufus Wilmot Griswold and Notices of His Life and Genius by N.P. Willis and J.R. Lowell. |
New York | 1856 | GBP 150.00 - 250.00 | Unknown |
| 3523 | William SHAKESPEARE. | The Works... edited by William George Clark and John Glover and William Aldis Wright. |
Cambridge and London | 1863-1866. | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Unknown |
| 3524 | John Hanning SPEKE. | Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. |
Edinburgh and London | 1863 | GBP 50.00 - 90.00 | Unknown |
| 3525 | VOLNEY, C.F. | Travels Through Syria and Egypt, in the Years 1783, 1784, and 1785... translated from the French. |
London | 1787 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Unknown |
