• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Venator and Hanstein: Spring Auction, 175, Köln

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
March 15, 2024 - March 15, 2024
Page Size: 603 items in 25 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Erdglobus.

Amsterdam um1700. EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
2 Elizabeth Frances

Italian scenery. From drawings made in 1817.

London 1820 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
3 Gaspar

Korte en nette beschryvinghe van de koninckrycken Hongheryen en Dalmatien, Midts-gaeders de Vorstendommen van Sevenberghen, Wallachien, Moldavien, Bulgarien, etc.

Antwerpen 1688 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,394.00
4

Voyage pittoresque de la Grece. 2 Bande in 3 (I, II/1 und II/2).

Paris 1782, 1820/1822-24 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
5 Vincenzo Maria

Memorie istoriografiche delli regni della Morea e Negroponte ....

Venedig 1686 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,890.00
6 Vincenzo Maria

Memoires, historiques & geographiques du royaume de la Moree, Negrepont et des places maritimes, jusques a Thessalonique. Traduit de l'Italien.

Amsterdam 1686 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
7 Vincenzo Maria

Memoires, historiques & geographiques du royaume de la Moree, Negrepont et des places maritimes, jusques a Thessalonique. Traduit de l'Italien.

Amsterdam 1686 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
8 Vincenzo Maria

Description geographique et historique de la Moree, du royaume de Negrepont et d'autres lieux circonvoisins. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.

Paris 1686-87 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
10 Vincenzo Maria

Neu-vermehrte Beschreibung der trefflichen Halb-Insel Morea. Mit den angrentzenden Inseln und Provintzen. 3 Tle. in 1 Bd.

Nurnberg 1687 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,764.00
11

Historische und topographische ausfuhrliche Beschreibung der Reiche Morea und Negroponte. Wie auch der Insulen und Hafen selbigen Meeres biss an Salonich, italianisch verfertigt ...

Frankfurt am Main 1687 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,071.00
12 Vincenzo Maria

Album mit Sammlung aus 60 Einzelstichen aus Werken Coronellis (ohne Titelblatt).

EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,134.00
13 John

The History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Canterbury, and the Once-Adjoining Monastery.

London 1726 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 378.00
14

Itinerary of the Morea: Being a description of the routes of that Peninsula.

London 1817 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 327.60
15 George-Eugene

Atlas administratif des 20 arrondissements de la ville de Paris.

Paris 1868 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
16

(Italienischer Bilder-Atlas) mit 152 gest. Ansichten und Skizzen.

ca.1790-1880 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 2,772.00
17 Karl August

Skizzen und Bilder aus Rom und Umgegend.

Stuttgart u. Leipzig o. J. um1850. EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,512.00
18 Pomponius

De situ orbis libri tres, ad omnium Angliae & Hiberniae codicum mss. fidem, summa cura & diligentia recogniti & collati.

Exeter (Devon) 1711 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 693.00
19

Topographia Superioris Saxoniae, Thuringiae, Misniae, Lusatiae etc

Frankfurt am Main: 1650 EUR 2,500.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,142.00
20

Topographia Galliae, Oder Beschreibung und Contrafaitung der vornehmbsten, und bekantisten Oerter, in dem machtigen, und grossen Konigreich Franckreich. 13 in 2 Bdn.

Frankfurt a. M. 1655-1661 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 3,150.00
21 Jean Aynar

Description de Paris, de Versailles, de Marly, de Meudon, de S. Cloud, de Fontainebleau, et toutes les autres belles maisons & chateaux des environs de Paris. Nouv. edition. 8 Bde.

Paris 1742 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 EUR 567.00
22 Sebastian de Pontault de

Les plans et profils des principales villes et lieux considerables du Comte d'Alost ou Flandre (Brabant; Gueldre; Cambray; Haynaut; Namur; Limbourg; Luxembourg).

Paris ca.1668. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
23 Jacob von

Kurtze Beschreibung Von Dem Ursprung/ Aufnehmen/ Gebiete/ und Regierung der Weltberuhmten Republick Venedig/ ...

Nurnberg 1686 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,260.00
24 Frederic (Hrsg.)

The world in miniature. Teilband Turkey, being a description of the manners, customs, dresses, and other peculiarities characteristic of the inhabitans of the Turkish Empire; ...

London: 1821 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 453.60
25

Description de tous les cantons, villes, bourgs, villages, et autres particularitez du pays des Suisses,.

Paris 1635 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
26 Isaak

Nieuwe en beknopte Hand-Atlas.

Amsterdam 1769 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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.
  • 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
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