• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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

Koller Auctions: Books and Autographs - Online Only, ibid146b, Zurich

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2024 - September 25, 2024
Page Size: 200 items in 8 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
9601 Holbein, Hans - Mechel, Christian von.

Oeuvre de Jean Holbein ou Recueil de Gravures d'apres ses plus beaux ouvrages, accompagnes d'explications historiques et critiques et de la vie de ce fameux peintre, par Chretien de Mechel. 4 Teile in 1 Band. Mit 2 (von 4) gest. Titeln, 2 gest. Vignetten,

Basel 1780-1795 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 500.00
9602

Trattato della pittura nuovamente dato in luce, colla vita dell'istesso autore scritta da Rafaelle Du Fresne. Si sono giunti i tre libri della Pittura, ed il trattato della Statua di Leon Battista Alberti, colla Vita del medesimo, e di nuovo ristampato, c

Neapel 1733 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 400.00
9603

The industrial arts of the nineteenth century. A series of illustrations of the choicest specimens produced by every nation at the great exhibition of works of industry, 1851. 2 Bande. Mit 3 farb. lithogr. Titeln (von F. Bedford) und 158 farb. lithogr. Ta

London 1851-1853 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9604

Cours d'architecture. Nouvelle edition, revue et augmentee par Pierre-Jean Mariette. Mit gest. Frontispiz, 80 (57 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln und 82 meist ganzseit. Textkupfern.

Paris 1756 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 450.00
9605

Traite des manieres de dessiner les ordres de l'architecture antique en toutes leurs parties. Mit gest. Titel, gest. Frontispiz und 44 Kupfertafeln (davon 3 mit gest. Schrift).

Paris 1688 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9606

Das englische Haus. Entwicklung, Bedingungen, Anlage, Aufbau, Einrichtung und Innenraum. 3 Bande. Mit zahlr. Abbildungen.

Berlin 1904-1905 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 400.00
9607

Tutte l'opere d'architettura, e prospetiva. Raccolta da G. D. Scamozzi. Mit 7 Holzschnitt-Titelborduren (teils wiederholt) und zahlr. teils blattgrossen Textholzschnitten.

Venedig 1619 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9608

De architectura libri decem, cum commentariis Danielis Barbari. Mit 2 Holzschnitt-Druckermarken und 135 (2 wiederholten), teilweise ganzseitigen (1 gefalt.) Textholzschnitten von G. Chrieger.

Venedig 1567 CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 CHF 1,000.00
9609

Das Salzburger Perikopenbuch. Vollfaksimile nach der Bilderhandschrift Clm 15713 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, Munchen. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1997 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9610

Apocalypsis Johannis. Faksimile des Blockbuch alpha D.5.22 der Biblioteca Estense Universitaria, Modena. Mit Kommentarband.

Ludwigsburg 1998 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9611

Das Berliner Stundenbuch der Maria von Burgund und Kaiser Maiximilians. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift 78 B 12 im Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Lachen, Coron und Luzern 1998/99 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 CHF 250.00
9612

Das Bestiarium aus Peterborough/ The Peterborough Bestiary. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift MS 53 (fol. 189-210) der Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Faksimile und 2 Kommentarbanden.

Luzern 2003 CHF 600.00 - 900.00 CHF 625.00
9613

Das Lobgedicht auf Konig Robert von Anjou. Cod. Ser. N. 2639 der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Faksimile und Transkription in 2 Banden.

Graz 2008 und 2010 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9614

Das Musterbuch des Giovannino de Grassi. Biblioteca Civica 'Angelo Mai', Bergamo, Cassaf. I. 21. Faksimile und Kommentar. Mit zahlreichen farbigen Abbildungen.

Luzern 1998 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
9615

Les Belles Heures du Duc de Berry. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift Acc. No. 54.1.1. im The Metropolitan Museum, New York. Mit Kommentarband.

Luzern 2003 CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
9616 Salas, Pierre.

Kleines Buch der Liebe. Stowe Ms. 955 der British Library in London. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1994 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 225.00
9617

Heidelberger Sachsenspiegel. Cod. Pal. germ. 164 der Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg. Faksimile, Textband und Kommentar in 3 Banden.

Graz 2009-2010 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9618

Wolfenbutteler Sachsenspiegel. Faksimile des Cod. Guelf. 3.1. Aug.-2deg. Faksimile, Textband und Kommentar in 3 Banden.

Graz 2006 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 500.00
9619

Wolfenbutteler Sachsenspiegel. Faksimile und Kommentar in 3 Banden.

Berlin 1993 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
9620

Meisterwerk des Medicus - Canon Medicinae Avicenna. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Madrid 2002 und Gutersloh CHF 1,400.00 - 2,000.00 CHF 1,250.00
9621

Die Macht der Gestirne. Faksimile der Folios 84r-109v der grossen Heidelberger Sammelhandschrift Cod. Pal. germ. 832 der Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Rimini 2020 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9622

Monserrat Collection. Faksimileausgaben von 3 reich illuminierten Stundenbuchern aus dem 16. Jahrhundert. 3 Faksimile und 1 Kommentarband.

Derio 2016 und Munster CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 CHF 1,500.00
9623

Das Grosse Buch der Liebe. Breviari d'amor de Matfre Ermengaud. Faksimile der Handschrift Ms. prov. Fr. Fv. XIV.1 der Russischen Nationalbibliothek St. Petersburg. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Madrid 2003 CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
9624 Marco Polo.

Das Buch der Wunder. Vollfaksimile der Ms. francais 2810 in der Bibliotheque nationale, Paris. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1995 CHF 700.00 - 1,000.00 CHF 687.50
9625

Les Tres Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift Nr. 65 im Musee Conde in Chantilly bei Paris, entstanden um 1485. Faksimile und Kommentarband in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1984 CHF 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 CHF 937.50
  • 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.
  • 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.
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