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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
  • 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.

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
9626

Atlas universal. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift mit der Nr. 1505, Fon 342 der russischen Nationalbibliothek in St. Petersburg.

Barcelona 2000 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 500.00
9627 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 750.00
9628 Schilling, Diebold.

Spiezer Bilderchronik. Vollfaksimile nach der Bilderhandschrift in der Burgerbibliothek Bern, Mss. h. h. I. 16. Mit Kommentarband.

Luzern 1990 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 425.00
9629

Das Graduale von St. Katharinenthal. Faksimile-Druck der Handschrift LM 26117 alternierend im Schweizerischen Landesmuseum in Zurich und Museum des Kantons Thurgau in Frauenfeld. Entstanden um 1312. Faksimile und Kommentarband in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1980 CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
9630 Schilling, Diebold.

Die grosse Burgunder Chronik. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift Ms. A5 der Zentralbibliothek Zurich. Faksimile und Kommentarband in 2 Banden.

Luzern 1985 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 375.00
9631

Jenaer Martyrologium. Unterweisung zur Vollkommenheit. Faksimile der Handschrift Ms. Bos. q.3 der Thuringer Universitats- und Landesbibliothek, Jena. Faksimile und Kommentar in 2 Banden.

Stuttgart 2021 CHF 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
9632 Phoebus, Gaston.

Le livre de chasse. Das Buch der Jagd. MS M.1044 The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Faksimile und 2 Kommentarbande.

Luzern 2005 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9633

Las Cronicas de las Cruzadas. Faksimile der Handschrift Ms. 2533 der Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek.

Madrid 2005 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
9634

Die Belagerung von Rhodos 1480 - El Sitio de Rodas 1480 - The Crusades: The Siege of Rhodes. Faksimile der Handschrift Ms. lat. 6067, Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.

Madrid 2006 CHF 600.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
9635

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

Luzern 1997 CHF 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Not Sold
9636 Audubon, J. J.

The birds of America. Mit 20 farb. Lichtdrucktafeln nach den Aquatinten des Originals.

Leipzig und Zurich 1972 CHF 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
9637 Schilling, Diebold.

Die Luzerner Chronik. Vollfaksimile der Handschrift S. 23. fol. in der Zentralbibliothek Luzern. Entstanden um 1513.

Luzern 1977 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 450.00
9638

Sport. Illustrierte Zeitschrift fur Sport und Technik. Nrn. 7--8,11 , 13--14, 17, 20 (2), 22--23, 27 in 11 Heften.

Bern 1910--1911 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9639 (Liger, Louis).

La connoissance parfaite des chevaux, contenant la maniere de les gouverner & de les conserver en sante... avec une instruction sur les haras: l'art de monter a cheval & de dresser les chevaux de manege. Augmente d'un nouveau dictionnaire de manege. 2 Tei

Paris 1741 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9640 Harrison, Joseph (Hg.).

The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist's Magazine. Bande 1-4. Mit 2 gest. Titeln und einigen kolorierten Kupfertafeln.

London 1833-1836 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9641 Boerhaave, Herman.

Index alter plantarum, quae in Horto Academico Ludguno Batavo aluntur. 2 Bande. Mit 2 gest. Titelvignetten und 40 (3 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln.

Leiden 1720 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 687.50
9642 Baxter, William.

British Phaenogamous Botany, or figures and descriptions of the Genera of British flowering plants. 6 Bande. Mit 509 kolor. Kupfertafeln.

Oxford CHF 500.00 - 800.00 CHF 525.00
9643 Krause, Johann Wilhelm.

Abbildungen und Beschreibung aller bis jetzt bekannten Getreidearten, mit Angabe ihrer Kultur und Nutzen. 8 Hefte in 1 Band. Mit 48 kolor. Kupfertafeln.

Leipzig 1834-1837 CHF 800.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9644 Goebel, Friedemann und Gustav Kunze.

Pharmaceutische Waarenkunde mit illuminirten Kupfern nach der Natur gezeichnet von Ernst Schenk. 2 Bande. Mit 71 kolorierten Kupfertafeln.

Eisenach 1827-1834 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9645

T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. Sanitary Potters, Cauldon Place, Hanley. (Represented by:) The Continental sanitary appliances Company E. Porcher... Paris. Mit farblithogr. Titel und 65 farblithogr. Tafeln.

Paris nach 1889 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 450.00
9646 (Dezallier d'Argenville, Antoine Joseph.)

La theorie et la pratique du jardinage, ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins appelles communement les jardins de plaisance et de proprete. Mit 38 gefalt. Kupfertafeln.

Paris 1713 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 CHF 312.50
9647 (Liger, Louis).

La nouvelle maison rustique, ou economie generale de tous les biens de campagne. Sixieme edition, augmentee considerablement, & mise en meilleur ordre. Mit gest. Frontispiz, 33 (2 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln sowie einigen Textholzschnitten.

Paris 1749 CHF 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
9648 Sorbait, Paul de.

Universa medicina opera. Mit Kupfertitel und gest. Titelvignette.

Nurnberg 1672 CHF 200.00 - 300.00 CHF 225.00
9649 Gabelkover, Oswald.

Artzneybuch. Darinnen, Auss gnadigem Bevelch, Weiland dess ... Herrn Ludwigen, Hertzogen zu Wurtemberg und Theck ... Fast fur alle dess Menschlichen Leibs Anligen und Gebrechen, ausserlesene und bewehrte Artzneyen ... zusammen getragen. 5 Teile in 1 Band.

(Frankfurt a. M.) 1618 CHF 250.00 - 400.00 CHF 275.00
9650 Monro, Alexander.

Traite d'osteologie. Trad. de l'anglois par (J. J.) Sue. 2 Bande. Mit 1 gest. Frontispiz, 2 gest. Titelvignetten, 4 gest. Vignetten und 54 (von 62) Kupfertafeln (davon 31 in Umrissmanier).

Paris 1759 CHF 400.00 - 600.00 CHF 250.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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