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  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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

Sothebys: Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M, N11499, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 18, 2024 - October 18, 2024
Page Size: 331 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
665 Dante Alighieri.

[Le terze rime di Dante].

Venice August 1502 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 11,430.00
666 Dante Alighieri.

[Le terze rime di Dante].

Venice August 1502 USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,890.00
667 Dante Alighieri.

Le terze rime di Dante.

Venice August 1502 USD 80,000.00 - 120,000.00 USD 165,100.00
668 Dante Alighieri.

Le terze rime di Dante.

Venice August 1502 USD 35,000.00 - 45,000.00 USD 76,200.00
669 Dante Alighieri.

Le terze rime di Dante.

Lyon 1502-1503? USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
670 Dante Alighieri.

Le terze rime di Dante.

Lyon 1502-1503? USD 125,000.00 - 150,000.00 USD 158,750.00
671 Dante Alighieri.

Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta.

Venice August 1515 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 22,860.00
672 Dante Alighieri.

Dante col sito, et forma dell'Inferno tratta dalla istessa descrittione del poeta.

Venice August 1515 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 12,065.00
673 Delfino, Federico.

Federici Delphini...De fluxu et refluxu aquae maris, subtilis et erudita disputatio. Eiusdem De motu octauae sphaerae.

Venice 1559 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
674 Della Casa, Giovanni.

Rime, et prose di m. Giouanni Della Casa.

Venice October 1558 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,286.00
675 Della Casa, Giovanni.

Rime, et prose.

Venice October 1558 USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 16,510.00
676 Demosthenes.

Demosthenis Orationes duae & sexaginta. Libanii sophistae in eas ipsas orationes argumenta. Vita Demosthenis per Libanium. Eiusdem vita per Plutarchum.

Venice November 1504 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 31,750.00
677 Demosthenes.

Libanii in eas ipsas orationes argumenta. Vita Demosthenis per Libanium.

Venice November 1504 but in the house of Aldo and Andrea Torresano USD 150,000.00 - 250,000.00 USD 190,500.00
678 Demosthenes.

Demosthenis Orationes quatuor contra Philippum, a Paulo Manutio latinitate donatae.

Venice 1549 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,016.00
679 Demosthenes.

Demosthenis Orationes quatuor contra Philippum, a Paulo Manutio latinitate donatae.

Venice 1551 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 381.00
680 Demosthenes.

[Greek]. Orationum pars prima [-tertia]. In qua deliberatiuae sexdecim eius orationes, una cum exordiis deliberatiuis, & duae demonstratiuae continentur.

Venice 1554 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,143.00
681 Demosthenes.

Oratione di Demostene contra la legge di Lettine, la quale toglieua uia tutte l'esentioni.

Venice 1555 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 2,159.00
682 Demosthenes.

Cinque orationi di Demosthene et vna di Eschine tradotte di lingua greca in italiana secondo la uerita de' sentimenti.

Venice 1557 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 889.00
683 Didymus Chalcenterus, and others.

[Greek]. Interpretationes et antiquae, et perquam utiles in Homeri Iliada, nec non in Odyssea. [Part 2:] Porphyrios. [Greek]. Porphyriou philosophou Omerica zetemata.

Venice May 1521 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 12,700.00
684 Didymus Chalcenterus.

[Greek]. Interpretationes et antiquae, et perquam utiles in Homeri Iliada, nec non in Odyssea.

Venice May 1521 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,540.00
685 Dio Cassius, Aelius Spartianus, Julius Capitolinus, and others.

In hoc volumine haec continentur. Nervae et Traiani, atque Adriani Caesarum vitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete. Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Lampridius. Flavius Vopiscus. Trebellius Pollio. Vulcatius Gallicanu...

Venice August 1519 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,080.00
686 Dio Cassius, and others.

In hoc volumine haec continentur. Neruae et Traiani, atque Adriani Caesarum vitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete. Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Lampridius. Flauius Vopiscus. Trebellius Pollio. Vulcatius Gallicanus....

Venice August 1519 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 11,430.00
687 Dio Cassius, and others.

In hoc volumine haec continentur. Nervae et Traiani, atque Adriani Caesarum vitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete. Aelius Spartianus. Iulius Capitolinus. Lampridius. Flavius Vopiscus. Trebellius Pollio. Vulcatius Gallicanus. ...

Venice August 1519 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
688 Dio Chrysostomus.

[Greek]. Orationes LXXX. Apposita est in extremo libro uarietas lectionum, cum orationum indice.

Venice 1551? USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,651.00
689 Dionysius Halicarnassensis.

De Thucydidis historia iudicium, Andrea Duditio Pannonio interprete.

Venice 1560 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,794.00
  • 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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