• 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.

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
792 Iamblichus Chalcidensis, and others.

Iamblichus de mysteriis Aegyptiorum, Chaldaeorum, Assyriorum. Proclus in Platonicum Alcibiadem de anima, atque daemone.

Venice November 1516 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 4,064.00
793 Isocrates.

Isocrates nuper accurate recognitus et auctus. Isocrates. Isokrates. Alkidamas. Gorgias. Aristeides. 'Arpokration. Alcidamas. Gorgias. Aristides. Harpocration [Greek].

Venice July 1534 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
794 Jerome, Saint.

Epistolae d. Hieronymi Stridoniensis, et libri contra haereticos ex antiquissimis exemplaribus, mille & amplius mendis ex Erasmi correctione sublatis, nunc primum opera, ac studio Mariani Victorii Reatini emendati, eiusdemque argumentis, & scholiis, illus

Rome 1565 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 2,794.00
795 Jerome, Saint.

Epistolae ... et libri contra haereticos, ex antiquissimis exemplaribus.

Rome 1566 USD 18,000.00 - 24,000.00 USD 22,860.00
796 Joannes Chrysostomus.

Libri tre della prouidenza di Dio a Stargirio monaco. Trattato del medesimo, che nessuno puo esser'offeso se non da se medesimo.

Venice 1554 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 762.00
797 Joannes Damascenus.

Aduersus sanctarum imaginum oppugnatores orationes tres, Petro Francisco Zino Veronensi interprete.

Venice 1554 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 USD 508.00
798 Joannes Philoponus.

In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis commentaria [Greek].

Venice March 1504 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 24,130.00
799 Joannes Philoponus.

In libros de generatione et interitu. Alexander Aphrodisiensis In meteorologica. Idem De mixtione [Greek and Latin].

Venice September 1527 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 17,780.00
800 Joannes Philoponus.

In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis commentarium, incerti authoris in eadem. Eustratii in eadem [Latin and Greek].

Venice December 1534 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 38,100.00
801 Joannes Philoponus.

Joannes Philoponus. In posteriora resolutoria Aristotelis commentarium, incerti authoris in eadem. Eustratii in eadem [Latin and Greek].

Venice December 1534 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,302.00
802 Juan Huarte de San Juan.

Essame de gl'ingegni de gl'huomini per apprender le scienze. Nel quale, scoprendosi la varieta della natura, si mostra, a che professione sia atto ciacuno, et quanto profitto habbia fatto in essa di Gio. Huarte. Tradotto dalla lingua spagnuola da m. Camil

Venice 1586 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,270.00
803 Josephus Flavius.

Della guerra giudaica tradotto in lingua toscana et nuouamente con diligentia stampato.

Florence 6 November 1526 USD 10,000.00 - 14,000.00 USD 30,480.00
804 Justinus, Marcus Junianus.

Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quatuor & triginta epithomatis collecta. Lucij Flori Epithomata quatuor quam cultissima in decem Titi Livii decadas ...

Lyon 24 July 1510 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
805 Justinus, Marcus Junianus, and others.

Trogi Pompei Externae historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae. Externorum imperatorum uitae authore Aemylio Probo.

Venice January 1522 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 508.00
806 Justinus, Marcus Junianus.

Trogi Pompei externae historiae in compendium redactae externorum imperatorum vitae aemilio Probo.

Lyon 1523 USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,620.00
807 Justinus, Marcus Junianus.

Trogi Pompei Externae historiae in compendium ab Iustino redactae.

Florence 1525 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
808 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Venice August 1501 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 6,350.00
809 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Venice August 1501 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
810 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Lyon USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,778.00
811 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Lyon USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 508.00
812 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Lyon USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 USD 635.00
813 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Lyon USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,080.00
814 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Lyon USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,620.00
815 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Venice August 1501 but circa 1515 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,810.00
816 Juvenalis, Decimus Junius and Aulus Persius Flaccus.

Iuuenalis. Persius.

Venice August 1501 but ca. USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 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.
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    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
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    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: Awt 578 type hi gauge.
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
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    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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