• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
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    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
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  • 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: A Bacchic Library, 112724, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 27, 2024 - November 27, 2024
Page Size: 258 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 PASTEUR (Louis).

Etudes sur le vin. Ses maladies. Causes qui les provoquent. Procedes nouveaux pour le conserver et pour le vieillir.

Paris 1866 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
77

Ensemble de 7 ouvrages relies. ANDRE (Ed.). Les parasites & les maladies de la vigne.

Beaune 1882 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
78 PISANELLI (Baldassare).

Traicte de la nature des viandes et du boire : avec leurs vertus, vices, remedes et histoires naturelles : utile & delectable a tout bon esprit.

Arras 1596 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
79

Dissertation sur les vins.

Paris 1772 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
80

L'Art de faire, d'ameliorer et de conserver les vins ; ou le parfait vigneron...

Turin 1783 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
81

L'Art de faire, d'ameliorer et de conserver les vins ; ou le parfait vigneron...

Turin 1783 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
82 PULLIAT (Victor), Jules-Emile PLANCHON et Joseph-Etienne ROBIN

La Vigne americaine. Sa culture, son avenir en Europe.

Vienne puis Lyon 1877-1882. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 563.00
83 PUVIS (Marc-Antoine).

De la Culture de la vigne et de la fabrication du vin.

Paris 1848 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 250.00
84

Textes rares et curieux, dont HERBERT. Discours sur les vignes.

EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 500.00
85 RENDU (Victor).

Ampelographie francaise. Description des principaux cepages, des procedes de culture et de vinification usites dans les meilleurs crus de France.

Paris 1854-57. EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
86 ROARD (J.-L.).

Abrege du traite theorique et pratique sur la culture de la vigne, avec l'art de faire le vin, les eaux-de-vie, esprit de vin, vinaigre simples et composes.

Paris 1805 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 563.00
87 RORET (Encyclopedie).

Ensemble 6 volumes in-16. . THIEBAUT de BERNEAUD (Arsene). Manuel theorique et pratique du vigneron francais, ou l'art de cultiver la vigne, de faire les vins, les eaux-de-vie, et vinaigres

1836 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
88 ROUSSEL AINE.

Connaissances des marchandises, ou, Dictionnaire analytique et raisonne des articles indigenes et exotiques. Drogueries, epiceries, peintures, teintures, liquides etc.

Bordeaux 1846-1847. EUR 80.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
89 ROUSSEL AINE.

Connaissances des marchandises, ou, Dictionnaire analytique et raisonne des articles indigenes et exotiques. Drogueries, epiceries, peintures, teintures, liquides etc.

Bordeaux 1859 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 188.00
90 ROUTE DU VIN (La).

Alsace. -- Champagne. -- Bordeaux. -- Bourgogne.

Paris 1966-1970. EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
91

De la fermentation des vins, et de la meilleure maniere de faire l'eau-de-vie : memoires qui ont concouru pour le prix propose en 1766, par la societe Royale d'agriculture de Limoges, pour l'annee 1767.

Lyon 1770 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 813.00
92 ROZIER (Francois).

Cours complet d'agriculture theorique, pratique, economique, et de medecine rurale et veterinaire ; suivi d'une methode pour etudier l'agriculture par principes ou Dictionnaire universel d'agriculture ;...

Paris 1781-1800 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
93

Articles Vignes, Raisins, Vendanges et Vins, de toutes les qualites du monde, tires du grand Dictionnaire encyclopedique;

Lausanne 1778 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 563.00
94 SEGUIN.

Considerations generales sur l'usage du vin specifique-febrifuge et stomachique de Seguin, dans le traitement de plusieurs maladies, et particulierement dans celui des fievres.

Paris 1808 EUR 80.00 - 100.00 EUR 100.00
95 SHAW (Thomas George).

Wine, The Vine, and The Cellar. Second edition.

London 1864 EUR 100.00 - 120.00 EUR 125.00
96

Ensemble de 7 volumes et brochures. COMBES (Victor) Experiences pratiques sur la culture des vignes americaines.

Puy-L'Eveque, 1897 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 375.00
97

Recueils d'etudes concernant les vignes. 2 volumes relies. LEFEVRE (Emile). Notions de viticulture et de vinification enseignees a la Ferme-Ecole de Royat (Ariege).

Toulouse 1876 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 188.00
98 VIN EN CONTES ET EN VERS (Le).

Ensemble de 6 volumes in-16 et in-12, reliures d'epoque. (coins uses, quelques frottements, rousseurs). ULLIAC-TREMADEURE. Eugene le petit vigneron.

Paris 1836 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
99

Ensemble 5 ouvrages. PEZEYRE (J.). Le vinage dans ses rapports avec l'agriculture et l'interet des classes laborieuses. Seconde edition.

Lagny 1868 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 250.00
100

Ensemble 9 volumes et un manuscrit. MACHARD (H.). Traite pratique sur les vins, 3eme edition du traite de vinification, revue et considerablement augmentee...

Besancon 1860 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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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