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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USDSotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USDSotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USDSotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USDSotheby’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. -
Gonnelli:
Auction 55
Antique prints, paintings and maps
November 26st 2024Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€ -
Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
Forum Auctions: Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works on Paper, 1158, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76 | [Polidori (John)] | The Vampyre; A Tale, |
1819 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,638.00 | |
| 77 | Woman novelist.- [Hart (Julia Catherine Beckwith)] | Tonnewonte, or, The adopted son of America. |
Watertown N.Y. | 1825-1824. | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 504.00 |
| 78 | Mudford (William) | The Five Nights of St. Albans |
1829 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,890.00 | |
| 79 | Melville (Herman) | Typee: a Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas, |
New York | 1846 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | Not Sold |
| 80 | Melville (Herman) | Omoo |
1847 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 441.00 | |
| 81 | Austen (Jane) | Novels, 5 vol., |
1853 | GBP 500.00 - 700.00 | GBP 1,512.00 | |
| 82 | Stevenson (Robert Louis) | Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde |
1886 | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 83 | Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) | The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, |
1892; 1894 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 84 | Doyle (Sir Arthur Conan) | My Friend the Murderer |
New York | 1893 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 3,024.00 |
| 85 | Kipling (Rudyard) | The Writings in Prose and Verse, 32 vol. |
1897-1920. | GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | GBP 1,890.00 | |
| 86 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Story of the Malakand Field Force |
1898 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | |
| 87 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The War Speeches |
1941-46. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 88 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | The Second World War |
1948-54. | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 89 | Churchill (Sir Winston Spencer) | A History of the English-Speaking Peoples |
1956-58. | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 | |
| 90 | Falkner (J. Meade) | The Nebuly Coat |
1903 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
| 91 | Chaucer (Geoffrey) | The Ellesmere Chaucer |
Manchester | 1911 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 945.00 |
| 92 | Keynes (John Maynard) | The Economic Consequences of the Peace |
1919 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | |
| 93 | Keynes (John Maynard) | A Tract on Monetary Reform |
1923 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 3,024.00 | |
| 94 | Keynes (John Maynard) | The End of Laissez-Faire |
1926 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 2,394.00 | |
| 95 | Casanova di Seingalt (Giacomo) | The Memoirs |
1922 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 96 | Lloyd George (David) | War Memoirs |
1933-36. | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
| 97 | Doig (Desmond) | Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work |
1978 | GBP 750.00 - 1,000.00 | GBP 1,134.00 | |
| 98 | Roxburghe Club.- Barker (Nicolas) | The Great Book of Thomas Trevilian |
2000 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold | |
| 99 | Adams (Douglas) | The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
1979 | GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | GBP 1,764.00 | |
| 100 | Ambler (Eric) | The Mask of Dimitrios |
1939 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 819.00 |
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