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  • 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.

Venator and Hanstein: Books - Prints - Autographs, 177, Köln

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 20, 2024 - September 20, 2024
Page Size: 572 items in 23 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 Lucae, Friedrich

Des Heil. Romischen Reichs Uhr-alter Graffen-Saal. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd

Frankfurt a. M 1702 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 302.40
77 (Lutz, Samuel)

Vorlauffig - doch grundlicher Bericht vom Adel in Teutschland ... Sammt einer kurzen Deduction von des Hohen Reichs- Grafen- und Herren- Standes Wurde und Berechtsamen

Frankfurt a. M. 1721 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
78

Magazin fur Frauenzimmer. Hrsg. v. D. C. Seybold. Jahrgange I-III (von V). 36 Stucke in 6 Banden.

Strassburg 1782-86 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 831.60
79 Elbe. - Marperger, Paul Jacob

Ausfuhrliche Beschreibung des unter denen grossten Flussen in Teutschland weit und welt-beruhmten Elb-Stroms

Dresden 1724-1730 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 378.00
80 Martini, Martino

Sinicae historiae decas prima, Res a gentis origine ad Christum natum in extrema Asia, sive Magno Sinarum Imperio gestas complexa

Amsterdam 1659 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 415.80
81 Marx, Karl

Herr Vogt

London 1860 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,780.00
82 Marx, Karl

Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Zweite verbesserte Auflage. Bd. 1 (von 3)

Hamburg 1872 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
83 Montaigne, Michel de

Essays in three books. New rendred [sic!] into English by Ch. Cotton. 3 Bde

London 1685-86 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
84 Nentwig, Elias

Jacobs-Stern ... Welcher die Drey Weisen auss dem Morgen-Land auff Bethlehem Juda zu der Geburths-Stadt Christi Jesu gefuhret ...

Neyss 1689 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
85 Platner, Ernst

Philosophische Aphorismen nebst einigen Anleitungen zur philosophischen Geschichte. 2. Auflage. 2 Bande

Leipzig 1793-1800 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 201.60
86 Praetorius, Johannes

Anthropodemus Plutonicus. Das ist/ eine neue Welt-beschreibung von allerley wunderbahren Menschen;

Magdeburg 1666 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
87 Pufendorf, Samuel von

Politische Betrachtung der geistlichen Monarchie des Stuhls zu Rom. Mit Anmerkungen.

Halle 1717 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
88 Quad von Kinckelbach, Matthias

Teutscher Nation Herligkeit. Ein aussfuhrliche beschreibung des gegenwertigen alten uhralten Standts Germaniae

Koln 1609 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 277.20
89

Riegel. - Des zwar verunruhigten, doch dabey allarten Teutschlandes anderer Theil. Tl. 2 (von 8)

Frankfurt & Leipzig 1690 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
90

Sammelband weltanschaulicher Schriften 1827-32.

1827-32. EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
91

Sammelband mit 3 historischen Schriften von 1685-86 zur europaischen Geschichte des 17. Jahrhunderts.

1685-86 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
92

Scrapbook/Einsteckalbum um 1850.

um1850 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 453.60
93 Schall, Johann Adam

Geschichte der chinesischen Mission. Aus dem Lateinischen ubersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Ig. Sch. von Mannsegg

Wien 1834 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
94 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph

Denkmal der Schrift von den gottlichen Dingen etc. und der ihm in derselben gemachten Beschuldigung eines absichtlich tauschenden, Luge redenden Atheismus

Tubingen 1812 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
95 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph

System des transcendentalen Idealismus

Tubingen 1800 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 226.80
96 Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph

Von der Weltseele. Eine Hypothese der hohern Physik zur Erklarung des allgemeinen Organismus

Hamburg 1798 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 252.00
97 Scotus, Romoaldus (pseud.; d. i. Robert Turner)

Summarium Rationum, Qvibus Cancellarius Angliae Et Prolocutor Puckeringius Elizabethae Angliae Reginae persuaserunt occidendam ...

Koln 1627 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
98 Sleidanus, Johannes

Histoire de la Reformation, ou memoires. Sur l'etat de la religion et de la republique sous l'Empire de Charles Quint, traduits de nouveau en francois par P. F. le Courrayer.

Den Haag 1767 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
99 Sleidanus, Johannes

The General History of the Reformation of the Church ... Begun in Germany By Martin Luther ...

London 1689 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 201.60
100 (Smallegange, Mattheus)

Der aus tieffem Schlaff wiedererwachte Niederlandische Low. Aus dem Niederlandischen ins Hochteutsche ubersetzt durch A. v. Friedleben (d. i. A. v. Frankenberg).

O. O. u. Dr. 1673 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 252.00
  • 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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