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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
101 Spanheim, Friedrich

Introductio ad chronologiam et historiam sacram.

Amsterdam 1694 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
102 Stirner, Max (eig.

Johann Caspar Schmidt) Der Einzige und sein Eigenthum

Leipzig 1845 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,008.00
103 Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Opera quae extant. Iustus Lipsius postremum recensuit. Additi commentarii aucti emendatique ab ultima manu. Acc. C. Velleius Paterculus cum eiusdem Lipsi auctoribus notis.

Antwerpen 1607 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 327.60
104 Thucelius (Leucht, Christian Leonhard; pseud.)

Des Heil. Rom. Reichs mit dem ... Herzoglichen Ertz-Hause Oesterreich Bestandige Ehe ...

Augsburg: 1690 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
105

Trienter Konzil. - Sacrosancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV. Pont. Max. celebrati, canones et decreta. Anhang Index librorum prohibitorum

Koln 1610 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
106

Trienter Konzil. - Sacrosancti et oecumenici Concilii Tridentini Paulo III. Iulio III. et Pio IV. pontificibus maximis celebrati canones et decreta

Antwerpen 1640 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
107 Vauban, (Sebastien le Prestre de)

Der Angriff und die Vertheidigung der Festungen. 2 Teile in 1 Band

Berlin 1744 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 239.40
108 Villeneuve-Bargemont, Louis Francois de

Monumens des grands-maitres de l'ordre de Saint-Jean de Jerusalem. 2 Bde

Paris 1829 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
109 Walch, Johann Georg (Hrsg.)

Philosophisches Lexicon, darinnen die in allen Theilen der Philosophie, als Logic, Metaphysic, Physic, Pneumatic, Ethic, naturlichen Theologie und Rechtsgelehrsamkeit ...

Leipzig 1726 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
110 Weng, Johann Friedrich

Die Schlacht bei Nordlingen und Belagerung dieser Stadt in den Monaten August und September 1634. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des dreissigjahrigen Krieges bei Gelegenheit der Sekularfeier dieser Begebenheiten

Nordlingen 1834 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 Not Sold
111 Winckelmann, Johann Just

Grundliche und Wahrhafte Beschreibung der Furstenthumer Hessen und Hersfeld. 6 Teile in 1 Band.

Bremen 1697 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 504.00
112 (Woltmann, Karl Ludwig von)

Memoiren des Freiherrn von S-a. (d. i. Sommaravia). 3 Bde.

Prag & Leipzig 1815-16 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
113 Agricola, Johann

Chirurgia Parva, Et Aucta. Das ist Wund-Artzney/ Darinnen alle Wunden/ sie kommen wie sie wollen/ mit Fleiss beschrieben worden/ wie sich ein Wund-Artzt darbey verhalten/ und solche curiren solle ...

Nurnberg 1674 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
114 Bacchetton, Hieronymus Leopold

Anatomia medicinae theoreticae et practicae ministra ...

Innsbruck 1740 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
116 Bohm, Andreas

Grundliche Anleitung zur Messkunst auf dem Felde, samt zweyen Anhangen vom Wasserwagen und von der unterirdischen Mess- oder Markscheidekunst,

Frankfurt u 1759 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 201.60
117 Brehm, Christian Ludwig

Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vogel Deutschlands ... zur Begrundung einer ganz neuen Ansicht und Behandlung ihrer Naturgeschichte.

Ilmenau 1831 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 378.00
118 Eberlein, Johann Michael

Der vollkommene Pferde-Kenner, welcher nicht nur alle Schonheiten, Fehler und verschiedene Landes-Arten der Pferde zu erkennen giebt, ...

Uffenheim 1764 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,386.00
120 Guyot, Edme (Pseud. De Tymogue)

Nouveau systeme du Mircocosme, ou traite de la nature de l'homme Dans lequel on explique la cause du mouvement des fluides; ...

Den Haag 1761 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
121 Knoop, Johann Hermann

2 franzosischsprachige Werke in einem Band I. Pomologie ou description des meilleurs sortes de pommes et de poires, que l'on estime & cultive les plus ..

Amsterdam 1761 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
122 Ledermuller, Martin Frobenius

Nachleese seiner mikroskopischen Gemuths- und Augen-Ergotzung. I.-V. Sammlung und 2 Anhange in 1 Bd. (= Bd. 2 von 2 Bdn. des Gesamtwerks).

Nurnberg 1763-65 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 882.00
123 Mercklein, Georg Abraham

Neu aussgefertigtes historisch-medicinisches Thier-Buch. ... Enthaltende wider fast alle Kranckheiten und Leibes-Zufalle so wohl fremde, als eigene verschiedene heilsame Secreta und bewehrte Geness-Mittel.

Nurnberg 1696 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,638.00
124 Mulsant, Martial Etienne

Lettres a Julie sur l'ornithologie

Paris 1868 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 176.40
125 Oehme, Johann August

Expediter Feld-Chirurgus geschickter Kriegs- Hospital-Medicus und erfahrner Feld-Apothecker. Neue, viel verm. und verb.

Frankfurt und Leipzig 1750 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 239.40
126

Pharmazie. - Neues Liecht vor die Apothecker, wie selbige nach den Grund-Regeln der heutigen Destillir-Kunst ihre Artzneyen zubereiten sollen.

Leipzig 1690 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 302.40
127

Het Groote Planeten Boeck, met de Geomanci, Phisiognomi ende Chyromanci. Alles uyt Platone, Ptolomeo, Hali, Albimaser, ende Joannes Coninexberger, op het kortste ende vlytichste te samen getogen. (Fragment)

Amsterdam 1639 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
  • 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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