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.
High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Book Press 10 1/2× 15 1/4" Platen , 2 1/2" Daylight.

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
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.

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.

High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.

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.

High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024

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.

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

Auction Details

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
128	Ruf, Jacob	Hebammenbuch. Daraus man alle Heimligkeit dess weiblichen Geschlechts erlehrnen, welcherley Gestalt der Mensch in Mutterleib empfangen, zunimpt und geboren wirdt. Von newem gebessert ...	Frankfurt am Main	1600	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 504.00
129	Sigaud de Lafond, Jean Rene	Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale. Seconde edit. rev., corr. augm. par. M. Rouland. 2 Bde	Paris	1784	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	Not Sold
130	Althammer, Andreas	Conciliationes locorum scripturae, qui specie tenus inter se pugnare videntur centuriae duae.	Nurnberg	1561	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 630.00
131	Augustinus, Aurelius	Omnium operum primus (et secundus) tomus. Bde. I und II (von XI)	Venedig	1552	EUR 900.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
132	Augustinus, Aurelius	(Opera). Undecima pars librorum divi Aurelii Augustini quorum mentionem non fecit in libris retractationum. Teil 11 (von 11)	Basel	1506	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 504.00
133		Biblia latina.	(Basel	nicht nach 1474	EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 10,080.00
134	Caracciolus, Robertus	Sermones de timore divinorum iudiciorum. Daran Sermo de morte	Venedig	1475	EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,764.00
135	Cicero, Marcus Tullius	Opera rhetorica, oratoria & forensia. Orationes (Ed. J. Bade). 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.	(Paris)	1527	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 302.40
136	Flurhaim, Christoph	Alle Kirchengesang und Gebett des ganczen Jars, von der heiligen Christenlichen Kirchen angenommen ... Alles verteutscht und langest gemehret. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.	Dillingen	1571	EUR 400.00 - 400.00	EUR 756.00
137	Freigius, Johann Thomas	Paedagogus. Hoc est, libellus ostendens qua ratione prima artium initia pueris quam facillime tradi possint	Basel	1582	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00	Not Sold
138	Galenus, Claudius	Opera quae ad nos extant omnia, partim iampridem, partim penitus recens, a viris doctissimis in Latinam linguam conversa ... per Janum Cornarium ...	Basel	1549	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 453.60
139		Horae B. M. V. fur den Gebrauch von Bayeux. Gedrucktes Stundenbuch auf Pergament	Paris	1515	EUR 15,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
140	Josephus, Flavius	Alle Bucher ... von den alten Geschichten der Juden. Durch D. Caspar Hedion verteutscht ... und an vilen orten trefflich gebessert und gemehret. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.	Strassburg	1561	EUR 450.00 - 450.00	EUR 453.60
141	Livius, Titus	Rerum gestarum populi Romani, libri XXX, qui soli supersunt. L. Flori epitome in libros C. XL	Koln	1525	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00	EUR 176.40
142	Luther, Martin	Der hundertt unn achtzehend Psalm nutzlich zu betten. Separat erschienener Anhang zu Luthers Schrift ,,Von der Beicht ob die der Babst macht habe zu gepieten".	(Wittenberg	1521	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
143	Luther, Martin	De Propheten alle Dudesch (und) Dat drudde deel des Olden Testamentes. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd	Magdeburg	1532	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	EUR 3,528.00
144		Missale Romanum, ex decreto Sacrosancti Concilii Tridentini restitutum, Pii V. Pont. Max. iussu editum	Antwerpen	1594	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 415.80
145	L'Obel, Matthias de und Pierre Pena	Nova stirpium adversaria. - Daran: L'Obel, Matthias de: Plantarum seu stirpium historia. Cui annexum est adversariorum volumen. 2 Teile in 1 Band.	Antwerpen	1576	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
146	(Paulus Diaconus)	Homilie hoc est Conciones populares sanctissimorum ecclesie doctorum. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd	Basel	1516	EUR 500.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
147	Pfinzing, Melchior	Der aller-durchleuchtigste Ritter, oder die rittermassige hoch-theure hochst-gefahrliche und glorwurdigste Gross-Thaten, Abentheuer, Glucks-Wechslungen und Siges-Zeichen dess ...	Augsburg	1680-85	EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,764.00
148	Reineck (Reineccius), Reiner	Von der Meissner anfenglichem herkommen, geschichten, thaten, verenderung der Sitzen, mancherley Herrschafften, und wie sie endlich in Deudschland kommen, kurtzer bericht. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd	Leipzig	1576	EUR 600.00 - 600.00	EUR 693.00
149	Sammelband mit 3 exegetischen Schriften. 31,4 x 19,8 cm. Blindgepr. Schweinsleder uber Holzdeckeln auf 4 Bunden mit hs. Rt.	(Berieben. Schliessen verloren. Innen durchgehend am Oberrand wasserfleckig. Wenige Blatt mit leichten Randdefekten. Altersfleckig und kleines Wurmloch im weissen Unterrand.)			EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 491.40
150	Sarcerius, Erasmus	Praecipui sacrae scripturae communes loci, a doctissimo & sanctissimo Doctore Augustino tractati, & a M. Erasmo Sarcerio Anaemontano in concinnam methodi formam contracti.	Venedig	1539	EUR 200.00 - 200.00	EUR 214.20
151	Solinus, Gaius Julius	Seu rerum orbis memorabilium collectanea. Adiectus praeterea in libri calce est Index ... mendis quibus antehac scatebat pro uirili expurgatis emaculatis(que)	Koln	1520	EUR 300.00 - 300.00	EUR 252.00
152	Strabo / Heresbach, Konrad (Ubers.)	En tibi lector studiose Strabonis geographicorum com(m)e(n)tarios, olim, ut putatur, a Guarino Veronense, & Gregorio Trifernate latinitate donatos, iam vero denuo a Conrado Heresbachio ad fidem Graeci exemplaris	Basel	1523	EUR 750.00 - 750.00	EUR 1,008.00

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.
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.

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