• 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.
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: 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.

PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian - with Fine Art, Fine Press, Fine Bindings, 826, Berkeley

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024
Page Size: 428 items in 18 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 [Baldwin, George]

An Investigation into Principles

[London] [1801] USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
27 [Darwin, Erasmus]

The Botanic Garden. A Poem, in two parts. Part I. Containing the Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants. With Philosophical Notes

London 1791 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
28

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments ... together with the Psalter ...

London 1715 USD 7,000.00 - 10,000.00 Not Sold
29 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Oxford [1826] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 212.50
30 Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson

London 1791 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 812.50
31

Florilege catholique

[France] [c.1810] USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
32 Brantome, Pierre de Bourdeille, Sieur de

Memoires... Contenant les Vies des Dames Illustres de France de son temps

Leiden 1692 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
33 Gedeon, Hieromonach [Gedeon, Ieromonaxois]

Liturgical collection in Greek [Biblos Eniausios itis kai Panthekti kaleitai...]

En Lipsia tis Saksonias [i.e. Leipzig] apsksa [i.e. 1761] USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
34 Brillat-Savarin, Jean Anthelme

The Physiology of Taste

New York 1949 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 593.75
35

The British Lithographer

London 1891-1892 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
36 Browne, Thomas

Religio Medici. The Fourth Edition, Corrected and Amended. With Annotations Never Before Published...

London 1656 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
37 Caesar, Caius Julius

The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War

London 1753 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
38 Calvin, John

Commentaires de Jean Calvin sur la Concordance ou Harmonie, composee des trois Euagelistes, assauoir sainct Matthieu, sainct Marc, & saict Luc

A Geneve [i.e. Geneva] 1563 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 468.75
39

Vita, Costumi, e Morte di Michele Calvo, appellato de Castro, Estratta dall'Originale Processo formato nella Regia Curia di Pavia

Pavia? After 1763 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
40 Catherine de Meurdrac de La Guette

Memoires de Madame de la Guette, Escrits par Elle-mesme

A La Haye [i.e. The Hague] 1681 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
41 Cavendish, Henry

The Scientific Papers of the Honourable Henry Cavendish, F.R.S.

Cambridge 1921 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
42 Chacon, Pedro

De Triclinio sive De modo convivandi apud priscos Romanos & de conviviorum apparatu

Amstelodami [i.e. Amsterdam] 1664 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
43 Clavel, Marie

Marines, Aux Rhythmes des Jours

Paris USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
44 Cocks, J.

The Sea-Weed Collector's Guide: Containing Plain Instructions for Collecting and Preserving, and a List of all the Known Species and Localities in Great Britain

London 1853 USD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
45 [Warnock, Charles]

Giggle Water, including Eleven Famous Cocktails of the Most Exclusive Club of New York as served before the War, when Mixing Drinks was an Art

New York [1928] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 437.50
46 Crane, Walter

The First of May, A Fairy Masque; Presented in a Series of 52 Designs

London 1881 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
47 Crane, Walter

King Luckieboy's Picture Book: Containing King Luckieboy's Party; One, Two, Buckle my Shoe; The Fairy Ship; This Little Pig Went to Market

London [c.1871] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 187.50
48

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851

London [1852] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
49 [Blocquel, Simon] Baron Commode (pseud.).

Manuel consolateur des cocus. Code pacifique des menages, ouvrage eminemment utile, suivi 1. d'un tableau des moeurs et usages de differentes nations relativement aux fiancailles, au mariage, a la polygamie, a l'adultere et au divorce...traduit fidelement

Cornopolis [i.e. Lille] [c.1837?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
50

Two ballet/dance programs

Various places Various dates USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 125.00
  • ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 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.
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