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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 -
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD, John. <i>A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds.</i> L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5a5a37a4-bc84-4fa8-b8b8-bad6106a9297.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD, John. <i>A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds.</i> L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/00aa5647-98fa-42e5-aa1f-e306d308a753.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD. <i>A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans.</i> L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/529a982d-de64-41cf-b68c-93f0df023bfc.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> GOULD. <i>A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans.</i> L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.")
![<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> SELBY. <i>Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology.</i> Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5c121f9c-5368-40ac-a487-76508b5ac622.jpg "<b>Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14:</b> SELBY. <i>Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology.</i> Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.")
Freeman’s | Hindman
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
November 14Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000. -
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€ -
Swann, Nov. 14: Stephen Sondheim, autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed, 4 bars from “Send in the Clowns,” 1986.Swann, Nov. 14: George Washington, autograph letter signed to Robert Morris, preparing for attack on Philadelphia, 1777.Swann, Nov. 14: Autograph album containing over 250 signatures by members of 29th U.S. Congress, 1845.Swann, Nov. 14: Charles “The Bold,” letter signed to Duke of Milan written during Burgundian Wars, 1475.Swann, Nov. 14: Deng Xiaoping, TIME magazine “Man of the Year” issue signed and dated, 1979.Swann, Nov. 14: Theodor Herzl, autograph letter signed to prospective tutor of his children, 1902.Swann, Nov. 14: Bourienne’s Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte extra illustrated including 1798 letter signed by Napoleon after Battle of the Nile, 1836.Swann, Nov. 14: George Minot, autograph manuscript signed, diary kept during European trip to claim Nobel Prize, 1934.Swann, Nov. 14: Thomas Jefferson, autograph letter signed, introducing George Washington’s personal secretary Tobias Lear, 1793.Swann, Nov. 14: Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, signed in second volume, first edition, 1956-58.Swann, Nov. 14: John Steinbeck, late typescript drafts of 5 chapters from his posthumously published tales of King Arthur, 1959.Swann, Nov. 14: H.G. Wells, group of 14 of his books signed to his mistress Rebecca West or the son they had together, 1910s-40s.
New England Book Auctions: 15th-18th Century Printing, Science, & Americana Part 2, 91724, South Deerfield
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- September 17, 2024 - September 17, 2024
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Group of 8 printed documents. |
United Kingdom | vd | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | Not Sold | |
| 100a | (Leaf Book). An Original Leaf from the Polychronicon printed by William Caxton at Westminster in the Year 1482. The Life and Works of William Caxton |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 960.00 | |||
| 101 | Legendre, Adrien-Marie | Nouvelles Methodes pour la Determination des Orbites des Cometes. |
Paris | 1805 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 102 | Leuba, Fritz | Les Champignons Comestibles et les Especes Veneneuses. |
Neuchatel | Circa 1890 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 103 | Livius, Titus | Historiarum Quod Extat. |
Amsterdam | 1679 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 204.00 |
| 104 | Lockie, John | Lockie's Topography of London, giving a Concise Local Description of and Accurate Direction to Every Square, Street, Lane, Court, Dock, Wharf, Inn Public-Office, &c. |
London | 1810 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 48.00 |
| 105 | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus | Pharsalia. |
Lugduni Batavorum | 1728 | USD 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold |
| 106 | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus | Pharsalia, cum Commentario Petri Burmanni. |
Leiden | 1740 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 107 | Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus | Pharsalia. |
Amsterdam | 1643 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 72.00 |
| 108 | Lucian of Samosata | Opera. Greek text with Latin translation by Tiberius Hemsterhuis and Johann Matthias Gesner. |
Amsterdam | 1743-46 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 180.00 |
| 109 | Lucretius Carus, Titus | De Rerum Natura, Libri VI. |
Paris | 1570 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,020.00 |
| 109a | Lucretius Carus, Titus | De Rerum Natura, Libros Sex. |
London | 1796 | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 192.00 |
| 110 | [M'Cormack, Samuel]. | [M'Cormack, Samuel]. |
Edinburgh | 1812 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 60.00 |
| 111 | Maimbourg, Louis | The History of the Crusade; or, the Expeditions of the Christian Princes for the Conquest of the Holy Land. |
London | 1685 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 113 | Manuscript deed on vellum to Jane & Johannes Lumley. Text in Latin. |
England, | circa 1570 | USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 120.00 | |
| 114 | Map of Canada. East and West. |
New York: | 1853 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 144.00 | |
| 115 | Marherr, Philipp Ambros | Praelectiones in Hermanni Boerhaave institutiones medicas cum Praefatione Cranzii. |
Vienna and Leipzig | 1772 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 120.00 |
| 116 | Martialis, Marcus Valerius | Epigrammata, paraphrasi et notis variorum selectissimis...exornavit Lud. Smids, M. D. |
Amsterdam | 1701 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 96.00 |
| 116a | Marolles, Michel | Catalogue de Livres d'estampes et de Figures en Tailles-douce... |
Paris | 1672 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 117 | Kilty, John. | The Land-Holder's Assistant, and Land-Office Guide; |
Baltimore | 1808 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 84.00 |
| 118 | Matthaeis, Antonius | De Judiciis Disputationes Septendecim. Editio Tertia. |
Amsterdam | 1665 | USD 80.00 - 120.00 | USD 72.00 |
| 118a | Mayans y Siscar, Gregorio | Epistolarum Libri Sex. |
Valencia | 1732 | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 60.00 |
| 119 | Medical. Group of 9 pamphlets, as listed below. 8vo, removed; some foxing, soiling, etc. |
American | vp | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 96.00 | |
| 120 | Medical. Group of 4 volumes, as listed below. 8vo, various bindings; |
Vp | vd | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 144.00 | |
| 121 | A History of the New-York Kappa Lambda Conspiracy. |
New-York | 1839 | USD 75.00 - 100.00 | USD 84.00 |
![<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Mayr (Heinrich von). <i>Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresques de l'Orient,</i> first edition in the original 10 parts, Munich, Paris & Leipzig, [1839-40]. £10,000 to £15,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d55bdd84-749f-463d-8dbb-b699758ef469.jpg "<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Mayr (Heinrich von). <i>Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresques de l'Orient,</i> first edition in the original 10 parts, Munich, Paris & Leipzig, [1839-40]. £10,000 to £15,000.")
![<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Lewis (John Frederick). <i>Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835-6,</i> first edition, [1838]. £6,000 to £8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/543a84e0-0b4b-4ad5-87d2-5a608e848ef0.jpg "<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Lewis (John Frederick). <i>Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835-6,</i> first edition, [1838]. £6,000 to £8,000.")
![<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Cassas (Louis François). <i>[Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palæstube et de la Basse-Égypte],</i> 3 vol., first edition, [Paris], [1799]. £8,000 to £12,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4dff8ca9-d113-4251-ae8e-ae25228f7956.jpg "<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Cassas (Louis François). <i>[Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palæstube et de la Basse-Égypte],</i> 3 vol., first edition, [Paris], [1799]. £8,000 to £12,000.")
![<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Brindesi (Jean). <i>Souvenirs de Constantinople,</i> first edition, [Paris], [1855-60]. £4,000 to £6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/0ddc823f-dd6d-4282-8aba-978d6ee7abbe.jpg "<b>Forum, Nov. 14:</b> Brindesi (Jean). <i>Souvenirs de Constantinople,</i> first edition, [Paris], [1855-60]. £4,000 to £6,000.")
![<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/45a90570-7486-4199-91da-bd2e9a044380.jpg "<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478")
![<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/99566626-91f5-42da-8f8c-05fae35b4c67.jpg "<b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491")
