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    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.
  • 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.

Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2683, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 24, 2024 - October 24, 2024
Page Size: 339 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152 Du Moulin, Pierre (1568-1658)

Defence of the Catholicke Faith: Contained in the Book of the Most Mightie and Most Gracious King James the First.

London 1610 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 6,000.00
153 Eastern Orthodox Church: Prayerbook in Old Church Slavonic.

Octavo format manuscript written on wove paper in black and red ink, with a large decorated headline on first leaf and large decorated initials; consisting of approximately 40 leaves of text written in a neat professional hand, followed by approximately

Unidentified Slavic Country 19th century. USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 406.00
154 Euclid (fl. 300 BCE)

Euclidis Megarensis Mathematici Clarissimi ELementorum Geometricorum Libri XV.

Basel 1558 USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,250.00
155 Flemish Book of Hours, Use of Utrecht.

Small format manuscript prayerbook written in the Flemish language consisting of 168 of 186 parchment leaves (lacking 18 leaves; 6 integral blanks present at the end) organized in 24 gatherings all but four in 8's; St. Odulph's name is included in the li

Utrecht, Netherlands, mid-15th century. USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,000.00
156 Fulgentius Placiades, Fabius (fl. 5-6th century CE)

Enarrationes Allegoricae Fabularum.

Milan 23 April 1498. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 4,750.00
157 Gospels, Gothic and Anglo-Saxon Translation.

Quatuor D.N. Jesu Christi Evangeliorum Versiones Perantiquae Duae, Gothica scil. et Anglo-Saxonica.

Dordrecht 1665 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 1,000.00
158 Grammont, Antoine-Pierre de (1614-1698) Archbishop of Besancon.

Breviarium Bisuntinum Pars Verna.

Besancon 1673 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 344.00
159 Guicciardini, Francesco (1483-1540)

Piu Consigli et Avvertimenti in Materia di Republica et di Privata, Nuovamente Mandati in Luce.

Paris 1576 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
160 Hartley, David (1705-1757), attributed.

Observations on the Progress to Happiness.

England, 1734/5. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 688.00
161 Henry V of England (1386-1422)

Parchment manuscript document issued under the authority of Henry V, text in Latin in brown ink in an English secretarial hand, 23 lines; cuff turned up along the bottom edge, the large wax royal seal attached and suspended by a strip of parchment; chipp

London circa 1420-1422. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,500.00
162 Herbert of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, Baron (1583-1648)

The Life & Raigne of King Henry the Eighth.

London 1649 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 688.00
163 Hevelius, Johannes (1611-1687)

Selenographia: Sive, Lunae Descriptio; atque Accurata, tam Macularum eius, quam Mottum Diversorum, aliarumque Omnium Vicissitudinum, Phasiumque, Telescopii ope Deprehensarum, Delineatio.

Danzig 1647 USD 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD 17,500.00
164 Homer, trans. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

The Iliad

London 1715-1726. USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 2,000.00
165 Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Five large-format folio sheets printed on laid paper, some with decorative woodcuts and borders, printed in Latin and Italian, bearing a variety of admonishments regarding books and publishing including a few that include lists of specific banned books;

Italy circa 1596-1669. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 3,750.00
166 Joachim of Fiore (c. 1135-1202)

Vaticinia, sive Prophetiae Abbatis Joachimi & Anselmi Episcopi Marsicani. Vaticinii overo Proetie dell'Abbate Gioachino & di Anselmo Vescovo di Marisco.

Venice 1589 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,625.00
167 Kircher, Athanasius (1602-1680)

Scrutinium Physico-Medicum. Contagiosae Luis, quae Pestis Dicitur.

Rome 1658 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,125.00
168 Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801)

The Conjuror's Magazine, or, Magical and Physiognomical Mirror. Including a Superb Edition of Lavater's Essays on Physiognomy.

London 1792-1793. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 938.00
169 Manuscript in Latin Illustrated with Engraved Plates.

Philosophia Naturalis: Physica Regia.

Royal College of Douai circa 1757. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 531.00
170 Manuscript in Latin.

I Pars Philosophi. I AE Logica.

Tours 1768 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.00
171 Medieval Manuscript Leaf.

Single folio-format parchment leaf removed from a manuscript consisting of musical notation and lyrics, notes written on a four-line scale, text written in brown ink with initials in alternating red and blue with rubricated capital strokes and line-fill;

France circa 1350-1450. USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,625.00
172 Medieval Manuscript Leaf.

Folio-format single parchment leaf with text in black ink in three columns with main text in central column and glosses in a smaller hand flanking; capital strokes and initials in red and blue, ruled in plummet, 53 lines, top line sitting on top of top-m

Continental 12th century. USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
173 Middleton, Richard of (fl. 1249-1308)

Commentum super Quarto Libro Sententiarium Petri Lombardi.

Venice [not after 1477]. USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 USD 3,250.00
174 Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1726)

Optice: Sive de Reflexionibus, Refractionibus, Inflexionibus et Coloribus Lucis, Libri Tres.

Lausanne & Geneva 1740 USD 700.00 - 900.00 USD 1,063.00
175 Nifo, Agostino (c. 1473-1538 or 1545)

Libellus de Rege Tyranno,

Naples 1526, 1523 USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00 USD 18,750.00
176 Palm Leaf Manuscripts.

Kammavaca.

19th century. USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 390.00
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  • 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.
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