• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • 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 Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Day 3 - Session IV: Books from XVI to XX Century (First part) Session V: Books from XVI to XX Century (Second part), A54c, Firenze

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024
Page Size: 249 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
417 Astle Thomas

Astle Thomas, The Origin and Progress of Writing... London: Printed by T. Bensley, 1803.

London 1803 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 164.00
418 Ausonius Decimus Magnus

Ausonius Decimus Magnus, Opera. (Al colophon:) Venetiis: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, mense Novembri 1517.

Venezia 1517 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,260.00
419 Baldini Baccio

Baldini Baccio, Discorso sopra la mascherata della geneologia degli'iddei de' Gentili... In Firenze: Appresso i Giunti, 1565.

Firenze 1565 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 529.00
420 Bandello Matteo

Bandello Matteo, La prima [-terza] parte de le nouelle del Bandello. In Lucca: per il Busdrago, 1554.

Lucca 1554 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 500.00
421 Barbieri Niccolo

Barbieri Niccolo, Discorso famigliare [...] intorno alle comedie moderne... In Ferrara: presso Francesco Suzzi, 1628.

Ferrara 1628 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,016.00
422 Barbieri Niccolo

Barbieri Niccolo, La supplica, discorso famigliare [...] diretta a quelli che scrivendo o parlando trattano de comici trascurando i meriti delle azzioni [sic] virtuose... In Venezia: per Marco Ginammi, 1634.

Venezia 1634 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 529.00
423 Barlet Annibal

Barlet Annibal, Le vray et methodique cours de la physique resolutive vulgairement dite chymie... A Paris: N. Charles, 1653.

Paris 1653 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,197.00
424 Barlezio Marino

Barlezio Marino, Historia del magnanimo et valoroso signor Georgio Castrioto, detto Scanderbego, dignissimo principe de gli Albani. In Venetia: per Francesco Rocha, 1568.

Venezia 1568 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 693.00
425 Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola)

Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola), Lotto di edizioni del Vignola XVII-XIX secolo.

1603 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 252.00
426 Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola)

Barozzi Giacomo (detto il Vignola), Il Vignola illustrato... In Roma: nella stamperia di Marco Pagliarini, 1770.

Roma 1770 EUR 160.00 - 160.00 EUR 378.00
427 Beati Gabriele

Beati Gabriele, Sphaera triplex artificialis, elementaris, ac caelestis. Romae: Typis Varesijs, 1662.

Roma 1662 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 625.00
428 Bellesrives Leonce (de)

Bellesrives Leonce (de), Recits et souvenirs d'un voyage sur les bords du Tibre. Limoges, Barbou freres, [1861].

Limoges 1861 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 200.00
429 Berengario Jacopo

Berengario Jacopo, Anatomia Carpi. Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime, in anatomiam humani corporis... Venetiis, 1535. (Al colophon: Impressum Venetijs per Bernardinum de Vitalibus Venetum, 1535).

Venezia 1535 EUR 20,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
430 Bertius Petrus

Bertius Petrus, Tabularum Geographicarum contractarum Libri Quatuor... Amstelodami, Apud Cornelium Nicolai, anno 1600. Veneunt autem Arnhemij Apud Ioannem Ioannis.

Amsterdam 1600 EUR 2,800.00 - 2,800.00 EUR 4,284.00
431 Bertolotti Davide

Bertolotti Davide, L'Italia descritta e dipinta con le sue isole... Torino: Presso gli editori Giuseppe Pomba e C., 1837-1838.

Torino 1837 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 693.00
432 Bertotti Scamozzi Ottavio

Bertotti Scamozzi Ottavio, Le fabbriche e i disegni di Andrea Palladio [...] Opera divisa in quattro tomi con tavole in rame [...] Tomo primo (-quarto). In Vicenza: per Giovanni Rossi, 1796.

Vicenza 1796 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,134.00
433 Biel Gabriel

Biel Gabriel, Supplementum in octo & viginti distinctiones... (Parigi), Vaenundatur apud Conradum Resch librarium iuratum sub scuto Basiliensi (Al colophon:) In inclyta Parrhisiorum Academia: ... industria Iodoci Badii Ascensii, ... impendio Conradi Resch

Paris 1521 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 378.00
434 Blaeu Willem Janszoon

Blaeu Willem Janszoon, Novus atlas... (Italia). Zu Amsterdam: bey Ion. und Cornelio Blaeu, 1642.

Amsterdam 1642 EUR 14,000.00 - 14,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
435 Boccaccio Giovanni

Boccaccio Giovanni, La Theseide [...] Innamoramento piaceuole, & honesto di due giouani thebani. In Lucca, appresso Vincenzo Busdraghi ad istantia di Giulio Guidoboni, 1579.

Lucca 1579 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 550.00
436 Boccaccio Giovanni

Boccaccio Giovanni, L'amorosa Fiammetta... In Venetia: appresso Lucio Spineda, 1616.

Venezia 1616 EUR 60.00 - 60.00 EUR 225.00
437 Boccaccio Giovanni

Boccaccio Giovanni, Il Decameron [...] tratto dall'ottimo testo scritto da Fran.co d'Amaretto Mannelli sull'originale dell'Autore. [Lucca: Giusti-Cambiagi, 1761].

Lucca 1761 EUR 60.00 - 60.00 EUR 151.00
438 Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus

Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, Libri dialectici... Venetiis: apud Ioan. Gryphium, 1546.

Venezia 1546 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 378.00
439 Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus

Boethius Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus, Della consolazione della filosofia. Tradotto di lingua latina, in volgare fiorentino, da Benedetto Varchi. In Firenze: [Lorenzo Torrentino], 1551.

Firenze 1551 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 630.00
440 Bonfadini Vita

Bonfadini Vita, La Caccia dell'Arcobugio [...] Con la prattica del tirare in volo, inaere, & a borita... In Bologna, per Gioseffo Longhi,1672.

Bologna 1672 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 643.00
441 Bongiovanni Zenone

Bongiovanni Zenone, Storia di sette donne risanate dal veleno dei funghi. In Verona: per gli eredi di Marco Moroni, 1789.

Verona 1789 EUR 320.00 - 320.00 EUR 945.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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