• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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
467 Cervantes Saavedra Miguel (de)

Cervantes Saavedra Miguel (de), Histoire de l'admirable don Quichotte de la Manche [...] Tome premier (-sixieme). A Lyon: chez Amable Le Roy, 1781.

Lyon 1781 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 252.00
468 Chiabrera Gabriello

Chiabrera Gabriello, Delle Poesie [...] Parte Prima (-Terza). In Genova: Appresso Giuseppe Pavoni, 1605-1606.

Genova 1605 EUR 80.00 - 80.00 EUR 214.00
469 Ciceri Eugene

Ciceri Eugene, Les Pyrenees. Dessinees d'apres nature et Lithographiees [...] Premiere partie [- deuxieme]. Luchon, Lafont, s.d. [ca. 1870].

Luchon 1870 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 630.00
470 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, Epistolarum ad Atticum ad Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, libri XX... (Al colophon:) Venetiis: in aedibus Aldi, et Andreae soceri, mense iunio 1513.

Venezia 1513 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,260.00
471 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, In hoc volumine haec continentur. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium lib. IIII. [...] de inuentione lib. III... (Al colophon:) Venetiis: in aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutii Romani, et Andreae Asulani soceri, mense Martio 1533.

Venezia 1533 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 403.00
472 Cicero Marcus Tullius

Cicero Marcus Tullius, Epistolarum ad Atticum, libri XVI... Venetiis: [al segno della Concordia], 1579.

Venezia 1579 EUR 70.00 - 70.00 EUR 113.00
473 Cimarelli Vincenzo

Cimarelli Vincenzo, Istorie dello Stato d'Urbino... In Brescia: per gli heredi di Bartholomeo Fontana, 1642 (Al colophon:) Brescia: per gli Sabbi, stampatori episcopali, 1643.

Brescia 1643 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 2,016.00
474 Cittadini Celso

Cittadini Celso, Le origini della toscana favella... In Siena: appresso Ercole Gori, 1628.

Siena 1628 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 400.00
475 Cluver Philipp

Cluver Philipp, Introductionis in universam geographiam, tam veterem quam novam. Brunsuigae, typis Andreae Dunckeri sumptibus Gothofredi Mulleri, 1652 (1647 al colophon).

Braunschweig 1652 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,512.00
476 Collins John

Collins John, Commercium epistolicum... Londini: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712.

London 1712 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,930.00
477 Collodi Carlo

Collodi Carlo, Giornale per i bambini. (La storia di un burattino). Roma: Tip. dei fratelli Bencini, 1881-1889.

Roma 1881 EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 10,080.00
478 Coppola Giovanni Carlo

Coppola Giovanni Carlo, Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze nelle reali nozze de Serenis.mi Gran Duchi di Toschana Ferdinando II. e Vittoria principessa d'Urbino. In Firenze: per Amadore Massi e Lorenzo Landi, 1637.

Firenze 1637 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 4,032.00
479 Coronelli Vincenzo Maria

Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, Epitome cosmografica, o compendiosa introduttione all'Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia... Colonia [ma Venezia]: ad istanza di Andrea Poletti in Venezia, 1693.

Venezia 1693 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,048.00
480 Croce Giulio Cesare

Croce Giulio Cesare, Indovinelli. Dove si contiene varij, & diversi sogetti da indovinare, cosa bella da ridere in compagnia. Con alcune altre cose novamente aggionte... S.l.: S.e., s.d. [XVIII secolo].

Bologna 1700 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 625.00
481 Cuoco Vincenzo

Cuoco Vincenzo, Platone in Italia [...]. Tomo primo (-terzo). Milano: dai torchi di Agnello Nobile; presso Gio. Pietro Giegler, 1804-1806.

Milano 1804 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 400.00
482 Cureau de La Chambre Marin

Cureau de La Chambre Marin, L'art de connoistre les hommes. Premiere partie. Ou sont contenus les discours preliminaires qui seruent d'introduction a cette sciences. A Paris: chez P. Rocolet, 1659.

Paris 1659 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 214.00
483 Darwin Charles

Darwin Charles, The descent of man, and selection in relation to sex [...] In two volumes. Vol. I (-II). With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871.

London 1871 EUR 200.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,000.00
484 Dati Carlo

Dati Carlo, Vite de pittori antichi... In Firenze: nella Stamperia della Stella, 1667.

Firenze 1667 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 189.00
485 De Bernardi Oronzio

De Bernardi Oronzio, L'uomo galleggiante o sia l'arte ragionata del nuoto [...] Parte I [- II]. In Napoli: nella Stamperia Reale, 1794.

Napoli 1794 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
486 De Molinariis Simone

De Molinariis Simone, Ambrosia asiatica seu de virtute, et vsu herbae the sive cia... Genuae: typis Antonij Georgij Franchelli, 1672.

Genova 1672 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 756.00
487 de Rhodes Alexandre

de Rhodes Alexandre, Relazione de' felici successi della santa fede predicata da' padri della Compagnia di Giesu nel regno di Tunchino... Roma: Per Giuseppe Luna, 1650.

Roma 1650 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,016.00
488 Deidier Daniel (Abbe)

Deidier Daniel (Abbe), Le parfait ingenieur francois, ou la fortification offensive et defensive, contenant la construction, l'attaque et la defense des places regulieres & irregulieres... A Paris: chez Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1736.

Paris 1736 EUR 80.00 - 80.00 EUR 302.00
489 Delange Carle

Delange Carle, Recueil de faiences italiennes des XVe, XVIe et XVIIe siecles... Paris: Henri Delange, 1869.

Paris 1869 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,008.00
490 Della Porta Giovan Battista

Della Porta Giovan Battista, Coelestis physiognomoniae libri sex... Neapoli: ex typographia Io. Baptistae Subtilis, 1603.

Napoli 1603 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 756.00
491 Della Porta Giovan Battista

Della Porta Giovan Battista, Magiae naturalis libri viginti... Francofurti: excudebat Samuel Hempelius, 1607.

Frankfurt 1607 EUR 60.00 - 60.00 EUR 428.00
  • 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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