• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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
592 Philo (Alexandrinus)

Philo (Alexandrinus), Libri antiquitatum. Quaestionum et solutionum in Genesin. De Essaeis. De nominibus hebraicis. De mundo... Basileae: per Adamum Petrum, mense Augusto 1527.

Basel 1527 EUR 250.00 - 250.00 EUR 428.00
593 Picart Bernard

Picart Bernard, Histoire generale des Ceremonies, moeurs, et costumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde... A Paris: chez Rollin fils, 1741.

Paris 1741 EUR 340.00 - 340.00 EUR 1,134.00
594 Placcius Vincent

Placcius Vincent, De arte excerpendi vom gelahrten buchhalten liber singularis... Holmiae & Hamburgi: apud Gottfried Liebezeit, 1689.

Hamburg 1689 EUR 350.00 - 350.00 EUR 441.00
595 Plautus Titus Maccius

Plautus Titus Maccius, Comoediae viginti nuper recognitae et acri iudicio Nicolai Angelij diligentissime excussae... (Al colophon:) (Florentiae: per haeredes Philippi Iuntae Florentini, 1522 mense Martij.

Firenze 1522 EUR 140.00 - 140.00 EUR 214.00
596 Plinius Secundus Gaius

Plinius Secundus Gaius, Epistolarum libri X... (Al colophon:) Venetiis: in aedib. Aldi, et Andreae Asulani soceri, mense Iunio 1518.

Venezia 1518 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 630.00
597 Plutarchus

Plutarchus, Vitae: nuper quam diligentissime recognitae: quibus tres virorum illustrium vitae adiae fuerunt: & in fine voluminis apositae. (Al colophon:) Venetiis: per Dominum Pincium, 1502. Die xy Februarii.

Venezia 1502 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,016.00
598 Poleni Giovanni

Poleni Giovanni, Utriusque thesaurus antiquitatum romanarum graecorumque nova supplementa congesta... Venetiis: Typis Jo. Baptistae Pasquali, 1737.

Venezia 1737 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,008.00
599 Pontano Giovanni Gioviano

Pontano Giovanni Gioviano, Pontani Opera. Urania, sive De stellis libri quinque... (Al colophon:) Venetijs: in aedibus haeredum Aldi Manutij & Andreae soceri, mense Augusto 1533.

Venezia 1533 EUR 280.00 - 280.00 EUR 630.00
600 Pontano Giovanni Gioviano

Pontano Giovanni Gioviano, Dui trattati [...] De la liberalita, e beneficenza. In Lucca, 1561. (Marca tipografica di Vincenzo Busdraghi in fine).

Lucca 1561 EUR 260.00 - 260.00 EUR 378.00
601 Probst Johann Michael

Probst Johann Michael, Atlas maior ex tabulis geographicis secundum ordine et methodum coloribus rite distinctus... Prostat apud Joh. Mich. Probst. Aug. Vind., s.d. [1801].

Augsburg 1801 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 2,016.00
602 Pulci Luca

Pulci Luca, Ciriffo Calvaneo. Libro intitolato Ciriffo Calvaneo, et il povero aveduto... 1535 (Al colophon:) In Vinegia: nelle case de Pietro de Nicolini da Sabbio, 1535 del mese di Ottobre.

Venezia 1535 EUR 1,400.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 3,024.00
603 Pulci Luigi

Pulci Luigi, Morgante maggiore quale tratta della morte del conte Orlando e de tutti li Paladini... S.l.: S.e., 1539 (Al colophon: In Venetia: Per Domenego Zio, e Fratelli Veneti, 1539.

Venezia 1539 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 2,772.00
604 Quintilianus Marcus Fabius

Quintilianus Marcus Fabius, Institutionum oratoriarum libri XII... (Al colophon:) Parisiis: excudebat Io. Lodoicus Tiletanus, 1541.

Paris 1541 EUR 240.00 - 240.00 EUR 403.00
605 Raviglio Rosso Giulio

Raviglio Rosso Giulio, Historia delle cose occorse nel regno d'Inghilterra, in materia del duca di Notomberlan [sic] dopo la morte di Odoardo VI. [Venezia]: nell'Academia Venetiana, 1558.

Venezia 1558 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 882.00
606 Raynaud Theophile

Raynaud Theophile, De agni cerei a Romano pontifice consecrati... Gratianopoli, Typis Eduardi Rabani, 1650.

Grenoble 1650 EUR 800.00 - 800.00 EUR 1,386.00
607 Redi Francesco

Redi Francesco, Lettere [...]. Seconda edizione fiorentina. Tomo primo (-terzo). In Firenze: per Gaetano Cambiagi stampator granducale, 1779-1795.

Firenze 1779 EUR 80.00 - 80.00 EUR 126.00
608 Riviere Lazare

Riviere Lazare, Opera medica universa... Venetiis: Typis Andreae Iuliani, & Ioannis Cagnolini, 1683.

Venezia 1683 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 Not Sold
609 Rosaspina Francesco

Rosaspina Francesco, Album dei migliori quadri classici esistenti nella Pinacoteca di Bologna. Sessanta tavole incise in rame dal professore Francesco Rosaspina e suoi allievi. Roma [etc.]: Unione tipografica editrice torinese, [dopo il 1830].

Roma 1830 EUR 120.00 - 120.00 EUR 504.00
610 Ruzante

Ruzante, [Tutte le opere del famosissimo Ruzante]. [In Vicenza: per gli heredi di Perin Libraro, 1598].

vicenza 1598 EUR 300.00 - 300.00 EUR 554.00
611 Salvadori Andrea

Salvadori Andrea, La Flora, o vero Il Natal de' Fiori... In Firenze: per Pietro Cecconcelli, 1628.

Firenze 1628 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,268.00
612 Salviati Leonardo

Salviati Leonardo, Degli avvertimenti della lingua sopra'l Decamerone [...]. Diviso in tre libri... In Venezia: [Domenico Guerra & Giovanni Battista Guerra], 1584.

Venezia 1584 EUR 100.00 - 100.00 EUR 252.00
613 Sangro Raimondo (di)

Sangro Raimondo (di), Lettera apologetica dell'Esercitato accademico della Crusca contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una Peruana, per rispetto alla supposizione de' Quipu... In Napoli: (Gennaro Morelli), 1750.

Napoli 1750 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
614 Sartorius Johannes

Sartorius Johannes, Paraphrases in omnes Prophetas... Basileae, Per Ioannem Oporinum, 1558.

Basel 1558 EUR 260.00 - 260.00 EUR 403.00
615 Scappi Bartolomeo

Scappi Bartolomeo, Opera di M. Bartolomeo Scappi, cuoco secreto di papa Pio Quinto, divisa in sei libri... [Venezia: Michele Tramezzino], (1570).

Venezia 1570 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,764.00
616 Schottus Franciscus

Schottus Franciscus, Italy, in its original glory, ruine and revival, being an exact survey of the whole geography, and history of that famous country; with the adjacent islands of Sicily, Malta etc. and what ever is remarkable in Rome (the mistress of th

London 1660 EUR 180.00 - 180.00 EUR 819.00
  • 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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