• 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  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • 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

New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List, 43, South Deerfield

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 24, 2024 - September 24, 2024
Page Size: 225 items in 9 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151

Aymonin. The Besler Florilegium. Plants of the Four Seasons. Profusely illustrated. Folio, cloth, dust jacket, slipcase; minimal wear.

(New York 1989) Not Available USD 60.00
152

Rado, A. Guide-Book to the Soviet Union. Illustrated, including folding maps. 8vo, publisher's cloth; first few leaves acidified and detached, some soiling, etc.

Berlin 1929 Not Available USD 60.00
153

Peacock, George. A Collection of Examples of the Applications of the Differential and Integral Calculus. 8vo, modern boards, uncut; first 6 leaves provided in photocopy facsimile. SOLD-AS-IS>

Cambridge 1820 Not Available USD 60.00
154 Holmes, Oliver Wendell.

Elsie Venner. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's cloth; moderate wear.

Boston 1861 Not Available USD 24.00
155 Burnett, David.

Twelve Poems. Wood-engravings by Sister Margaret Turner. Folio, cloth, pictorial cover-label; cover extremities rubbed, generally clean and sound otherwise.

(Bath, England): 1994 Not Available USD 24.00
156 Grey, Zane.

4 x 3-3/4 inch photographic portrait, neatly matted, in glass-fronted frame. SIGNED BY GRAY (signature sun faded).

Np nd Not Available USD 36.00
157

Chb(l) Projects. Profusely illustrated. Oblong folio, spiral-bound pictorial wrappers, plastic wrappers; light wear. TWO COPIES.

(Vienna: 2005) Not Available USD 36.00
158 (Bakst, Leon).

Levinson, Andre. Histoire de Leon Bakst. Mounted color plates (lacking # LXIV). Folio, wrappers, slipcase (soiled); generally clean, lacking 1 plate.

(Paris) 1924 Not Available USD 1,080.00
159

Thacher, James. A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, From 1775 to 1783. 8vo, old calf; rebacked, covers detached, some staining and soiling, etc.

Boston 1823 Not Available USD 108.00
160

Complimentary Banquet to Joseph J. O'Donohue, Esq....at Delmonico's. 6-3/4 x 5 inches plus fringe, printed on silk, in glass-fronted frame; moderate wear.

New York 1872 Not Available USD 12.00
161 Celsus, Cornelius.

Of Medicine. In Eight Books. 8vo, contemporary calf; covers detached and partially disbound.

London 1756 Not Available USD 96.00
162 Reyher, Samuel.

Mathesis Mosaica; sive, Loca Pentateuchi Mathematica Mathematice explicata. Numerous woodcuts within text. Small 4to, calf-backed; lacking covers, title and 2 engraved plates, some foxing. SOLD-AS-IS.

Kiel: 1679 Not Available USD 24.00
163 [Doughty, Thomas and John].

The Cabinet of Natural History. Portrait (remargined), engraved title, 23 (of 24) hand-colored lithographed plates. Volume 1 (only). 4to, contemporary calf-backed boards (soiled); lacking 1 plate, foxed.

Philadelphia 1830 Not Available USD 168.00
164 Armstrong, Walter.

The Thames from its Rise to the Nore. Illustrated, including engraved plates. Divisions 1-5 (only). Large 4to, printed wrappers; (some soiled), generally clean and sound internally.

London 1880s Not Available USD 12.00
165

Group of 26 volumes. 8vo, gilt-decorated leather, all edges gilt; light wear.

Norwalk, CT or Franklin Center, PA vd Not Available USD 390.00
166 Milton, John.

The History of Britain, That part especially now Called England. Small 4to, contemporary calf; rebacked, covers detached, lacking the portrait.

London: 1671 Not Available USD 216.00
167

Anno vicesimo Quarto Georgii III. Regis. Group of 3 parliamentary acts, as listed below. Folio, excised; some staining.

London vd Not Available USD 24.00
168

Keim, Major D. Thomas Shewell. 2 columns. 14 x 8 inch broadside; few tears at folds.

American Circa 1866 Not Available Not Sold
169 Methven, Robert.

The Log of a Merchant Officer, 18 lithographed plates (some colored), including facsimile lithographed log-journal, numerous wood-engraved vignettes in text. Folio, contemporary gilt-lettered cloth (spine-edges frayed); some foxing, generally sound. FIRST

London 1854 Not Available USD 36.00
170 [Pezron, Paul].

L'Antiquite des Tems Retablie et Defendue. [12], 570, [2] pages. 12mo, contemporary calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; spine-ends chipped, joints split, ex-libris crossed out on title, generally sound internally.

Paris 1688 Not Available USD 48.00
171 Buonamici, Castruccio.

Commentariorum de Bello Italico. Parts 1 & 2 (of 3). xx, blank, 128; xix, 122, [4], including errata. 8vo, contemporary vellum; top of spine torn, ink ex-libris on title generally sound otherwise.

Lyon 1750 Not Available USD 72.00
172

Camacho de Aboym, Emmanueli Guerreyro. Tractatus de Recusationibus Omnium Judicum...Omnibus sive Saecularibus, sive Ecclesiasticis, sive Regularibus. Engraved armorial vignette. [34], 445 pages. Folio, old calf, spine gilt in 6 compartments; front joint s

Conimbricae: 1699 Not Available USD 72.00
173

Wouwermen, Phillip. Les Adieux * Les Dames allant a la Chasse. Together 2 engraved prints. Each about 21 x 16 inches; some soiling, rolled.

Paris or Amsterdam Early 19th-century Not Available USD 12.00
174

The Speech of James Duke of Queensberry, &c. His Majesties high Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland * The Speech of Patrick Earl of Marchmont, &x. Together 2 broadsides (consecutively paged). 12 x 7-1/2 inches; torn with loss at lower margins, some

Edinburgh: 1700 Not Available USD 12.00
175 Hubbard, William.

A Narrative of the Indian Wars...375 pages + 6 page subscriber list. 8vo, gilt-decorated full red morocco by R. W. Smith, spine gilt in 6 compartments, top-edge gilt; several closed tears.

Stockbridge 1803 Not Available USD 228.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
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