• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 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.
  • ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.

Canada Book Auctions Limited: Americana and Canadiana, 343618, Toronto

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
September 25, 2024 - September 25, 2024
Page Size: 177 items in 8 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76

YEIGH, FRANK; ALMANACS. A lot of 10 volumes sold together. Including: 5 vols: 5000 FACTS ABOUT CANADA.

Toronto 1915; 1918; 1928; 1932; 1934. CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 37.50
77

AMERICAN DISCOURSE. A lot of 4 volumes sold together. Including: Fry, Caroline. 2 vols in 1: THE LISTENER.

Philadelphia 1833 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 37.50
78

CANADIAN OFFICIALS. A lot of 5 prints sold together. Including: Lawrence, Thomas (after); Cochran, J. THE RT. HONBLE. JOHN-GEORGE LAMBTON, BARON DURHAM.

London 1845 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
79

PAMPHLETS. 16 volumes. Including: Bacon, Leonard Woolsey. AN HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, ON THE TWO HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE HOPKINS GRAMMAR SCHOOL, NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

New haven 1860 CAD 100.00 - 200.00 CAD 62.50
80

MILITARY / POLITICS. A lot of 5 prints sold together. Including: THOMAS HALIBURTON (1796-1865), Canadian lawyer.

CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
81

PAMPHLETS. A lot of 8 volumes sold together.Including: THE CONNECTICUT REGISTER: BEING A STATE CALENDAR OF PUBLIC OFFICERS AND INSTITUTIONS IN CONNECTICUT, FOR 1859.

Hartford , (1858). CAD 100.00 - 200.00 CAD 62.50
82 K., Martin.

MISS CANADA. Lithograph.

CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
83 Lafitau, Joseph Francois; Fenton, William N.; Moore, Elizabeth L.

(x7 copies) The Publications of the Champlain Society, XLVIII: CUSTOMS OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS COMPARED WITH THE CUSTOMS OF PRIMITIVE TIMES. VOL I.

Toronto 1974 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 87.50
84

UPPER CANADA STATE GAZETTE. Vol I, No. I.

Niagara 1838 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 62.50
85

DR. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES VISITS THE JAPANESE VILLAGE, AND HIS IMPRESSIONS OF THE SAME. BEECHER'S HALL.

1886 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 125.00
86

CANADIANA. A lot of 4 volumes sold together. Including: Warburton, Eliot. 2 vols: HOCHELAGA; OR, ENGLAND IN THE NEW WORLD.

London 1846 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 62.50
87

CATALOGUES. 7 volumes. Including: 2 vols: PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY AT THE SEMI-ANNUAL MEETING HELD IN BOSTON APRIL 19, 1967.

Massachusetts 1967 CAD 100.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
88 Field, Robert.

LT. GENL. SIR JOHN COAPE SHERBROOKE G.C.B. GOV. GEN. COM. OF THE FORCES ON BRITISH N. AMERICA.

Halifax 1816 CAD 500.00 - 700.00 CAD 281.25
89

NEWFOUNDLAND MANUSCRIPT, 1804.

1804 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 112.50
90 Reynolds, Joshua (after); Watson, James.

SIR JEFFERY AMHERST, K.B.

London n.d. (c. late 1700s, early 1800s). CAD 300.00 - 500.00 CAD 175.00
91 Legrand, Edy.

VOYAGES & GLORIEUSES DECOUVERTES DES GRANDS NAVIGATEURS & EXPLORATEURS FRANCAIS.

Paris 1921 CAD 300.00 - 500.00 CAD 112.50
92 Byrd, Richard Evelyn.

DISCOVERY. THE STORY OF THE SECOND BYRD ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

New York 1935 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 125.00
93

INDIGENOUS. A lot of 2 prints sold together.

CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 37.50
94

CANADA. A lot of 2 handcoloured lithographs sold together.

CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 50.00
95

MEN. A lot of 3 prints sold together. Including: Dance, Geo.; Daniell, William. ROBERT BENSLEY (1738/40-1817), English actor.

London 1814 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
96 Errington, Jane [general editor].

CHAMPLAIN SOCIETY. A lot of 17 volumes sold together. Including: Johnston, Charles M. THE VALLEY OF THE SIX NATIONS.

CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 225.00
97

CANADA. A lot of 6 volumes sold together. Including: Teskey, Adeline M. WHERE THE SUGAR MAPLE GROWS. IDYLLS OF A CANADIAN VILLAGE.

Toronto 1901 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 CAD 37.50
98 Wells, Henry Tanworth (after); (Holl, Charles).

LORD DUFFERIN: FREDERICK HAMILTON-TEMPLE-BLACKWOOD.

Circa 1869. CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
99 Strickland, Agnes.

LIVES OF THE BACHELOR KINGS OF ENGLAND [AUTOGRAPHED PIECES].

London 1861 CAD 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
100

DIEFENBAKER. A lot of 2 volumes sold together. Including: ONE CANADA. MEMOIRS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN G. DIEFENBAKER.

Toronto 1976 CAD 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
  • 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.
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