• 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.
  • 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.

Heritage Auctions: World Paper Money Signature Auction, 4052, Dallas

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 17, 2024 - October 17, 2024
Page Size: 466 items in 19 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
24151

Serial Number 8 Egypt Egyptian Government 5 Piastres 1940 Pick 163 PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1940 USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 1,380.00
24152

Serial Number 8 Egypt Egyptian Government 5 Piastres 1940 Pick 164a PMG Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1940 USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 1,320.00
24153

Royal Serial Numbers 1-10 Egypt Egyptian Government 5 Piastres 1940 Pick 165a Ten Examples PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 (2); Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ (2); Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ (6).

1940 USD 9,600.00 - 14,400.00 USD 8,700.00
24154

Serial Number 8 Egypt Egyptian Government 10 Piastres 1940 Pick 167b PCGS Banknote Grading Gem UNC 65 OPQ.

1940 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
24155

Royal Serial Numbers 1-10 Egypt Egyptian Government 10 Piastres 1940 Pick 168a Ten Examples PMG Extremely Fine 40 EPQ; Choice About Unc 58 EPQ; Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ (2); Gem Uncirculated 65 EPQ (5); Gem Uncirculated 66 EPQ.

1940 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 USD 9,600.00
24156

Ethiopia Bank of Ethiopia 500 Thalers 1.5.1932 Pick 11 PMG Very Fine 25.

1932 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,100.00
24157

European Union Central Bank, Netherlands 200 Euro 2002 Pick 6ps Specimen PMG Choice Uncirculated 63.

2002 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 3,120.00
24158

Faeroe Islands Faeroerne 100 Kroner 1940 Pick 12 PMG Very Fine 20.

1940 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 960.00
24159

Fiji Government of Fiji 5 Pounds 1.1.1967 Pick 54f PMG Very Fine 30.

1967 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 690.00
24160

France Tresor Central 500 Francs ND (1945) Pick 111 PMG About Uncirculated 53.

ND(1945) USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 2,400.00
24161

France Banque de France 100 Nouveaux Francs ND (1959-64) Pick 144sp Specimen Proof PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

ND(1959-64) USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,140.00
24162

France Banque de France 500 Nouveaux Francs ND (1959-66) Pick 145s Specimen PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 Net.

ND(1959-66) USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,680.00
24163

French Guiana Caisse Centrale de la France Libre 1000 Francs 2.2.1944 Pick 18b PMG Choice Fine 15.

1944 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 4,080.00
24164

French Guiana Caisse Centrale de la France Libre 5000 Francs ND (1960) Pick 28s Specimen PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 EPQ.

ND(1960) USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 1,266.00
24165

French India Banque de l'Indochine 5 Roupies ND (1946) Pick 5bs Jhunjhunwalla-Razack 13.2.2 Specimen PMG Choice Uncirculated 63 EPQ.

ND(1946) USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 1,800.00
24166

French Indochina Banque de l'Indo-Chine 100 Piastres 3.4.1919 Pick 39 PMG Very Fine 25.

1919 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,260.00
24167

German Southwest Africa Kassenschein 5 Mark 8.8.1914 Pick 1a PMG Choice About Unc 58.

1914 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,640.00
24168

Germany Imperial Bank Note 20 Billionen Mark 5.2.1924 Pick 138 PMG About Uncirculated 50 EPQ.

1924 USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 1,740.00
24169

Great Britain Bank of England 100 Pounds 28.5.1914 Pick 308b PMG Very Fine 25 Net.

1914 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,440.00
24170

Great Britain Bank of England, London 100 Pounds 20.1.1934 Pick 332 PMG About Uncirculated 55.

1934 USD 2,400.00 - 3,600.00 USD 3,120.00
24171

Great Britain Bank of England 5 Pounds 5.12.1944 Pick 342s Specimen PMG About Uncirculated 50.

1944 USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 1,920.00
24172

Great Britain Bank of England 10 Shillings ND (1915) Pick 348b PCGS Extremely Fine 45PPQ.

ND(1915) USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,560.00
24173

Great Britain Bank of England 1 Pound ND (1914) Pick 349a PMG Choice Uncirculated 64.

ND(1914) USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 1,140.00
24174

Great Britain Bank of England 1 Pound ND (1928-1948) Pick 363h; 363j Two Examples PMG Choice Uncirculated 64 (2).

ND(1928-1948) USD 640.00 - 960.00 USD 1,440.00
24175

Great Britain Bank of England 1 Pound ND (1940-48) Pick 367c PMG Extremely Fine 40 EPQ.

ND(1940-48) USD 960.00 - 1,440.00 USD 840.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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