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  • 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.

Bonhams: Americana, Natural History, and Travel, 29515, New York

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
October 24, 2024 - October 24, 2024
Page Size: 102 items in 5 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
26 MILBERT, JACQUES-GERARD. 1766-1840.

Itineraire pittoresque du fleuve Hudson et des parties laterales.

Paris 1828-1829. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,792.00
27 OLDMIXON, JOHN. 1673-1742.

The British Empire in America, Containing the History of the Discovery, Settlement, Progress and Present State of all the British Colonies on the Continent and Islands of America.

London 1708 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,176.00
28 PENNANT, THOMAS. 1726-1798.

Arctic Zoology.

London 1784-1785. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,664.00
29 PREUSS, CHARLES and JOHN C. FREMONT.

Topographical Map of the Road from Missouri to Oregon commencing at the mouth of the Kansas in the Missouri River and ending at the mouth of the Wallah-Wallah in the Columbia. In VII sections ... From the field notes and journal of Capt. J.C. Fremont.

Baltimore 1846 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,152.00
30 REVERE, PAUL. 1735-1818.

The Mitred Minuet. From The Royal American Magazine, Vol. I, number 10,

[Boston,] October 1774. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,536.00
31 SAY, THOMAS. 1787-1834.

American Entomology, or descriptions of the insects of North America.

Philadelphia 1824-1828. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,792.00
32 SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY ROWE. 1793-1864.

Information respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States.

Philadelphia 1853-1856. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,024.00
33 SZYK, ARTHUR. 1864-1951.

Declaration of Independence. Collotype print on card, signed ("Arthur Szyk") at lower left margin,

New Canaan, CT 1950 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,864.00
34 THWAITES, REUBEN GOLD, editor. 1853-1913.

Early Western Travels, 1748-1846.

Cleveland 1904-1907. USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
35 MARSHALL, JOHN. 1755-1835.

The Life of George Washington.

London 1804-1807. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,864.00
36 WILSON, ALEXANDER. 1766-1813.

American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States.

Philadelphia 1808-14. USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 7,680.00
37 ADAMS, JOHN. 1735-1826.

Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to Rev. William Bentley noting a portrait by Bentley's friend, artist Hannah Crowninshield, "the only portrait of me that ever was made with any appearance of Wisdom or Dignity...,"

Quincy, MA 1810, USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Not Sold
38 BENJAMIN, ASHER. 1773-1845.

The Country Builder's Assistant, Containing a Collection of New Designs of Carpentry and Architecture.

Greenfield (Massachusetts) 1797 USD 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 USD 16,640.00
39 BENJAMIN, ASHER. 1773-1845; and DANIEL RAYNERD.

American Builder's Companion.

Boston 1806 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
40 [BURKE, EDMUND. 1729-1797.]

An Impartial History of the War in America between Great Britain and her Colonies.

Carlisle 1780 USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 USD 2,176.00
41 CARVER, JONATHAN. 1732-1780.

Travels through the Interior Parts of North-America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768.

London 1778 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,048.00
42

The Cincinnati Commercial. Friday, June 18, 1869. Full issue.

Cincinnati 1869 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
43

The Gentleman's Magazine.

London 1787 USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
44 CUSTER, GEORGE ARMSTRONG. 1839-1876.

Contemporary manuscript map of the battle of the Little Big Horn, "Custers Last Fight, at 4 p.m., June 25 1876,"

1876 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 12,800.00
45 FORLANI, PAULO. fl.1560-1571.

Il Disegno Del Discoperto Della Nova Franza....

Venice 1566 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 48,640.00
46 BROWN, GRAFTON T. 1841-1918.

Viginia City, NT, 1864. Lithographic print,

San Francisco [1864], USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 10,880.00
47

Columbia, Southern Mines, California.

Columbia, CA 1855 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,432.00
48 HAMILTON, ALEXANDER. 1757-1804.

The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, Assembled at Poughkeepsie, on the 17th June, 1788. To deliberate and decide on the Form of Federal Government recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia....

New York 1788 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD 35,840.00
49 JEFFERSON, THOMAS. 1743-1826.

Notes on the State of Virginia, with the Appendixes-Complete.

Baltimore 1800 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 960.00
50

Autograph Letter Signed as President ("Th Jefferson") extending the position of Postmaster General to Gideon Granger, a staunch Republican and Jefferson intimate,

Washington 1801 USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 Not Sold
  • 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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