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  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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

Gros & Delettrez: Travel: Books and Atlas, 158126, PARIS

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 07, 2024 - November 07, 2024
Page Size: 145 items in 6 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 ACOSTA (Jose de) ; REGNAULD (Robert).

Histoire naturelle et morale des Indes, tant orientales qu'occidentales, ou il traicte des choses remarquables du ciel, des elemens, metaux, plantes et animaux qui sont propres de ce pays...

Paris 1616 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 512.00
2 ACOSTA (Jose de).

Historia natural y moral de Las Indias, en que se tratan las cosa notables del cielo, y elementos, metales, plantas...

En Madrid 1608 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 1,344.00
3 [ADAM. BEECHER-STOWE (Hariett).

Illustrations pour la Case de l'oncle Tom, par Albert Adam.

Paris vers 1850]. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 281.60
4 ALLEZARD (Jean Joseph).

Recueil de 163 des principaux plans des ports et rades de la Mediterranee, dont 40 ont ete dernierement publies

Livourne 1817 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,280.00
5 ANDREOSSI (Antoine Francois).

Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace. Atlas.

Paris 1841 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,024.00
6 ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON.

Atlas de geographie moderne contenant les cartes generales et particulieres des principales divisions du Globe.

Paris 1859 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 64.00
7 ANDRIVEAU-GOUJON.

Atlas classique et universel de geographie ancienne et moderne...

Paris 1835 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Not Sold
8 APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE (Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d').

Le Neptune Oriental, dedie au Roi. [Suivi de] Supplement au Neptune oriental.

Paris et a Brest 1775 [et 1781. EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
9 APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE (Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d').

Instructions sur la navigation des Indes orientales et de la Chine, pour servir au Neptune Oriental.

Paris 1775 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 192.00
10 ARAGO (Jacques).

Promenade autour du monde pendant les annees 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1820, sur les corvettes du roi L'Uranie et La Physicienne, commandees par M. Freycinet.

Paris 1822 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,280.00
11 BAILLY (P.-F).

Ferronnerie du Maroc... Preface de... Si K. Ben-Ghabrit,...

Casablanca 1950 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 640.00
12 BAR (Jacques Charles).

Recueil de tous les costumes religieux et militaires, avec un abrege historique & chronologique, enrichi de notes et de planches coloriees.

Paris 1778-1789. EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,920.00
13 BEAUTEMPS-BEAUPRE (Charles-Francois).

Pilote francais. Deuxieme partie comprenant les cotes occidentales de France depuis la pointe de Penmarc'h jusqu'a l'ile d'Yeu : levees en 1819, 1820, 1821 et 1822 par les ingenieurs hydrographes de la Marine...

Paris 1829 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 768.00
14 BESANCENOT (Jean).

Bijoux arabes et berberes du Maroc.

Casablanca 1953 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 640.00
15 [BESANCENOT (Jean).

Costumes et types du Maroc.

Paris 1942 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,408.00
16 BODWICH (Thomas Edward).

Excursions dans les isles de Madere et de Porto-Santo. Atlas.

Paris 1826 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 281.60
17 BONNAFFE (A. A.).

Recuerdos de Lima. Album de tipos, trages y costumbres.

Lima 1856 et 1857. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
18 RIOU. BOSCO (Henri).

Pages marocaines. Illustrations de Louis Riou.

Casablanca 1948 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 256.00
19 BOYER-PEYRELEAU (Eugene-Edouard).

Les Antilles francaises, particulierement la Guadeloupe, depuis leur decouverte jusqu'au 1er janvier 1823.

Paris 1823 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,280.00
20 BIET (Antoine).

Voyage de la France equinoxiale en l'Isle de Cayenne entrepris par le Francois en l'annee 1652. Divise en trois livres...

Paris 1664 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,024.00
21 BRUE (Adrien-Hubert).

Atlas physique et politique des cinq parties du monde... Paris, chez J.

Goujon 1824 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 192.00
22 BURNABY (Andre).

Voyages dans les colonies du milieu de l'Amerique Septentrionale...

Lausanne 1778 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 256.00
23 BUSSIERRE (Marie-Theodore Renouard de).

L'empire mexicain. Histoire des Tolteques, des Chichimeques, des Azteques et de la conquete espagnole...

Paris 1863 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 102.40
24 BYRON (John) ; GOMEZ ORTEGA (Casimiro), trad.

Viage del comandante Byron al rededor del mundo, hecho ultimamente de orden del almirantazgo de Inglaterra en el qual se da noticia de varios paises del las costumbres de sus habitantes... Segunda edicion.

Madrid 1769 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
25 CALVERT (Frederick), ROBERTS (Percy).

The Isle of Wight illustrated, in a series of coloured views, engraved in aqua-tint by Mr. Percy Roberts

London 1846 EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
  • 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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