• 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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
52 GAIMARD (Paul).

Voyage en Islande et au Groenland execute pendant les annees 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche commandee par M. Trehouart Lieutenant de Vaisseau dans le but de decouvrir La Lilloise.

Paris 1838-1843. EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 4,864.00
53 GARCIA (Francisco).

Vida y Milagros de San Francisco Xavier, de La Compania de Jesus, apostol de las Indias...

Madrid v. 1685. EUR 600.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
54 GRANIER DE CASSAGNAC (Adolphe).

Voyage aux Antilles francaises, anglaises, danoises, espagnoles, a Saint-Domingue et aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique.

Paris 1842-1844. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 192.00
55 GONZALEZ DE MENDOZA (Juan).

Historia de las cosas mas notables, ritos y costumbres del gran Reyno de la China, sabidas assi por los libros de los mesmos Chinos, ... Con un Itinerario del Nuevo Mundo.

Anvers 1596 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,088.00
56 HAKLUYT SOCIETY (Londres).

Important ensemble de 159 volumes.

1911-2008. EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
57 HERRERA (Antonio de).

Histoire generale des voyages et conquestes des Castillans, dans les Isles & Terre-Ferme des Indes Occidentales.

Paris 1660 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,200.00
58 HERRGOTT (Marquardt).

Genealogia diplomatica augustae gentis Habsburgicae...

Vienne 1737 EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
59 HUMBOLDT (Alexander von).

Essai politique sur le Royaume de la Nouvelle-Espagne.

Paris 1811 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,152.00
60 HUOT (Jean-Jacques Nicolas). ; MALTE-BRUN (Conrad).

Atlas complet et precis de la geographie universelle de Malt-Brun.... Nouvelle Edition.

Paris [apres 1837]. EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 160.00
61 JARED-SPARKS ; GUIZOT(M), trad.

Washington, fondation de la republique des Etats-Unis d'Amerique.

Paris 1851 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
62 JOUY (Etienne de) ; GARNERAY (Louis).

Vues des cotes de France dans l'Ocean et dans la Mediterranee, peintes et gravees par M. Louis Garneray, decrites par M. E. Jouy...

Paris 1823-1832. EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 7,936.00
63 JULIEN (Roch-Joseph).

Atlas geographique et militaire de la France divise en deux parties.

Paris 1751 [i.e. 1754. EUR 100.00 - 200.00 EUR 332.80
64 KAEMPFER (Engelbert).

Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l'empire du Japon Traduit en francois sur la version angloise de Jean-Gaspar Scheuchzer.

La Haye 1729 EUR 3,500.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
65 LABAT (Jean-Baptiste).

Nouveau voyage aux Isles de l'Amerique, contenant l'histoire naturelle de ce pays, l'origine, les moeurs, la religion & le gouvernement des habitants anciens & modernes.

La Haye 1724 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 857.60
66 LABAT (Jean-Baptiste).

Voyages du P. Labat... en Espagne et en Italie.

Paris 1730 EUR 700.00 - 800.00 EUR 896.00
67 LA CONDAMINE (Charles Marie de).

Journal du voyage fait par ordre du roi a l'Equateur [accompagne de] Mesure des trois premiers degres du meridien dans l'hemisphere austral.

Paris 1751 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
68 LA CONDAMINE (Charles Marie de).

Relation abregee d'un voyage fait dans l'interieur de l'Amerique Meridionale.

EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 153.60
69 LA PEROUSE (Jean-Francois de Galaup de).

Voyage autour du monde, publie conformement au decret du 22 avril 1791, et redige par M. L. A. Milet-Mureau

Paris an V (1797). EUR 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
70 LABILLARDIERE (Jacques Julien Houton de).

Voyage in search of La Perouse, performed by order of the Constituent Assembly, during the years 1791, 1792, 1973, and 1794.

London 1800 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
71 LABORDE (Jean-Benjamin de).

Histoire abregee de la mer du Sud, ornee de plusieurs cartes... composee pour l'education de Mgr le Dauphin...

Paris 1791 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,152.00
72 LAPIE (Pierre), LAPIE (Alexandre-Emile).

Atlas universel de geographie ancienne et moderne, precede d'un Abrege de geographie physique et historique.

Paris 1829 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 230.40
73 LAPIE (Pierre).

Atlas complet du Precis de la geographie universelle de M. Malte-Brun.

Paris 1812 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 332.80
74 LAPIE (Pierre).

MALTE-BRUN (Conrad) ; Atlas classique et universel de geographie ancienne et moderne.

Paris v. 1850. EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 204.80
75 LE BAS (Hippolyte).

[Milan. Rome. Dessins d'architecture].

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,968.00
76 [LE CLERC (Nicolas Gabriel)].

[Histoire physique, morale, civile et politique de la Russie. Atlas].

Paris 1783-1794. EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 2,176.00
  • 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.
  • High Bids Win
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    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
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    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
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