• 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.
  • 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.

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
103 PERON (Francois) ; FREYCINET (Louis de).

Voyage de decouverte aux terres australes fait par ordre du gouvernement sur les corvettes "le Geographe", "le Naturaliste" et la goelette "Casuarina" pendant les annees 1800, 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804.

1800, 1801, 1802 , 1803 et 1804. EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
104

Ensemble de 6 volumes en reliures editeur (non collationnes, etat tres correct).
- BALDWIN (O.). Six prisons and two revolutions. Adventures in Trans-Caucasia and Anatolia, 1920-1921.

London v. 1924. EUR 180.00 - 250.00 EUR 230.40
105 PHIPPS (Constantin-Jean).

Voyage au Pole boreal, fait en 1773, par ordre du Roi d'Angleterre.

Paris 1775 EUR 900.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
106 POMPONIUS MELA.

De situ orbis libri III

Lugduni Batavorum 1722 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
107 RAFFLES (Thomas), CRAWFURD (John).

Description geographique, historique et commerciale de Java et des autres iles de l'Archipel Indien.

Bruxelles 1824 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 768.00
108 REID (Thomas).

Two voyages to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, with a description of the present condition of that interestings colony

London 1822 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 192.00
109 [RENNEVILLE (Rene-Auguste-Constantin de)].

Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissement et aux progres de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, formee dans les Provinces-Unies des Pays-Bas...Nouvelle edition, revue par l'auteur (de Constantin) et considerablement augmentee....

A Rouen 1725 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 960.00
110 REYNIER (Gustave).

Flaneries d'un artiste. Impressions algeriennes.

S.l. fin annees 1930-debut annees 1940. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,200.00 Not Sold
111 [RICHARDOT].

Relation de la campagne de Syrie, specialement des sieges de Jaffa et de Saint-Jean-d'Acre, par un officier d'artillerie de l'armee d'Orient. Atlas.

Paris 1839 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 396.80
112 [RICKMAN (John)].

Troisieme Voyage de Cook, ou Journal d'une expedition faite dans la Mer Pacifique du Sud & du Nord, en 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 & 1780. Traduit de l'anglois.

Paris 1782 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
113 [ROMANET DU CAILLAUD (J.)].

Voyage a la Martinique, vues et observations politiques sur cette isle... A Paris, chez L.

Pelletier An XII - 1804. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 409.60
114 SAINT-AMANT (Charles de).

Voyages en Californie et dans l'Oregon...

Paris 1854 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
115 [SAINT-NON (Jean-Claude Richard de)].

[Voyage pittoresque ou description des royaumes de Naples et de Sicile.

Paris 1781-1786. EUR 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,560.00
116 SCHERER (Louis Benoit).

Recherches historiques et geographiques sur le Nouveau-Monde.

Paris 1777 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Not Sold
117 SELVES (Henry Antoine Auguste).

Atlas geographique dresse sous la direction du Conseil royal de l'Instruction publique pour l'usage des colleges... comprenant les trois parties suivantes : geographie ancienne, geographie du Moyen Age, geographie moderne actuelle.

Paris 1822 (i.e. 1821-1825. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 384.00
118 SCITIVAUX (Roger de).

Voyage en Orient

Paris 1873 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,328.00
119 SOLORZANO Y PEREYRA (Juan de ).

Politica Indiana ... Dividida en seis libros en los que, con gran distincion, y estudio, se trata, Dividida en seis libros en los que, con gran distincion, y estudio, se trata, ...

Madrid 1776 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
120 SONNERAT (Pierre).

Collection de planches pour servir au Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine.

Paris 1806 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,024.00
121 SONNERAT (Pierre).

Voyage aux Indes orientales et a la Chine.

Fait par ordre du Roi depuis 1774 jusqu'en 1781. EUR 250.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
122 SOULES (Francois).

Histoire des troubles de l'Amerique anglaise, ecrite sur les memoires les plus authentiques, dediee a sa majeste tres-chretienne. Avec des cartes.

Paris 1787 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 896.00
123 STACKELBERG (Otto Magnus von).

La Grece. Vues pittoresques et topographiques.

Paris 1834 EUR 20,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
124 STRUYS (Jean).

Les Voyages de Jean Struys, en Moscovie, en Tartarie, en Perse, aux Indes, & en plusieurs autres pais etrangers [...] Relation du Naufrage d'un vaisseau hollandois, nomme Ter Schelling, vers la cote de Bengala [...]

Amsterdam 1681 EUR 600.00 - 700.00 EUR 896.00
125 TANNER (John)

Memoires de John Tanner, ou Trente annees dans les deserts de l'Amerique du Nord.

Paris 1835 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
126 TARDIEU (Ambroise).

Atlas pour l'histoire generale des voyages de La Harpe.

Paris 1821 EUR 70.00 - 100.00 EUR 153.60
127 TIMKOVSKI (Egor Fedorovic).

Voyage a Peking, a travers la Mongolie en 1820 et 1821.

Paris 1826-1827. EUR 250.00 - 300.00 EUR 512.00
  • 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. 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
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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
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