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    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.
  • 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.

Nosbüsch & Stucke: Part 2: The Collections of Dr. George Fischer, Vienna, 27b, Berlin

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 14, 2024 - November 14, 2024
Page Size: 176 items in 8 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
440 Masson, Frederic

Napoleon and the Fair Sex. Mit 10 Portrats und zusatzlichen 10 (5 kolorierten) Tafeln

London 1894 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
441 Nevill, Ralph

The World of Fashion. 1837 - 1922. Mit Frontispiz, 4 Tafeln sowie 16 zusatzlichen Tafeln

London 1923 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,160.00
442 M. Seutter.

Africa Iuxta Navigationes et Observationes Recentissimas Aucta, Correcta et in Sua Regna et Status Divisa. Grenzkolorierte Kupferstichkarte

Nach 1742 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 Not Sold
443 Luschan, Felix von

Die Altertumer von Benin. Textband und 2 Tafelmappen. Mit 889 Textabbildungen und 129 losen Lichtdrucktafeln.

Berlin und Leipzig 1919 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
444 Valentia, George Annesley

Voyages and Travels to India, Ceylon, the Red Sea, Abyssinia, and Egypt, in the Years 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, and 1806. 3 Bande. Mit gestochenen Vignetten.. Kupfertafeln nach Henry Salt

London 1809 EUR 2,700.00 - 2,700.00 EUR 3,240.00
445 Reisser, F.

Die beyden Halbkugeln. Westliche Halbkugel. Oestliche Halbkugel. Samt den neuesten Entdeckungen. Anzeige der drey Reisen Cooks

Wien um 1810 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
446 Motley, John Lothrop

The Works. Netherlands Edition. 17 Bande. Mit 17 Frontispizen, 83 Tafeln und 2 Karten.

New York and London 1900 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
447 Pradt, Dominique Georges Frederic

Les Trois Ages des Colonies, ou de leur etat passe, present et a venir. 3 Bande.

Paris 1801-02 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
448 nach Mercator

Typus orbis terrarum. Kolorierte Kupferstichkarte nach Mercator aus einer von Jan Evertsz Cloppenburgh herausgegebenen franzosischen Ausgabe des "Atlas Minor".

Amsterdam 1630 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
449 Wellesley, Arthur (Duke of Wellington)

The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington During his Various Campaigns in India, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, the Low Countries, and France. From 1799 to 1818.

London 1834-1838 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 Not Sold
450 Cartwright, George

A Journal of Transactions and Events During a Residence of Nearly Sixteen Years on the Coast of Labrador;.... 3 Bande. Mit gestochenem Portrat-Frontispiz und 2 gestochenen Faltkarten.

Newark 1792 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 2,160.00
451 Helps, Arthur

The Spanish conquest in America and its relation to the history of slavery and to the government of colonies. 4 Bande. Mit 2 doppelblattgrossen Karten und zahlreichen Text-Karten.

London 1855-1861 EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
452 Lee, Guy Charleton

The History of North America. 20 Bande. Mit 20 kolorierten Frontispizen, zahlreichen teils farbigen Tafeln und Karten.

Philadelphia/London 1903-1907 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,700.00
453 Belcher, Edward

Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang, during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the islands of the eastern archipelago;....

London 1848 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
454 Du Halde, Jean Baptiste

Description geographique, politique, et physique de l'Empire de la Chine et de la Tartarie Chinoise. 4 Bande....

La Haye 1736 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,620.00
455 Freytag, G

Karte des Schwarzen Meeres und der angrenzenden Lander. Massstab 1 : 1.700.000.

Wien 1886 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 Not Sold
456 Jackson, A. V. Williams (Hrsg.)

History of India. 9 Bande. Mit zahlreichen Tafeln und Textabbildungen

London 1906-1907 EUR 6,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 6,075.00
457 Wellesley, Richard Colley

The Despatches, Minutes, and Correspondence, of the Marquess Wellesley during his Administration in India. 5 Bande.

London 1836-1837 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 EUR 1,215.00
458 Yule, Henry

The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, Concerning the Kingdoms and Marvels of the East. Newly translated and edited, with notes. 2 Bande.

London 1871 EUR 750.00 - 750.00 Not Sold
459 Alison, Archibald

History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in MDCCLXXXIX to the Restoration of the Bourbons in MDCCCXV. New Edition (8th), with portraits

Edinburgh and London 1849 EUR 2,400.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
460 Buckingham, James Silk

France, Piemont, Italy, the Tyrol and Bavaria. An autumnal tour. 2 Bande. Mit 12 doppelblattgrossen Stahlstich-Tafeln nach Bartlett, Leitch u.a.

London 1847-1848) EUR 450.00 - 450.00 Not Sold
461 Coxe, William

Voyage en Pologne, Russie, Suede, Danemarck, etc. Traduit de l'anglois, enrichi de notes et des eclaircissemens necessaires, et augmente d'un Voyage en Norvege, par M. P. H. Mallet. 4 Bande

Geneve 1787 EUR 600.00 - 600.00 EUR 540.00
462 Ferreras, Johan von (Juan de)

Algemeine Historie von Spanien mit Zusatzen der franzosischen Uebersetzung nebst der Fortsetzung bis auf gegenwartige Zeit.

Halle 1754-1772 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 EUR 810.00
463 Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Edizione nazionale degli scritti di Giuseppe Garibaldi. 6 Bande.

Bologna 1932-1937 EUR 900.00 - 900.00 Not Sold
464 Giannone, Pietro

Histoire civile du royaume de Naples. Avec de nouvelles notes, reflexions, & medailles fournies par l'auteur, & qui ne se trouvent point dans l'Edition Italienne

Den Haag 1742 EUR 360.00 - 360.00 EUR 324.00
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  • 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.
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