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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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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
  • 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: Islamic and Indian Art, 29724, London, New Bond Street

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 12, 2024 - November 12, 2024
Page Size: 48 items in 2 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 kufic

A leaf from a manuscript of the Qur'an written in script on vellum

Near East or North Africa 9th Century or earlier GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
2 sura

An illuminated heading and a single line from a large Ilkhanid manuscript of the Qur'an

Iraq early 14th Century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
3 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a dispersed manuscript of the , depicting Gudarz and Tus planning the night attack

Injuid Shiraz mid-14th Century GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
4 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's , depicting a prince with courtiers

Persia, Shiraz circa 1450 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
5 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's , depicting Rustam killing the white elephant

Persia, Shiraz circa 1450 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
6 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's , depicting Manuchehr lifting Tur from his horse and hurling him to the ground

Persia, Shiraz circa 1480-90 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
7 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's , depicting Sohrab slain by Rustam

Persia, Shiraz circa 1480-90 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
8 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's depicting Yazdgerd being killed by the horse at the fountain of Su

Persia, Shiraz circa 1480-90 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
9

An illuminated Qur'an section

Persia 16th Century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,664.00
11 Iskandarnameh

Amir Khusrau,

Persia, Tabriz 16th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
12 Shahnama

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Firdausi's , depicting Bahram Gur in combat with two lions in order to gain the throne

Mughal circa 1610 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 23,040.00
14 Shahnama

Thirty-nine illustrated leaves from a dispersed manuscript of Firdausi's

North India, Kashmir mid-19th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 3,200.00
15 Shahnama

A lithograph text of Firdausi's in Urdu, with 21 illustrations, translated from Persian by Mul Chand Munshi

North India, Lucknow second half of the 19th Century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,280.00
16 Tilism-i Bangla

An unusual illustrated lithograph text in Urdu, , The Talisman of Bengal, concerning magic and astrology

Agra 1889 and 1891 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
17 naskhi

An illuminated prayer scroll, copied by the scribe Muhammad Isma'il in and scripts, for Prince Qay Qubad Mirza, one of the sons of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar

Qajar Persia dated AH 1248/AD 1832-33 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Not Sold
18

An illuminated prayer scroll

Qajar Persia 19th Century GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
19 Ruzname

A , or calendar, in scroll form, by repute formerly in the collection of Warren Hastings, Governor-General of India, copied by Mustafa, known as Hikmeti the Second

Ottoman Turkey, probably Constantinople AH 1233/AD 1817-18 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,480.00
20

A large illuminated calligraphic composition consisting of the names of the Seven Sleepers and their dog Qitmir

Probably Southern Caucasus late 19th-early 20th Century GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
21 Dala'il al-Khayrat

Al-Jazuli, , with two stylised diagrams of the holy sites at Mecca and Medina, and numerous other attractively-decorated leaves, copied by al-Amir bin Muhammad

Probably West Africa, the town of Bawdh 19th Century GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 10,880.00
22

A large illuminated Mamluk Qur'an

Egypt 15th Century (AH 876 AH/AD 1472) GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 23,040.00
23 Kitab Anis al-'Arifin

Pir Muhammad ibn Piri Ahmad bin Khalil, , on poetry

Ottoman Turkey dated AH 995/AD 1586-87 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
24 Divan

Baki (Mahmud Abdulbaki, 1526-1600), , with seven illustrations added later

Ottoman Turkey 17th Century GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 1,152.00
25 juz'

An illuminated Qur'an (I)

Ottoman Turkey circa 1750-1850 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 1,792.00
26

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Ibrahim al-Labib bin al-Hajj 'Umar al-Harbuti

Ottoman Turkey dated AH 1277/AD 1860-61 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,560.00
27

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by al-Hafiz Ahmad al-Hilmi

Ottoman Turkey, Edirne dated AH 1279/AD 1862-63 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,840.00
  • 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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