• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 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.
  • ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.

Trafford Books: Books, Autographs, Banknotes, Postcards, Stamps and Postal History, 430, Manchester

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2024 - November 20, 2024
Page Size: 257 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
152

Entertainers, Edwardian-1920s, with many RPs, featuring many popular stage & variety performers and few early cinema. Many PU. Fair to VF (c.488)

GBP 70.00 - 90.00 GBP 75.90
153

Film Stars by Picturegoer including Robert Mitchum, Marlene Dietrich, Clark Gable, Jane Russell, and many other famous names.

GBP 20.00 - 40.00 Not Sold
154

Manchester suburbs, few canal views etc

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 87.40
155

Napoleonic Uniforms including early chromos (9)

early-20th Century GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 50.60
156

Railway Locomotives and Irish Sea Steamers, mainly LNWR, plus nine 1950s/60s covers most with TPO cancels. Also

1950s/60s GBP 26.00 - 36.00 GBP 41.40
157

Shipping interest both Naval (18) and Merchant, the latter including several ship interiors.

GBP 20.00 - 30.00 GBP 23.00
158

Yorkshire coastal towns especially Scarborough, Bridlington, Filey and Whitby, plus Hornsea (8 RPs by A.R. Jay), Redcar, etc.

GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 55.20
159

Warsaw Uprising

1944 medal GBP 10.00 - 15.00 GBP 29.90
160

UK 1938 Five Pounds, signed Peppiatt, London issue, rust mark and pin-hole upper left, top right corner missing, faint central creasing.

1938 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 Not Sold
161

UK 1950 Ten Shillings, signed Beale, serials RZ, MZ, TZ and EZ, three UNC, the other with light central fold; and 1967 Ten Shillings, signed Fforde,

1950 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 59.80
162

UK 1955-63 banknotes signed O'Brien, a selection comprising Ten Shillings 1955, serial BZ, and 1963 serial D (UNC) & E;

1955-63 GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 89.70
163

UK 1984 Ten Pounds, signed Somerset, prefix AZ and BZ, the latter UNC; and 1987 Five Pounds, serial RC (last series). VF/EF (3).

1984 GBP 30.00 - 50.00 GBP 36.80
164

UK 1988 banknotes signed Gill comprising Five Pounds, Ten Pounds (3, two UNC), and Twenty Pounds (4, two UNC). One Ten Pound note with much creasing,

1988 GBP 120.00 - 140.00 GBP 126.50
165

UK 1988 Fifty Pounds, signed Gill, serial D71, two examples with consecutive serial numbers, light central vertical folds o/w VF. (2)

1988 GBP 110.00 - 130.00 GBP 105.80
166

UK 1991/92 Ten Pounds, signed Kentfield, UNC; and two 1990s Kentfield Twenty Pound notes, one UNC,

1991/92 GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 48.30
167

British C/Wealth QV to QE2 M&U collection in album notably Antigua QV to 6d (3) used and

1903-07 GBP 250.00 - 300.00 GBP 368.00
168

R.M.S. 'Titanic' thematic collection in four albums including Coin Covers (17) and many other covers and UM mini-sheets. VF

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 66.70
169

British C/Wealth Maritime themes collection in five albums including Coin Covers (39) with inset coins to Five Pounds (17, two GB, others Guernsey) and many UM mini-sheets. VF

GBP 70.00 - 100.00 GBP 115.00
170

Modern thematic collections in four albums including Coin Covers (27) with inset coins to Five Pounds (12, Jersey), plus UM mini-sheets etc. VF

GBP 50.00 - 70.00 GBP 71.30
171

Coin Covers in six albums, mainly commemorating WW2, with inset coins to Two Pounds (6, UK) and Five Pounds (33, mostly Jersey). VF. (90). Also few other items.

GBP 120.00 - 150.00 GBP 189.75
172

All-period mix in carton, with some useful British C/Wealth and much Foreign, M&U and UM. Includes 1849 wrapper Warsaw to Trieste, and sundry other mostly modern covers. (Many 100s)

GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 50.60
173

Mountaineering interest with covers/cards (32) from

1924 GBP 60.00 - 80.00 GBP 87.40
174

World ranges on stockleaves, in stockbooks & loose, mostly

20th Century GBP 70.00 - 100.00 Not Sold
175

Stockbook of GB Overprints with interest in Levant, Eritrea, Morocco Agencies etc

GBP 40.00 - 60.00 GBP 73.60
176

Carton with world ranges in pocket s/books & old junior albums with useful mid-period

GBP 40.00 - 50.00 Not Sold
  • Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
  • 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.
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