• 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.
  • 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€
  • 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.

Bubb Kuyper: Natural history, medicine, transport etc. - Manuscripts and autographs - Old and rare books (A-L), 81d, 2011 KM Haarlem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 20, 2024 - November 20, 2024
Page Size: 973 items in 39 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
2500

Voorbode Statuijten en ordonnantien der Stede van den Vere, transcript in pen and ink

+-1650-1670 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 286.88
2501 (Aa, P. vander).

De Doorlugtige Scheeps-togten der Portugysen na Oost-Indien, Mitsgaders de voornaamste Gedeeltens van Africa en de Roode-Zee ...

Leyden n.d. 1706-1727 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
2502 Adriani, H.

Catholycke Sermoonen op alle de Epistolen ende Evangelien van de Sondagen ende Heylighe daghen vanden gheheelen Jare.

Antw. 1616/ 1624 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 195.60
2503 Dapper, O.

Naukeurige Beschrijvinge der Afrikaensche Gewesten van Egypten, Barbaryen, Libyen, Biledulgerid, Negroslant, Guinea, Ethiopien, Abyssinie...

Amst. 1676 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,043.20
2504 Caesar, C.J.

Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili pompeiano. libri IIII. De bello Alexandrino. liber I (...).

Venice 1518-1519 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,564.80
2505 Celsus, A.C.

Medicinae libri VIII.

Venice 1528 EUR 700.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,238.80
2506 Cicero, M.T.

Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quintum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutij.

Venice 1554 colophon 1555 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 521.60
2507 Cicero, M.T.

In epistolas (...) ad Atticum, Pauli Manutii commentarius.

Venice 1553 EUR 250.00 - 350.00 EUR 554.20
2508 Dante Alighieri.

Dante col sito et forma dell'Inferno.

Venice 1515 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,586.00
2509 Livius Patavinus, T.

Historiarum ab urbe condita, Libri, qui extant, XXXV. Ed. C. Sigonius.

Venice 1555 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,304.00
2510 Lucanus.

Lucanus. (Bellum Civilis).

Venice 1502 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,304.00
2511 Macchiavelli, N.

Historie./ Il Principe.

Venice 1546/ 1538 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 11,084.00
2512 Musaios.

Opusculum de Herone & Leandro. Orphei argonautica. Eiusdem hymni. Orpheus de lapidibus.

Venice 1517 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,564.80
2513 Plautus, T.M.

Ex comoediis XX. Ed. F. Asulanus.

Venice 1522 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 EUR 652.00
2514 Quintilianus, M.F.

Institutionum Oratoriarum libri XII diligentius recogniti MDXXII.

Venice 1521 colophon EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
2515 Sallustius Crispus, C.

Coniuratio Catilinae et Bellum Iugurthinum fragmenta eiusdem historiarum, e scriptorib. antiquis ab Aldo Manutio, Paulli F. collecta.

Venice 1567 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 286.88
2516 Sallustius Crispus, C.

De coniuratione Catalinae. Eiusdem de bello Iugurthino (...).

Venice 1521 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 521.60
2517 Sallustius Crispus, C.

Coniuratio Catilinae, et bellum Iugurthinum. Eiusdem nonnulla ex libris historiarum....

Venice 1563 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 EUR 247.76
2518

(Scriptores historiae Augustae). Nervae & Traiani, atq: Adriani Caesarum vitae ex Dione, Georgio Merula interprete.

Venice 1519 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
2519 Statius, (P.P.).

Sylvarum libri V. Achilleidos libri II. Thebaidos libri XII. Orthographia et flexus dictionum graecarum omnium apud Statium

Venice 1519 EUR 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
2520 Strozzi, T.

V. and E. poetae pater et filius. Strozii poetae pater et filius.

Venice 1513 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
2521 Pontanus, J.J.

Opera. Urania, sive de Stellis libri. Meteororum. De hortis Hesperidum (...).

Venice 1513 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,043.20
2522 (Allestree, R.).

De gantsche pligt Van een Christen of de Christelyke zedekunde (...).

Amst. 1741 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 195.60
2523

Almanach de Versailles, annee 1784. Contenant la description du chateau, du parc, des jardins et de la ville de Versailles...

Versailles 1783 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 EUR 156.48
2524

d'Erv. Stichters Comptoir Almanach, Op 't Schrikkel-Jaar ons Heeren Jesu Christi, 1772. ...

Amst. 1771 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 EUR 619.40
  • 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.
  • 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.
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