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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000 -
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
![Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dc0b1dc0-f7c8-40b6-a5a6-870689484c07.jpg "<b>Gonnelli:</b> Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€")
PBA Galleries: Steinbeck, Ricketts & The Western Flyer: The Ed Ricketts Jr. & Dennis Fry Collections (with additions), 831, Berkeley
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Four typescript letters related to the publishing of the second edition of Between Pacific Tides |
1942-48 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 437.50 | ||
| 2 | Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides: An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico |
Stanford | [1948] | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 750.00 |
| 3 | Ricketts, Edward F. & Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides: An account of the habits and habitats of some five hundred of the common, conspicuous seashore invertebrates of the Pacific Coast between Sitka, Alaska, and northern Mexico |
Stanford | [1948] | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,375.00 |
| 4 | Ricketts, Edward F. and Jack Calvin | Between Pacific Tides - six variants |
Stanford | 1948-1978 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
| 5 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Manuscript note on non-teleological thinking on verso of letter to Atlantic Monthly |
No date | c.1930's | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 1,375.00 |
| 6 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Non-Teleological Thinking - 3 variants |
Pacific Grove | 1939-1941 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 9,375.00 |
| 7 | Ricketts, Edward F. | The Philosophy of "Breaking Through": A personal interpretation of some modern tendencies, approached from an inductive standpoint |
Pacific Grove and Mexico City | 1938-40 | USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 | USD 22,500.00 |
| 8 | Ricketts, Edward F. | A Spiritual Morphology of Poetry with some manuscript notes by Ricketts |
Pacific Grove | 1938 | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 |
| 9 | Ricketts, Edward F. and John Steinbeck | Archive of typescripts and notes for the proposed book on the Japanese "Mandated Islands" and the letter correspondence between Steinbeck and Ricketts and the U.S. War Department |
[Pacific Grove, CA] | 1942-1944 | USD 12,000.00 - 18,000.00 | USD 7,500.00 |
| 10 | Steinbeck, John | Letter to Secretary of the Navy Hon. Frank Knox regarding Ricketts' Mandated Islands research |
Palisades, NY | 15466 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 937.50 |
| 11 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Six letters from Mexico City addressed to Ritchie and Tal Lovejoy, et al. |
Mexico City | 1940 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 12 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Thesis and Materials for a Script on Mexico which shall be motivated oppositely to John's "Forgotten Village" |
[1941] | USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 | USD 6,250.00 | |
| 13 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Contents of Pacific Biological Laboratories destroyed [by fire] Nov '36 |
Monterey | 1936 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 14 | Ricketts, Edward F. | E.F. Ricketts Statement of Assets and Liabilities |
Monterey | 1946 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 15 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Ed Ricketts' post-fire inventory of new books and records |
1937-39 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 | |
| 16 | Ricketts, Edward F. | File of invoices, business correspondence, bills of lading, and packing memos from Pacific Biological Laboratories |
Monterey | Late 1930's | USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 3,437.50 |
| 17 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Ricketts shares ownership of Lab with Steinbeck |
Monterey | 1936-39 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 18 | Stackpole, Peter | [Ed Ricketts holding jar of specimens at Pacific Biological Laboratories] |
1945; later print | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 19 | Ricketts, Anna | Recollections |
Mill Valley, CA | 1984 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 500.00 |
| 20 | Ed Ricketts' University of Chicago Undergraduate Course Book |
Chicago | April, 1919 | USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 | USD 5,312.50 | |
| 21 | James Fitzgerald | [Portrait of Ed Ricketts] |
No date | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 687.50 | |
| 22 | Ricketts, Edward F. | Detailed Outline of Book Plan - for intertidal guide to the San Francisco Bay Area |
Monterey | 1939 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 5,312.50 |
| 23 | Ricketts, Edward F. | EFR Letters |
Mill Valley, CA | 1995 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 437.50 |
| 24 | Ricketts, Edward F. | EFR Letters |
Mill Valley, CA | 1995 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 187.50 |
| 25 | Ricketts, Edward F. | The Outer Shores |
[Eureka, CA] | [1978] | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | Not Sold |
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/033cf239-2b91-4588-aca2-50ad0a9c43b3.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Roberts (Henry, after). <i>Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ...,</i> [1784]. £500-800")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/3ecbc3d4-52ef-41c5-8a8d-d4a158a51253.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> World. Ortelius (Abraham), <i>Typus Orbis Terrarum,</i> [1598]. £2,000-3,000")
![Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/fcfb0b9a-4f59-4dc8-87fd-1dfdf90611dc.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, May 14:</b> Bible [English]. [<i>The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New...,</i> 1613]. £2,000-3,000")
