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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000 -
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer Rare Books, 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.
Chiswick Auctions: The Art of Nature, 42925, London
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- April 29, 2025 - April 29, 2025
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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1 | THE HOUSTON MOUNT EVEREST EXPEDITION, 1933 |
1933 | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 353.00 | ||
1A | BISSON FRERES (LOUIS-AUGUSTE BISSON, 1814--1876 AND AUGUSTE-ROSALIE BISSON, 1826--1900) | LE MONT BLANC ET GLACIER DES BOSSONS, |
c.1862. | GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold | |
23 | ENID BLYTON | ROUND THE YEAR, |
1934 | GBP 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold | |
37 | WENCESLAUS HOLLAR (BOHEMIAN 1607--1677), FALCK & DE WIT | A Paeony, etched plate from Hollar's 'Animalium, ferarum, et bestiarum, florum, fructuum, muscarum, vermiumque icones variae, omnes ad vivum delineatae' |
1663 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
38 | AFTER NICOLAES VISSCHER II (DUTCH) (1649-1702) | A collection of eight festoon engravings, including 'Feston van Flora' and 'Feston van Cybele', |
c.1670-1702 | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | Not Sold | |
39 | AFTER JOHN NASH RA (BRITISH 1893-1977) | Datura, 2020 |
GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 101.00 | ||
40 | ELIZABETH BLACKWELL. | A CURIOUS HERBAL...A collection of 12 hand-coloured copperplates from this magnificent herbal |
[1737-39] | GBP 300.00 - 400.00 | GBP 189.00 | |
41 | AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL (C. 1797) | Salix exigua |
1797 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
42 | ELIZABETH ANN BRISCOE (1780-1842) | A lychee |
1811 | GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
43 | VICTORIAN PRESSED FLOWER ALBUM | Album with 82 pages with pressed flowers each with printed or manuscript notes describing each and dated, presented within mounts, contemporary half morocco, a.e.g., sm. Folio |
[1893-94] | GBP 250.00 - 350.00 | GBP 328.00 | |
44 | S. D. BROWN [BRITISH fl.1910] | Album, containing a collection of 26 original natural history watercolours and drawings, together with a few other general drawings, original skiver, worn, lacking spine, initialled and dated, sm. 4to., |
[1910] | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
45 | AFTER RORY MCEWEN (SCOTTISH 1932-1982) | Flowering Artichoke |
1971 | GBP 300.00 - 500.00 | GBP 945.00 | |
46 | BRADBURY & EVANS, c.1855 -1856 edited by John Lindley | A PAIR OF NATURE PRINTS, Comprising Plate XI [Polystichum aculeatum lobatum] and Plate XXXI [A. Asplenium fontanum B. Asplenium lanceolatum] from Thomas Moore's (1821-1887) "The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland", |
1857 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold | |
47 | CYANOTYPE BOTANICAL STUDIES, c.1880 |
c.1880 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 353.00 | ||
82 | CHARLES DARWIN | On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, |
1866 | GBP 200.00 - 300.00 | GBP 1,071.00 | |
83 | LONDON ZOO INTEREST- Animals Studies, 1950s-1970s |
1950s-1970s | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | GBP 151.00 | ||
84 | Various Photographers, c.1960s | LONDON ZOO INTEREST, c.1960s. A group of nineteen (19) vintage silver gelatin press prints related to the London Zoo |
c.1960s. | GBP 100.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold | |
85 | LONDON ZOO INTEREST - Chimpanzees at the London Zoo, c.1949- 1956 |
c.1949- 1956 | GBP 80.00 - 120.00 | GBP 101.00 | ||
86 | Nick Brandt (b.1964) | ELEPHANT EXODUS I, AMBOSELI, 2001. |
2001 | GBP 3,500.00 - 4,500.00 | Not Sold | |
93 | MICHEL GHATAN (SWISS, B.1975) | CHEETAH STATUE, 2021 |
2021, printed later | GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | Not Sold | |
100 | PHILIP LUTLEY SCLATER | On the Rhinoceroses now or lately living in the Society's Menagerie, extract from vol. IX of 'Transactions of the Zoological Society of London' (pp.645-660), |
1886 | GBP 600.00 - 800.00 | GBP 756.00 | |
103 | AERT SCHOUMAN (DUTCH 1710-1792) | Macaque |
GBP 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | Not Sold | ||
104 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | Kudu |
GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 | GBP 10,080.00 | ||
105 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | Young Springbok |
GBP 500.00 - 800.00 | GBP 630.00 | ||
106 | WILHELM KUHNERT (GERMAN, 1865-1926) | North American Rattlesnake |
GBP 400.00 - 600.00 | GBP 378.00 |