• 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.
  • 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.

Pierre Berge and Associes: Jean Patou fashion, bibliophile and collector: Manuscripts Lafayette and America, 23563, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 22, 2015 - May 22, 2015
Page Size: 255 items in 11 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
298 [LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]

[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de William Pope Duval; pièce autographe signée d'Alex Bellamy (2) Tallahasee, 10 janvier

1826 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
299 COOPER, James Fenimore

L.a.s. à Gilbert de Motier, marquis de Lafayette Williamsburg, [1826] 1 p. 1/2 in-8 ?I have called five or six times since you get out of the lieux (?), to express my sympathy but always without success. This morning, Mr Breevort of New York, who addresse

1824 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
300 WORTHINGTON, Eleanor

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et trois autres lettres (4) Adena, près de Chillicoth, Ohio 22 septembre

1826 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Unknown
301 CAIRE, Louis T.

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et deux autres lettres (3) Nouvelle Orléans, 1er juin

1827 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
302 CHRISTY, William H.

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette Nouvelle Orléans, 24 juin

1826 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
303 BEACH, H. C.

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et une autre lettre (2) New York, 28 avril

1828 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
304 LEHMANOWSKY, colonel John Jacob

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette; et une autre lettre du même à Georges Washington Lafayette (2) Philadelphie, 1er juillet

1828 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
305 IRELAND, William Henry

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette New York, 30 avril

1828 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 Unknown
306 RIDGELY, Eliza

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette Baltimore, 1er octobre

1827 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Unknown
307 [LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]

[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de Nathaniel Hieleman et John D. Harrod; et deux autres lettres (3) Baltimore, 4 juillet

1828 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
308 LAFAYETTE, George Washington du Motier de

Notes autographes et une lettre (3) La Grange, 30 décembre

1825 EUR 100.00 - 200.00 Unknown
309 CUSTIS, George Washington Parke

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette Arlington House, 10 juin

1828 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
310 BLONSTIS, Eliza

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et 22 autres lettres (23) Washington, 23 décembre

1830 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
311 BOYER, Jean-Pierre

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de La Fayette Port au Prince, 26 décembre

1833 EUR 500.00 - 700.00 Unknown
312 WILBERFORCE, William

Lettre signée au général Lafayette Highwood Hill, Middlesex, 28 mars

1831 EUR 500.00 - 800.00 Unknown
313 [LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]

[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de George Ticknor Boston, 2 juillet

1833 EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
314 MORSE, Samuel Finley Breese

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette New York, 6 janvier

1834 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
315 LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de

[Original letter from Lafayette] [New York, février

1834 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
316 [LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de]

[LAFAYETTE, Gilbert du Motier, marquis de] Lettre autographe signée de William Wood; et trois autres lettres (4) New York, 7 janvier

1834 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
317 COCKBURN, Sir George

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette Shanganagh [castle], [Ireland], 10 février

1834 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
318 HOWE, Samuel Gridley

Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette Boston, 27 janvier

1834 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
319 CATLIN, George

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette Pittsburgh Penn, 28 février

1834 EUR 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 Unknown
320 WEBSTER, Daniel

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et d'autres lettres adressées au même (12) Washington, mars

1836 EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
321 KIRKLAND, John Thornton

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette Boston,

EUR 300.00 - 500.00 Unknown
322 SPARKS, Jared

Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette; et une autre lettre du même (2) Boston, 12 janvier

1835 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
  • 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
  • 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.
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