• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
  • 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.
  • 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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Zisska and Lacher: Books and Graphics - Day 2

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books and Graphics - Day 2 Total Sales (EUR) 154,060.80
Auction Date June 22, 2023 - June 22, 2023 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 87,850.00
Sale Number #81b High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 131,490.00
Total Lots 603
Sold Lots 344 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 150,950.00
% of Lots Sold 57.05% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 225,320.00
Unsold Lots 259 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 68.37%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
735 Drygalski, E. von,

Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition 1901-1903 im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. 20 Bde. (in 47 Bdn. ) mit zusammen 79 Heften und 2 Atlasbde. (in 5 Bdn. ) (alles Erschienene).

1905-31. EUR 2,400.00 - 3,500.00 EUR 3,840.00
847 Wrangel, F. von,

Reise des kaiserlich-russischenFlotten-Lieutenants längs der Nordküste von Sibirien und auf dem Eismeere, in den Jahren 1820 bis 1824. Nach handschriftlichen Journalen und Notizen bearbeitet von G. Engelhardt. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.

1839 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,072.00
2057

Bayern - Konvolut - 38 großtls. alt grenzkolor. oder altkolor.

18. und frühen 19. Jhdts. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 3,072.00
1020

Persischer Golf - Kuwait - Saudi-Arabien - 12 Photographien, dat.

1954 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 2,816.00
742 Wagner, J. Ch.,

Delineatio provinciarum Pannoniae et imperiiTurcici in Oriente. Eine Grundrichtige Beschreibung deß . . . Königreichs Ungarn und der gantzen Türckey. 3 Tle. in einem Bd.

1685-86. EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
746 (Staunton, G.,

An authentic account of an embassy from the Kingof Great Britain to the Emperor of China. . . taken chiefly from the papers of his excellency the earl of Macartney). Atlas.

1797 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
846 Kollmann, K. (Iwanowitsch),

Costumes russes, vues de Saint-Pétersbourg et deses environs. 2 Tle. in 1 Bd.

1822 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 2,560.00
2292

Ballett, Tanz und Theater - Konvolut - Ca. 60 Blätter in verschied. Techniken, vonverschied. Stechern und in unterschiedlichen Formaten.

Meist 19. Jhdt. EUR 180.00 - 280.00 EUR 2,176.00
881 Reinagle, G. Ph.,

Illustrations of the Occurences at the Entranceof the Bay of Patras, between the English Squadron & Turkish Fleets.

o. J. 1828. EUR 1,600.00 - 2,500.00 EUR 2,048.00
718 Riedl, A. von,

Reise Atlas von Bajern.

1796-1806. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,920.00
760 Baumgarten, S. J.,

Uebersetzung der algemeinen Welthistorie die inEngeland durch eine Geselschaft von Gelehrten ausgefertiget worden. Tle. 1-30 und 32 (von 66) in 16 Bdn.

1744-66. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,920.00
811 (Venuti, R.),

Veteris Latii antiquitatum amplissima collectio. 2 Bde.

1771-76 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,792.00
920

Bayern - München - Kneipzeitung der Gesellschaft Privat-Kränzchen München (Deckeltitel). Sammelband mit ca. 60 Ausgaben aus der Zeit vom 30. 12. 1875 bis 8. 1. 1881.

1875-1881 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,792.00
751 Müller, J. B.,

Leben und Gewohnheiten der Ostiacken, einesVolcks, daß bis unter dem Polo Artico wohnet, wie selbiges aus dem Heydenthum in diesen Zeiten zur Christl. Griechischen Religion gebracht.

1720 EUR 1,300.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 1,664.00
2108

Monumentale Wandkarte - Weltkarten - "Scientia terrarum et coelorum, or, the Heavensand Earth Astronomically and Geographically Delineated and Display'd".

1772 EUR 700.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,664.00
2122

Asien - Russland - Nordostpassage - Linschoten - "Vera delineatio maris insularum portuum etlittorum septentrionalium ab insula Toxar per fretum Nassoviacum seu Arcticum in mare Tartaricum ultra flumen Obi . . . " Kolor.

1594 und 1599 EUR 800.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,664.00
752

Eylffte Schiffart, oder kurtze Beschreibungeiner Reyse, so von den Holländern und Seeländern in die Ost Indien, mit neun grossen und vier kleinen Jagschiffen, under der Admiralschafft Peter Wilhelm Verhuffen, etc. in den Jahren 1607, 1608, und 1(6)09 ver

1613-23. EUR 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 1,536.00
909

Bayern - Maria Franziska von Pfalz-Sulzbach - Unbekannter Druck - Relation wie das hohe Geburths-Fest der durchleuchtigstenFürstin und Frauen Francisca Pfalz-Gräfin bey Rhein, Herzogin in Bayern, . . . allhier zu Rappolsweiler celebrieret, und dabey dies

1754 EUR 300.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,536.00
869

Konvolut - Ca. 50 tls. inkomplette Werke, unter anderem zuGeschichte, Recht, Judentum und Theologie.

16.-18 EUR 300.00 - 450.00 EUR 1,408.00
2138

Grossbritannien - London - "London surveyed or a new map of the cities ofLondon and Westminster. . . " Grundrißplan mit Titelkartusche, 7 kleinen Detailansichten, 12 Wappen und Erklärungen.

dat. EUR 260.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,408.00
2205

Italien - Tivoli - Piranesi - "Rovine d'una Galleria di Statue nella VillaAdriana a Tivoli" (Ruinen einer Statuen-Galerie in der Hadriansvilla).

1770 EUR 400.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,408.00
2357

Militaria - Uniformen - Frankreich - ca. 170 kolor. Kupfertafeln, meist mit Uniformenverschiedener französischer Regimenter.

Ca.1790. EUR 140.00 - 200.00 EUR 1,408.00
892

Türkei - Konvolut - 7 Werke in 10 Bdn.

1829-1914 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 1,280.00
918

Bayern - München - Hoftheater - Disciplinar-Satzungen für das Königl. Hof- und National-Theater in München.

1828 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 1,280.00
737 Ritscher, A.,

Arktis und Antarktis - Ritscher, A. , Deutsche antarktische Expedition 1938/39. 2 Bde.

1942 EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 1,152.00
  • Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Gell (William). The Topography of Troy, and its Vicinity, 1804. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Low (David). The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Islands, 1842. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: North America. Moll (Herman)..., This Map of North America..., circa 1725. £1,000 to £1,500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Printed Books, Maps & Ephemera
    Printing Woodblocks by Thomas & John Bewick
    12 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Bible [English]. [The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe, 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Chaucer (Geoffrey). The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, newly Printed, 1602. £1,500 to £2,000. £1,500 to £2,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 12: Cuffee (Paul). Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, A Man of Color, Liverpool, 1811. £300 to £500.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Milne (A. A.) The House at Pooh Corner, signed limited edition, 1928. £3,000 to £5,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, limited signed edition, 1932. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Orwell (George). Animal Farm, 1st edition, 1945. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter Auctioneers
    Modern First Editions & Illustrated Books, Playing Cards, Toys & Games
    13 December 2024
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Rowling (J. K.). Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1st edition, 1st impression, 1997. £30,000 to £50,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Lord of the Rings, 3 volumes, 1st edition, 1954-55. £2,000 to £3,000.
    Dominic Winter, Dec. 13: Wells (H. G.) The War of the Worlds, 1st edition, 1st issue, 1898. £1,000 to £1,500.
  • ALDE, Dec. 9: BLAEU (JOAN) ET BORGOGNIO (GIO TOMASO). Theatre des Estats de son Altesse Royale le duc de Savoye…, La Haye, 1700. €25,000 to €30,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: BROWNE (JAMES D. HOWE). Ten Scenes in the last Ascent of Mont Blanc including five Views from the Summit. London, 1853. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: FELLOWS (CHARLES). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc. London, 1827. €30,000 to €40,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HACQUET (BELSAZAR). Physikalisch= Politische Reise aus den Dinarischen durch die Julischen…, Leipzig, 1785. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: HAWES (BENJAMIN). A Narrative of an Ascent to the Summit of Mont-Blanc made during the summer of 1827 by Mr. William Hawes and Mr. Charles Fellows, 1828.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: MARTEL (PIERRE) ET WINDHAM (WILLIAM). An account of the glacieres or ice Alps in Savoy, in two letters…, London, 1744. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: PITSCHNER (WILHELM). Der Mont Blanc Darstellung des Besteigung desselben am 31 Juli, 1 und 2 August 1859…, Berlin, 1860-1864. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: SCHEUCHZER (JOHANN JACOB). Natur-Geschichte des Schweizerlandes, samt seinen Reisen über die Schweitzerische Gebürge. Zurich, 1746. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: STUMPF (JOANNES). Gemeiner loblicher Eydgnosschaft Stetten, Landen, und Völckeren Chronicwirdiger Thaatenbeschreybung. Zurich, Christoph Froschauer, 1548. €2,500 to €3,500.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WALTON (ELIJAH) ET BONNEY (THOMAS GEORGE). The Peaks and valleys of the Alps. London, 1868. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, Dec. 9: WYTTENBACH (JACOB SAMUEL). Vues remarquables des montagnes de la Suisse, avec leur description. Amsterdam, 1785. €15,000 to €20,000.
  • Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: A Rare Complete Run of the Cuala Press Broadsides. €5,500 to €7,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…, 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Yeats (W.B.) The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 2 vols. Lond. (MacMillan & Co.) 1949. Signed by author, limited edition. €1,250 to €1,750.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Literal Translation into English of the Earliest Known Book on Fowling and Fishing, Written originally in Flemish and Printed at Antwerp in 1492. London (Chiswick Press) 1872. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Fishing: Blacker's - Art of Fly Making, etc., Comprising Angling & Dying of Colours..., Rewritten & Revised. Lond. 1855. €250 to €350.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Joyce (James). Finnegans Wake,, London (Faber & Faber Ltd.) 1939, Lim. Edn. No. 269 (425) copies, Signed by the Author (in green pen). €3,000 to €4,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Synge (J.M.) & Yeats (Jack B.) illus. The Aran Islands,, D. (Maunsel & Co. Ltd.) 1907, Signed Limited Edn. €4,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Meyer (Dr. A.B.) Unser Auer -, Rackel-Und Birkwild und Seine Abarten, Wien (Verlag Von Adolph W. Kunast) 1887. €2,500 to €3,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Carve (Thomas). Itinerarium R.D. Thomas Carve Tripperariensis, Sacellani Maioris in Fortisima iuxta…,, Moguntia (Mainz) impriemebat Nicolaus Heyll, 1639. €1,500 to €2,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Grose (Francis). The Antiquities of Ireland, 2 vols. folio London (for S. Hooper) 1791. First Edition. €3,000 to €5,000.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus) & Le Brocquy (Louis) artist. Ugolino, D. (Dolmen Press) 1979, Signed Limited Edition No. 87 (125) Copies. €3,500 to €4,500.
    Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12: Heaney (Seamus). Eleven Poems, Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.
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