Forum Auctions
A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World:
The Library of a Gentleman
14th November

Forum, Nov. 14: Preziosi (Amedeo). Stamboul: Recollections of Eastern Life, first edition, Paris, Lemercier, 1858. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Mayr (Heinrich von). Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresques de l'Orient, first edition in the original 10 parts, Munich, Paris & Leipzig, [1839-40]. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Lewis (John Frederick). Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835-6, first edition, [1838]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Dodwell (Edward). Views in Greece, first edition, ordinary format, Rodwell and Martin, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Cassas (Louis François). [Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palæstube et de la Basse-Égypte], 3 vol., first edition, [Paris], [1799]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions
A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World:
The Library of a Gentleman
14th November

Forum, Nov. 14: La Chappelle (Georges). Recueil de Divers Portraits des Principales Dames de la Porte du Grand Turc, first edition, Paris, 1648. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Fossati (Gaspard). Aya Sophia Constantinople as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid, first edition, ordinary format, 1852. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Pertusier (Charles). Promenades Pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les Rives du Bosphore, 4 vol., inc Atlas, first edition, Paris, H. Nicolle, 1815-17. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Brindesi (Jean). Souvenirs de Constantinople, first edition, [Paris], [1855-60]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Voyage au Levant, first French edition, Delft, Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700. £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
Doyle
Stage & Screen
November 14 & 15

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A studio-sanctioned Darth Vader Touring Costume from The Empire Strikes Back. $50,000 to $100,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: An original Al Hirschfeld's illustration of the cast of On Golden Pond. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: The largest trove of personal Grace Kelly letters to come to market. $60,000 to $80,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: An Important Archive of Musical Manuscripts of Truman Capote and Harold Arlen's House of Flowers. $40,000 to $60,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: The archive of an original Merrily We Roll Along Broadway cast member. $5,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Jerry Herman's Yamaha Model C7 Ebonized Grand Piano. $6,000 to $9,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A large group of Jerry Herman musical posters. $300 to $500.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Group of awards presented to Jerry Herman. $300 to $400.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Six pages of original art for "The MAD Game of Basebrawl," a complete story published in MAD #167, pages 31-36, June 1974. $3,000 to $4,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A MAD book made for Al Jaffee, containing original art and writings from many MAD contributors. 2011. $1,200 to $1,800.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A Jaffee-themed MAD Fold-In - "What honor should the creator of the MAD Fold-Ins be given?" $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: MAD Fold-In - "What developing news story has many Americans totally transfixed?" $800 to $1,200.

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Alexander Historical Auctions: Historical Militaria & Autographs Auction Summer 2024

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Historical Militaria & Autographs Auction Summer 2024	Total Sales (USD)	621,569.00
Auction Date	August 14, 2024 - August 14, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	375,160.00
Sale Number	#81424	High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)	529,940.00
Total Lots	1503
Sold Lots	1139	Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)	700,110.00
% of Lots Sold	75.78%	High Estimate of All Lots (USD)	975,110.00
Unsold Lots	364	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	63.74%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Book Title	Estimate	Actual Price
1517	VLADIMIR LENIN	USD 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	USD 32,500.00
1740	CLAUDE MONET	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 26,000.00
745	DELUXE, AMBER COVERED EDITION OF 'MEIN KAMPF'	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 12,350.00
1742	CLAUDE MONET	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 7,800.00
18	ADOLF HITLER ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 7,150.00
1741	CLAUDE MONET	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 7,150.00
1550	MAO ZEDONG - 'QUOTATIONS', FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE	USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00	USD 6,500.00
712	ADOLF HITLER'S COFFEE POT FROM HIS PRIVATE TRAIN	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 5,850.00
975	RICHARD B. GARNETT	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 5,850.00
19	ADOLF HITLER ARCHITECTURAL SKETCH	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 5,200.00
971	JAMES E.B. STUART	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,200.00
1429	THOMAS JEFFERSON AND JAMES MADISON	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	USD 5,200.00
715	ADOLF HITLER'S CONDIMENT SET FROM HIS PRIVATE TRAIN	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 4,875.00
12	2ND ARMORED DIV. SIGNED D-DAY L.S.T. ROSTER	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,550.00
487	(AUSCHWITZ) RUDOLF HOESS	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 4,550.00
1188	QUEEN ANNE IS TO REPEAL WILLIAM PENN'S LAWS	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 4,550.00
1407	JOHN F. KENNEDY	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	USD 4,550.00
1798	GIACOMO PUCCINI	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	USD 4,550.00
1143	CONSTITUTION OF THE CONFEDERATE STATES	USD 400.00 - 500.00	USD 4,225.00
2	ADOLF HITLER	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	USD 3,900.00
1553	HIROHITO	USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	USD 3,900.00
6	BERNARD LAW MONTGOMERY	USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	USD 3,575.00
485	'JUDE' CLOTHING PATCH, CLOTHING-REMOVED	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,575.00
716	ADOLF HITLER'S PITCHER FROM HIS PRIVATE TRAIN	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	USD 3,575.00
732	PRESENTATION PHOTOGRAPH BOOK OF MUSSOLINI IN BERLIN, 1937	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	USD 3,575.00

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€
Swann, Nov. 14: Stephen Sondheim, autograph musical quotation signed and inscribed, 4 bars from “Send in the Clowns,” 1986.

Swann, Nov. 14: George Washington, autograph letter signed to Robert Morris, preparing for attack on Philadelphia, 1777.

Swann, Nov. 14: Autograph album containing over 250 signatures by members of 29th U.S. Congress, 1845.

Swann, Nov. 14: Charles “The Bold,” letter signed to Duke of Milan written during Burgundian Wars, 1475.

Swann, Nov. 14: Deng Xiaoping, TIME magazine “Man of the Year” issue signed and dated, 1979.

Swann, Nov. 14: Theodor Herzl, autograph letter signed to prospective tutor of his children, 1902.

Swann, Nov. 14: Bourienne’s Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte extra illustrated including 1798 letter signed by Napoleon after Battle of the Nile, 1836.

Swann, Nov. 14: George Minot, autograph manuscript signed, diary kept during European trip to claim Nobel Prize, 1934.

Swann, Nov. 14: Thomas Jefferson, autograph letter signed, introducing George Washington’s personal secretary Tobias Lear, 1793.

Swann, Nov. 14: Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, signed in second volume, first edition, 1956-58.

Swann, Nov. 14: John Steinbeck, late typescript drafts of 5 chapters from his posthumously published tales of King Arthur, 1959.

Swann, Nov. 14: H.G. Wells, group of 14 of his books signed to his mistress Rebecca West or the son they had together, 1910s-40s.
Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 37: Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul, most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000.

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 66: Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley, long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 102: To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry, illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 154: Catalogue of the Library of the United States, as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 173: New Englands First Fruits, featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 309: Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores, a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000

Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500.
Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757

Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy
Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 51. Ortelius' Influential Map of the New World - Second Plate in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $5,500 - $6,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 165. Reduced-Size Edition of Jefferys/Mead Map with Revolutionary War Updates (1776) Est. $4,750 - $6,000

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 688. Blaeu's Superb Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 105. Striking Map of French Colonial Possessions (1720) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 98. Rare First Edition of the First Published Plan of a Settlement in North America (1556) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 181. Important Map of the Georgia Colony (1748) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 547. Ortelius' Map of Russia with a Vignette of Ivan the Terrible in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $1,400 - $1,700

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 85. Homann's Decorative Map of Colonial America (1720) Est. $1,600 - $1,900

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 642. Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 748. The Martyrdom of St. John in Contemporary Hand Color with Gilt Highlights (1520) Est. $1,000 - $1,300

Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
Lot 298. Scarce Early Map of Chester County (1822) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
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
Freeman’s | Hindman
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
November 14

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.

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