• 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.
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PBA Galleries: Rare and Antiquarian - with Fine Art, Fine Press, Fine Bindings

Auction Reports

Auction Name Rare and Antiquarian - with Fine Art, Fine Press, Fine Bindings Total Sales (USD) 156,975.00
Auction Date November 21, 2024 - November 21, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 172,000.00
Sale Number #826 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 271,100.00
Total Lots 428
Sold Lots 268 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 299,800.00
% of Lots Sold 62.62% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 469,700.00
Unsold Lots 160 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 33.42%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
53 Descartes, Rene

A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences

1649 USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 USD 28,125.00
37 Caesar, Caius Julius

The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War

1753 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 4,375.00
102

Rules & Regulations of the St. Andrews Thistle Golf Club

1873 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 4,062.50
286 Dickens, Charles

Great Expectations

1861 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 4,062.50
228 Abbott, Edwin A.

Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions

1980 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 3,750.00
417 Soth, Alec

Sleeping by the Mississippi

[2003] USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 3,125.00
149 Machiavelli, Niccolo

The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence

1675 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,812.50
93 Jones, Robert Tyre ("Bobby"), Jr. and O.B. Keeler

Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr.

1927 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 2,500.00
118 Kircher, Athanasius

Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis...

1679 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 2,500.00
171 [Pepys, Samuel]

Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688

1690 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 2,000.00
310 Hand, Carole

Moye, The Hood

2000 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
389 Link, O. Winston

Main Line on Main Street

Negative: [1956]; print: 1988 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 1,875.00
92 Jones, Robert Trent

Golf Course Architecture

[c.1938] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,750.00
414 Sander, August

Antlitz der Zeit: Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen des 20.Jahrhunderts von August Sander

[1929] USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 1,625.00
7 Bacon, Francis

The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh

1622 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,500.00
16

The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues

1660 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,500.00
67 Michaud, Joseph-Francois

Histoire des Croisades

1877 USD 600.00 - 900.00 USD 1,250.00
173 Pozzo, Andrea

Perspective Pictorum atque Architectorum...

1719 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
273 Maupassant, Henri Rene Guy de

The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant

1903 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
329 Passebon, Henri Sbonski de

Plan de plusieurs batimens de mer avec leurs proportions, dedie a Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Louis Auguste de Bourbon

c.1970's USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,250.00
80 Fletcher, John

The Night-Walker, Or the Little Theife. A Comedy

1640 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,187.50
48

The Illustrated London News Grand Panorama of the Great Exhibition of All Nations, 1851

[1852] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,125.00
19

He palaia diatheke kata tous ebdomekonta = Vetus testamentum Graecum ex versione Septuaginta interpretum

1665 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 1,062.50
69 Rabelais, Francois

Oeuvres de Rabelais: Texte Collationne sur les Editions Originales. Avec une Vie de l'Auteur, des Notes et un Glossaire

1873 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 1,062.50
324 Nishimura Nantei

Nantei Gafu Kohen

1826 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 1,000.00
  • 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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