• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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
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    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.
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    Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024
    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: D & C Ventris curved wood type 2” tall 5/8” wide.
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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Triangles.
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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Page & Co wood type 1 1/4” tall 1/4” wide.
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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
    High Bids Win
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    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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Gonnelli Casa DAste: Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Day 3 - Session IV: Books from XVI to XX Century (First part) Session V: Books from XVI to XX Century (Second part)

Auction Reports

Auction Name Books, Autographs and Manuscripts - Day 3 - Session IV: Books from XVI to XX Century (First part) Session V: Books from XVI to XX Century (Second part) Total Sales (EUR) 872,508.00
Auction Date October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 213,460.00
Sale Number #A54c High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 213,460.00
Total Lots 249
Sold Lots 233 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 237,640.00
% of Lots Sold 93.57% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 237,640.00
Unsold Lots 16 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 367.16%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
395

Gesta proxime per Portugalenses in India, Ethiopia, et aliis orinetalibus [sic] terris. (Impressum Rome per Ioannem Besicken, 1506 die vij mensis Nouembris).

1506 EUR 10,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 163,800.00
566 Menabrea Luigi Federico

Menabrea Luigi Federico, Sketch of the analytical engine invented by Charles Babbage Esq. London: Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843.

1843 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 163,800.00
429 Berengario Jacopo

Berengario Jacopo, Anatomia Carpi. Isagoge breves perlucide ac uberime, in anatomiam humani corporis... Venetiis, 1535. (Al colophon: Impressum Venetijs per Bernardinum de Vitalibus Venetum, 1535).

1535 EUR 20,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
529 Grassi Orazio

Grassi Orazio, De tribus cometis anni 1618... Romae: ex typographia Iacobi Mascardi, 1619.

1619 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 37,800.00
543 Laplace Pierre Simon (de)

Laplace Pierre Simon (de), Theorie analytique des probabilites... Paris: Mme Ve Courcier, Imprimeur-Libraire pour les Mathemathiques, 1812.

1812 EUR 8,000.00 - 8,000.00 EUR 35,280.00
522 Galilei Galileo,

Galilei Galileo,, Istoria e dimostrazioni intorno alle macchie solari e loro accidenti... De maculis solaribus tres epistolae. In Roma: appresso Giacomo Mascardi, 1613.

1613 EUR 12,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 30,240.00
406 Al-Istakhri

Al-Istakhri, Liber climatum... Gothae: in libraria Beckeriana, 1839.

1839 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 22,680.00
434 Blaeu Willem Janszoon

Blaeu Willem Janszoon, Novus atlas... (Italia). Zu Amsterdam: bey Ion. und Cornelio Blaeu, 1642.

1642 EUR 14,000.00 - 14,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
504 Euclides

Euclides, Euclides ab omni naevo vindicatus: sive Conatus geometricus quo stabiliuntur prima ipsa universae geometriae principia... Mediolani: ex typographia Pauli Antonii Montani, 1733.

1733 EUR 7,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 21,420.00
462 Caterina da Siena

Caterina da Siena, Epistole devotissime de sancta Catharina da Siena... (Al colophon:) Stampato in la inclita Cita de Venetia in casa de Aldo Manutio Romano a di XV septembrio 1500.

1500 EUR 9,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 16,380.00
581 Odierna Giovanni Battista

Odierna Giovanni Battista, De admirandis phasibus in sole, et luna visis, ponderationes opticae, physicae, et astronomicae. Panormi: typis Nicolai Bua, 1656.

1656 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 15,120.00
514 Fourier Charles

Fourier Charles, Theorie analytique de la chaleur... A Paris: chez Firmin Didot, pere et fils, Libraires pour les Mathematiques, l'Architecture Hydraulique et la Marine,1822.

1822 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 12,600.00
575 Negri Francesco

Negri Francesco, Viaggio settentrionale... In Padova: nella Stamperia del Seminario, 1700.

1700 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 12,600.00
477 Collodi Carlo

Collodi Carlo, Giornale per i bambini. (La storia di un burattino). Roma: Tip. dei fratelli Bencini, 1881-1889.

1881 EUR 3,600.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 10,080.00
576 Newton Isaac

Newton Isaac, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica [...] Editio ultima... Amstelodami: sumptibus Societatis, 1723.

1723 EUR 500.00 - 500.00 EUR 10,080.00
505 Eytzinger Michael

Eytzinger Michael, Nouvs ad Hispaniae et Hungariae reges termaximos. De leone Belgico eiusque topographica atque historica descriptione liber quinque partibus gubernatorum Philippi regis Hispaniarum ordine, distinctus... [1588?] (Coloniae: impressit Gerar

1588 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 8,820.00
560 Mandeville John (sir)

Mandeville John (sir), Qual tratta delle piu maravegliose cose e piu notabile che si trovino e come presentialmente ha cercato tutte le parte habitabile del mondo... 1537 (Al colophon:) Stampato in Venetia: per Aluise Torti, 1537 nel mese di Otubrio.

1537 EUR 150.00 - 150.00 EUR 8,820.00
509 Flamsteed John

Flamsteed John, Atlas coelestis... London, s.n., 1753.

1753 EUR 4,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 7,434.00
476 Collins John

Collins John, Commercium epistolicum... Londini: Typis Pearsonianis, 1712.

1712 EUR 3,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 6,930.00
586 Pareto Vilfredo

Pareto Vilfredo, Cours d'economie politique professe a l'Universite de Lausanne. Tome premier (-second). Lausanne: F. Rouge, 1896-1897.

1896 EUR 400.00 - 400.00 EUR 6,930.00
558 Malpighi Marcello

Malpighi Marcello, De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica [...]. Accedit Dissertatio eiusdem de Polypo Cordis. Bononiae: ex typographia Iacobi Montij, 1666.

1666 EUR 5,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
613 Sangro Raimondo (di)

Sangro Raimondo (di), Lettera apologetica dell'Esercitato accademico della Crusca contenente la difesa del libro intitolato Lettere d'una Peruana, per rispetto alla supposizione de' Quipu... In Napoli: (Gennaro Morelli), 1750.

1750 EUR 2,000.00 - 2,000.00 EUR 6,300.00
479 Coronelli Vincenzo Maria

Coronelli Vincenzo Maria, Epitome cosmografica, o compendiosa introduttione all'Astronomia, Geografia, & Idrografia... Colonia [ma Venezia]: ad istanza di Andrea Poletti in Venezia, 1693.

1693 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 6,048.00
412 Alighieri Dante

Alighieri Dante, Dante con l'espositioni di Christoforo Landino et d'Alessandro Vellutello. Sopra la sua Comedia dell'Inferno, del Purgatorio, & del Paradiso. In Venetia: appresso Gio. Battista, & Gio. Bernardo Sessa, fratelli, 1596 (Al colophon:) In Vene

1576 EUR 1,500.00 - 1,500.00 EUR 5,796.00
619 Soldi Mauro

Soldi Mauro, Descrizione degl'instrumenti, delle macchine, e delle suppellettili raccolte ad uso chirurgico e medico dal p. don Ippolito Rondinelli ferrarese... In Faenza: presso l'Archi Impress. Camerale e del S. Uficio, 1766.

1766 EUR 1,800.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 5,292.00
  • 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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