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    High Bids Win, Nov. 20 – Dec. 5: Quarter Case with Lead Penline Flourishes.
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    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.
  • 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.
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New England Book Auctions: Fine Books and Ephemera List

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Books and Ephemera List Total Sales (USD) 21,708.00
Auction Date September 24, 2024 - September 24, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #43 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 225
Sold Lots 218 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 96.89% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 7 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
158 (Bakst, Leon).

Levinson, Andre. Histoire de Leon Bakst. Mounted color plates (lacking # LXIV). Folio, wrappers, slipcase (soiled); generally clean, lacking 1 plate.

1924 Not Available USD 1,080.00
190 (Cocteau, Jean.). Genet, Jean.

Querelle de Brest. 28 (of 29) lithographs by Cocteau (only). 4to, loose as issued, portfolio; light wear.

1947] Not Available USD 1,020.00
39

Collection of Information on Missiles and Rockets.

vd Not Available USD 510.00
209

Laws of the Republic of Texas. 2 volumes bound in 1. 8vo, later calf-backed boards; lacking the Declaration & Constitution (26 pages) in volume 1, some foxing & soiling, etc. SOLD-AS-IS. (Eberstadt 110: 262; Raines, page 230 (A, B, C, & D).

1838 Not Available USD 420.00
165

Group of 26 volumes. 8vo, gilt-decorated leather, all edges gilt; light wear.

vd Not Available USD 390.00
114 Twain, Mark.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Illustrated. 4to, publisher's green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black; shelf-worn, inner joints crudely reglued, etc.

1885 Not Available USD 360.00
47

Atlas of Worcester County Massachusetts.

1870 Not Available USD 330.00
61

Group of 14 Bibles. Edinburgh 1790. * Boston 1818. * Lowell 1827. * New York 1815. * Brattleborough, VT. 1828. * Etc. Most are full leather and X-Library.

vd Not Available USD 330.00
145 Pennant, Thomas.

British Zoology. Profusion of engraved plates (lacking plate LXI, but XIII in duplicate). 4 volumes. 4to, contemporary gilt-ruled diced calf, spines gilt in 6 compartments; lacking 1 plate, 1 cover detached, generally sound otherwise.

1776-1781 Not Available USD 330.00
21

19th Century Ashfield Library Catalog.

vd Not Available USD 300.00
106 [Brooke, Frances].

The History of Emily Montague. By Lady Julia Mandeville. 4 volumes. 12mo, contemporary acid-dyed calf, gilt-lettered spine-labels; spine-ends chipped, some covers detached, large Salem contemporary letterpress lending library bookplates

1784 Not Available USD 270.00
125 Emerson, Ralph Waldo.

Essays. 8vo, publisher's cloth; spine chipped with loss, generally sound internally, George W. Briggs and L. B. R. Briggs ink ex-libris. FIRST EDITION. (BAL 5189

-1905 Not Available USD 270.00
186

Group of 14 maps. Most hand-colored; Various sizes; varying wear, some with closed tears, etc.

19th-century Not Available USD 270.00
52 Du Bois, W. E. Burghardt.

The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United states of America 1638-1870. 1st edition. X-library. Front cover detached.

Green. Not Available USD 240.00
103 Mather, Cotton.

Magnalia Christi Americana: or, the Ecclesiastical History of New-England. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary sheep, clamshell box provided; lacking spine-labels, volume 1 covers detached, some foxing and browning, etc., ex-libris S. M. Worcester. FIRST AMERICA

1820 Not Available USD 240.00
116 Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de..

The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha. 4 volumes. 12mo, contemporary gilt-ruled speckled calf; joints dried, generally sound, bound without all engraved plates. SOLD-AS-IS.

1731 Not Available USD 240.00
136 Blakston, W. A; & W. Swaysland,.

et. al. The Illustrated Book of Canaries and Cage-Birds. 55 (of 56) color plates. 4to, pictorial cloth; lacking 1 plate, inner joints split, generally clean.

Circa 1880 Not Available USD 228.00
175 Hubbard, William.

A Narrative of the Indian Wars...375 pages + 6 page subscriber list. 8vo, gilt-decorated full red morocco by R. W. Smith, spine gilt in 6 compartments, top-edge gilt; several closed tears.

1803 Not Available USD 228.00
34

American Architecture 11 Titles. The Orders of Architecture by Stratton. (1931). * Allan Greenberg. * Frank Lloyd Wright. * Robert Smith. * Wallace Neff. * Irving Gill. * Etc.

vd Not Available USD 216.00
166 Milton, John.

The History of Britain, That part especially now Called England. Small 4to, contemporary calf; rebacked, covers detached, lacking the portrait.

1671 Not Available USD 216.00
183

Britten, Emma Hardinge. Ghost Land or Researches into the Mysteries of Occultism. 8vo, silver-pictorial cloth; moderate wear.

1897 Not Available USD 216.00
59

Jock Sturgis, Museum fur Moderne Hunst. * David Hamilton 7 Titles. Diary of a Young Girl. Private Collection. Hamilton's Movie. Etc.

vd Not Available USD 192.00
126 Washington, George.

A Message of the President of the United States, to Congress, relative to France and Great Britain. 8vo, contemporary sheep; covers detached, margins of last few leaves corroded with loss. SOLD-AS-IS.

1795 Not Available USD 192.00
92

Collection of 18 Titles in The Franklin Library SIGNED First Edition Series. The Death of Methuselah by Isaac Bashevis Singer. * Little Wilson & Big God by Anthony Burgess. * O-Zone by Paul Theroux. * Blues by John Hersey. * God Knows by Joseph Heller. *

vd Not Available USD 180.00
140 Beach, S. A.

The Apples of New York. Illustrated, including color plates. 2 volumes. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial cloth; 1 spine stained, inner joints split.

1905 Not Available USD 180.00
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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