Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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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Arenberg Auctions: Live Auction October

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Live Auction October	Total Sales (EUR)	631,787.00
Auction Date	October 11, 2024 - October 12, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	345,405.00
Sale Number	#101124	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	459,340.00
Total Lots	904
Sold Lots	904	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	345,405.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	459,340.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	137.54%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
343	[AIGNAN, Etienne]	Le sacre de S.M. l'empereur Napoleon, dans l'eglise metropolitaine de Paris, le XI frimaire an XIII, dimanche 2 decembre 1804.	1806	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	EUR 28,600.00
516		Mappe monde, ou Globe terrestre en deux plans hemispheres dressee sur les observations de Mrss de l'Academie Royale des Sciences [...].	after 1721	EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00	EUR 23,400.00
526	Joan Blaeu	Nouveau theatre du Piemont et de la Savoye, ou Description exacte de leur villes, palais, eglises [...] qui contient la description geographique du Piemont, l'histoire de la maison de Savoye, & la description de la ville de Turin [...].	1725	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
854	LA FONTAINE, Jean de	Fables choisies, mises en vers [...].	1755 - 1759	EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	EUR 13,000.00
528	Gerhard Mercator	Atlas Minor Gerardi Mercatoris a I. Hondio plurimis aeneis tabulis auctus atque illustratus.	1628	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 10,660.00
515	HALLEY, Edmond	Nova & accuratissima totius terrarum orbis tabula nautica variationum magneticarum index juxta observationes anno 1700 habitas constructa.	c. 1730	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 10,400.00
33	Christian Dotremont	Skrifterier.	1962	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 9,750.00
510	[CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham]	Carte tres curieuse de la Mer du Sud, contenant des remarques nouvelles et tres utiles non seulement sur les ports et iles de cette mer mais aussi sur les principaux pays de l'Amerique tant Septentrionale que Meridionale avec les noms & la route d...	1719	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 6,500.00
511	NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste	L'Amerique dressee sur les relations les plus recentes rectifiees sur les dernieres observations [...].	1784	EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	EUR 6,500.00
412	BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph	Les dons merveilleux et diversement colories de la nature dans le regne mineral, ou Collection des mineraux precieusement colories, pour servir a l'intelligence de l'Histoire generale et oeconomique des trois regnes.	1782	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,850.00
418	EDWARDS, George; CATESBY, Mark	Recueil de divers oiseaux etrangers et peu communs qui se trouvent dans les ouvrages de messieurs Edwards et Catesby representes en taille douce et exactement colories par Jean Michel Seligmann.	1768-1770	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,850.00
518	VAN DER AA, Pieter	Nova Orbis Terraquei tabula accuratissime delineata. Mappe-Monde du description generale du globe terrestre et aquatique [...].	c. 1713	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 5,850.00
397	L'ECLUSE, Charles de	Sammelband with 3 works in first edition.		EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 5,460.00
527	Rigobert Bonne	Atlas moderne ou Collection de cartes sur toutes les parties du globe terrestre par plusieurs auteurs.	S.d.	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 5,200.00
594	Balthazar Solvyns	The costume of Indostan [...] with descriptions in English and French, taken in the years 1798 and 1799.	1804	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 5,200.00
509	CLOUET, Jean-Baptiste-Louis	Carte d'Afrique divisee en ses principaux etats dressee, sur les observations astronomiques de Mrs de l'Academie Royale des Sciences [...].	1776	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,940.00
513	NOLIN, Jean-Baptiste	L'Europe dressee sur les nouvelles observations faites en toutes les parties de la terre rectifiee [...]. Divisee en tous ses royaumes et etats [...].	1740	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,940.00
550	[SAUMERY, Pierre-Lambert ; CRASSIER, Guillaume Pascal de]	Les delices du pais de Liege, ou Description geographique, topographique et chorographique des monumens sacres et profanes [...].	1738-1744	EUR 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	EUR 4,940.00
601	Joseph Rudyard Kipling	La chasse de Kaa. Illustrations de Paul Jouve.	1930	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,680.00
164	GUERIN, Maurice de	Le Centaure et la Bacchante. Poemes en prose illustres de bois en couleurs par Jules Chadel. Avec preface de Louis Barthou de l'Academie francaise.	1931	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,420.00
540	DE BRUYN, Cornelis	Reizen over Moskovie door Persie en Indie [...].	1714	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	EUR 4,420.00
618	Frederick Marryat	Rangoon views, and combined operations in the Birman empire.	1825-1826	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 4,160.00
473	MOMPER, Bartholomeus de (after)	Le koert de Bruxselles.	16th c	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 4,030.00
225	[VAN MAELE, Martin]	Les fleches de plomb. Suite de dix eaux-fortes dediees a madame la comtesse Dorothee de S... par son tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur.	c. 1910	EUR 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	EUR 3,900.00
517	VAN DER AA, Pieter	Planispherium terrestre, secundum recentiores astronomorum [...]. Planisphere terrestre, suivant les nouvelles observations des astronomes [...].	c. 1713	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 3,900.00

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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