• Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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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Marc van de Wiele Auctions: October Auction

Auction Reports

Auction Name October Auction Total Sales (EUR) 702,429.00
Auction Date October 18, 2024 - October 19, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 345,010.00
Sale Number #101824 High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR) 498,210.00
Total Lots 1107
Sold Lots 778 Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 475,600.00
% of Lots Sold 70.28% High Estimate of All Lots (EUR) 684,630.00
Unsold Lots 329 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 102.60%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1030 LE HAY, Jacques

Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant gravees sur les Tableaux peints d'apres Nature en 1707 & 1708 par les Ordres de M. de Ferriol Ambassadeur du Roi a la Porte

1714 (1715) EUR 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 39,000.00
1056 [GERMAN PRAYERBOOK, probably made for a FRANCISCAN, PERHAPS A WOMAN]

Prayerbook, in German with occasional titles and phrases in Latin, illuminated manuscript codex on vellum

15th century (after 1461)] EUR 18,000.00 - 25,000.00 EUR 39,000.00
1004 DOPPELMAYR, J. G. (1677-1750)

Atlas novus coelestis in quo mundus spectabilis, et in eodem tam errantium quam inerrantium stellarum phoenomena notabilia, circa ipsarum lumen, figuram, faciem, motum, eclipses.... secundum Nic. Copernici, et ex parte Tychonis de Brahe, hypothesin... des

1742 EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 22,750.00
1120 [BIBLIA NEERLANDICA]

Dat Nyeuwe Testament ons Heeren Jesu Christi

1535 EUR 700.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 22,100.00
158 PIRANESI

Antichita Romane de' Tempi della Repubblica, e de' primi Imperatori, parte prima / secunda

(1748) EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
1003 [BLAEU]

Tooneel der heerschappyen van zyne Koninglyke Hoogheyd den Hartog van Savoye, prins van Piemont, koning van Cyprus, het eerste deel vertoonende Piemont / het tweede deel vertoonende Savoye

1697 EUR 16,000.00 - 20,000.00 EUR 18,200.00
1089 BOCCACCIO, Giovanni

De Claris Mulieribus

1487) EUR 9,000.00 - 12,000.00 EUR 14,300.00
111 SANDRART, Joachim von

Der teutschen Academie der edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahleren-Kunste

1675/79 EUR 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 EUR 9,100.00
1090 BOETHIUS

De consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas)

before 6 Mar. 1491] EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00 EUR 8,450.00
1106 PETRUS de RIVO

[Opus responsivum ad epistolam apologeticam Pauli de Middelburgo de anno die et feria dominicae passionis]

[not before 1488] EUR 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 EUR 7,800.00
1258 [BRUGGE - SPAANSE DRUK]

Hordenanzas echas por los consules de la nacion de Espanna residentes en esta ciudad de Brujas, para los sotopuestos de dicha nacion sobre los seguros u polizas de seguridad

1568 EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 7,540.00
829 [COCHINCHINE]

Saigon, projet de ville de 500.000 ames, batiments civils

EUR 600.00 - 900.00 EUR 5,850.00
1094 GAIETANUS de Thienis (1378-1462)

Expositio super libros De anima Aristotelis; Quaestiones de sensu agente, de sensibilibus communibus et de intellectu. Accedit: Joannes de Janduno, Quaestiones super librum De substantia orbis Averrois

1493, 23 Dec. (rather 1492) EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 5,200.00
33 DA VINCI, Leonardo (1452-1519)

Traitte de la peinture. Donne au public et traduit d'italien en francois par R[oland] F[reart] S[ieur] D[e] C[hambray]

1651 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,940.00
60 HOOGSTRATEN, Samuel van

Inleyding tot de hooge schoole der schilderkonst: anders de zichtbaere werelt. Verdeelt in negen Leerwinkels, yder bestiert door eene der zanggodinnen

1678 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 4,940.00
28 COCK, Hieronymus; LAMPSONIUS, Dominicus; WIERIX, Hieronymus

Pictorum aliquot celebrium Germaniae inferioris effigies... Una cum Doctiss. Dom. Lampsonii huius artis peritissimi Elogiis

1572 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 4,420.00
1087 APULEIUS, Lucius

TABULA APULEI, ac postea ASINUS AUREUS, cum comm. Philippi Beroaldi, Bononiae, impr. a Benedicto Hectoris

1500 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 4,160.00
1096 GRAPALDI, Francesco Mario

Opus elegantissimum [De partibus aedium]

1511 EUR 3,000.00 - 6,000.00 EUR 4,160.00
1221 GIOVIO, Paolo

De historien van Paulus Iovius [...] inhoudende de waerachtighe beschrijvinghe van alle ghedenckwaerdige geschiedenissen die van het iaer 1494. tot het [!] 1547. [...] verloopen zijn

1604 EUR 800.00 - 1,400.00 EUR 4,160.00
439 [MAGRITTE, Rene (1898-1967)]

Le probleme du cheval

EUR 1,200.00 - 1,600.00 EUR 3,900.00
588 CASSIERS, Henri (1858-1944)

Een paar vissers

EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 3,900.00
92 PALOMINO de CASTRO y VELASCO, Antonio

El Museo Pictorico y Escala Optica. Tomo I: Theorica de la pintura. Tome II: Practica de la Pintura.

1715/24 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 3,640.00
440 MAGRITTE, Rene

La Carte d'apres nature

1952-1954 EUR 2,800.00 - 3,600.00 EUR 3,640.00
712 TERLINCK, E.J. et Fils

Recueil des divers caracteres, fleurons, vignettes, cadres, accolades et filets, de l'imprimerie de E.J. Terlinck et Fils

1827 EUR 900.00 - 1,800.00 EUR 3,640.00
927 FERRARIS, J.J.F. comte de

Carte chorographique des Pays-Bas autrichiens dediee a leurs Majestes Imperiales et Royales... gravee par L.A. Dupuis ... en 1777

1777 EUR 1,600.00 - 2,400.00 EUR 3,640.00
  • 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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