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Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate PurchaseSotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USDSotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USDSotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USDSotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USDSotheby’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. -
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/2bfa5105-2bf9-4a52-8ab5-45f3ef7b1eb4.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Rare First Edition of a Classic Work. [Stafford (Thos.)] <i>Pacata Hibernia, Ireland Appeased and Reduced…,</i> 1633. €1,500 to €2,000.")
![<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/d8cd5291-2e7d-4a24-8d22-f316554ec8f8.jpg "<b>Fonsie Mealy’s, Dec. 11-12:</b> Heaney (Seamus). <i>Eleven Poems,</i> Belfast (Festival publications - Queens University) [1965], First Edn., (First Issue) Signed. €2,500 to €3,500.")
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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Du Mouchelles: October Premier
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | October Premier | Total Sales (USD) | 58,437.00 |
| Auction Date | October 10, 2024 - October 10, 2024 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 42,475.00 |
| Sale Number | #16740 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 69,200.00 |
| Total Lots | 69 | ||
| Sold Lots | 62 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 47,175.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 89.86% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 77,600.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 7 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 75.31% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1008 | Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988) | Screenprint with Collage Elements on Wove Paper, 1970, "Carolina Blue (Interior)" |
1970 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 7,740.00 |
| 1006 | Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968) Andre Breton (FRENCH) | 1947, "Le Surrealisme (Priere De Toucher)" |
1947 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 7,095.00 |
| 1005 | Pierre Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919) | Lithograph on Arches Laid Paper, 1898, "Le Chapeau Epingle, 2eme Planche" |
1898 | USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | USD 6,450.00 |
| 1045 | Ed Ruscha (American, B. 1937) | Artist Books 1965; 1969, Some Los Angeles Apartments; Twentysix Gasoline Stations", 2 Books |
1965; 1969 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,225.00 |
| 1009 | Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988) | Lithograph in Colors on Cream Wove Paper, 1975, "Come Sunday (Mother And Child)" |
1975 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 2,902.50 |
| 1011 | Jacob Lawrence (American) | Color Screenprint on Domestic Etching Paper 1977, "John Brown, While Tending His Flock in Ohio" |
1977 | USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 | USD 2,193.00 |
| 1007 | Brassai (French/Hungarian, 1899-1984) | Deluxe Edition Signed Book with Signed Photogravure, 1982, "The Artists of My Life" |
1982 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,548.00 |
| 1046 | Salvador Dali (Spanish, 1904-1989) | Engraving with Stencil Color on Paper Ca. 1975, "Automobile (Hommage A Leonardo Da Vinci)" |
Ca.1975 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 1,419.00 |
| 1051 | Harold Eugene Edgerton (American, 1903-1990) | Gelatin Silver Print "Tennis - Forehand Drive, Jenny Tuckey 1938" |
1938; 1979 | USD 700.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,032.00 |
| 1056 | Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984) | The New Ansel Adams Photography Series Books, One Signed, Yosemite Book, with Signed Print+ Letter 6 pcs |
1980 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 1,032.00 |
| 1060 | Julian Schnabel (American, B. 1951) | Etchings with Aquatint on Kozo Shoin Paper, 1983, "Tod, Cage Without Bars" |
1983 | USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 1,032.00 |
| 1036 | Peter Max (American, 1937-2019) | Offset Lithograph on Paper "Lincoln" |
USD 1,000.00 - 2,000.00 | USD 967.50 | |
| 1052 | Olivia Parker (American, B. 1941) | Gelatin Silver Print Ca. 1980, Miss Appleton's Shoes II |
Ca.1980 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 838.50 |
| 1055 | Ansel Adams (American, 1902-1984) | Photography Book Grouping, Signed And Unsigned, with Two Gelatin Silver Prints of Adams, 17 pcs |
2001 | USD 500.00 - 1,000.00 | USD 838.50 |
| 1123 | After Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) | Silkscreen in Colors on Paper, "Marilyn Monroe (Sunday B Morning)" |
USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 774.00 | |
| 1126 | Louis Icart (French, 1888-1950) | Etching & Aquatint on Paper, 1923, "Peacock Shawl" |
1923 | USD 500.00 - 800.00 | USD 774.00 |
| 1298 | Royal Copenhagen (Danish) | Flora Danica' Painted Porcelain Pierced Platter, Impations Noli Tangere |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 774.00 | |
| 1053 | Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) | Signed Book "America" with Gelatin Silver Print of Book Signing, 2 pcs |
1985 | USD 600.00 - 800.00 | USD 709.50 |
| 1054 | Walter Rosenblum (American, 1919-2006) | Gelatin Silver Print, "Girl on a Swing, Pitt St., N.Y. 1938" |
1938 | USD 500.00 - 700.00 | USD 709.50 |
| 1144 | Lilo Raymond (American, 1922-2009) | Gelatin Silver Print, 1983, "Apples" |
1983 | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 709.50 |
| 1371 | Rod Ruth (American, 1912-1987) | for Greyhound Travel Poster Ca. 1960s, "Colorado" |
Ca.1960s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 709.50 |
| 1131 | Marcel Mouly (French, 1918-2008) | Lithograph in Colors on Wove Paper, "Le Fauteuil a Crosses" |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 645.00 | |
| 1132 | Marcel Mouly (French, 1918-2008) | Lithograph in Colors on Wove Paper, "Carafe Verte Et Compotier" |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | USD 645.00 | |
| 1145 | Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (English, 1853-1941) | Gelatin Silver Print, Ca. 1990s, "Water Rats" |
Ca.1990s | USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 645.00 |
| 1151 | Tony Spina (American, 1914-1995) | Gelatin Silver Prints, 5 pcs |
USD 200.00 - 400.00 | USD 645.00 |
![<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/73871a8f-7c5e-4b80-933d-0d0161d4363c.jpg "<b>Dominic Winter, Dec. 12:</b> Bible [English]. <i>[The Holie Bible conteynyng the Olde Testament and the Newe,</i> 1568]. £3,000 to £5,000.")
