• 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.
  • Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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.
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Forum Auctions: A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World: the Library of a Gentleman

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Auction Name A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World: the Library of a Gentleman Total Sales (GBP) 282,353.40
Auction Date November 14, 2024 - November 14, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 189,930.00
Sale Number #1157 High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP) 267,870.00
Total Lots 267
Sold Lots 191 Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 267,560.00
% of Lots Sold 71.54% High Estimate of All Lots (GBP) 382,090.00
Unsold Lots 76 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 73.90%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
41 Cassas (Louis Francois)

[Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palaestube et de la Basse-Egypte], 3 vol., first edition

1799 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 21,420.00
131 La Chappelle (George)

Recuel de Divers Portraits des Principales Dames de la Porte du Grand Turc, first edition

1648 GBP 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 GBP 14,490.00
89 Fossati (Gaspard)

Aya Sophia Constantinople as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid, first edition

1852 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 11,340.00
88 Forbin (Louis)

Voyage dans le Levant, first edition, one of 325 copies

1819 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 10,080.00
69 De Launay (Marie)

& Hamdy Bey. Les Costumes Populaires de la Turque en 1873, 3 parts in 1 vol.,

1873 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
76 Dodwell (Edward)

Views in Greece, first edition

1821 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 8,190.00
39 Cantemir (Demetrius)

The History of the Growth and Decay of the Othman Empire, 2 parts in 1 vol.,

1669 GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP 7,560.00
143 Lewis (John Frederick)

Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835-6, first edition

1838 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,560.00
202 Preziosi (Amedeo)

Stamboul: Recollections of Eastern Life, first edition

1858 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,300.00
32 Brindesi (Jean)

Souvenirs de Constantinople, first edition

1855-60 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
189 Pertusier (Charles)

Promenades Pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les Rives du Bosphore, 4 vol., inc Atlas, first edition

1815-17 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 5,040.00
25 Belon (Pierre)

Les Observations de Plusieurs Singularitez & choses memorables, trouuees en Grece, Asie, Judee, Egypte, Arabie ...,

1554 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,788.00
203 Preziosi (Amedeo)

Souvenir du Caire, first edition

c.1862 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
232 Solvyns (Francois Balthazar)

The Costume of Hindostan

1804 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 4,410.00
222 Schranz (Joseph)

Vue Generale du Bosphore, de Constantinople a Roumeli-Hissari, (pris d'Asie)

circa 1855 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 4,032.00
33 Brindesi (Jean)

Elbicei Atika Musee des Anciens Costumes Turcs de Constantinople, first edition,

c.1855 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
261 Wilkie (Sir David)

Sketches in Turkey, Syria & Egypt, 1840 & 1841, first edition

1843 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,780.00
46 Chardin (Sir John)

Voyages du Chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et Autres Lieux de l'Orient, 11 vol.

1811 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 3,024.00
91 Friedel (Adam)

[The Greeks. Twenty-Four Portraits ... of the Principal Leaders and Personages ... in the Greek Revolution], first edition

1824-26 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
112 Hay (Robert)

Illustrations of Cairo, first edition, hand-coloured lithographs

1840 GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
170 Mouradja D'Ohsson (Ignace de)

Tableau General de l'Empire Othoman, 2 vol. bound as 3

1787-90 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,772.00
259 Werner (Carl)

Nile-Sketches ... with accompanying text by Dr. A. E., Brehm and Dr. Johannes Dumichen, first edition

1871-75 GBP 600.00 - 800.00 GBP 2,772.00
17 Badia Y Leblich (Domingo)

Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria, and Turkey, 2 vol., first English edition

1816 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
65 Dapper (Olfert)

Description exacte des Isles de l'Archipel, et de quelques autres adjacentes...

1703 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
86 Ferriol (Charles)

Recueil de Cent Estampes representant differentes Nations du Levant

1714 GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 GBP 2,520.00
  • 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.
  • 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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