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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & ExplorationDominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000 -
Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. First edition in first issue jacket. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000 -
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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New England Book Auctions: Literature, Childrens, Prints and Ephemera
Auction Reports
| Auction Name | Literature, Childrens, Prints and Ephemera | Total Sales (USD) | 51,048.00 |
| Auction Date | February 18, 2025 - February 18, 2025 | Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 41,930.00 |
| Sale Number | #536 | High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) | 62,995.00 |
| Total Lots | 208 | ||
| Sold Lots | 177 | Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 50,445.00 |
| % of Lots Sold | 85.10% | High Estimate of All Lots (USD) | 76,055.00 |
| Unsold Lots | 31 | Total Sales as a % of High Est. | 67.12% |
Top twenty-five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30a | Burns, Robert. | The Poetical Works of Robert Burns with His Life. |
1808 | USD 6,000.00 - 9,000.00 | USD 7,200.00 |
| 110 | L'Engle, Madeleine. | Group of 4 typescripts plays & 1 collection of verses, as listed below. |
vd | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 3,600.00 |
| 49 | Conrad, Joseph. | Notes on Life & Letters. |
1921 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 2,040.00 |
| 76 | Glaister, Don. Complete Instructions from the preface of Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. |
-2022 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 1,320.00 | |
| 160 | Heitzman, Ric. | (Pee Wee's Playhouse). |
1986-91 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,080.00 |
| 164 | Photography. Group of 8 volumes, as listed below. |
vd | USD 125.00 - 175.00 | USD 960.00 | |
| 42 | Children's. Group of 43 volumes. |
vd | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 900.00 | |
| 106 | Kennedy, John F. | The White House. An Historic Guide. |
1963 | USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 198 | Twain, Mark. | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. |
1885 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 900.00 |
| 188 | Stevenson, Robert Louis. | Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. |
1886 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 840.00 |
| 40 | Children's. Group of 32 volumes. |
vd | USD 80.00 - 120.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 41 | Children's. Group of 28 volumes. |
vd | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 780.00 | |
| 127 | Melville, Herman. | Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. |
1849 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 720.00 |
| 88 | Hemingway, Ernest. | The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories. |
1938 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 690.00 |
| 2 | American Revolution. Uncut engraved currency sheet of 4 different denominations |
1778 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 600.00 | |
| 3 | American Revolution. Uncut engraved currency sheet of 4 different denominations |
1776 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 600.00 | |
| 149 | Muscle Magazines. |
1950s-80s | USD 250.00 - 350.00 | USD 540.00 | |
| 57 | Doolittle, Bev. | Where Silence Speaks: The Art of Bev Doolittle. |
-1986 | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 510.00 |
| 94 | Holocaust. "Jude". |
1930s-40s | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 510.00 | |
| 45 | Meggendorfer, Lothar. | Children's. Grand Cirque International. |
1890s | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 480.00 |
| 64 | Erotica. Group of 7 volumes, as listed below. |
vd | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 450.00 | |
| 146 | Moser, Barry. | Pan. Eight Wood Engravings on a Theme of Pan. |
1980 | USD 400.00 - 600.00 | USD 450.00 |
| 6 | Americana. Group of over 100 pamphlets. |
1815-19 | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 37 | Children's. Group of 17 volumes. |
vd | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 420.00 | |
| 126 | McLoughlin Brothers. Group of 5 volumes, as listed below. |
vd | USD 150.00 - 250.00 | USD 420.00 |
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