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Doyle, Dec. 6: An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories.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. -
Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25thKetterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25thKetterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25thKetterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 25thKetterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000 -
High Bids Win
Letterpress & Bindery Auction
Nov. 20 – Dec. 5, 2024High 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, 2024High 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, 2024High 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, 2024High 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. -
![<b>ALDE, Dec. 11:</b> CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. <i>De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate,</i> Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/b719f220-50aa-4855-9a72-293cad312283.jpg "<b>ALDE, Dec. 11:</b> CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. <i>De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate,</i> Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.")
ALDE
Bibliothèque médicale Arthur Tatossian
December 11, 2024ALDE, Dec. 11: ALBINUS (BERNHARD SIEGFIED). Tabulæ Sceleti et Musculorum corporis humanum, Londres, 1749. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: BIDLOO (GOVARD). Anatomia humani corporis. Centum et quinque tabulis per artificiosiss. G. de Lairesse..., Amsterdam, 1685.ALDE, Dec. 11: BOURGERY (JEAN-MARC) – JACOB (NICOLAS-HENRI). Traité complet de l’anatomie de l’Homme comprenant la médecine opératoire, Paris, 1832. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE
Bibliothèque médicale Arthur Tatossian
December 11, 2024ALDE, Dec. 11: CALDANI (LEOPOLDO MARCANTONIO ET FLORIANO). Icones anatomicae, Venice, 1801-14. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: CARSWELL (ROBERT). Pathological Anatomy. Illustrations of the elementary forms of disease, London, 1838. €5,000 to €6,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: CASSERIUS (JULIUS) [GIULIO CASSERIO]. De vocis auditusq. organis historia anatomica singulari fide methodo ac industria concinnata tractatis duobus explicate, Ferrara, 1600-1601. €4,000 to €5,000.ALDE
Bibliothèque médicale Arthur Tatossian
December 11, 2024ALDE, Dec. 11: ESTIENNE (CHARLES). De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Paris, 1545. €8,000 to €10,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: GAMELIN (JACQUES). Nouveau Recueil d'Ostéologie et de Myologie dessiné d'après nature... pour l’utilité des sciences et des arts, divisé en deux parties, Toulouse, 1779. €6,000 to €8,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: ROESSLIN (EUCHER). Des divers travaux et enfantemens des femmes et par quel moyen l'on doit survenir aux accidens…, Paris, 1536. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE
Bibliothèque médicale Arthur Tatossian
December 11, 2024ALDE, Dec. 11: RUYSCH (FREDERICK). Thesaurus anatomicus - Anatomisch Cabinet, Amsterdam, 1701-1714. €3,000 to €4,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: VALVERDE (JUAN DE). Anatome corporis humani. Nunc primum a Michaele Michaele Columbo latine reddita, et additis novis aliquot tabulis exornata, Venetiis, 1589. €2,000 to €3,000.ALDE, Dec. 11: VESALIUS (ANDREAS). De humani Corporis Fabrica libri septem, Venetiis, 1568. €3,000 to €4,000.
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Auction Info
- Auction Name
- Rare and Antiquarian - with Fine Art, Fine Press, Fine Bindings
- Auction Date
- 11/21/2024 - 11/21/2024
- Sale Number
- #826
- Total Lots
- 428
- Sold Lots
- 268
- Lots Sold
- 62.62%
- Unsold Lots
- 160
- Total Sales (USD)
- 156,975.00
- Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 172,000.00
- High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD)
- 271,100.00
- Low Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 299,800.00
- High Estimate of All Lots (USD)
- 469,700.00
- Total Sales as a % of High Est.
- 33.42%
Top twenty five by sale price
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 53 | Descartes, Rene | A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason, and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences |
1649 | USD 30,000.00 - 50,000.00 | USD 28,125.00 |
| 37 | Caesar, Caius Julius | The Commentaries of Caesar, Translated into English. To which is prefixed a Discourse Concerning the Roman Art of War |
1753 | USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 | USD 4,375.00 |
| 286 | Dickens, Charles | Great Expectations |
1861 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 4,062.50 |
| 102 | Rules & Regulations of the St. Andrews Thistle Golf Club |
1873 | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 4,062.50 | |
| 228 | Abbott, Edwin A. | Flatland. A Romance of Many Dimensions |
1980 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 3,750.00 |
| 417 | Soth, Alec | Sleeping by the Mississippi |
[2003] | USD 300.00 - 500.00 | USD 3,125.00 |
| 149 | Machiavelli, Niccolo | The Works of the Famous Nicolas Machiavel, Citizen and Secretary of Florence |
1675 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,812.50 |
| 118 | Kircher, Athanasius | Turris Babel, sive Archontologia qua Primo Priscorum post diluvium hominum vita, mores rerumque gestarum magnitudo, Secundo Turris fabrica civitatumque extructio, consusio linguarum, inde gentium transmigrationis... |
1679 | USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 93 | Jones, Robert Tyre ("Bobby"), Jr. and O.B. Keeler | Down the Fairway: The Golf Life and Play of Robert T. Jones, Jr. |
1927 | USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 | USD 2,500.00 |
| 171 | [Pepys, Samuel] | Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, For Ten Years, Determin'd December 1688 |
1690 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 2,000.00 |
| 310 | Hand, Carole | Moye, The Hood |
2000 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 389 | Link, O. Winston | Main Line on Main Street |
Negative: [1956]; print: 1988 | USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 | USD 1,875.00 |
| 92 | Jones, Robert Trent | Golf Course Architecture |
[c.1938] | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,750.00 |
| 414 | Sander, August | Antlitz der Zeit: Sechzig Aufnahmen Deutscher Menschen des 20.Jahrhunderts von August Sander |
[1929] | USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 | USD 1,625.00 |
| 7 | Bacon, Francis | The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh |
1622 | USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | USD 1,500.00 |
| 16 | The Holy Bible, Containing the Old Testament and the New; Newly Translated out of the Originall Tongues |
1660 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,500.00 | |
| 67 | Michaud, Joseph-Francois | Histoire des Croisades |
1877 | USD 600.00 - 900.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 273 | Maupassant, Henri Rene Guy de | The Life Work of Henri Rene Guy de Maupassant |
1903 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 329 | Passebon, Henri Sbonski de | Plan de plusieurs batimens de mer avec leurs proportions, dedie a Son Altesse Serenissime Monseigneur Louis Auguste de Bourbon |
c.1970's | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
| 173 | Pozzo, Andrea | Perspective Pictorum atque Architectorum... |
1719 | USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 | USD 1,250.00 |
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