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  • <b><center>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction November 25th</center></b> <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>H. Schedel, <i>Liber chronicarum,</i> 1493. Est: € 25,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>P. O. Runge, <i>Farben-Kugel,</i> 1810. Est: € 8,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>W. Kandinsky, <i>Klänge,</i> 1913. Est: € 20,000 <b><center>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction November 25th</center></b> <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>W. Burley, <i>De vita et moribus philosophorum,</i> 1473. Est: € 4,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>M. B. Valentini, <i>Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile,</i> 1719. Est: € 12,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br><i>PAN,</i> 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000 <b><center>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction November 25th</center></b> <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>J. de Gaddesden, <i>Rosa anglica practica medicinae,</i> 1492. Est: € 12,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>M. Merian, <i>Todten-Tanz,</i> 1649. Est: € 5,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>D. Hammett, <i>Red harvest,</i> 1929. Est: € 11,000 <b><center>Ketterer Rare Books<br>Auction November 25th</center></b> <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>Book of hours, <i>Horae B. M. V.,</i> 1503. Est: € 9,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>J. Miller, <i>Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai,</i> 1792. Est: € 8,000 <b>Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:</b><br>F. Hundertwasser, <i>Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day,</i> 1972. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    P. O. Runge, Farben-Kugel, 1810. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Kandinsky, Klänge, 1913. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    W. Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 1473. Est: € 4,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. B. Valentini, Viridarium reformatum seu regnum vegetabile, 1719. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    PAN, 10 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: € 15,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. de Gaddesden, Rosa anglica practica medicinae, 1492. Est: € 12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    M. Merian, Todten-Tanz, 1649. Est: € 5,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    D. Hammett, Red harvest, 1929. Est: € 11,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction November 25th
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    Book of hours, Horae B. M. V., 1503. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    J. Miller, Illustratio systematis sexualis Linneai, 1792. Est: € 8,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, Nov. 25:
    F. Hundertwasser, Regentag – Look at it on a rainy day, 1972. Est: € 8,000
  • <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757 <b>Finarte, Nov 20-21:</b> Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia, [col commento di Jacopo della Lana e Martino Paolo Nidobeato, curata da Martino Paolo Nidobeato e Guido da Terzago. Aggiunto Il Credo], 1478
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus, edita da Piero da Figino. Aggiunte le Rime diverse; Marsilius Ficinius, Ad Dantem gratulatio], 1491
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lactantius, Lucius Coelius Firmianus - Opera, 1465
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - Le terze rime di Dante, 1502
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Boccaccio, Giovanni - Il Decamerone. Di messer Giouanni Boccaccio, 1516
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Giordano Bruno - Candelaio comedia del Bruno nolano achademico di nulla achademia; detto il fastidito. In tristitia hilaris: in hilaritate tristis, 1582
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Petrarca, Francesco - Le cose volgari di Messer Francesco Petrarcha, 1504
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Legatura - Manoscritto - Medici - Cosimo III de' Medici / Solari, Giuseppe - I Ritratti Medicei overo Glorie e Grandezze della sempre sereniss. Casa Medici..., 1678
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Alighieri, Dante - La Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri con varie annotazioni, e copiosi Rami adornata, 1757
    Finarte, Nov 20-21: Lot containing 80 printed guides and publications dedicated to travel and itineraries in Italy
  • <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 37: <i>Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul,</i> most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000. <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 66: <i>Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley,</i> long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 102: <i>To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry,</i> illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 154: <i>Catalogue of the Library of the United States,</i> as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 173: <i>New Englands First Fruits,</i> featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, <i>Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, </i>Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 309: <i>Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores,</i> a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000 <b>Swann, Nov. 21:</b> Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500.
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 37: Archive of the pioneering woman artist Arrah Lee Gaul, most 1911-59. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 66: Letter describing the dropping water level at Owens Lake near Death Valley, long before it was drained, Keeler, CA, 26 July 1904. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 102: To Horse, To Horse! My All for a Horse! The Washington Cavalry, illustrated Civil War broadside, Philadelphia, 1862. $4,000 to $6,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 135: Album of cyanotype views of the Florida panhandle and beyond, 224 photographs, 174 of them cyanotypes, Apalachicola, FL and elsewhere, circa 1895-1896. $1,200 to $1,800
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 154: Catalogue of the Library of the United States, as acquired from Thomas Jefferson, Washington, 1815. $15,000 to $25,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 173: New Englands First Fruits, featuring the first description of Harvard in print, London, 1643. $40,000 to $60,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 177: John P. Greene, Original manuscript diary of a mission to western New York with Joseph Smith, 1833. $60,000 to $90,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 243: P.E. Larson, photographer, Such is Life in the Far West: Early Morning Call in a Gambling Hall, Goldfield, NV, circa 1906. $2,500 to $3,500
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 261: Fred W. Sladen, Diaries of a WWII colonel commanding troops from Morocco to Italy to France, 1942-44. $3,000 to $4,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 309: Los mexicanos pintados por si mismos, por varios autores, a Mexican plate book. Mexico, 1854-1855. $2,000 to $3,000
    Swann, Nov. 21: Lot 8: Diaries of a prospector / trapper in the remote Alaska wilderness, 5 manuscript volumes. Alaska, 1917-64. $1,500 to $2,500.
  • <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> An extensive archive of Raymond Chandler’s unpublished drafts of fantasy stories. $60,000 to $80,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> RAND, AYN. Single page from Ayn Rand’s handwritten first draft of her influential final novel <i>Atlas Shrugged.</i> $30,000 to $50,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> Ernest Hemingway’s first book with interesting provenance. <i>Three Stories & Ten Poems.</i> $20,000 to $30,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> Hemingway’s second book, one of 170 copies. <i>In Our Time.</i> $15,000 to $25,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> A finely colored example of Visscher’s double hemisphere world map, with a figured border. $12,000 to $18,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> Raymond Chandler’s Olivetti Studio 44 Typewriter. $10,000 to $20,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> Antonio Ordóñez's “Suit of Lights” owned by Ernest Hemingway. $10,000 to $20,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> A remarkable Truman archive featuring an inscribed beam from the White House construction. $8,000 to $12,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> The fourth edition of Audubon’s <i>The Birds of America.</i> $8,000 to $12,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> The original typed manuscript for Chandler’s only opera. <i>The Princess and the Pedlar: An Entirely Original Comic Opera.</i> $8,000 to $12,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> A splendidly illustrated treatise on ancient Peru and its Incan civilization. $7,000 to $10,000. <b>Doyle, Dec. 6:</b> A superb copy of Claude Lorrain’s <i>Liber Veritatis</i> from Longleat House. $5,000 to $8,000.
    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.
  • <b><center>Gonnelli:<br>Auction 55<br>Antique prints, paintings and maps<br>November 26st 2024</center></b> <b>Gonnelli:</b> Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€ <b>Gonnelli:</b> Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli:
    Auction 55
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    November 26st 2024
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, 23 animal plances,1641. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Stefano Della Bella, Boar Hunt, 1654. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Crispijn Van de Passe, The seven Arts, 1637. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, La Maschera è cagion di molti mali, 1688. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Biribissor’s game, 1804-15. Starting price 2800€
    Gonnelli: Nicolas II de Larmessin, Habitats,1700. Starting price 320€
    Gonnelli: Miniature “O”, 1400. Starting price 1800€
    Gonnelli: Jan Van der Straet, Hunt scenes, 1596. Starting Price 140€
    Gonnelli: Massimino Baseggio, Costantinople, 1787. Starting price 480€
    Gonnelli: Kawanabe Kyosai, Erotic scene lighten up by a candle, 1860. Starting price 380€
    Gonnelli: Duck shaped dropper, 1670. Starting price 800€