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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 04, 2024 - April 04, 2024
Page Size: 335 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1 Wright, William Aldis, editor

The Works of William Shakespeare

London and New York 1894-1895 USD 500.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
2 Aesop

Aesop's Fables; with his Life: and morals and remarks. Fitted for the meanest capacities

London 1757 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Not Sold
3 Nimrod [Apperly, Charles James]

The Memoirs of the Life of John Mytton, Esq.

London 1837 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 500.00
4

The Illustrated London Almanack

London 1862-1865 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 150.00
5 Anderson, Florence

The Dream-Pedlar [with] an original painting by Florence Anderson

London [1914] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 937.50
6

Two books illustrated by Florence Mary Anderson

London 1915-1919 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
7 Arendt, Hannah

The Origins of Totalitarianism

New York 1951 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 500.00
8

Godot, An Imaginary Staging...of Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

San Francisco 2006 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 312.50
9 Brautigan, Richard

Trout Fishing in America

San Francisco 2003 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 USD 1,500.00
10 Canetti, Elias

The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

San Francisco 2001 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 250.00
11 Einstein, Albert

The Theory of Relativity

San Francisco 2005 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
12 Ferlinghetti, Lawrence

A Coney Island of the Mind

San Francisco 2005 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 343.75
13 Franklin, Benjamin

The Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin

San Francisco 2006 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 237.50
14 Hano, Arnold

A Day in the Bleachers

San Francisco 2006 USD 400.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
15 Heaney, Seamus

Squarings: A sequence of forty-eight poems...with forty-eight drawings by Sol Lewitt

San Francisco 2003 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,750.00
16 Kipling, Rudyard

With the Night Mail, A Story of 2000 A.D.

San Francisco 1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 281.25
17 Machado de Assis, Joaquim Maria

The Alienist

San Francisco 1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 375.00
18 Miller, Arthur

The Price: A Play

San Francisco 1999 USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 312.50
19 Moliere

Tartuffe

San Francisco 2004 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 312.50
20 Todd, Glenn

The Ballad of Lemon and Crow

San Francisco 2002 USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 281.25
21 Toomer, Jean

Cane

San Francisco 2000 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 1,375.00
22 Wharton, Edith

The Age of Innocence

San Francisco 2004 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 468.75
23 Williams, William Carlos

Kora in Hell: Improvisations

San Francisco 1998 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 200.00
24 Aristophanes

Four special printings of Aristophanes The Frogs and The Birds

New York, et al. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 137.50
25 Aristotle

Aristotelis Politicorum et Oeconomicorum libri qui extant

Francofurdi [i.e. Frankfurt] 1587 USD 500.00 - 800.00 USD 750.00
  • Doyle, May 1: Thomas Jefferson expresses fears of "a war of extermination" in Saint-Dominigue. $40,000 to $60,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An exceptional presentation copy of Fitzgerald's last book, in the first issue dust jacket. $25,000 to $35,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The rare first signed edition of Dorian Gray. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The Prayer Book of Jehan Bernachier. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Van Dyck's Icones Principum Virorum Doctorum. $10,000 to $15,000.
    Doyle, May 1: The magnificent Cranach Hamlet in the deluxe binding by Dõrfner. $7,000 to $10,000.
    Doyle, May 1: A remarkable unpublished manuscript of a voyage to South America in 1759-1764. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Doyle, May 1: Bouchette's monumental and rare wall map of Lower Canada. $12,000 to $18,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An rare original 1837 abolitionist woodblock. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An important manuscript breviary in Middle Dutch. $15,000 to $25,000.
    Doyle, May 1: An extraordinary Old Testament manuscript, circa 1250. $20,000 to $30,000.
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD
    Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
    Available for Immediate Purchase
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD
    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
  • Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Isaac Newton on chemistry and matter, and alchemy, Autograph Manuscript, "A Key to Snyders," 3 pp, after 1674. $100,000 - $150,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Exceptionally rare first printing of Plato's Timaeus. Florence, 1484. $50,000 - $80,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: On the Philosophy of Self-Interest: Adam Smith's copy of Helvetius's De l'homme, Paris, 1773. $40,000 - $60,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: "Magical Calendar of Tycho Brahe" - very rare hermetic broadside. Engraved by Merian for De Bry. c.1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Author's presentation issue of Einstein's proof of Relativity, "Erklärung der Perihelbewegung des Merkur aus der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie." 1915. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: First Latin edition of Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed. Paris, 1520. $20,000 - $30,000.
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: De Broglie manuscript on the nature of matter in quantum physics, 3 pp, 1954. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Tesla autograph letter signed on electricty and electromagnetic theory. 1894. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Heinrich Hertz scientific manuscript on his mentor Hermann Von Helmholtz, 1891. $20,000 - $30,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: The greatest illustrated work in Alchemy: Micheal Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. Oppenheim, 1618. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Illustrated Alchemical manuscript, a Mysterium Magnum of the Rosicurcians, 18th-century. $30,000 - $50,000
    Bonhams, Apr. 28 – May 7: Rare Largest Paper Presentation Copy of Newton's Principia, London, 1726. The third and most influential edition. $60,000 - $90,000
  • Gonnelli
    Auction 51
    Antique prints, paintings and maps
    May 14st 2024
    Gonnelli: Leonard Bramer, The descent from the cross, 1634. Starting price 3200€
    Gonnelli: Gustav Hjalmar de Morner Karel, Rome’s Carnival, 1820. Starting price 1000€
    Gonnelli: Various Authors, Mater Dolorosa, 1700. Starting price 200€
    Gonnelli: Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carcere Oscura, 1790. Starting price 180€
    Gonnelli: Jan Brueghel, Marine fauna view, 1620 ca. Starting price 28000€
    Gonnelli: Ippolito Scarsella, Mary and Christ with Sant Rocco and Arch-Angel Michele,1615. Starting price 8000€
    Gonnelli: Hans Sebald Beham, Adam and Eve, 1543. Starting price 600€
    Gonnelli: Francesco Burani, Baccanale, 1630. Starting Price 280€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Plance from Ventiquattr’ore, 1675. Starting price 800€
    Gonnelli: Giuseppe Angeli, Livorno’s Plan, 1793. Starting price 240€
    Gonnelli: XIV Century Artist, Capital “N” letter, 1350 ca. Starting price 340€
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