Forum Auctions
Online Sale:
The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
Ending 7th November, 2024

Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). The Thirteen Problems, first edition, The Crime Club, 1932. £15,000 to £20,000.

Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Dumb Witness, first edition, 1937. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Cards on the Table, first edition, The Crime Club, 1936. £2,000 to £3,000.

Forum, Nov. 7: [Carr (John Dickson)], "Carter Dickson" and John Rhode. Drop to his Death, first edition, Heinemann, [1939]. £600 to £800.

Forum, Nov. 7: Berkeley (Anthony). Jumping Jenny, first edition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. £800 to £1,200.

Forum Auctions
Online Sale:
The Detective Fiction Collection of John Cooper
Ending 7th November, 2024

Forum, Nov. 7: Marsh (Ngaio). Overture to Death, first edition, The Crime Club, 1939. £600 to £800.

Forum, Nov. 7: [Day-Lewis (Cecil)] "Nicholas Blake". The Beast Must Die, first edition, 1938. £750 to £1,000.

Forum, Nov. 7: Brand (Christianna). Green for Danger, first edition, signed presentation inscription from the author, John Lane the Bodley Head, 1945. £600 to £800.

Forum, Nov. 7: Christie (Agatha). Murder is Easy, first edition, signed by the author, 1939. £3,000 to £4,000.

Forum, Nov. 7: Sayers (Dorothy L.) Lord Peter Views the Body, first edition, Gollancz, 1928. £6,000 to £8,000.
Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Chronograph Wristwatches. Precious memories of the 20th Century / Cronografi da Polso. Preziose Memorie del XX Secolo, 2013. €3,000 to €5,000.

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Lanthemann, Joseph. Modigliani 1884-1920. A Catalogue Raisonné, Barcelona, 1970. €320 to €380.

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Warhol, Andy. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from A to B and back again), New York, 1975. Signed by the author. €500 to €600.

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Vitali, Lamberto. Morandi: Catalogo Generale. I & II, Mediolan, 1983. €1,100 to €1,300.

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Goldstein, Ann. Christopher Wool, Los Angeles, 1998. €320 to €380.

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Celant, Germano. Piero Manzoni, 1989. €320 to €360.9

Desa Unicum, Nov. 13: Ernst, Max. Oeuvre-Katalog. Das Graphische Werk, Cologne, 1975. €420 to €480.
Doyle
Stage & Screen
November 14 & 15

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A studio-sanctioned Darth Vader Touring Costume from The Empire Strikes Back. $50,000 to $100,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: An original Al Hirschfeld's illustration of the cast of On Golden Pond. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: The largest trove of personal Grace Kelly letters to come to market. $60,000 to $80,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: An Important Archive of Musical Manuscripts of Truman Capote and Harold Arlen's House of Flowers. $40,000 to $60,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: The archive of an original Merrily We Roll Along Broadway cast member. $5,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Jerry Herman's Yamaha Model C7 Ebonized Grand Piano. $6,000 to $9,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A large group of Jerry Herman musical posters. $300 to $500.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Group of awards presented to Jerry Herman. $300 to $400.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: Six pages of original art for "The MAD Game of Basebrawl," a complete story published in MAD #167, pages 31-36, June 1974. $3,000 to $4,000.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A MAD book made for Al Jaffee, containing original art and writings from many MAD contributors. 2011. $1,200 to $1,800.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: A Jaffee-themed MAD Fold-In - "What honor should the creator of the MAD Fold-Ins be given?" $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, Nov. 14-15: MAD Fold-In - "What developing news story has many Americans totally transfixed?" $800 to $1,200.
Sotheby's
Fine Books, Manuscripts & More
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s: J.R.R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. 11,135 USD

Sotheby’s: Edgar Allan Poe. The Raven and Other Poems, 1845. 33,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Leo Tolstoy, Clara Bow. War and Peace, 1886. 22,500 USD

Sotheby’s: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, 1902. 7,500 USD

Sotheby’s: F. Scott Fitzgerald. This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, and Others, 1920-1941. 24,180 USD

Aguttes: Books and Manuscripts, 153688, Neuilly-sur-Seine

Auction Details

Auction Date: October 30, 2024 - October 30, 2024

Page Size: 216 items in 9 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
139	ORLEANS FAMILY.	32 letters, mostly L.A.S., addressed to Louis Passy or his sister Blanche. [Louis PASSY (1830-1913), historian, was also deputy of Eure].			EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 416.00
140	ROBESPIERRE Maximilien de. (1758-1794).	L.A.S. "de Robespierre president" as president of the Societe des Amis de la Constitution,	Paris	[1790]	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 9,750.00
141	[ROMME Gilbert (1750-1795).	MANUSCRIT, Jugement contre les Nes Romme, Duquesnoy et autres, Paris 29 prairial III (18 juin 1795)	Paris	1795	EUR 700.00 - 800.00	EUR 1,170.00
142	PIERRE II. (1715-1730).	P.S. "Pemtr",		1727	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 3,120.00
143	Tatiana NIKOLAIEVNA (1897-1918)	L.A.S. "Tatiana", Tobolsk March 1, 1918	Tobolsk	1918	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 7,410.00
144		SET OF PLAYING CARDS.- Complete French set of 40 cards published in England as "Les cartes royales: prospectus"		(1880).	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	EUR 260.00
145		SET OF PLAYING CARDS.- Belgian game by Daveluy in Bruges, almost complete, 31 of 32 cards, 7 of Clubs missing		(late19th century).	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
146		MISCELLANEOUS. - First painting of the game of Lindor or Nain Jaune, published and invented by the Parisian cartier Mandrou (1808),		1808	EUR 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
147		LOT OF 52 ANTIQUE ENGRAVINGS. XVIII th CENTURY In animal colors after Huet, Martinet, de Seve and 8 engravings after Goussier on hunting.			EUR 400.00 - 600.00	EUR 260.00
148		SET OF PRINTS.		19th CENTURY	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
149	BESANCENOT (Jean).	Costumes et types du Maroc.	Paris,	1942	EUR 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
150	[ENGRAVING]. CALLOT (Jacques).	[The beggars]. [Avec] : [La noblesse]			EUR 15,000.00 - 18,000.00	Not Sold
151	GALARD (Gustave de); GERAUD (Edmond).	Album bordelais, ou Caprices. [Bound in sequence, by the same]: Recueil des divers costumes des habitants de Bordeaux et des environs.	Bordeaux,	1818-1825.	EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
152	GAULLE (Charles de).	Memoires de guerre. I. The appeal (1940-1942). - II. Unity (1942-1944). - III. Salvation (1944-1946).	Paris,	1954-1959.	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 758.00
153	GUERARD (Nicolas).	Les exercices de Mars, dediees et presentees a Monseigneur Duc de Bourgogne... A	Paris,	1693	EUR 4,500.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
154	[CHASSE]. [HABERT].	La chasse du lievre avecques les levriers. To the King of France and Navarre.	Paris,	1849	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 631.00
155	HOLLAR (Vaclav).	Theatru[m] mulierum, sive Varietas atq[ue] differentia habituum fominei sexus, diversorum Europae nationum, hodierno tempore vulgo ad usu...	London,	1642-1644.	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,263.00
156	IACOVLEFF (Alexandre).	Drawings and paintings of Africa. Executed during the Citroen expedition Centre Afrique. Second Haardt, Audouin-Dubreuil mission. Edited by Lucien Vogel.	Paris,	1927	EUR 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	EUR 1,516.00
157	JACQUEMIN (Raphael).	Iconographie generale et methodique du costume du IVe au XIXe siecle, 315-1815. Collection engraved in etching from authentic & unpublished documents...	Paris,	1863-1869.	EUR 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
158	LAPLACE (Cyrille Pierre Theodore).	Voyage autour du monde par les mers de l'Inde et de la Chine execute sur la corvette de l'Etat la Favorite pendant les annees 1830, 1831, 1832...	Paris,	1833-1839	EUR 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	Not Sold
159	LE ROUGE (Georges-Louis).	Details of the new fashionable gardens. [Then]: Anglo-Chinese gardens.	Paris:	1775-1788.	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,895.00
160	BORDELAIS.	1495 Tx torpedo boat. As-built drawings. Atlas of the hull.	[Bordeaux],	1927	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
161	PARIS (Francois Edmond).	Souvenirs de marine.	Paris,	1886-1892.	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	Not Sold
162	[MANUSCRIT]. [ITALY]. [MILITARIA].	ARMATA DI TERRA et di mare di S. M. il Re delle Due Sicilie Francesco I.		1830	EUR 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	Not Sold
163	[MANUSCRIT]. [ITALY]. [MILITARIA].	NUOVA ORDINANZA per la forma de vestiari, equipaggio, armamento delle reali truppe di Due Sicile.		1789	EUR 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

Forum Auctions
A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World:
The Library of a Gentleman
14th November

Forum, Nov. 14: Preziosi (Amedeo). Stamboul: Recollections of Eastern Life, first edition, Paris, Lemercier, 1858. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Mayr (Heinrich von). Malerische Ansichten aus dem Orient. Vues Pittoresque de l'Orient, first edition in the original 10 parts, Munich, Paris & Leipzig, [1839-40]. £10,000 to £15,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Lewis (John Frederick). Illustrations of Constantinople, made during a Residence in that City &c. in the Years 1835-6, first edition, [1838]. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Dodwell (Edward). Views in Greece, first edition, ordinary format, Rodwell and Martin, 1821. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Cassas (Louis François). [Voyage Pittoresque de la Syrie, de la Phoenicie, de la Palæstube et de la Basse-Égypte], 3 vol., first edition, [Paris], [1799]. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum Auctions
A Visual and Historical Voyage into the Ottoman World:
The Library of a Gentleman
14th November

Forum, Nov. 14: La Chappelle (George). Recuel de Divers Portraits des Principales Dames de la Porte du Grand Turc, first edition, Paris, 1648. £8,000 to £12,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Fossati (Gaspard). Aya Sophia Constantinople as recently restored by order of H.M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid, first edition, ordinary format, 1852. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Pertusier (Charles). Promenades Pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les Rives du Bosphore, 4 vol., inc Atlas, first edition, Paris, H. Nicolle, 1815-17. £6,000 to £8,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Brindesi (Jean). Souvenirs de Constantinople, first edition, [Paris], [1855-60]. £4,000 to £6,000.

Forum, Nov. 14: Le Bruyn (Cornelius). Voyage au Levant, first French edition, Delft, Henri de Kroonevelt, 1700. £3,000 to £4,000.
Freeman’s | Hindman
Fine Printed Books and Manuscripts, Including Americana
November 14

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera. FIRST AM. ED, FIRST ISSUE IN THE VERY RARE DUST JACKET. 1911. $6,000 – 8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD, John. A Monograph of the Trochilidae...Humming-Birds. L., [1849-] 1861. $60,000 – 80,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: A COMPLETE RUN of Limited Editions Club publications, v.p. [mostly New York], 1929-2010. $50,000 – 60,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: ORWELL, George. Nineteen Eighty-Four. Lon., 1949. FIRST EDITION IN A VERY FINE DUST JACKET. $6,000 – 8,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: GOULD. A Monograph of the Ramphastidae...Toucans. L., [1852-] 54. SECOND ED. $35,000 – 45,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: The Federalist. NY, 1788. FIRST EDITION, THICK PAPER COPY. $60,000 – 80,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, Nov. 14: SELBY. Plates to Selby’s Illustrations of British Ornithology. Edin., [1833-] 34. $20,000 – 30,000.
Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
APRES DE MANNEVILLETTE
Le Neptune Oriental

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
CASSAS
Eaux fortes de la Sicile et quelques vues d’Espagne

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
CASSINI DE THURY
Carte générale et particulière de la France.

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
JOUY; GARNERAY
Vues des côtes de France dans l'Océan et dans la Méditerranée

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
LA PÉROUSE
Voyage autour du monde

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
LE GENTIL DE LA GALAISIERE
Voyage dans les Mers de l’Inde

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
LICENT
Hoang Ho, Pai Ho, Loan Ho, Leao Ho. Itinéraires suivis dans le bassin du golfe du Pei Tcheuly

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
FRENCH SCHOOL FROM THE 19th CENTURY
Panorama d’Athènes

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
PEETERS
Description des principales villes, havres et isles du golfe de Venise

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
PÉRON; FREYCINET
Voyage de découverte aux terres australes

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
STACKELBERG
La Grèce : vues pittoresques et topographiques.

Gros & Delettrez, 7 November:
VALENTINER
Atlas des Sonnensystems.