• 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
  • 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
  • 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€

ALDE: Old and 19th century books - From the Daniel Morcrette library & to various enthusiasts, 110624, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 06, 2024 - November 06, 2024
Page Size: 346 items in 14 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
107 CASTEL (Louis-Bertrand).

L'Optique des couleurs, fondee sur les simples observations, et tournee sur-tout a la pratique de la peinture, de la teinture et des autres arts coloristes.

Paris 1740 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 EUR 250.00
108 CERVANTES (Miguel de).

El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha.

Madrid 1780 EUR 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 EUR 6,250.00
109 [CHARRIERE (Isabelle de)].

Lettres ecrites de Lausanne. -- Caliste, ou Suite des lettres ecrites de Lausanne.

Geneve et Paris 1788 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 500.00
110 CHOMPRE (Pierre).

Dictionnaire abrege de la fable, pour l'intelligence des poetes, des tableaux et des statues, dont les sujets sont tires de l'histoire poetique. Onzieme edition.

Paris 1774 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 1,500.00
111 [CURIOSA].

Ordonnance de police de Messieurs les Officiers et Gouverneurs du Palais Royal, qui fixe le droit et honoraire attaches aux fonctions des filles de joie de la ville, fauxbourgs et banlieue de Paris, donnee au Serail, le premier mai 1789.

A Gratte-mon-con vers 1789-1790 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 1,000.00
112 [DE LA COURT VANDER VOORT (Pieter)].

Les Agremens de la campagne, ou remarques particulieres sur la construction des maisons de campagne, plus ou moins magnifiques ; des jardins de plaisance et des plantages.

Leyde; Amsterdam 1750 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Not Sold
113 DELICES DE PARIS ET DE SES ENVIRONS (Les),

ou recueil de vues perspectives des plus beaux monumens de Paris, et des maisons de plaisance situees aux environs de cette ville, et en d'autres endroits de la France.

Paris 1753 EUR 8,000.00 - 10,000.00 EUR 18,750.00
114 [DEZALLIER D'ARGENVILLE (Antoine-Joseph)].

La Theorie et la pratique du jardinage, ou l'on traite a fond des beaux jardins appelles communement les jardins de plaisance et de proprete.

Paris 1747 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,188.00
115 DIDEROT (Denis) et D'ALEMBERT.

Encyclopedie, ou dictionnaire raisonne des sciences des arts et des metiers. Nouvelle edition.

Geneve 1777-1779 EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 EUR 3,125.00
116 [DIDEROT (Denis)].

Les Bijoux indiscrets. Tome second.

Au Monomotapa, Paris s.d., 1748]. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 5,000.00
117 [DIDEROT (Denis)].

Lettre sur les sourds et muets, a l'usage de ceux qui entendent et qui parlent. Avec des additions.

S.l. 1751 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Not Sold
118 [DIDEROT (Denis)].

GESSNER (Salomon). Contes moraux et nouvelles idylles.

Zurich 1773 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
119 DIDEROT (Denis).

Jacques le Fataliste et son maitre.

Paris 1797 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 500.00
120 [DUQUESNE (Arnaud-Bernard d'Icard)].

Vie de la venerable Mere Catherine de Bar, dite en religion Mecthilde du S. Sacrement, institutrice des religieuses de l'Adoration perpetuelle.

Nancy 1775 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
121 DUTENS (Louis).

Des pierres precieuses et des pierres fines, avec les moyens de les connoitre et de les evaluer.

Paris 1776 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 EUR 688.00
122 [ESCLAVAGE].

Livre de comptes d'un negrier].

S.l. 1786 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 EUR 1,225.00
123 EXQUEMELIN (Alexandre-Olivier).

Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes. Nouvelle edition, corrigee et augmentee de l'Histoire des pirates anglois.

Trevoux 1775 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 Not Sold
124 FENELON.

Directions pour la conscience d'un roi, composees pour l'instruction de Louis de France, duc de Bourgogne.

La Haye 1747 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 EUR 375.00
125 [FORBONNAIS (Francois Veron Duverger de)].

Recherches et considerations sur les finances de France, depuis l'annee 1595 jusqu'a l'annee 1721.

Bale 1758 EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 EUR 1,875.00
126 [GALIANI (Ferdinando)].

Dialogues sur le commerce des bleds.

Londres Paris] 1770 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
127 GERMAIN (Pierre).

Livre d'ornemens composes par Pier]re Germain Marchan]d orfevre joayllier a Paris.

Paris 1751 EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 Not Sold
128 GUIRLANDE DE JULIE (La),

offerte a Mlle de Rambouillet, Julie-Lucine d'Angennes, par M. le Marquis de Montausier.

Paris 1784 EUR 500.00 - 600.00 Not Sold
129 [HANCARVILLE (Pierre-Francois Hugues dit d')].

Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines, d'apres une suite de pierres gravees sous leur regne, pour servir de suite a la Vie des douze Cesars.

Rome 1787 EUR 400.00 - 500.00 EUR 1,000.00
130

HERBIER.

S.l. France n.d., XVIIIe siecle]. EUR 400.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
131 [IRLANDE]. O'CONOR (Charles).

Dissertations on the history of Ireland. To which is subjoined, a dissertation on the Irish colonies established in Britain. With some remarks on Mr. Mac Pherson's translation of Fingal and Temora.

Dublin 1766 EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
  • Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 51. Ortelius' Influential Map of the New World - Second Plate in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $5,500 - $6,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 165. Reduced-Size Edition of Jefferys/Mead Map with Revolutionary War Updates (1776) Est. $4,750 - $6,000
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 688. Blaeu's Superb Carte-a-Figures Map of Africa (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 105. Striking Map of French Colonial Possessions (1720) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 98. Rare First Edition of the First Published Plan of a Settlement in North America (1556) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 181. Important Map of the Georgia Colony (1748) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 547. Ortelius' Map of Russia with a Vignette of Ivan the Terrible in Full Contemporary Color (1579) Est. $1,400 - $1,700
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 85. Homann's Decorative Map of Colonial America (1720) Est. $1,600 - $1,900
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 642. Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures Map of Asia (1634) Est. $3,000 - $3,750
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 748. The Martyrdom of St. John in Contemporary Hand Color with Gilt Highlights (1520) Est. $1,000 - $1,300
    Old World Auctions (Nov 6-20):
    Lot 298. Scarce Early Map of Chester County (1822) Est. $2,750 - $3,500
  • 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.
  • 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