• 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€
  • 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
  • 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

Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection, 99a, Jerusalem

Auction Details

Auction Report
Auction Date
November 05, 2024 - November 05, 2024
Page Size: 151 items in 7 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
1

Three Futurist Poetry Books -- 1918-1919

1918-1919 Not Available USD 250.00
2

Collection of Booklets -- Russian Poetry and Literature -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1919-1925 -- Covers Designed by Various Artists

1919-1925 Not Available Not Sold
3

Collection of Booklets -- Revolutionary Literature in Soviet Russia -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1918-1930 -- Including Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko and Vladimir Bekhteev

1918-1930 Not Available USD 1,000.00
4

Ten Poetry and Prose Books in Russian -- Avant-garde Designed Covers and Bindings

Not Available USD 425.00
5 Sergei Yesenin / Nikolai Cherniavsky

Two Books with Covers Designed by Kirill Zdanevich -- "The Soviet Country" by Sergei Yesenin -- Tbilisi, 1925 / "Letters" by Nikolai Cherniavsky -- Tbilisi, 1927

1925 / 1927 Not Available Not Sold
6

Collection of Early Soviet Poetry Books -- Modernist Illustrated Covers -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1922-1933 - Yuri Annenkov and Others

1922-1933 - Not Available USD 375.00
7

Two Books by Ilya Ehrenburg -- Moscow, 1926-1927

1926-1927 Not Available USD 250.00
8

Collection of Poetry, Prose and Non-Fiction Books -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1927-1932 -- Covers Designed by Various Artists

1927-1932 Not Available USD 137.50
9 Vladimir Favorsky

Collection of Books with Covers and Woodcuts by Vladimir Favorsky -- Moscow, 1923-1934 -- Signed Prints

1923-1934 Not Available USD 400.00
10 Mendel Gorshman

Collection of Books with Illustrations by Mendel Gorshman

Not Available USD 475.00
11 Aleksei Kruchenykh

"The Devil and the Speechmakers", Futurist Texts by Aleksei Kruchenykh - St. Petersburg, 1913 -- Cover in Lithographic Print Designed by Olga Rozanova

1913 Not Available USD 1,250.00
12

"Tambourine", Collection of Futurist Poetry by Bozhidar - Moscow, 1914 - First and Only Edition Printed in the Author's Lifetime

1914 Not Available USD 687.50
13

"Roaring Parnassus", Anthology of Futurist Poetry -- St. Petersburg, 1914 -- Illustrations by David Burliuk, Pavel Filonov, Ivan Puni and Others

1914 Not Available USD 2,500.00
14

"Four Birds" -- Collection of Futurist Poetry -- Moscow, 1916 -- Cover Designed by Aristarkh Lentulov

1916 Not Available USD 687.50
15 Sergei Bobrov

"Lyre of Lyres", Poems by Sergei Bobrov -- Moscow, 1917 -- Avant-Garde Cover Design

1917 Not Available USD 500.00
16

"Barefoot Girls", Book of Poems by Vasily Kamensky -- Tbilisi, 1917

1917 Not Available USD 500.00
17

"The Portrait", Novella by Nikolai Gogol -- Stuttgart, 1920 -- Illustrations by Vasily Masyutin

1920 Not Available Not Sold
18 Velimir Khlebnikov

"Zangezi", a Futurist Poem by Velimir Khlebnikov -- Moscow, 1922 -- Cover Design by Pyotr Miturich

1922 Not Available USD 375.00
19

"Lyrika" -- Collection of Neo-Classical Poetry-- Moscow, 1922 -- Cover Design by Georgy Echeistov

1922 Not Available Not Sold
20 Carlo Gozzi

"Princess Turandot", a Tragedy by Carlo Gozzi -- Moscow-St. Petersburg, 1923 -- Cover and Lithographs by Ignaty Nivinsky

1923 Not Available Not Sold
21 Ryurik Rok

"A Multitude", Poems by Ryurik Rok -- Moscow, 1923 -- Cover Design by Boris Zemenkov

1923 Not Available USD 1,125.00
22 Vladimir Mayakovsky

"Mayakovsky Gallery", by Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Moscow, 1923 -- Illustrations by Mayakovsky

1923 Not Available USD 250.00
23 Vladimir Mayakovsky

"A Menacing Laughter", by Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1932 -- Design by Varvara Stepanova -- Two Copies

1932 Not Available USD 550.00
24 Vladimir Mayakovsky

Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Collection of Books -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1925-1932 -- Designed by Grigory Bershadsky, Sergei Senkin and Nikolai Denisovsky

1925-1932 Not Available USD 500.00
25 Isaac Babel

"Wandering Stars", Film Script by Isaac Babel -- Moscow, 1926 -- Cover and Illustrations by Alexander Bykhovsky

1926 Not Available Not Sold
  • 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
  • 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