• 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
51 Nikolai Aseev

Book of Poems by Nikolai Aseev -- Moscow, 1930 -- Cover Designed by Alexander Rodchenko -- With Author's Dedication

1930 Not Available USD 400.00
52 Aleksei Kruchenykh

Two Avant-Garde Books by Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Covers Designed by Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina -- "Zaum Language" -- Moscow, 1925 / "Dunka the Woodcutter" -- Moscow, 1926

1925 / 1926 Not Available USD 575.00
53 Aleksei Kruchenykh

"Four Phonetic Novels" by Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Moscow, 1927 -- Cover Design by Gustav Klutsis -- Dedicated to Nathan Altman

1927 Not Available USD 1,500.00
54

"15 Years of Russian Futurism" -- Moscow, 1928 -- Cover Design by Gustav Klutsis -- Illustrations by Various Artists

1928 Not Available Not Sold
55

The Potemkin Mutiny -- St. Petersburg, 1927 -- Cover Designed by the Stenberg Brothers

1927 Not Available Not Sold
56

"30 Days" Illustrated Periodical -- Bound Volume of Issues -- Moscow, 1931 -- Covers designed by the Stenberg brothers

1931 Not Available USD 400.00
57 Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova

"Exhibition of Paintings by Natalia Sergeevna Goncharova 1900-1913)", Catalogue -- Moscow, 1913 -- Lithographic Cover Design by Natalia Goncharova

1913 Not Available USD 875.00
58

"Centrifuge 2", Collection of Modernist Poems -- Moscow, 1916 -- Cover Designed by Natalia Goncharova

1916 Not Available USD 1,250.00
59 Ivan Aksenov

"Picasso and His Surroundings", by Ivan Aksenov -- Moscow, 1917 -- Cover Designed by Aleksandra Ekster

1917 Not Available USD 375.00
60 Alexander Tairov

"Notes of a Director", by Alexander Tairov -- Moscow, 1921 -- Cover and Illustrations by Alexandra Ekster

1921 Not Available Not Sold
61

"The Bogeyman of Russian Literature", Anthology of Futurist Poetry -- Moscow, 1923 -- Cover by Natalja Nagorskaja, Illustrations by Ivan Kliun

1923 Not Available USD 500.00
62 Aleksei Kruchenykh

"The Ironyad", by Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Moscow, 1930 -- Cover Design by Ivan Kliun -- Illustration by Igor Terentiev

1930 Not Available USD 1,625.00
63 Alexei Kruchenykh

"Unpublished Khlebnikov -- XIX", Edited by Alexei Kruchenykh -- Moscow, 1930 -- Cover Designed by Ivan Kliun

1930 Not Available USD 500.00
64 Arnold Volkovsky

"Kiss of the Sun", Poems by Arnold Volkovsky -- St. Petersburg, 1914 -- Cover and Illustrations by Nathan Altman -- Author's Dedication

1914 Not Available Not Sold
65

"Tomorrow" No. 1, Literary Anthology -- Berlin, 1923 -- Cover Designed by Nathan Altman

1923 Not Available USD 525.00
66

Collection of Books in Russian with Covers Designed by Nathan Altman -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1926-1931

1926-1931 Not Available USD 687.50
67 Mikhail Kuzmin and Ilya Ehrenburg

Collection of Books by Mikhail Kuzmin and Ilya Ehrenburg -- Covers Designed by Nathan Altman -- Berlin-Peterburg, 1923 / Moscow-Peterburg, 1928

1923/1928 Not Available USD 1,250.00
68 Nikolai Gogol

"Petersburg Tales", by Nikolai Gogol -- Moscow, 1937 -- Illustrations by Nathan Altman

1937 Not Available Not Sold
69 Nathan Altman

Two Children's Books Illustrated by Nathan Altman -- "For Children" by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Moscow-Leningrad, 1937 / "Fables", Moscow, 1941 -- Lithographic Print Illustrations

1937 / 1941 Not Available Not Sold
70 Nathan Altman

"Lenin" -- Drawings by Nathan Altman -- St. Petersburg, 1921

1921 Not Available Not Sold
71 Nathan Altman

"Jewish Graphics" -- Ten Lithographs by Nathan Altman -- Berlin, 1923 -- Numbered Copy (with Additional Unnumbered Copy)

1923 Not Available USD 1,875.00
72 Nathan Altman

Nathan Altman -- Album of Reproductions in a Limited Edition -- Berlin, 1924

1924 Not Available USD 525.00
73 Nathan Altman

Two Monographs on Nathan Altman -- Moscow / Paris, Ca. 1920s-1930 -- Reproductions of Altman's Works

Ca. 1920s-1930 Not Available USD 400.00
74

"Fine Arts", Soviet Art Magazine -- St. Petersburg, 1919 -- Cover Designed by David Sternberg

1919 Not Available USD 500.00
75 Rudyard Kipling

"40 North -- 50 West", by Rudyard Kipling -- Translation by Samuil Marshak -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1931 -- Woodcuts by David Shterenberg

1931 Not Available Not Sold
  • 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€
  • 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