• 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
  • 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€
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Grogan and Company: Fine Art

Auction Reports

Auction Name Fine Art Total Sales (USD) 293,410.00
Auction Date November 02, 2024 - November 02, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 131,900.00
Sale Number #110224 High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 226,900.00
Total Lots 51
Sold Lots 49 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 137,900.00
% of Lots Sold 96.08% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 235,900.00
Unsold Lots 2 Total Sales as a % of High Est. 124.38%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
179 DAVID YARROW, (British, b. 1966)

Mankind,

2014 USD 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 USD 42,250.00
180 ANSEL ADAMS, (American, 1902-1984)

Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California

USD 20,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD 23,400.00
199 ROY LICHTENSTEIN, (American, 1923-1997)

Still Life, from the Metropolitan Scene (B. 27)

1968 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 23,400.00
178 DAVID YARROW, (British, b. 1966)

The Puzzle,

2013 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD 20,800.00
202 ROY LICHTENSTEIN, (American, 1923-1997)

Eight Landscapes, from Ten Landscapes

USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 18,200.00
192 ALEX KATZ, (American, b. 1927)

Blue Umbrella

USD 4,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 15,600.00
189 MILTON AVERY, (American, 1885-1965)

Three Birds (L. 43)

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 12,350.00
161 REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, (Dutch, 1606-1669)

The Flute Player

USD 5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD 10,400.00
187 BRICE MARDEN, (American, 1938-2023)

Fungoid Rock,

1996-7 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 9,100.00
190 GUSTAVE BAUMANN, (American, 1881-1971)

The Ridge Road,

1918 USD 5,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 8,450.00
177 Audubon, John James (1785-1851) and Rev. John Bachman (1790-1874).

The Quadrupeds of North America.

USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 7,800.00
197 ALEXANDER CALDER, (American, 1898-1976)

Les Fleurs

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,500.00
195 ALEXANDER CALDER, (American, 1898-1976)

Loops and Yin-Yang

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 6,175.00
196 ALEXANDER CALDER, (American, 1898-1976)

Spirale Imaginatif,

1975 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,850.00
168 PABLO PICASSO, (Spanish, 1881-1973)

Cavalier en visite chez une fille, avec la Celestine et un

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 5,525.00
205 NEIL WELLIVER, (American, 1929-2005)

Si's Hill

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,525.00
198 ALEXANDER CALDER, (American, 1898-1976)

Dolphin

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 5,200.00
204 NEIL WELLIVER, (American, 1929-2005)

Greer's Bog

USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,875.00
173 MAX BECKMANN, (German, 1884-1950)

Der Ausrufer (Selbstbildnis)

1921 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,550.00
203 WILLIAM T. WILLIAMS, (American, b. 1942)

HKL Portfolio,

1970 USD 2,000.00 - 4,000.00 USD 4,225.00
175 GEORGE BELLOWS, (American, 1882-1925)

Businessmen's Bath,

1923 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 USD 3,900.00
174 FRANZ MARC, (German, 1880-1916)

Tiger

USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 3,575.00
186 RICHARD AVEDON, (American, 1923-2004)

Kara Young and Reinaldo for Gianni Versace,

1995 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 3,575.00
193 GILLIAN AYRES, (British, 1930-2018)

Star Spangled,

2010 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,575.00
163 ALBRECHT DURER, (German, 1471-1528)

Christ Arrested (From "The Small Passion")

ca. 1508 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 3,250.00
  • 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