• 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€
  • 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
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Kedem Auctions Ltd.: Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection

Auction Reports

Auction Name Avant-Garde Art and Russian Literature from the Rachel and Joseph Brindt Collection Total Sales (USD) 104,050.00
Auction Date November 05, 2024 - November 05, 2024 Low Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Sale Number #99a High Estimate of Lots Sold (USD) 0.00
Total Lots 151
Sold Lots 105 Low Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
% of Lots Sold 69.54% High Estimate of All Lots (USD) 0.00
Unsold Lots 46 Total Sales as a % of High Est. Inf%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
105 Nathan Altman

Nathan Altman (1889-1970) -- Large Collection of Original Illustrations and Sketches for an Edition of Sholem Aleichem's Complete Works -- With Certification from Dmitry Malakhovsky (Altman's Stepson)

Not Available USD 6,250.00
28 Kazimir Malevich

"The Three", Collection of Futurist Poetry and Prose -- St. Petersburg, 1913 -- Cover Design by Kazimir Malevich

1913 Not Available USD 5,500.00
36

"Architecture of VKhUTEMAS" -- Moscow, 1927 -- Cover Design by El Lissitzky

1927 Not Available USD 5,250.00
79 Samuil Marshak

Collection of Children's Books by Samuil Marshak -- Illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev

Not Available USD 4,750.00
42 Nikolai Aseyev

"Flight: Aviation Verse", Anthology of Poems Edited by Nikolai Aseyev -- Moscow, 1923 -- Cover and illustrations by Alexander Rodchenko

1923 Not Available USD 4,500.00
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
49

Collection of Books with Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko -- Soviet Union, 1920s -- Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Ehrenburg, Semyon Kirsanov, Ivan Mikhailov and Others

1920s Not Available USD 2,500.00
30 Nikolay Punin

Nikolay Punin -- "First Cycle of Lectures, Read at Short-term Courses for Teachers of Drawing" -- Petrograd, 1920 -- Cover Design by Kazimir Malevich

1920 Not Available USD 2,375.00
108 Peretz Markish

"Der Galaganer Hon", by Peretz Markish -- Berlin, 1922 -- Illustrations by Joseph Tchaikov

1922 Not Available USD 2,375.00
107 Joseph Chaikov

Three Yiddish Booklets with Covers and Illustrations by Joseph Chaikov -- Kiev and Moscow, 1918-1922

1918-1922 Not Available USD 2,125.00
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
137

"USSR in Construction" -- Twelve Issues Designed by El Lissitzky, Alexander Rodchenko, Solomon Telingater, Alexander Deineka, and Others -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1930-1940

1930-1940 Not Available USD 1,875.00
43

"LEF", Journal of the "Left Front of the Arts" -- Two Issues -- Moscow, 1923 / "New LEF" -- Moscow, 1927 -- Covers Designed by Alexander Rodchenko

1923 / 1927 Not Available USD 1,750.00
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
98

"W. W. Kandinsky" -- Moscow, 1918 --Cover Illustrated by Wassily Kandinsky

1918 Not Available USD 1,625.00
136

Collection of Illustrated Soviet Periodicals -- Issues Designed by Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Gustav Klutsis, the Stenberg Brothers, and Other Artists -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1926-1931

1926-1931 Not Available USD 1,625.00
44

"Catalogue of the Posthumous Exhibition of the Artist-Constructor L. S. Popova" -- Moscow, 1924 -- Cover Design by Alexander Rodchenko

1924 Not Available USD 1,500.00
45

"Mess Mend or Yankees in Petrograd" -- Moscow-Leningrad, 1924 -- Eight Booklets Designed by Alexander Rodchenko

1924 Not Available USD 1,500.00
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
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
58

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

1916 Not Available USD 1,250.00
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
112 Issachar Ber Ryback

Exhibition Catalogue of Issachar Ber Ryback -- Berlin, 1923/1924 -- With Reproductions of His Works

1923/1924 Not Available USD 1,250.00
113 Issachar Ber Ryback

"Shtetl, My Destroyed Home" -- Album of Lithographs by Issachar Ber Ryback -- Berlin, 1923

1923 Not Available USD 1,250.00
78

"Russian Placards: 1917-1922" -- St. Petersburg. 1923 -- Lithographs by Vladimir Lebedev

1923 Not Available USD 1,187.50
  • 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
  • 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