• 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€

Auction Reports

Catawiki B. V.

Auction Info

Auction Name
Autographs and Manuscripts
Auction Date
10/31/2024 - 10/31/2024
Sale Number
#103124a
Total Lots
19
Sold Lots
8
Lots Sold
42.11%
Unsold Lots
11
Total Sales (EUR)
1,284.02
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
1,570.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)
2,400.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
5,750.00
High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)
9,500.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.
13.52%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Year Published Estimate Actual Price
89663585 Jacques Mesrine - [Toute cette merde]

Lettre autographe signee a Jeanne Schneider, pendant son incarceration

1976 EUR 450.00 - 800.00 EUR 305.20
89667533 Louis XIV (son secretaire)

Lettre patente signee et contresignee par un de ses secretaires

1696 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 295.39
89816299 Jean Cocteau

L'enfant aux genoux d'or. Poeme autographe issu du Prince frivolle

1909 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 EUR 218.00
89525351 Philippe Soupault

Manuscrit autographe, brouillon d'une lettre au sujet de Valery Larbaud

1951 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 136.25
89548441 General Jean Rapp [Napoleon]

Tres belle lettre autographe signee a "Monsieur le Marquis" a propos du Sergent Dalouzi

1820 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 110.09
89272807 Louis XVI (secretaire Francois-Emmanuel Guignard de Saint-Priest)

Lettre patente - Revolution francaise - La royaute constitutionnelle - Loudeac

1790 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 92.65
89650629 Jules Massenet

Lettre autographe "Ce sera un empoisonnement"

1901 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 70.85
89649937 Jules Massenet

Lettre autographe signee, a Leon Bessand

1901 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 EUR 55.59
89816351 Jean Cocteau

Hermas a Battis. Poeme autographe issu du Prince frivolle

1909 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
89813577 STENDHAL [Henri Beyle]

Superbe lettre autographe signee datee du 20 mars 1819 4 grandes pages

1819 EUR 2,200.00 - 4,000.00 Not Sold
89669401 Francois Xavier Antoine de Kentzinger

Lettre autographe signee a Monsieur le Marquis et son duplicata

1817 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
89666541 Nadia Boulanger (Compositrice et chef d'orchestre)

Lettre autographe signee a Monsieur J. Deboux

1910 EUR 220.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
89665701 Ambroise Thomas

Lettre autographe signee a Albert Jacquot

1882 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
89651301 Delphine [Gay] de Girardin

Beau et long poeme autographe signe de 4 pages

1844 EUR 170.00 - 300.00 Not Sold
89568331 Marie Jean Pierre Hubert de Cambaceres

Longue lettre autographe signee de 3 pages - Conseil de Famille

1834 EUR 150.00 - 250.00 Not Sold
89552449 Louis XVI et son secretaire Charles Eugene Gabriel de La Croix de Castries

Lettre patente signee "Louis" - Departement de la Marine

1783 EUR 170.00 - 400.00 Not Sold
89550837 Marc Pierre de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson

Piece en partie autographe signee, contresignee par Jean-Baptiste de Pontcarre de Viarmes

1749 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
89546701 Willy Burkhard, compositeur suisse

Lettre autographe signee a Felix de Nobel

1952 EUR 150.00 - 200.00 Not Sold
89524895 Arnold Zweig

Photographie originale et Manuscrit autographe signe [Alfred Flechtheim, Arosa]

1928 EUR 450.00 - 550.00 Not Sold

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  • 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