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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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Auction Info

Auction Name: The Shipwreck Archive of Richard Larn OBE
Auction Date: 11/05/2024 - 11/05/2024
Sale Number: #110524
Total Lots: 142
Sold Lots: 142
Lots Sold: 100.00%
Unsold Lots: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 26,617.50
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 9,090.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 15,820.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 9,090.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 15,820.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: 168.25%

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
111		The East India Companies Nineteen works		GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 2,128.40
34	Rear Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell	(Signed MS) Rear Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell Original documentary testimonial written and signed by Rear Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell, dated 1692	1692	GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 1,026.64
112		(Dutch East India Company) VOC Fourteen works		GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 1,001.60
80		A comprehensive record of Shipwrecks throughout Cornwall A Consolidated Record of Shipwrecks in Twen		GBP 1,000.00 - 2,000.00	GBP 751.20
150	Richard and Bridget Larn	Shipwreck Index of the British Isles	1995-2002	GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 688.60
159		Shipwreck Photographs Porthleven, Loe Bar, Praa Sands, Perranuthnoe, Prussia Cove		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 626.00
86		The Richard Larn Archive Eleven assorted research folders.		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 600.96
130		Treasure Hunting Sixteen works		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 525.84
83		The Richard Larn Archive Seven folders used as a reference for Richard Larn's early writings.		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 500.80
72		The Richard Larn Archive Four comprehensive lists, of ships built in Cornwall and the Isles of Scill		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 475.76
89		The Richard Larn Archive Eight folders		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 475.76
102		Shipwrecks Fourteen late Victorian works with pictorial cloths		GBP 80.00 - 120.00	GBP 475.76
79		The Richard Larn Archive Ten file boxes of miscellaneous letters and correspondence, newspapers, shi		GBP 100.00 - 200.00	GBP 438.20
143	Nigel Pocock	(Slavery and The Isles of Scilly) Nigel Pocock MPhil Vessels Wrecked in Scilly that were Supporting	circa 2010	GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 375.60
104		The Shipwrecked Mariner Quarterly Maritime Magazine Five Volumes		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 375.60
73		The Richard Larn Archive		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 350.56
113		(Dutch East India Company) VOC Bruijn, J.R. et al. (1979a) Dutch-Asiatic Shipping in the 17th and 18		GBP 40.00 - 80.00	GBP 350.56
88		The East Indiaman the 'Admiral Gardner', wrecked Goodwin Sands, 1809 Three folders of Correspondance	1809	GBP 50.00 - 80.00	GBP 350.56
155		Roland Morris Interest A Sales Catalogue from the sale of Roland Morris Collection, 1973		GBP 30.00 - 50.00	GBP 350.56
138		(Shipwrecks) Ireland Twenty works		GBP 50.00 - 100.00	GBP 350.56

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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
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