Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Closing Time, Advance Readers Copy of Uncorrected Proof with a letter from Heller on his personal stationary

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Gates, Bill, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, N Y: Knopf, 2021; first edition, with a handwritten note from Bill Gates

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Catch-22, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961, first edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Heller, Joseph, Something Happened, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974, first edition, inscribed on the front end paper by Heller

Bid on iGavelAuctions.com: Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, London: John Murray, 1818, in four volumes
Doyle, June 20: CLAUDE MCKA. Home to Harlem. New York: Harpers, 1928. First edition. $700 to $1,000.

Doyle, June 20: Haydn's VI Original Canzonettas, signed by the composer. $4,000 to $6,000.

Doyle, June 20: A rare EP sleeve inscribed by John Lennon. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 20: An extremely rare 1961 concert set list and autograph letter from The King. $7,000 to $10,000.

Doyle, June 20: Bryan Batt's copy of the Mad Men Yearbook, 2008-2014. $600 to $800.

Doyle, June 20: An original Al Hirschfeld depicting comedian Fred Allen. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, June 20: A signed note from George Gershwin with reference to Porgy and Bess. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, June 20: An original Harold Arlen manuscript musical quotation from "Over the Rainbow.” $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, June 20: A fine original Edith Head sketch for Grace Kelly's wedding trousseau. $3,000 to $5,000.

Doyle, June 20: The poster for New Faces with inscriptions and the signature of Eartha Kitt. $200 to $300.

Doyle, June 20: The classic "Jazz" Bowl by Viktor Schreckengost for Cowan Pottery. $15,000 to $25,000.

Doyle, June 20: Tony Award Medallion won for "Kismet." $3,000 to $5,000.
Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's personalized Sweeney Todd asylum coat and jacket. $400 to $600.

Doyle, June 18: Twelve Posters for Stephen Sondheim Musicals. $400 to $600.

Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's Gold Record for the soundtrack to West Side Story. $1,000 to $1,500.

Doyle, June 18: A manuscript musical quotation from Passion. The quotation headed "Tranquillo" above the music, the lyrics are also written out: "lov-ing you is not a choice, it's who I am..." 11 x 14 inches. $800 to $1,200.

Doyle, June 18: Stephen Sondheim's retained set of The Sondheim Review. Comprising a complete run of Volume 1, Number 1 (Summer 1994) to Volume XXI, Number 4 (Fall 2015). $500 to $800.

Doyle, June 18: Five amusing Victorian-era game boards, including Snakes and Ladders. $200 to $300.

Doyle, June 18: A cased tabletop croquet set and two horse racing games. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 18: Four Posters Related to Various Sondheim Productions. $300 to $500.

Doyle, June 18: The rare first American edition of The Phantom of the Opera. $100 to $200.
Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024

Sagen & Delås, June 15: ROALD AMUNDSEN: PHOTO of «Fram» SIGNED by 17 members of the South Pole Expedition, Including Amundsen. €6,900 to €8,600.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: ROALD AMUNDSEN: «Sydpolen», 1912. IN PARTS. €1,280 to €2,150.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: JEAN-BAPTISTE CHARCOT: «Expédition Antarctique Francaise […] 1903-1905. », 1906. RARE, SIGNED. €2,100 to €3,400.

Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024

Sagen & Delås, June 15: FREDERICK A. COOK: «Through the first Antarctic Night 1898-1899. […]», 1900. First LIMITED & SIGNED edition. €2,100 to €3,400.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: JAPANESE ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION UNDER NOBU SHIRASE: «Watashi no Nankyoku Tanken-ki», 1942. Publisher's wrappers. €1,280 to €2,135.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: FRIDTJOF NANSEN: «Fram over Polhavet», 1897. LOT - 6 Variant bindings. €1,250 to €2,100.

Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024

Sagen & Delås, June 15: ABRAHAM ORTELIUS: «Septentrionalium Regionum Descrip», 1570. Beautiful handcoloured first state map. €2,950 to €3,800.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: SCOTTISH NATIONAL ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION: [W. S. BRUCE]: «Life in the Antarctic», 1907. 2 copies in wrappers. €85 to €250.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «The British Antarctic Expedition, 1907-9», 1909. Publisher's wrappers. €510 to €1,025.

Sagen & Delås Auctions
Towards the Poles: Accounts of Polar Exploration
June 15, 2024

Sagen & Delås, June 15: ERNEST SHACKLETON: «South», 1919. An attractive copy in publisher's cloth. €2,550 to €4,265.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: UNITED STATES EXPLORING EXPEDITION UNDER CHARLES WILKES (1838-1842): «Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition», 1845. €3,400 to €5,100.

Sagen & Delås, June 15: HUBERT WILKINS: «Under the North Pole», 1931 | CONTRIBUTORS EDITION - LIMITED TO 29 COPIES. €1,280 to €2,550.

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Catawiki B. V.: Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 2/2

Auction Reports


Auction Name	Autographs and Manuscripts - bidstart 2/2	Total Sales (EUR)	11,770.91
Auction Date	February 14, 2024 - February 14, 2024	Low Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	11,700.00
Sale Number	#21424a	High Estimate of Lots Sold (EUR)	15,590.00
Total Lots	50
Sold Lots	50	Low Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	11,700.00
% of Lots Sold	100.00%	High Estimate of All Lots (EUR)	15,590.00
Unsold Lots	0	Total Sales as a % of High Est.	75.50%

Top twenty-five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
79585605	Napoleon Bonaparte	Lettre signee Bonaparte au ministre de la guerre [Berthier]	1802	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	EUR 1,744.00
79674107	Anonyme	[Russian/Slavic Psalter] Manuscript. Old Church Book	1850/1750	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 1,308.00
79419383	[Anarchism] Mikhail Bakunin	Autograph letter signed [with certificate]	1872	EUR 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	EUR 1,253.50
79573297	Anon	Illuminated leaf from a Book of Hours	1480	EUR 500.00 - 700.00	EUR 846.93
79825211	Marcel Pagnol	Manuscrit autographe signe [Les Bucoliques de Virgile]	37	EUR 600.00 - 800.00	EUR 654.00
79494153	Coran	Coran and book of prayers	1800	EUR 300.00 - 350.00	EUR 454.53
79824363	Jean Giono	Lettre autographe signee [voyage en Italie]	1954	EUR 200.00 - 250.00	EUR 373.87
79818331	Scripture Scholar-Sofer, Chronicles -Ancient Hebrew Family Tree	unique and precious Torah manuscript, Cain & Abel-Descendants, History of creation, The Fall of Man	1300/1350	Not Available	EUR 362.97
79570995	Alexandre Dumas, Pere	Lettre autographe signee [Te souviens-tu de la barricade de la rue du Bac]	1830	EUR 300.00 - 400.00	EUR 354.25
79707153	[Mukhtar-Name] Epopee chiite	Manuscrit persan calligraphie	1810	EUR 1,000.00 - 1,300.00	EUR 327.00
79653749	[Architecture] Estelle de Gatigny	Manuscrit avec Dessins Originaux. Architecture, Premiere classe [Egypte, Chine, Grece...]	1860	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 239.80
79769669	[Louis XV] Anonyme	Manuscrit. Precis historique de la vie de la comtesse du Barry	1775	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 196.20
79900841	Henri Ier de Montmorency [marechal de France. Gouverneur du Languedoc]	Piece signee. Beaucaire	1572	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 196.20
79467101	Jean Cocteau	Lettre autographe signee	1958	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 187.48
79879941	[Napoleon] Henri Gatien Bertrand	Letter signed [during the Napoleon's stay on the Island of Elba]	1814/1852	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 186.39
79556279	Lord Balfour (1848-1930) British Prime Minister	Autograph envelope from Downing Street 10 to the British Astronomer, Sir William Huggins	1905	EUR 350.00 - 500.00	EUR 184.21
79895053	Kajiwara Shozen Wei Yuan Xing Quan	Medizin-Handschrift, [Knochen, Fusse, Blutkreislauf etc.] Cun Zhen Huan Zhong Tu	1380/1400	Not Available	EUR 177.67
79640433	Gamal Abdel Nasser [1918--1970] President of Egypt	Autograph signed Portrait Card and personal card	1955/1969	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 170.04
79870621	[England - Queen Elizabeth II era]	Military Discharge Certificate Signed by Queen Elizabeth II: John Albert Forster Second Lieutenant	1974	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 156.96
79467577	[Premier Empire] Bourrienne	Longue lettre autographe signee avec apostille du General Michaud	1804	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 131.89
79478801	Phellipeaux / Louis XV [secretaire]	Document signe [ordre militaire]	1734	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 130.80
79554947	Charles De Gaulle	Correspondance [une lettre]	1946	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 130.80
79942887	Camille Saint-Saens	Billet autographe signe au peintre Paul Steck	1910	EUR 150.00 - 200.00	EUR 130.80
79466519	Victor de Broglie	Manuscrit autographe. Projet de loi sur les libertes individuelles	1819	EUR 200.00 - 300.00	EUR 120.99
79897115	Shaman Chants - MUDANG, Song Manuscript and Ritual Chants, Love songs	Kabuki, Buddhism, folk songs, ballads, children's songs, 120 pages, Japan-Kyoto 14th century	1350	Not Available	EUR 109.00

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20

Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 70 - Warner (Robert). The Orchid Album, 11 volumes, 1882-1897. £5,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 151 - United States. Melish (John), Map of the United States with..., British & Spanish Possessions, 1816. £40,000 to £60,000

Dominic Winter, June 19: Lot 159 - World. Speed (John), A New and Accurat Map of the World, 1676. £4,000 to £6,000.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 503 - American Civil War playing cards. Union Cards, New York: American Card Co., 1862. £500 to £800

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 573 - Shepard (Ernest Howard), 'The Hour is Come’, original watercolour, [1959]. £10,000 to £15,000

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 922 - Wilde (Oscar). An Ideal Husband, large paper limited issue, 1899. £4,000 to £6,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 744 - Disney (Walt). “Sketch Book” [of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs], 1938. £700 to £1,000

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 771 - Auden (Wystan Hugh). Portrait of the head of W. H. Auden, 1970. £1,000 to £1,500

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 822 - Fleming (Ian). Goldfinger, 1st edition, signed by the author, 1959. £6,000 to £8,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
Auctions on June 19
and June 20

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 895 - Rowling (J. K.). A complete inscribed set of Harry Potter books plus ephemera. £8,000 to £12,0000

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 883 - Orwell (George). Nineteen Eighty-Four, 1st edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1949. £3,000 to £5,000

Dominic Winter, June 20: Lot 700 - Ashendene Press. T. Lucreti Cari De Rerium Natura Libri Sex, Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1913. £4,000 to £6,000
Heritage Auctions, June 27
F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus
London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818

Heritage Auctions, June 27
J. R. R. Tolkien
The Hobbit; or, There and Back Again
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1937

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Jane Austen
Emma: A Novel. In Three Volumes. By the Author of "Pride and Prejudice," &c. &c.
London: Printed for John Murray, 1816

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage
London: C. Kegan Paul & Co., 1878

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Ernest Hemingway
Three Stories & Ten Poems
Paris: Contact Publishing Co., 1923

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark
Philadelphia, 1814

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Emily Dickinson
Autograph letter signed ("Emily and Vinnie"), to Mary Adelaide Hills
Amherst, MA, Late April, 1880

Heritage Auctions, June 27
John Keats
Autograph letter signed ("John Keats"), to Mrs. Jeffrey
Honiton 4 or 5 May 1818

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Samuel Johnson
A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are deduced from their Originals…
London, 1765

Heritage Auctions, June 27
H. P. Lovecraft
Small archive of nine lengthy autograph letters signed variously over a period of six years to J. Vernon Shea.
Various places, 1931-1937

Heritage Auctions, June 27
Izaak Walton
The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative Man's Recreation…
London: T. homas Maxey for Rich. ard Marriot, 1653
Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Keats, John] Spenser, Edmund: The Works of that Famous English Poet, Mr. Edmond Spenser. $50,000 - $80,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: (Walton, Izaak): The Compleat Angler or the Contemplative man's Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing. $30,000 - $50,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Thomas, Gabriel: An Historical and Geographical Account of the Province and Country of Pensilvania; and of West-New-Jersey in America. $25,000 - $35,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Carroll, Lewis]: The Game of Alice in Wonderland. $2,000 - $3,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: Athias, Joseph, et al.: Biblia Hebraica. $7,000 - $10,000.

Freeman’s | Hindman, June 25: [Warhol, Andy, and Jens Quistgaard] Dansk Designs Salesman's Presentation Catalogue. $2,500 - $3,500.
Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: A.A. Milne, Ernest H. Shepard. A Collection of The Pooh Books. Set of First-Editions. 18,600 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Salvador Dalí, Lewis Carroll. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Finely Bound and Signed Limited Edition. 15,000 USD

Sotheby’s
Modern First Editions
Available for Immediate Purchase

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ian Fleming. Live and Let Die. First Edition. 9,500 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: J.K. Rowling. Harry Potter Series. Finely Bound First Printing Set of Complete Series. 5,650 USD

Sotheby’s, Available Now: Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. First Edition, First Printing. 4,200 USD
Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 4. Blaeu's Magnificent Carte-a-Figures World Map in Full Contemporary Color (1642) Est. $12,000 - $15,000

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 125. 1775 Edition of the Landmark Fry-Jefferson Map of Virginia and Maryland (1775) Est. $15,000 - $18,000

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 673. Rare Frontispiece in Full Contemporary Color with Gilt Highlights (1662) Est. $4,000 - $4,750

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 717. Complete Tanner Atlas with Important Maps of Texas & Iowa (1845) Est. $4,000 - $4,750

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 3. Henricus Hondius' Baroque-Style World Map (1641) Est. $9,500 - $11,000

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 258. Complete Set of De Bry's Native Virginians & Picts from Part I of Grands Voyages (1608) Est. $2,750 - $3,500

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 608. Superb Work on 18th Century Russia with over 100 Maps and Plates (1788) Est. $3,500 - $4,250

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 49. One of the Most Important 16th Century Maps of the New World (1556) Est. $5,000 - $6,000

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 706. Superb Image of the Annunciation in Contemporary Hand Color (1518) Est. $900 - $1,100

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 123. One of the Earliest Maps to Show Philadelphia (1695) Est. $4,000 - $4,750

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 631. One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Afghanistan & Pakistan (1482) Est. $1,900 - $2,200

Old World Auctions (Jun 5-19):
Lot 689. Proof Copy Engraving of the Senate Floor During the Compromise of 1850 (1855) Est. $1,500 - $1,800

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