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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Th. McKenney & J. Hall, History of the Indian tribes of North America, 1836-1844. Est: €50,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Biblia latina vulgata, manuscript on thin parchment, around 1250. Est: €70,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. Beckmann, Fanferlieschen Schönefüßchen, 1924. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: A. Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum, 1574. Est: €50,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: M. S. Merian, Eurcarum ortus, alimentum et paradoxa metamorphosis, 1717-18. Est: €6,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: PAN, 9 volumes, 1895-1900. Est: €12,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: €15,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Quran manuscript from the Saadian period, Maghreb, 16th century. Est: €10,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: E. Hemingway, The old man and the sea, 1952. Presentation copy. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction May 26thKetterer Rare Books, May 26: Flavius Vegetius Renatus, De re militari libri quatuor, 1553. Est: €3,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: K. Marx, Das Kapital, 1867. Est: €30,000Ketterer Rare Books, May 26: Brassaï, Transmutations, 1967. Est: €6,000 -
Leland Little, May 21: Signed Artist Proof of the Monumental G.O.A.T.: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali.Leland Little, May 21: Assorted Rare Publications Related to H.P. Lovecraft, Including The Recluse Signed by Vincent Starrett.Leland Little, May 21: Two Issues of The Vagrant, Including the First Appearance of H.P. Lovecraft's "Dagon" in Number Eleven.Leland Little, May 21: Rare First Printing of Anne of Green Gables, With ALS from the Author.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, In First Issue Jacket.Leland Little, May 21: The Limited Paumanok Edition of The Complete Writings of Walt Whitman.Leland Little, May 21: Beautifully Bound Limited Flaubert Edition of The Works of Guy de Maupassant.Leland Little, May 21: First Edition of Bonaparte's Celebrated American Ornithology, With Spectacular Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: A Rare Complete Set of Jardine's The Naturalist's Library, With Hand-Colored Plates.Leland Little, May 21: Invitation to the Lincoln-Johnson National Inaugural Ball, March 4th, 1865.Leland Little, May 21: A Scarce Inscribed First Edition of James Baldwin's Nobody Knows My Name.Leland Little, May 21: Picasso's Le Goût du Bonheur, Limited Edition.
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Sotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USDSotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USDSotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USDSotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USDSotheby's
Sell Your Fine Books & ManuscriptsSotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USDSotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBPSotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBPSotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR -
Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Pietro Aquila, Psyche and Proserpina,1690. Starting price 140€Gonnelli: Jacques Gamelin, Memento homo quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris, 1779. Starting price 300€Gonnelli: Giorgio Ghisi, The final Judgement, 1680. Starting price 480€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli Goya y Lucientes Francisco, Los Proverbios.1877. Starting price 1000 €Gonnelli: Domenico Peruzzini, Long bearded old man, 1660. Starting price 2200€Gonnelli: Enea Vico, Leda and the Swan,1542. Starting price 140€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Andrea Del Sarto [school of], San Giovanni Battista, 1570. Starting price 25000€Gonnelli: Carlo Maratta, Virgin Mary and Jesus, 1660. Starting Price 1200€Gonnelli: Louis Brion de La Tour, Sphére de Copernic Sphere de Ptolemée / Le Systême de Ptolemée. Le Systême de Ticho-Brahe…, 1766. Starting price 180€Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
May 20th 2025Gonnelli: Marc’Antonio Dal Re, Ville di Delizia o Siano Palaggi Camparecci nello Stato di Milano Divise in Sei Tomi Con espressevi le Piante…, Tomo Primo, 1726. Starting price 7000€Gonnelli: Katsushika Hokusai, Bird on a branch, 1843. Starting price 100€
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - September - 2010 Issue
A Summer Miscellany from Michael Thompson Books
By Michael Stillman
Michael Thompson Books of Los Angeles has issued a Summer Miscellany, Consisting of 100 Books [101 actually], Mostly Recent Acquisitions. This is truly a miscellany. The topics and types of books vary so widely that it is impossible to put a label on them. You will need to sort through this catalogue for yourself to understand what is here. For now, we will provide a few samples, not particularly reflective of the whole.
Most Americans are familiar with Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, a favorable look at American political institutions by the visiting Frenchman who came during the 1830s. However, de Tocqueville wrote one other major tome a couple of decades later, meant to be a three-part set. Unfortunately, it was cut off at one by his untimely death. Item 85 is the first edition (in French) from 1856 of his L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution. Originally, de Tocqueville planned to carry his work about his native France from the Old Regime through the time of Napoleon, but never got past the Revolution. Priced at $1,250.
Here is a book that would not likely be so popular today, but it was well received during its era: The American Ladies' Memorial: an indispensable home book for the wife, mother, daughter, in fact useful to every lady throughout the United States. This was much about the proper role for women in 1850. Indeed, that point was not necessary to state. It simply covers activities that would have been appropriate for a woman at the time, such as dressmaking, embroidery, etiquette, floral arrangements and such. Item 95. $650.
Item 40 is a Traite contre les danses et les mauvaises chansons. This translates to a treatise against dancing and bad music. You might think it is a book about disco, but its date of 1769 would seem to preclude that. Author Francois Louis Gauthier was a curate who, like most churchmen of his time, did not believe in having fun, considering music and dancing to be immoral. $650.
Item 56 is an account of one of those geographic myths, that, in reverse of the normal order, arose after the correct understanding of the land, rather than before it. In the 16th century, explorers recognized that California, or at least Baja California, was a peninsula. The great maps of Mercator and Ortelius displayed it correctly. However, in the early 17th century, someone became confused. Maps began to show California as being an island. By the latter part of that century, that was the general understanding. However, missionaries settling the area recognized its true nature, and by the early 1700s, maps again began to display California as it truly is. The last of the bad maps disappeared later that century. Item 56 is John Leighley's California as an Island. An Illustrated Essay...showing California as an Island 1622-1785. This book, with plates and a bibliography of California-as-an-island maps, was published by the Book Club of California in 1972. $1,250.
Speaking of maps, item 92 is the definitive cartographic history of the American West, Carl Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West. 1540-1861. This includes six volumes of facsimile maps of the very old to more recent old west, published from 1957-1963. $3,500.
Here is a work of fakes as unreal as island California, but some clever ones nonetheless. Item 6 is Notorious Ex Libris, published in 2008. It was printed by students at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. The students created imaginary bookplates of various notable and notorious individuals, such as Al Capone, George Armstrong Custer, Madonna, and the Marquis de Sade. $250.
Michael Thompson Books may be reached at 323-658-1901 or mrtbksla@pacbell.net. Their website is www.mrtbooksla.com.