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Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: M. Waldseemüller, Ptolemaeus auctus restitutus, 1520. Est: € 250,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: I. Newton, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, 1687. Est: € 100,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: L. Feininger, Collection of 33 comic strips, 1906-1907. Est: € 8,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24:H. Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493. Est: € 30,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: K. Bodmer, Personal Sketchbook with ca. 80 pencil drawings. Est: € 25,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Collection of 18 postcards “Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar 1923.“ Est: € 40,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: Latin Book of hours on vellum, 1505. Est: € 12,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: G. Shaw & F. P. Nodder, Vivarium naturae, 1789-1813. Est: € 10,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, 1943. First American edition. Est: € 6,000Ketterer Rare Books
Auction November 24thKetterer, Nov. 24: Ibn Butlan, Tacuini sanitatis, 1531. Est: € 8,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Hermann Hesse, Casa Camuzzi in Montagnola, 1927. Est: € 12,000Ketterer, Nov. 24: Pop Art portfolio Reality & Paradoxes, 1973. Est: € 12,000 -
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Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Dante. De la volgare eloquenzia. Vicenza, Janiculo, 1529. € 1.500 / 2.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: San Tommaso d’Aquino. Scriptum secundum luculentissimum angelico. Legato con Problemata. Lione, Jacques Myt e Francesco Giunta, 1520. € 2.500 / €3.500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Palladio, Andrea. I quattro libri dell'architettura. Venezia, de' Franceschi, 1570. € 13.000 / 15.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
Books, Manuscripts, Autographs and Prints
18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: De Saint Amant, Pierre Charles. Voyages en Californie et dans l'Orégon. Parigi, Maison, 1854. € 400 / 500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Description de l’Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française. Parigi, 1820-1829. € 35.000 / 40.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Allioni, Carlo. Flora Pedemontana sive enumeratio methodica stirpium indigenarum Pedemontii. Torino, Briolo, 1785. € 6.000 / 8.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
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18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: First edition of John Gould's first work with uncolored backgrounds. € 5.000 / 7.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Rossini, Luigi. Le Antichità dei contorni di Roma. Roma, presso l'autore e Scudellari, 1824-26. € 2.500 / 3.500Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Carroll, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. New York, Appleton & Co., 1866. € 6.000 / 8.000Pandolfini Casa d’Aste
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18 November 2025Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Hitler, Adolf. Mein Kampf. Monaco, Franz Eher, 1925-27. € 15.000 / 20.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Interesting autograph from Proust to his dear little Daudet. € 3.000 / 4.000Pandolfini, Nov. 18: Beautiful and rare poetic manuscript, first draft, of an airy lightness by De Saint-Exupéry. € 4.000 / 5.000 -
Sotheby’s
Book Week
November & DecemberSotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Audebert, Jean-Baptiste — Louis-Pierre Vieillot. Oiseaux dorés ou à reflets métalliques, Paris, 1801-1802. €40,000 to €60,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: [Hugo, Victor] — Charles Hugo, François-Victor Hugo ou Auguste Vacquerie. Portrait de Victor Hugo. Daguerréotype réalisé à Jersey vers 1852-1853. €20,000 to €30,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Orbigny, Alcide d'. Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale... Paris, Pitois-Levrault et Cie et Strasbourg, Levrault, 1834-1847. €10,000 to €15,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Chelidonius, Benedictus. Passio Jesu Chriti. [1526?]. Maroquin bleu de Niédrée. 37 bois inspirés par Dürer. €3,000 to €5,000.Sotheby’s, Nov. 6-20: Cassini de Thury, César-François. Carte générale de la France faite en 1744. Paris, 1756-1788. 178 cartes entoilées, réunies dans 28 emboîtages. €15,000 to €20,000.
Rare Book Monthly
Book Catalogue Reviews - December - 2007 Issue
"Oklahoma!" from Gene Baade Books on the West
By Michael Stillman
Gene W. Baade Books on the West has issued their most extensive catalogue yet: "Oklahoma!" No, this is not a Rogers and Hammerstein musical. Rather, it is a textual. Offered are over 400 items pertaining to the Sooner State, or Oklahoma Territory, or Indian Territory, depending on how far back you wish to go. Baade describes this printing as "...my most ambitious catalogue to date, and one close to my heart..." That may sound odd for a Washington State bookseller, but Baade is an Oklahoma native, having grown up on a farm in the "Cheokee Strip" (a strip of land along the state's northern border once belonging to the Cherokees). He notes that while not everyone may agree with an old broadside that "Oklahoma is the richest healthful section of North America," it indisputably "was a 'Country' that spawned a broad history and a rich literature." Here are some samples of that broad history and rich literature.
Oklahoma has had its share of colorful characters. Here is one. "Catch 'em Alive" "Jack" Abernathy must have been the greatest of all wolf hunters. His nickname explains what he did, but Abernathy didn't use traps. No, he caught 'em with his bare hands. Abernathy, who according to his friend Teddy Roosevelt, was just about the greatest horseman alive, would chase the critters relentlessly on his horse until they tired. He would then jump from the saddle, grab hold of the wolf's jaw, and wire his mouth shut. This story reached a disbelieving President Roosevelt, who traveled to Oklahoma in 1905 to see for himself, and participate in a wolf hunt with Jack. It was said that Roosevelt was the only man who could keep up in the saddle with Abernathy, but he couldn't catch wolves. Item 1 is Jack's story: In Camp with Theodore Roosevelt or the Life of John R. (Jack) Abernathy, published in 1933. Priced at $200. Item 2 is a revised version of his story, Catch 'Em Alive Jack, published in 1936, and inscribed by Abernathy. $275.
"Catch 'em Alive" wasn't the only famous member of the Abernathy family. In fact, his sons may have been even better known than he. Their story is recounted in The Remarkable Ride of the Abernathy Boys, by Robert B. Jackson, published in 1967. Louis, age 10, and Temple, age 6, presented their father with an unusual request in 1910. They said they would like to ride on horseback from Oklahoma to New York, by themselves, to greet former President Roosevelt on his return from an African safari. Evidently, Jack was a permissive father, because he said "yes." There was a lot of publicity as the boys rode east, attracting large crowds of well-wishers, even welcoming bands along the way, but it was still quite remarkable for kids of their age. However, it was not a first, as the boys had ridden alone from Oklahoma to Santa Fe the year before, when they were not yet quite so mature. They returned by car (evidently age requirements for driving an automobile were much lower then), "Temp" was said to be barely able to reach the pedals. Three years later, the boys were at it again, when they took on a $10,000 challenge to ride horseback from New York to San Francisco in 60 days. They lost, finishing in 62. Item 197. $45.
