Swann Galleries: Fine Books, 2665, New York

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Auction Report
Auction Date
April 11, 2024 - April 11, 2024
Page Size: 308 items in 13 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
151 Vives, Juan Luis (1493-1540)

De Officio Mariti Liber Unus. De Institutione Foeminae Christianae Libri Tres. De Ingenuorum Adolescentum ac Puellarum Institutione Libri Duo.

Basel 1540 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 325.00
152 Ware, Isaac (1704?-1766)

A Complete Body of Architecture. Adorned with Plans and Elevations, from Original Designs.

London 1767 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 550.00
153 Webster, John (1610-1682)

The Displaying of Supposed Witchcraft. Wherein is affirmed that there are many sorts of Deceivers and Impostors.

London 1677 USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 2,200.00
154 Whitney, Geoffrey (c. 1548-c. 1601)

A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises, for the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized.

Leyden 1586 USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 USD 7,500.00
155 Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898)

Sir John Tenniel's Illustrations to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass.

London 1988 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 USD 5,200.00
156 Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

The Deerslayer, First English & American Editions.

London 1841 USD 1,800.00 - 2,400.00 Not Sold
157 Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

The Prairie, A Tale.

London 1827 USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
158 Cooper, James Fenimore (1789-1851)

The Red Rover, A Tale.

London 1828 USD 300.00 - 500.00 Not Sold
159 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

A Christmas Carol.

London 1844 1843. USD 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 USD 13,000.00
160 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

A Complete set of first edition Christmas Books.

USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 USD 6,500.00
161 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

Little Dorrit.

London 1855 - 1857. USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 550.00
162 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In.

London 1845 i.e. 1844. USD 400.00 - 600.00 USD 250.00
163 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)

The Village Coquettes.

London 1836 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 425.00
164 Dickens, Charles (1812-1870).

Oliver Twist; or The Parish Boy's Progress.

London 1838 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 1,800.00
165 Du Maurier, George (1834-1896)

Trilby, First Edition, in Original Parts.

New York 1894-1894. USD 600.00 - 800.00 Not Sold
166 Melville, Herman (1819-1891)

The Piazza Tales.

New York 1856 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 USD 425.00
167 Morphy, Paul (1837-1884)

Paul Morphy Skizze aus der Schacwelt. Zweiter Theil. Schachkampfe in Paris, Dr. Max Lange's Copy, with Notes.

Leipzig 1859 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 325.00
168 Muir, John (1838-1914)

A group of five titles.

1) The Mountains of California. New York 1894 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 1,400.00
169 Olmsted, Francis Allyn (1819-1844)

Incidents of a Whaling Voyage, with Two Copies of the Surfing Plate.

New York 1841 USD 600.00 - 800.00 USD 500.00
170 Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

Waverley, or; 'Tis Sixty Years Since. [with] Autograph Letter Signed and other Material.

Edinburgh 1814 USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 USD 1,100.00
171 Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) & John Augustin Daly (1838-1899)

The Taming of the Shrew.

New York 1887 USD 500.00 - 700.00 USD 850.00
172 Spiess, Christian Heinrich (1755-1799)

Biographien der Wahnsinnigen.

Leipzig 1796-1803. USD 200.00 - 300.00 USD 110.00
173 Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)

An Inland Voyage.

London 1878 USD 300.00 - 500.00 USD 350.00
174 Stoker, Bram (1847-1912)

Dracula.

New York 1899 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 USD 3,800.00
175 Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1811-1896)

Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly.

Boston; Cleveland 1852 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 USD 2,000.00
  • Sotheby’s
    Modern First Editions
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    Sotheby’s, Available Now: Winston Churchill. The Second World War. Set of First-Edition Volumes. 6,000 USD
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    Modern First Editions
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  • Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Marx, Das Kapital,1867. Dedication copy. Est: € 120,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Latin and French Book of Hours, around 1380. Est: € 25,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Theodor de Bry, Indiae Orientalis, 1598-1625. Est: € 80,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviary, Latin manuscript, around 1450-75. Est: € 10,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    G. B. Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, 1748-69. Est: € 60,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    K. Schmidt-Rottluff, Arbeiter, 1921. Orig. watercolour on postcard. Est: € 18,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Breviarium Romanum, Latin manuscript, 1474. Est: € 20,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    C. J. Trew, Plantae selectae, 1750-73. Est: € 28,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    M. Beckmann, Apokalypse, 1943. Est: € 50,000
    Ketterer Rare Books
    Auction May 27th
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Ulrich von Richenthal, Das Concilium, 1536. Est: € 9,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    I. Kant, Critik der reinen Vernunft, 1781. Est: €12,000
    Ketterer Rare Books, May 27:
    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
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