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Sotheby’s
New York Book Week
12-26 JuneSotheby’s, June 25: Theocritus. Theocriti Eclogae triginta, Venice, Aldo Manuzio, February 1495/1496. 220,000 - 280,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby, 1925. 40,000 - 60,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Printed ca. 1381-1832. 400,000 - 600,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Lincoln, Abraham. Thirteenth Amendment, signed by Abraham Lincoln. 8,000,000 - 12,000,000 USDSotheby’s, June 26: Galieli, Galileo. First Edition of the Foundation of Modern Astronomy, 1610. 300,000 - 400,000 USD -
Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE / LANDINO, CRISTOFORO. Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, 1481. €40,000 to €50,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. Il Convivio, 1490. €20,000 to €25,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LEGATURA – PLUTARCO. Le vies des hommes illustres, grecs et romaines translates, 1567. €10,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: TOLOMEO, CLAUDIO. Ptolemeo La Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alessandrino, Con alcuni comenti…, 1548. €4,000 to €6,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.Finarte, June 24-25: SPINOZA, BARUCH. Opera posthuma, 1677. €8,000 to €12,000.Finarte, June 24-25: PUSHKIN, ALEXANDER. Borus Godunov, 1831. €30,000 to €50,000.Finarte
Books, Autographs & Prints
June 24 & 25, 2025Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - LECUIRE, PIERRE. Ballets-minute, 1954. €35,000 to €40,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MAJAKOVSKIJ, VLADIMIR / LISSITZKY, LAZAR MARKOVICH. Dlia Golosa, 1923. €7,000 to €10,000.Finarte, June 24-25: LIBRO D'ARTISTA - MATISSE, HENRI / MONTHERLANT, HENRY DE. Pasiphaé. Chant de Minos., 1944. €22,000 to €24,000. -
Bonhams, June 16-25: 15th-CENTURY TREATISE ON SYPHILIS. GRÜNPECK. 1496. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF BENIVIENI'S TREATISE ON PATHOLOGY. 1507. $12,000 - $18,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FRACASTORO. Syphilis sive Morbus Gallicus. 1530. $8,000 - $12,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE FIRST PUBLISHED WORK ON SKIN DISEASES. MERCURIALIS. De morbis cutaneis... 1572. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: BIDLOO. Anatomia humani corporis... 1685. $6,000 - $9,000Bonhams, June 16-25: THE NORMAN COPY OF DOUGLASS'S EARLY AMERICAN WORK ON INNOCULATION AND SMALLPOX. 1722. $20,000 - $30,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LIND'S FIRST TREATISE ON SCURVY. 1753. $15,000 - $20,000Bonhams, June 16-25: RARE JENNER SIGNED CIRCULAR ON VACCINATION. 1821. $4,000 - $6,000Bonhams, June 16-25: MOST BEAUTIFUL OF MEDICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. BRIGHT. Reports of Medical Cases... 1827-1831. $10,000 - $15,000Bonhams, June 16-25: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE PRESENTATION COPY TO HER MOTHER. 1860. $6,000 - $8,000Bonhams, June 16-25: LORENZO TRAVER'S MANUSCRIPT JOURNAL OF BURNSIDE'S NORTH CAROLINA EXPEDITION. TRAVER, Lorenzo. $2,000 - $3,000Bonhams, June 16-25: ONE OF THE EARLIEST PHOTOGRAPHIC BOOKS ON DERMATOLOGY. HARDY. Clinique Photographique... 1868. $3,000 - $5,000
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Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: World. Van Geelkercken (N.), Orbis Terrarum Descriptio Duobis..., circa 1618. £4,000-6,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Moll (Herman). A New Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain..., circa 1715. £2,000-3,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Churchill (Winston S.). The World Crisis, 5 volumes bound in 6, 1st edition, 1923-31. £1,000-1,500Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Darwin (Charles). On the Origin of Species, 2nd edition, 2nd issue, 1860. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Roberts (David). The Holy Land, 6 volumes in 3, 1st quarto ed, 1855-56. £1,500-2,000.Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Saint-Exupéry (Antoine de, 1900-1944). Pilote de guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942. £10,000-15,000.Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Austen (Jane, 1775-1817). Signature, cut from a letter, no date. £7,000-10,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Huxley (Aldous). Brave New World, 1st edition, with wraparound band, 1932. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Tolkien (J. R. R.) The Hobbit, 1st edition, 2nd impression, 1937. £3,000-5,000Dominic Winter Auctioneers
June 18 & 19
Printed Books & Maps, Children's & Illustrated Books, Modern First EditionsDominic Winter, June 18-19: Rackham (Arthur, 1867-1939). Princess by the Sea (from Irish Fairy Tales), circa 1920. £4,000-6,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: Kelmscott Press. The Story of the Glittering Plain, Walter Crane's copy, 1894. £3,000-4,000Dominic Winter, June 18-19: King (Jessie Marion, 1875-1949). The Summer House, watercolour. £4,000-6,000
![Finarte, June 24-25: ALIGHIERI, DANTE. La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano], 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/4ee20109-25f3-42e8-93ab-bd4c8e17093a.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> ALIGHIERI, DANTE. <i>La Commedia [Commento di Christophorus Landinus]. Aggiunta: Marsilius Ficinus, Ad Dantem gratulatio [in latino e Italiano],</i> 1487. €40,000 to €60,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: BANDELLO, MATTEO. La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello, 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/5adfdf34-8a9a-47e5-9288-5e65dac5ce79.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> BANDELLO, MATTEO. <i>La prima [-quarta] parte de le nouelle del Bandello,</i> 1554. €7,000 to €9,000.")
![Finarte, June 24-25: FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…, 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a1b8605-a566-4fb7-8a4c-5fb72ac539bc.png "<b>Finarte, June 24-25:</b> FESTE - COPPOLA, GIOVANNI CARLO. <i>Le nozze degli Dei, favola [...] rappresentata in musica in Firenze…,</i> 1637. €6,000 to €8,000.")
Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTSCOMPRISINGThe Property of the Royal college of PhysiciansThe property of the Artists' SocietyThe Property of the Rt. Hon. Discount EmlynThe Property of H. S. Hudson, Esq.The Property of Major S. N. C. WebbThe Property of Dr. S. E. L. Morris, B. Sr., M.B.The Property of the late C. K. Ogden, Esq., WILSON,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- July 30, 1962 - July 30, 1962
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | Charles Hamilton Smith | The Ancient Costume of Great Britain and Ireland | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 101 | John Speed | The History of Great Britaine | USD - | 1.40 | ||
| 102 | Cesare Vecellio | Habiti Antichi | USD - | 100.80 | ||
| 103 | Wild Flowers | USD - | 2.80 | |||
| 104 | Hours of the Virgin | Paris | 1518-1532 |
USD - | 616.00 | |
| 104a | Gabriel Biel | De Festivitatibus Virginis Marie sermones | USD - | 25.20 | ||
| 104b | Sophocles | Tragoediae septum | USD - | 106.40 | ||
| 105 | Pole (Reginald, Cardinal) | Ad Henricu[m] Octavum Britanniae Regem | Rome | [c. 1536] |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 106 | Crispin de Pas | Les Nouvelles Inventions de Fortifier les Places | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 107 | Giovanni Battista Ferrari | Flora overo Cultura di Fiori . . . trasportata della Lingua Latina neh' Italiana da L. A. Perugino | Rome | 1638 |
USD - | 36.40 |
| 108 | Hieronymus Mercurialis | De arte gymnastica | Paris | 1577 |
USD - | 25.20 |
| 109 | Constitucio[n]es Extravagantes do Arcebispado de Lixboa | USD - | 14.00 | |||
| 110 | Cid Ruy Diaz de Vivar | Chronica del Famoso Cavallero Cid Ruydiez Campeador | USD - | 22.40 | ||
| 111 | Juan Bautista Lavana | Viage de la Catholica Real Magestad del Rei D. Filipe III | USD - | 25.20 | ||
| 112 | Dom Nunalvrez Pereyra | Chronica do Con[n]destabre de Portugal Dom Nunalvrez Pereyra Principiador da Casa de Braganca | Lisbon | 1623 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 113 | Fr. Miguel Agustin | Libro de los Secretos de Agricultura | Perpinan | 1626 |
USD - | 11.20 |
| 114 | Juan de Solorzano y Pereira | Emblemas Regio-Poli ticos . . . Decada Prima | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 115 | A. F. Aguado de Cordova and others | Bullarium Equestris Ordinis S. Iacobi de Spatha | Madrid | 1719 |
USD - | 5.60 |
| 116 | Jose Maria Soares | Memorias para a Historia da Medicina Lusitana | Lisbon | 1821 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 117 | South Sea Bubble | Amsterdam | 1720 |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 117a | Claag Bruin | Works | Amsterdam | 1713-41 |
USD - | 33.60 |
| 118 | M. de Spanheim | Histoire de la Papesse Jeanne | Hague | 1736 |
USD - | 8.40 |
| 118a | Eusebius Pamphilius, and others | Historiae Ecclesiasticae | Cambridge | 1720 |
USD - | 25.20 |
| 119 | P. J. Barthez | Nouveaux elements de la science de l'homme | Montpellier | 1778 |
USD - | 61.60 |
| 120 | Almanac Royal pour l'annee 1768 | Paris | 1768 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 121 | F.-M. Arouet de Voltaire | La Henriade | Paris | [1769]-1770 |
USD - | 154.00 |
| 121a | Annibale Garracci | Galeriae Farnesianae icones Romae in aedibus Sereniss | Rome | USD - | 11.20 | |
| 121b | A. Fabroni | Dissertation sur les statues appartenantes a la fable de Niobe | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 121c | Arundel Society | Engravings from the frescoes by Pinturicchio in the Piccolomini Library at Siena | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 122 | Jacob Behmen | Works | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 123 | Arnold Bennett | The Old Wives' Tale | 1927 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 124 | Bible | Geneva | 1560 |
USD - | 98.00 | |
| 125 | Book of Lian Dav (The) | Oxford | 1893 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 126 | Bookplates | USD - | 30.80 | |||
| 127 | John Brydall | Camera Regis | 1676 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 128 | W. R. Chetwood | A General History of the Stage | 1749 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 129 | Edwin Clark | The Britannia and Conway Tubular Bridges | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 130 | William Crowe | The Catalogue of our English Writers on the Old and New Testament | USD - | 61.60 | ||
| 131 | Dafydd ap Gwilym | Barddoniaeth. Ogrynhoad Owen Jones a William Owen | 1789 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 132 | John Davies | Antique Linguae Britannica . . . et Linguae Latinse Dictionerium Duplex | USD - | 8.40 | ||
| 133 | Francis Godwin | A Catalogue of the Bishops of England | USD - | 2.80 | ||
| 134 | Gorchestion Beirdd Cymru : neu Flodau Godidowgrwydd Awen ... O Gasgliad Rhys Jones | 1773 |
USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 135 | Edward | Herbert of Cherbury | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 136 | John Lizars | A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body | Edinburgh | USD - | 11.20 | |
| 137 | Mabinogion (The) | USD - | 11.20 | |||
| 138 | New and Easie Method to Learn to Sing by Book (A) | 1686 |
USD - | 134.40 | ||
| 139 | Red Book of Hergest (The) | Oxford | 1887-90 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 140 | Stephen Skinner | Etymologicon Linguae Anglicanae | 1671 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 141 | Jeremy Taylor | Ductor Dubitantium | 1660 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 142 | Valor Beneficiorum | 1695 |
USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 143 | George Whitefield | A Journal of a Voyage from London to Savannah in Georgia | USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 144 | William Whiston and Humphry Ditton | A New Method for Discovering the Longitude both at Sea and Land | 1715 |
USD - | 78.40 | |
| 144a | Abbe A. F. Prevost and others | Histoire generale des voyages ou nouvelle collection de toutes les relations de voyages par mer et terre | Dresden and Paris | 1747-50 |
USD - | 28.00 |
| 145 | F. L. Norden | Voyage d'Egypte et de Nubie | Copenhagen | 1755 |
USD - | 56.00 |
| 146 | Capt. James Cook | A voyage to the Pacific Ocean . . . written by Captain James Cook and Captain James King | 1784 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 147 | Richard Parkinson | The experienced farmer's tour in America to which are added sketches published by J. B. Boadley | 1805 |
USD - | 61.60 | |
| 148 | W. B. Stevenson | A Historical and Descriptive Narrative of Twenty Years' Residence in South America | Hurst | 1825 |
USD - | 44.80 |
| 149 | Alcide D. D'Orbigny | Voyage dans l'Amerique Meridionale | Paris | 1835 |
USD - | 134.40 |
| 149a | R. Gordon Cumming | A Hunter's Life in South Africa | 1850 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 150 | Laurence Oliphant | Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan | New York | 1860 |
USD - | 2.80 |
| 151 | William Harrison Ainsworth | The Spanish match | USD - | 33.60 | ||
| 152 | Leonbattista Alberti | La pittura | Venice | 1547 |
USD - | 182.00 |
| 153 | P. Aretino | Comedia intitolata il Filosofo | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 154 | John Boys | An exposition of all the principal scriptures used in our English liturgy | 1610 |
USD - | 5.60 | |
| 155 | Thomas Duer Broughton | Letters written in a Mahratta camp | 1813 |
USD - | 30.80 | |
| 156 | Cantiques et Pots-Pourris | USD - | 33.60 | |||
| 157 | Geoffrey Chaucer | Amorum Traili et Credeidae lib. II | Oxford | 1635 |
USD - | 168.00 |
| 158 | Circus | USD - | 112.00 | |||
| 159 | Sir William Cornwallis | Essays | 1632-31 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 160 | George Cruikshank and Robert | The universal songster | 1825-26 |
USD - | 8.40 | |
| 161 | Campbell Dodgson | Old French colour-prints | 1924 |
USD - | 11.20 | |
| 162 | The English Bible | 1902-05 |
USD - | 308.00 | ||
| 163 | Sir Geoffrey Fenton | Golden epistles containing variety of discourse | USD - | 30.80 | ||
| 164 | J. Flower | Views of ancient buildings in the town and county of Leicester | [c. 1830] |
USD - | 33.60 | |
| 165 | Sir John Fortescue | De laudibus legum Anglie | 1660 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 166 | Wolfgang Frantze | The history of brutes | 1670 |
USD - | 112.00 | |
| 167 | Randolph Gilpin | Liturgica sacra curru Thesbitico | London | 1657 |
USD - | 140.00 |
| 168 | Oliver Goldsmith | The vicar of Wakefield | 1929 |
USD - | 44.80 | |
| 169 | Antonio de Guevara | The familiar epistles | 1577 |
USD - | 36.40 | |
| 170 | William Hamper | The life | USD - | 5.60 | ||
| 171 | Nic. Heinsius | The life and surprising adventures of Mirandor | USD - | 56.00 | ||
| 172 | Hans Holbein | Simolachri historie e figure de la morte | Lyons | 1549 |
USD - | 72.80 |
| 173 | W. H. Hudson | Idle days in Patagonia | 1893 |
USD - | 16.80 | |
| 174 | Robert Hunt | Popular romances of the West of England | USD - | 14.00 | ||
| 175 | Bishop John Jewell | Apologia ecclesiae Anglicanae | 1581 |
USD - | 22.40 | |
| 176 | Dr. Samuel Johnson | A dictionary of the English language | 1755 |
USD - | 322.00 | |
| 177 | Justices of Peace | 13 May 1559 |
USD - | 126.00 | ||
| 178 | M. Kalin, J. Suter and Lusser | Ansichten der neuen St. Gotthards-Strasse von Fluelen bis Lugano | Zurich | 1833 |
USD - | 28.00 |
| 179 | Jacobus de Voragine | The Golden Legend | 1892 |
USD - | 50.40 | |
| 180 | Francois Levaillant | Travels from the Cape of Good Hope into the interior parts of Africa | 1790-96 |
USD - | 56.00 | |
| 181 | Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun | Le roman de la rose | Paris | 1538 |
USD - | 364.00 |
| 182 | Haldane Macfall | The French pastellists of the eighteenth century | 1909 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 183 | Marcus Minucius Felix | Octavius | Oxford | 1636 |
USD - | 14.00 |
| 184 | Jean Puget de la Serre | The mirrour which flatters not | 1639 |
USD - | 28.00 | |
| 185 | Christopher Saint Germain | The dialogue in English between a doctor of divinity and a student in the laws of England | 1598 |
USD - | 14.00 | |
| 186 | Scandalum Magnatimi or Potapski's case | 1682 |
USD - | 16.80 | ||
| 187 | Sir Walter Scott | Waverley | Edinburgh | 1814 |
USD - | 56.00 |
| 188 | Scrapbook | USD - | 14.00 | |||
| 189 | William Shakespeare | The merry wives of Windsor | USD - | 28.00 | ||
| 190 | C. W. Shepherd | The North-West peninsula of Iceland | USD - | 16.80 |
![Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/dbc5286a-4210-44e3-bbf0-6031c1c49801.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Euclid. <i>The Elements of Geometrie,</i> first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.")
![Forum, June 19: Shakespeare (William). The Tempest [&] The Two Gentlemen of Verona, from the Second Folio, [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/655b361c-71c7-48ba-9455-09c14e8c7494.png "<b>Forum, June 19:</b> Shakespeare (William). <i>The Tempest</i> [&] <i>The Two Gentlemen of Verona,</i> from the <i>Second Folio,</i> [Printed by Thomas Cotes], 1632. £4,000 to £6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/16cfdea8-0749-44a9-b801-b991dc2eaa21.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. <i>De remediis utriusque fortunæ,</i> [Cologne, vers 1470]. €5,000 to €6,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: GAZA (THÉODORE). [...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum, Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/46e14fa0-19d2-42b7-9994-312d5ae3df4d.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> GAZA (THÉODORE). <i>[...] Introductivæ grammatices libri quatuor. Ejusdem de mensibus opusculum sanequampulchrum,</i> Venise, 1495. €8,000 to €10,000.")
![ALDE, June 18: LUTHER (MARTIN). Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri, Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/13d0418d-fffb-4841-9721-851464785bd9.jpg "<b>ALDE, June 18:</b> LUTHER (MARTIN). <i>Der Erste [– Achte und letze] Teil aller Bücher und Schrifften des thewren, seligen Mans Doct. Mart. Lutheri,</i> Iéna, 1555-1568. €5,000 to €6,000.")
