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  • Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900. Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 13: Arthur Rackham, Candlelight, pen and ink, circa 1900.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 28: Harold Von Schmidt, "I Asked Jim If He Wanted To Accompany Us To Teach The Hanneseys A Lesson.", oil on canvas, 1957.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 96: Arthur Szyk, Thumbelina, gouache and pencil, 1945.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 101: D.R. Sexton, The White Rabbit And Bill The Lizard, watercolor and gouache, 1932.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 127: Miguel Covarrubias, Bradypus Tridactilus. Three-Toed Sloth, gouache, circa 1953.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 132: William Pène Du Bois, 2 Illustrations: Balloon Merry Go Round On The Ground And In The Air, pen and ink and wash, 1947.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 137: Lee Lorenz, Confetti Hourglass, mixed media, 1973.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 181: Norman Rockwell, Portrait Of Floyd Jerome Patten (Editor At Boy's Life Magazine), charcoal, circa 1915.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 188: Ludwig Bemelmans, Rue De Buci, Paris, casein, watercolor, ink and gouache, 1955.
    Swann, June 17: Lot 263: Maurice Sendak, Sundance Childrens Theater Poster Preliminary Sketch, pencil, 1988.
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    Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.
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    Fonsie Mealy, June 18: William IV, c1830, oversized slope-top Rosewood Davenport Desk, Attributed to Gillows of Lancaster. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.
    Fonsie Mealy, June 18: French Bateau Bed, exhibition piece from the Exposition Universelle—The Paris World’s Fair, 1878. Third quarter of the 19th century. With Provenance to Oscar Wilde.
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Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW WESTERN AND ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS, STEEL,

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 26, 1952 - May 26, 1952
Page Size: 1413 items in 15 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
401 Balzac (PI. de) Oeuvres Paris

1892-96

GBP - 1.15
401 Rivoira (G. T.) Moslem Architecture Oxford

1918

GBP - 3.50
402 Beerbohm (Max) Works

1922-28

GBP - 13.00
402 Rivoira (G. T.) Roman Architecture Oxford

1925

GBP - 6.00
403 Beerbohm (Max) A Christmas Garland

GBP - 1.10
403 Rivoira (G. T.) Lombardic Architecture

1910

GBP - 1.25
404 Blake (W.) Works

1893

GBP - 4.10
404 Dalton (O. M.) East Christian Art Oxford

1925

GBP - 7.00
405 Bottomley (Gordon) Gruach and Britain's Daughter

GBP - 2.00
405 Stevenson (R. A. M.) The Art of Velasquez

GBP - 0.50
406 R [urne]-J[ones] (G.) Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones

GBP - 5.00
406 Fry (Roger) Cezanne

GBP - 2.50
407 Cambridge Ancient History (The)

GBP - 9.00
407 PANTHEON-PUBLIKATIONEN Munich

1927-29

GBP - 115.00
408 Conrad (Joseph) The Secret Agent

GBP - 1.10
408 Commemorative Catalogue (A)

GBP - 4.00
409 Rosenberg (Adolf) Costume

GBP - 6.10
409 Mulliner (H. H.) The Decorative Arts in England

GBP - 0.75
410 Defoe (D.) Works

1902

GBP - 1.00
410 Hamilton (Walter) Dated Book-Plates

1895

GBP - 1.25
411 De La Mare (W.) Poems

GBP - 10.00
411 Culpeper (N.) Complete Herbal

GBP - 2.50
412 Tactitus (C. C.) Doves Press

1900

GBP - 1.00
412 Lady Lever Art Gallery. A Record of the Collections in

1928

GBP - 7.00
413 Cobden-Sanderson (T. J.) Doves Press

l9l3

GBP - 2.00
413 Laking (Sir G. F.) A Record of European Armour and Arms through seven centuries

1920-22

GBP - 17.00
414 Goethe (J. W. von) Doves Press

1916

GBP - 10.10
414 Laking (Sir G. F.) A Record of European Armour and Arms

1920-22

GBP - 15.00
415 Chaucer (G.) Florence Press

GBP - 4.10
415 Victoria County History: Berkshire

GBP - 5.50
416 Forster (E. M.) Howards End

GBP - 7.00
416 Gilchrist (Helen I.) Catalogue of the Severance Collection of Arms Cleveland

1924

GBP - 8.50
417 Goethe (J. W. von) Werke

1840

GBP - 0.10
417 Jackson (H. J.) and C. E. Whitelaw European Hand Firearms of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries

1923

GBP - 12.00
418 Gregorovius (F.) History of the City of Rome in the Middle Ages

GBP - 16.00
418 Trapp (O. W.) The Armoury of the Castle of Churburg

1929

GBP - 10.00
419 Hardy (Thomas) Wessex Novels

GBP - 1.00
419 Dean (Bashford) The Collection of Arms and Armour of Rutherford Stuyvesant New York

1914

GBP - 11.00
420 Hodgkin (T.) Italy and her Invaders

GBP - 5.05
420 Lacy (C. de L.) The History of the Spur

1928

GBP - 1.75
421 Hogben (L.) Science for the Citizen

GBP - 7.00
421 Gangoly (O. C.) South Indian Bronzes Calcutta

1915

GBP - 12.00
422 James (Henry) Novels and Tales

1908-09

GBP - 29.00
422 Ball (Katherine M.) Decorative Motives of Oriental Art

1927

GBP - 6.00
423 James (Henry) Notes of a Son and Brother

GBP - 38.00
423 Grousset (R.) The Civilizations of the East

GBP - 3.75
424 Jekyll (Gertrude) Home and Garden

GBP - 7.00
424 Pelliot (Paul) Jades Archaiques de Chine Paris and Brussels

1925-24

GBP - 13.00
425 Morris (W.) Kelmscott Press

1891

GBP - 2.15
425 Catalogues

1916

GBP - 3.25
426 Morris (W.) Kelmscott Press

1892

GBP - 3.00
426 Catalogues of Chinese

1910-36

GBP - 6.50
427 Morris (W.) Kelmscott Press

1892

GBP - 3.00
427 Tuan Fang Collection

GBP - 5.50
428 Morris (W.) Kelmscott Press

1894

GBP - 3.10
428 Burlington Magazine Monographs

1925

GBP - 2.50
429 edited by F. S. Ellis Sire Degrevaunt,

1896 [1897]

GBP - 2.10
429 Mythologie Asiatique Illustree Paris

1928

GBP - 4.50
430 Morris (W.) Kelmscott Press

1897

GBP - 2.05
430 Hetherington (A. L.) The Early Ceramic Wares of China

1922

GBP - 8.00
431 Morris (W.) Gothic Architecture

GBP - 11.00
431 Hetherington (A. L.) Another copy The Early Ceramic Wares of China

1922

GBP - 8.00
432 Morris (William) Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair

GBP - 3.00
432 Hobson (R. L.) The Wares of the Ming Dynasty

1923

GBP - 7.00
433 Landor (W. S.) Works

GBP - 2.15
433 Hobson (R. L.) The Wares of the Ming Dynasty Another copy

1923

GBP - 7.50
434 Lucas (E. V.) The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb

1935

GBP - 2.15
434 Kendrick (A. F.) and C. E. C. Tattersall Hand-Woven Carpets Oriental and European

1922

GBP - 18.00
435 Lucas (E. V.) The Colvins and their Friends

GBP - 2.15
435 Du Sartel (O.) La Porcelaine de Chine Paris

1881

GBP - 2.00
436 Marlowe (C.) Works

1930-33

GBP - 4.00
436 Williamson (G. C.) The Book of Famille Rose

1927

GBP - 12.00
437 Masefield (John) Right Royal

GBP - 4.00
437 Pope-Hennessy (Una) Early Chinese Jades

1923

GBP - 6.00
438 Masefield (John) A King's Daughter

1923

GBP - 1.15
438 Hobson (R. L.) Chinese Art

1927

GBP - 4.00
439 Masefield (John) Odtaa

GBP - 9.00
439 With (Karl) Chinesische Kleinbildnerei in Steatit

GBP - 3.50
440 Masefield (John) Collected Poems

1932

GBP - 5.00
440 Ricci (S. de) Der Stil Louis XVI

GBP - 4.00
441 Masefield (John) A Tarpaulin Muster

GBP - 1.05
441 Trubner (Jorg) Yu und Kuang zur typologie der chinesischen bronzen Leipzig

1929

GBP - 6.00
442 Meredith (George) Works

1896-1912

GBP - 2.15
442 Hackin (J.) and others Asiatic Mythology

1932

GBP - 6.00
443 Meredith (George) C. Julii Caesaris Commentarii Leipzig

1829

GBP - 2.10
443 Musset (Alfred de) Oeuvres Completes

GBP - 1.00
444 Miscellaneous books

GBP - 34.00
444 Journal des Demoiselles

GBP - 11.00
445 Morris (W.) Works

1910-15

GBP - 17.00
445 Grandidier (Ernest) La Ceramique Chinoise Paris

1894

GBP - 4.00
446 Morris (William) William Morris Artist Writer Socialist Oxford

1936

GBP - 4.10
446 edited by V. Goloubew Ars Asiatica Paris

1914

GBP - 9.00
447 Morris (William) Life by J. W. Mackail

GBP - 3.15
447 Vollard (Ambroise) Paul Cezanne Paris

1914

GBP - 13.00
448 Murray (Gilbert) Works

1905-40

GBP - 5.10
448 Roche (Odilon) and M. Dupont Les Meubles de la Chine

GBP - 3.00
449 Pepys (S.) The Diary

1904-05

GBP - 2.15
449 Audsley (G. A.) and J. L. Bowes Keramic Art of Japan

GBP - 0.75
450 Rabelais (Francis) Gargantua and Pantagruel

GBP - 3.00
450 Cruikshank (G.) Illustrations of Time

GBP - 3.00
  • ALDE, June 18: CHAPPE D'AUTEROCHE (JEAN). Voyage en Sibérie fait par ordre du Roi en 1761 contenant les mœurs…, Paris, 1768. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: HENNEPIN (LOUIS). Description de la Louisiane nouvellement découverte au Sud-Ouest de la Nouvelle France…, Paris, 1688. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LA BOULLAYE-LE GOUZ (FRANÇOIS DE). Les Voyages et Observations, Paris, 1653. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, June 18: LE BRUN (CORNELIS DE BRUYN DIT CORNEILLE). Voyage au Levant, c'est à dire dans les principaux endroits de l'Asie mineure..., Delft, 1700. €6,000 to €8,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SAINT-NON (J.-CL. RICHARD, ABBÉ DE). Voyage pittoresque ou description du royaume de Naples et de Sicile, Paris, 1781-1786. €3,500 to €5,000.
    ALDE, June 18: (CALVIN JEAN). SÉNÈQUE. Annei Senecae..., Paris, 1532. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, June 18: ADRIEN LE CHARTREUX. De remediis utriusque fortunæ, [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.
    ALDE, June 18: LACTANCE. De divinis institutionibus. De ira Dei. De opificio Dei. De phoenice carmen, Rome, 1468. €30,000 to €40,000.
    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.
    ALDE, June 18: POLITIEN (ANGE). Omnia opera, et alia quædam lectu Digna, Venise, 1498. €8,000 to €10,000.
    ALDE, June 18: SIDOINE APOLLINAIRE. Poema aureum ejusdemque Epistole, Milan, 1498. €3,000 to €4,000.
  • SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions
    The Øiesvold Collection
    June 14, 2025
    SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: HIERONYMUS MÜNTZER (1437 – 1508): (Northern and Central Europe) No title recto. Nuremberg, 1493.
    SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SIGISMUND VON HERBERSTEIN (1486 – 1566): «Commentari della Moscovia et partmente della Russia.» Venice, 1550.
    SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Cosmographiae universalis Lib. VI in quibus iuxta certioris […]» Basel, 1559.
    SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: SEBASTIAN MÜNSTER: «Deerwunder und seltzame Thier / wie die in den Mitnächtigen Länder im Meer […]» Basel, c. 1550.
    SD | Scandinavian Art & Rare Book Auctions, June: 14: WILLEM BARENTSZ (1550 – 97): «Deliniatio cartæ trium navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionalem plagem [...]» Amsterdam, 1598.
  • Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Bissière, Roger. Cantique à notre frère soleil de saint François. 1954. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. La vie & l’œuvre de Philippe Ignace Semmelweis. 1924. Rare édition originale, avec envoi. Joint : La Quinine en thérapeutique, 1925. 4,000 - 6,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Céline, Louis-Ferdinand. Mort à crédit. 1936. Édition originale. Bel exemplaire sur Hollande. 2,500 - 3,500 EUR
    Sotheby's
    Bibliothèque Jacques Dauchez - Autour de Dubuffet
    5-19 June
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Chillida, Eduardo ─ Emil Cioran. Face aux instants. 1985. Un des 100 exemplaires sur Arches. Eau-forte signée. 600 - 800 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. Ler dla canpane. L’Art Brut, 1948. Édition originale. 3,000 - 5,000 EUR
    Sotheby’s, June 5-19: Dubuffet, Jean. L'Herne Jean Dubuffet. 1973. Un des 100 exemplaires du tirage de luxe avec une sérigraphie originale en couleurs. 1,000 - 1,500 EUR
  • Finarte
    Books, Autographs & Prints
    June 24 & 25, 2025
    Finarte, 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, 2025
    Finarte, 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, 2025
    Finarte, 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, 2025
    Finarte, 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.
  • Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 567. One of the Earliest & Most Desirable Printed Maps of Arabia - by Holle/Germanus (1482) Est. $55,000 - $65,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 681. Zatta's Complete Atlas with 218 Maps in Full Contemporary Color (1779) Est. $27,500 - $35,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 347. MacDonald Gill's Landmark "Wonderground Map" of London (1914) Est. $1,800 - $2,100
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 1. Fries' "Modern" World Map with Portraits of Five Kings (1525) Est. $4,000 - $4,750
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 539. Ortelius' Superb, Decorative Map of Cyprus in Full Contemporary Color (1573) Est. $1,100 - $1,400
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 51. Mercator's Foundation Map for the Americas in Full Contemporary Color (1630) Est. $3,250 - $4,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 667. Manuscript Bible Leaf with Image of Mary and Baby Jesus (1450) Est. $1,900 - $2,200
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 226. "A Powerful Example of Color Used to Make a Point" (1895) Est. $400 - $600
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 290. One of the Most Decorative Early Maps of South America - from Linschoten's "Itinerario" (1596) Est. $7,000 - $8,500
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 62. Coronelli's Influential Map of North America with the Island of California (1688) Est. $10,000 - $12,000
    Old World Auctions (June 18): Lot 589. The First European-Printed Map of China - by Ortelius (1584) Est. $4,000 - $5,000
  • Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Euclid. The Elements of Geometrie, first edition in English of the first complete translation, [1570]. £20,000 to £30,000.
    Forum, June 19: Nicolay (Nicolas de). The Navigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie, first edition in English, 1585. £10,000 to £15,000.
    Forum, June 19: Shakespeare source book.- Montemayor (Jorge de). Diana of George of Montemayor, first edition in English, 1598. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum, June 19: Livius (Titus). The Romane Historie, first edition in English, translated by Philemon Holland, Adam Islip, 1600. £6,000 to £8,000.
    Forum Auctions
    A Sixth Selection of 16th and 17th Century English Books from the Fox Pointe Manor Library
    19th June 2025
    Forum, June 19: Robert Molesworth's copy.- Montaigne (Michel de). The Essayes Or Morall, Politike and Millitarie Discourses, first edition in English, 1603. £10,000 to £15,000.
    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.
    Forum, June 19: Boyle (Robert). Medicina Hydrostatica: or, Hydrostaticks Applyed to the Materia Medica, first edition, for Samuel Smith, 1690. £2,500 to £3,500.
    Forum, June 19: Locke (John). An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in Four Books, first edition, second issue, 1690. £8,00 to £12,000.