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Sothebys: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS, MUSIC, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS AND HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, WELLER,

Auction Details

Auction Date
December 15, 1964 - December 15, 1964
Page Size: 959 items in 10 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
696 Charles Dickens A small collection of programmes of plays in which Dickens and his friends appeared

USD - 106.40
697 Charles Dickens A collection of twenty-nine small photographs of Dickens

USD - 44.80
698 Charles Dickens A collection of upwards of forty small photographs of Dickens

USD - 33.60
699 Benjamin Disraeli Vivian Grey

USD - 44.80
700 E. Donovan Descriptive Excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire

USD - 22.40
701 John C. Eckel The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens

1913

 USD - 22.40
702 John C. Eckel The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens New York

1932

 USD - 30.80
703 William Enfield An Essay towards the History of Liverpool

1774

 USD - 22.40
704 William Enfield An Essay towards the History of Liverpool

1774

 USD - 22.40
705 Thomas de Fougasses Generall Historie of the Magnificent State of Venice

1612

 USD - 33.60
706 German Novelists

1826

 USD - 44.80
707 Matthew Gregson Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster Liverpool

1817

 USD - 11.20
708 Matthew Gregson Portfolio of Fragments relative to the History and Antiquities of Lancaster Liverpool

1824

 USD - 42.00
709 Matthew Gregson Portfolio of Fragments Liverpool

1824

 USD - 22.40
710 Thomas Hatton and Arthur H. Cleaver A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens

1933

 USD - 28.00
711 James Hogg The Jacobite Relics of Scotland Edinburgh

1819-21

 USD - 44.80
712 J. H. Leigh Hunt Stories from the Italian Poets

1846

 USD - 25.20
713 J. H. Leigh Hunt The Town

1848

 USD - 30.80
714 J. H. Leigh Hunt Men

USD - 42.00
715 Washington Irving Bracebridge Hall

1822

 USD - 16.80
716 Washington Irving A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus

USD - 30.80
717 G. P. R. James The Commisioner

USD - 112.00
718 Richard Jefferies Greene Feme Farm

1880

 USD - 30.80
719 Richard Jefferies Hodge and his Masters

1880

 USD - 19.60
720 Richard Jefferies Hodge and his Masters

1880

 USD - 19.60
721 Richard Jefferies Wood Magic

1881

 USD - 28.00
722 Richard Jefferies Wood Magic

1881

 USD - 25.20
723 Richard Jefferies Bevis the Story of a Boy

1882

 USD - 72.80
724 Richard Jefferies Bevis the Story of a Boy

1882

 USD - 61.60
725 Richard Jefferies The Story of my Heart

1883

 USD - 30.80
726 Richard Jefferies The Story of my Heart

1883

 USD - 30.80
727 Richard Jefferies The Gamekeeper at Home

USD - 14.00
728 Richard Jefferies The Amateur Poacher

USD - 22.40
729 Richard Jefferies The Amateur Poacher

USD - 19.60
730 Richard Jefferies Wild Life in a Southern County

USD - 25.20
731 Richard Jefferies Wild Life in a Southern County

USD - 11.20
732 Richard Jefferies Round about a Great Estate

USD - 16.80
733 Richard Jefferies Greene Feme Farm

USD - 36.40
734 Richard Jefferies Round about a Great Estate

USD - 14.00
735 Richard Jefferies Wood Magic

1881

 USD - 28.00
736 Richard Jefferies The Dewy Morn

1884

 USD - 22.40
737 Richard Jefferies Nature near London

USD - 11.20
738 Richard Jefferies Amaryllis at the Fair

USD - 14.00
739 J. Heneage Jesse London and its Celebrities

USD - 5.60
740 Charles Johnson Chrysal

1821

 USD - 5.60
741 Daniel King The Vale-Royall of England

1656

 USD - 39.20
742 Daniel King The Vale-Royall of England

1656

 USD - 42.00
743 Charles Leigh The Natural History of Lancashire Oxford

1700

 USD - 19.60
744 Charles Leigh Natural History of Lancashire

USD - 42.00
745 A. R. Le Sage Histoire de Gil Bias de Santillane Paris

[1795]

 USD - 30.80
746 Charles Lever The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

USD - 30.80
747 Charles Lever The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer

USD - 28.00
748 Charles Lever Charles O'Malley

USD - 5.60
749 Charles Lever Our Mess Dublin

1843-44

 USD - 25.20
750 Charles Lever St. Patrick's Eve

USD - 19.60
751 Charles Lever Roland Cashel

USD - 28.00
752 Sir Peter Leycester A Short View of Greate Brettaine & Ier-land

1665-70

 USD - 210.00
753 Sir Peter Leycester Historical Antiquities

1673

 USD - 56.00
754 Sir Peter Leycester Historical Antiquities

1673

 USD - 106.40
755 Sir Peter Leycester Historical Antiquities

1673

 USD - 39.20
756 Sir Peter Leycester Historical Antiquities

USD - 61.60
757 W. H. Maxwell The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran and his man Mark Anthony O'Toole

USD - 36.40
758 Phil May Summer and Winter Annuals

1892-98

 USD - 61.60
759 Augustus Mayhew Paved with Gold

1858

 USD - 56.00
760 Fletcher Moss Pilgrimages to Old Homes

1903-10

 USD - 14.00
761 John Norden Speculum Britanniae

1723

 USD - 61.60
762 John Norden Speculum Britanniae

USD - 67.20
763 Thomas Pennant Descriptive Excursions through South Wales and Monmouthshire

1810

 USD - 28.00
764 Dr. Robert Plot Natural History of Staffordshire Oxford

1686

 USD - 140.00
765 Dr. Robert Plot Natural History of Staffordshire Oxford

1686

 USD - 44.80
766 Dr. Robert Plot Natural History of Staffordshire Oxford

1686

 USD - 78.40
767 Joseph Ritson Robin Hood

1795

 USD - 30.80
768 David Robertson A Tour through the Isle of Man

1794

 USD - 25.20
769 J. Roby Traditions of Lancashire

1829-31

 USD - 22.40
770 Thomas Roscoe Wanderings in North Wales

USD - 33.60
771 A. Sammes Britannia Antiqua Illustrata

1815

 USD - 33.60
772 Francis Sandford Genealogical History of the Kings of England

1677

 USD - 126.00
773 William Shakespeare Plays

1847

 USD - 67.20
774 Simeon Shaw History of the Staffordshire Potteries

1829

 USD - 106.40
775 J. Stover and I. Greig Antiquarian and Topographical Cabinet

1807-13

 USD - 84.00
776 Laurence Sterne Works

1803

 USD - 72.80
777 William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

1848

 USD - 72.80
778 W. M. Thackeray The Irish Sketch-Book

USD - 47.60
779 W. M. Thackeray Roundabout Papers

1860-64

 USD - 25.20
780 W. M. Thackeray The History of Pendennis

USD - 28.00
781 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair

USD - 42.00
782 Mrs. Frances Trollope The Widow Married

USD - 84.00
783 Horace Walpole Anecdotes of Painting in England

1826-28

 USD - 19.60
784 Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton The Complete Angler . . with the Lives of the Authors

1808

 USD - 44.80
785 Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton The Complete Angler

1815

 USD - 28.00
786 J. Wight Mornings at Bow Street

USD - 33.60
787 Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

1891

 USD - 154.00
788 Henry Williamson Tarka the Otter

USD - 33.60
789 Henry Williamson The Flax of Dream

1929-31

 USD - 28.00
790 J. Worlidge Vinetum Britannicum

1678

 USD - 98.00
791 Yellow Book (The) An Illustrated Quarterly

1894-95

 USD - 19.60
792 Thomas Zouch The Life of Izaak Walton

1826

 USD - 14.00
793 Sr. Augustine Of the Citie of God

1620

 USD - 72.80
794 Alvaro Alonso Barba The Art of Metals . . . translated ... by Edward Earl of Sandwich

1674

 USD - 168.00
795 R. Bentley Designs by Mr. R. Bentley

1766

 USD - 154.00
  • Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000. Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 4: Helena Bochoráková-Dittrichová, Z Mého Detství Drevoryty, Prague: Obzina, 1929. First trade edition, signed by the artist. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 10: Nancy Cunard, Negro Anthology, with a tipped-in A.L.S. to Karl Marx's niece, 1934. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 14: Margaret Fuller, Woman in the Nineteenth Century, 1845. First edition. $4,000 to $6,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 17: Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, inscribed first edition, 1959. $2,000 to $3,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 28: Margaret Hill Morris, Private Journal Kept during a Portion of the Revolutionary War, for the Amusement of a Sister, 1836. First edition. $3,000 to $4,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 38: Anna Sewell, Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse, 1877. First edition. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 43: Gertrude Stein, Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia, signed presentation copy with photograph of Stein, 1912. First edition. $8,000 to $12,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 48: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, first edition in the scarce dust jacket, 1927. $6,000 to $8,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 54: Katherine Dunham, large archive of material from her attorney, 1951-53. $20,000 to $30,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 55: Margaret Fuller Signed Autograph Letter, New York City, 1846. $3,000 to $5,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 92: Sonia Delaunay, illus. & Tristan Tzara, Juste Present, deluxe edition with original gouache, 1961. $20,000 to $25,000.
    Swann, May 15: Lot 93: Flor Garduño, The Sonnets of Shakespeare, 2006. Limited edition. $6,000 to $8,000.
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    Sotheby’s: Ten Commandments Tablet, 300-800 CE | One of humanity's earliest and most enduring moral codes. Sold: 5,040,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Blake | Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Sold: 4,320,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: The Declaration of Independence | The Holt printing, the only copy in private hands. Sold: 3,360,000 USD
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    Gonnelli: 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€
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    Gonnelli 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€
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    Gonnelli: 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€
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    Gonnelli: 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€
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    Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration
    Dominic Winter, May 14: (Choiseul-Gouffier, Marie). Voyage Pittoresque de la Grece, 2 vols, 1st edition, 1782-1822. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle, by Sylvanus Urban, 11 volumes. £700-1,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Shackleton (Ernest). The Heart of the Antarctic, 2 vols, 1st ed, presentation copy, 1909. £2,000-3,000
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Drayton (Michael). Poly Olbion..., London: 1622. £2,000-3,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Scheuchzer (Johann Jacob). Ouresiphoites Helveticus, 4 parts in 1, 2nd ed, 1723. £3,000-4,000
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Roberts (Henry, after). Chart of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia ..., [1784]. £500-800
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000
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    Dominic Winter, May 14: Taylor (John). All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet..., 1630. £1,000-1,500
    Dominic Winter, May 14: Pierpont Morgan Collection. Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, 1904 & 1906. £2,000-3,000