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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: A SELECTED PORTION OF THE EXTENSIVE AND VALUABLE LIBRARY The Property of Derck Spence, Esq. Halsall House, Ormskirk, Lanes., FERN,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- June 27, 1949 - June 27, 1949
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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| 508 | Moore (G.) | Sister Teresa | GBP - | 1.25 | ||
| 509 | Moore (G.) | A Story-Tellers Holiday | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 510 | Moore (G.) | Heloise and Abelard | 1921 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 511 | Moore (G.) | Memoirs of My Dead Life | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 512 | Moore (G.) | Pure Poetry | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 513 | Moore (G.) | The Brook Kerith | 1929 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 514 | Moore (G.) | Aphrodite in Aulis | 1930 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 515 | Moore (G.) | Peronnik the Fool | 1933 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 516 | Moore (T.) | Lalla Rookh | 1817 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 519 | Napoleon I | Memoirs of France | 1823-4 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 520 | Montaigue (M. de) | Navarre Society | 1923 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 521 | Beard (C. R.) | Nettlefold Collection | 1936 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 522 | New Mystery (A) in Physick Discovered | 1681 |
GBP - | 7.50 | ||
| 523 | Nicolson (H.) | English Sense of Humour | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 524 | Hudson (W. H.) | Nonesuch Press | 1923 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 525 | Milton (J.) | Poems | 1926 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 526 | COPPERPLATES BY STEPHEN GOODEN | BIBLE | 1924-7 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 527 | Laver (J.) | Nonesuch Press | GBP - | 0.75 | ||
| 528 | Walton (I.) | Complete Angler and The Lives | [1928] |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 529 | Plutarch. | Lives | 1929-30 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 530 | Cervantes (M. de) | Nonesuch Press | [1930] |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 531 | Nott (S. C.) | Chinese Jade | 1936 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 532 | Nuchter (Dr. F.) | Albrecht Durer | 1911 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 534 | Omar Khayyam | Rubaiyat, | 1879 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 535 | Oppe (A. P.) | Thomas Rowlandson His Drawings and Water-Colours | 1923 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 536 | Ovid | Epistles | 1680 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 537 | Oxford English Dictionary (The) | Oxford | 1933 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 538 | Pain (W. and J.) | British Palladio | 1797 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 539 | Park (Mungo) | Travels in Africa | 1799-1815 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 540 | Parkinson (J.) | Paradisi in Sole | 1629 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 541 | Parkinson (J.) | Theatrum Botanicum | 1640 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 542 | Pater (Walter) | Marius the Epicurean | GBP - | 0.50 | ||
| 543 | Paxton (Sir Joseph) | Magazine of Botany | 1834-49 |
GBP - | 33.00 | |
| 545 | Peacham (H.) | The Complete Gentleman | 1622 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 546 | Pennell (E. R. and J.) | Life of James McNeil Whistler | 1908 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 547 | Pepys (Samuel) | Memoirs | 1825 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 548 | Percy (Bp. T.) | Reliques of Ancient English Poetry | 1765 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 549 | Pettus (Sir John) | Fleta Minor | 1683 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 550 | Story (S.) | Rodin [and His Work], | 1939 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 551 | Michelangelo | GBP - | 2.50 | |||
| 552 | Vermeer (Jan) | Paintings of Vermeer (Jan) Description Phaidon Press. Vermeer (Jan) Paintings of, edited by T. Bodkin, reproductions in colour, cloth folio 1940 | 1940 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 553 | edited by W. E. Suida | Raphael. Painting, | 1941 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 554 | Paintings of Frans Hals | GBP - | 2.75 | |||
| 555 | Phaidon Press. Leonardo da Vinci, 1943 ; Botticelli, 1937 ; Augustus John, 1944 | GBP - | 1.75 | |||
| 556 | Phillips (R. Randal) | Small Family Houses | USD - | Not Sold | ||
| 557 | Phillpots (Eden) | My Shrubs | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 558 | PICHON (L.) | The New Book-Illustration in France | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 559 | Plat (Sir H.) | The Jewel House of Art and Nature | 1653 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 560 | Plato | Dialogues | Oxford | 1931 |
GBP - | 3.50 |
| 561 | Pliny | Historie of the World | 1601 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 562 | Palgrave (F. T.) | Golden Treasury | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 563 | [Paltock (Robert)] | Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins | 1751 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 564 | Poe (E. A.) | Mesmersism "In Articulo Mortis" | 1846 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 565 | Poe (E. A.) | The Bells and other Poems | USD - | Not Sold | ||
| 566 | Pope (A.) | An Essay on Man | GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 567 | Pope-Hennessy (Una) | Early Chinese Jades | 1923 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 568 | [Prynne (Wm.)] | A Quench-Coale | Amsterdam | 1637 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 569 | Rabelais (F.) | Works | 1927 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 570 | Rackham (A.) and J. M. Barrie | Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens | 1906 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 571 | Rackham (A.) and R. H. Barham | Ingoldsby Legends | 1907 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 572 | Rackham (A.) and [R. H. Barham] | The Ingoldsby Legends | 1907 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 573 | Rackham (A.) | De la Motte Fouque | 1909 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 574 | Rackham (A.) | Fairy Tales | 1909 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 575 | Rackham (A.) and F. A. Steel | English Fairy Tales | 1918 |
GBP - | 9.00 | |
| 576 | Rackham (A.) | Irish Fairy Tales | 1920 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 577 | Rackham (A.) and O. Goldsmith | Vicar of Wakefield | 1929 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 578 | Rackham (A.) and Hans Anderson | Fairy Tailes | 1932 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 579 | Rackham (A.) and G. Rossetti | Gobling Market | 1933 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 580 | Rackham (A.) | Fairy Book | 1933 |
GBP - | 14.00 | |
| 581 | Rackham (A.) and R. Browning | Pied Piper of Hamelin | 1934 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 582 | Rackham (A.) and E. A. Poe | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1935 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 583 | Rackham (A.) and E. A. Poe | Tales of Mystery and Imagination | 1935 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 584 | Rackham (A.) and H. Ibsen | Peer Gynt | 1936 |
GBP - | 26.00 | |
| 585 | Rackham (A.) and N. Hawthorne | A Wonder Book | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 586 | Rackham (A.) and J. Milton | Comus | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 587 | Radcliffe (Ann) | Mysteries of Adolphe | 1794 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 588 | Raleigh (Sir W.) | Arts of the Empire | 1692 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 589 | Ray (John) | Collection of English Words | GBP - | 5.00 | ||
| 590 | Read (C.) | White Lies | GBP - | 5.50 | ||
| 591 | Reade (Charles) | A Woman Hater | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 592 | Rey (Robert) | Manet | GBP - | 1.75 | ||
| 593 | Boccaccio (G.) | Riccardi Press | 1909 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 594 | Rocheblave (S.) | French Painting in the XVIIIth | 1937-36 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 595 | Roux (H.) and M. L. Barre | Herculanum et Pompei | Paris | 1875-7 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 596 | Rowlandson (T.) | Watercolour Drawings | New York | 1947 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 597 | Royal Horticultural Society Journal (The) vol. 1-63 | 1846-1938 |
GBP - | 26.00 | ||
| 598 | Rule (W. H.) | History of The Inquisition | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 599 | Russell (C. E.) | English Mezzotint Portraits | 1926 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 600 | Rymers' Club | 1892-4 |
USD - | Not Sold | ||
| 601 | Rymers' Club | 1892-4 |
GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 602 | Sabunde (Raymundus de) | Theologia Naturalis sive liber creaturarum specialeter de homine et de natura ejus inquantum homo | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 602A | SALT (H. S.) | An Examination of Hoggs "Life of Shelley" | 1888 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 603 | [Scargill (W. P.)] | Blue Stocking Hall | GBP - | 1.50 | ||
| 604 | Scarron (P.) | The Comical Romance | 1775 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 605 | Fielding (J.) | Scholartis Press | 1929 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 606 | Schreiber (Lady C.) | Journals | 1911 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 607 | [Schreinar (Olive)] | The Story of an African Farm | 1883 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 608 | Scott (Peter) | Wild Chorus | 1938 |
GBP - | 9.50 | |
| 609 | SEVEN PENITENTIAL PSALMS | Prayers of St | Netherlands | GBP - | 48.00 | |
| 610 | Shakespeare (W.) | Works | 1709 |
GBP - | 9.50 |
![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.")
