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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 611 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | Works | 1709-10 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 612 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | Works | 1709-10 |
GBP - | 52.00 | |
| 613 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | Dramatic Works | Chiswick | 1814 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 614 | SHAKESPEARE (WM.) | COMEDIES | 1685 |
GBP - | 160.00 | |
| 615 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | Comedies | Oxford | 1902 |
GBP - | 6.50 |
| 616 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | A Collection of Poems | 1709 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 617 | Shakespeare (Wm.) | Comedy of The Tempest | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 618 | Shelley (P. B.) | Shakespeare Head Press | 1921 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 619 | Bede (Venerable) | Shakespeare Head Press | 1930 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 620 | Spenser (E.) | Shakespeare Head Press | Oxford | 1930-32 |
GBP - | 6.00 |
| 621 | Bronte (Sisters) | Shakespeare Head Press | Oxford | 1931-2 |
GBP - | 9.00 |
| 622 | Shaw (G. B.) | Widowers' Houses | 1893 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 623 | Shaw (G. B.) | Love Among the Artists | Chicago | 1900 |
GBP - | 1.75 |
| 624 | Shelley (P. B.) | Revolt of Islam | 1818 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 625 | [Shelley (P. B.)] | St. Irvyne | 1811 |
GBP - | 34.00 | |
| 626 | Shelley (P. B.) | Posthumous Poems | 1824 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 627 | Shirley (James) | The Gamester | 1637 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 628 | Simoneta (Joannes) | Commentarii rerum gestarum Francisci Sfortiae | Milan | [1482] |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 629 | Singer (C.) | Studies in The History and Method of Science | Oxford | 1917-21 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 630 | Singer (C.) | From Magic to Science | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 631 | Smollett (S.) | The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle | 1715 |
GBP - | 18.00 | |
| 632 | Smollett (T.) | Complete History of England | 1757-8 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 633 | Smollett (T.) | Travels Through France and Italy | 1766 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 634 | Solvyns (B.) | Costume of Hindustan | 1807 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 635 | Sparrman (Andrew) | Voyage to the Cape of Good Hope | 1785 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 636 | Spenser (Edmund) | The Faerie Queen | 1611-13 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 637 | Walpole (H.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1758 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 638 | Lucanus (M.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1760 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 639 | Herbert of Cherbury (E.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1764 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 640 | Herbert of Cherbury (E.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1765 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 641 | Walpole (H.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1764 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 642 | Walpole (H.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1765-71 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 643 | Walpole (H.) | Strawberry Hill Press | 1772 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 644 | [Sterne (L.)] | The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy | 1760-67 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 645 | [Sterne (L.)] | A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy | 1768 |
GBP - | 20.00 | |
| 646 | Sterne (L.) | Letters ... to his most intimate Friends | 1775 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 647 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes | 1879 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 648 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Virginibus Puerisque | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 649 | Stevenson (R. L.) | New Arabian Nights | 1882 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 650 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Treasure Island | 1883 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 651 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Treasure Island | 1883 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 652 | Stevenson (R. L.) and F. van de Grift | Stevenson The Dynamiter | 1885 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 653 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Strange Case of Dr | 1886 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 654 | Stevenson (R. L.) | Strange Case of Dr | GBP - | 2.50 | ||
| 655 | Stow (J.) | The Abridgement of the English Chronicle | 1611 |
GBP - | 3.50 | |
| 656 | Suckling (Sir J.) | [Fragmenta Aurea (part of)] | 1648 |
GBP - | 0.75 | |
| 657 | Surtess (R. S.) | Mr. Facey Romford's Hounds | 1865 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 658 | Swarbrick (J.) | Robert Adam and His Brothers | [1915] |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 659 | Sweet (R.) | British Flower Garden | 1823-38 |
GBP - | 42.00 | |
| 660 | [Swift (J.)] | Miscellanies in Prose and Verse | 1711 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 661 | Swift (J.) | On Poetry a Rapsody | 1733 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 662 | Swinburne (A. C.) | The Queen Mother Rosamond | 1860 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 663 | Swinburne (A. C.) | Poems and Ballads | 1866 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 664 | Symonds (J. A.) | Life of Benvenuto Cellini | 1888 |
GBP - | 2.75 | |
| 665 | Taylor (G. C.) | The Modern Garden | GBP - | 2.00 | ||
| 666 | Tennyson (Alfred) | Idylls of the Hearth | 1864 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 667 | [Thackeray (W. M.)] | Comic Tales and Sketches | 1841 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 668 | Thackeray (W. M.) | The Adventures of Philip | 1862 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 669 | Thackeray (W. M.) | The Viginians | 1853-5 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 670 | Thackeray (Wm. M.) | The Newcomes | 1853-55 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 671 | Thomas (Wm.) | The historie of Italie | 1549 |
GBP - | 5.50 | |
| 672 | THOMSON (JAMES) | THE SEASONS | London | 1778 |
GBP - | 78.00 |
| 673 | THORNTON (ROBERT JOHN) | NEW ILLUSTRATION OF THE SEXUAL SYSTEM OF CAROLUS VON LINNAEUS | 1799-1807 |
GBP - | 190.00 | |
| 674 | Thornton (R. J.) | British Flora | 1812 |
USD - | Not Sold | |
| 675 | Thunberg (C. P.) | Flora Japonica | Leipzig | 1784 [1933] |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 676 | Tod (George) | Plans | 1823 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 677 | Tournefort (P.) | Compleat Herbal | 1719-30 |
GBP - | 0.50 | |
| 678 | Tournefort (J. P.) | Institutiones Rei Herbaria | 1770 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 679 | Trevelyan (Sir G. 0.) | American Revolution | 1899-1914 |
GBP - | 1.75 | |
| 680 | Trollope (A.) | The Kellys and The O'Kellys | 1848 |
GBP - | 13.00 | |
| 681 | Trollope (A.) | The Warden | 1855 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
| 682 | Trollope (A.) | The Three Clerks | 1858 |
GBP - | 17.00 | |
| 683 | Trollope (A.) | Castle Richmond | 1860 |
GBP - | 2.25 | |
| 684 | Trollope (A.) | Orley Farm | 1861-2 |
GBP - | 4.50 | |
| 685 | Trollope (A.) | Orley Farm | 1862 |
GBP - | 6.50 | |
| 686 | Trollope (A.) | North America | GBP - | 3.50 | ||
| 687 | Trollope (A.) | The Last Chronicle of Barset | 1866-7 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 688 | Trollope (Anthony) | He Knew He Was Right | 1869-70 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 689 | Trollope (A.) | The Vicar of Bullhampton | 1870 |
GBP - | 7.00 | |
| 690 | Trollope (A.) | Ralph the Heir | 1871 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 691 | Trollope (A.) | Sir Harry Hotspur | GBP - | 4.00 | ||
| 692 | Trollope (A.) | Lady Anna | 1874 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 693 | Trollope (A.) | How the "Mastiffs" went to Iceland | 1878 |
GBP - | 8.50 | |
| 694 | Trollope (A.) | The Way we Live Now | GBP - | 7.00 | ||
| 695 | Trollope (A.) | An Eye for an Eye | 1879 |
GBP - | 27.00 | |
| 696 | Trollope (A.) | The Fixed Period | 1882 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 697 | Tusser (T.) | Five hundred Points of Good Husbandry | 1931 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 698 | Tyndale (Wm.) | The Parable of the Wycked Mammon | GBP - | 36.00 | ||
| 699 | Guerin (M. de) | Vale Press | 1899 |
GBP - | 8.00 | |
| 700 | Valerian (J. P.) | Pro Sacerdotum Barbis | Paris | 1531 |
GBP - | 2.50 |
| 701 | Variorum Pontificum ad Petrum Cnapheum Eutychianum | Ingoldstadt | 1616 |
GBP - | 16.00 | |
| 702 | Walton (I.) and C. Cotton | Complete Angler | Pickering | 1836 |
GBP - | 8.00 |
| 703 | Wathen (James) | Voyage to Madras and China | 1814 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 704 | Watson (T.) | Holsome Catholyke doctryne | 1558 |
GBP - | 2.50 | |
| 705 | Weaver (Sir L.) and R. Randal Phillips | Small Country Houses of To-day 3 vol | 1922-25 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 706 | Wentworth (Lady) | The Authentic Arabian Horse | 1945 |
GBP - | 12.00 | |
| 707 | Whistler (Jas. A. McN.) | Gentle Art of Making Enemies | GBP - | 3.00 | ||
| 708 | White (Gilbert) | Natural History of Selborne | 1789 |
GBP - | 7.50 | |
| 709 | White (G.) | Natural History of Selborne | 1900 |
GBP - | 1.50 | |
| 710 | Wilde (Oscar) | Lady Windermere's Fan | GBP - | 9.00 |
![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.")
