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Sale Name: VALUABLE PRINTED BOOKS. ILLUMINATED & OTHER MANUSCRIPTS, AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS ETC.
Auction Date: 07/26/1937 - 07/26/1937
Year of Sale: 1937
Sale Number: #26Jul1937
Total Lots: 664
Sold Lots: 599
Lots Sold: 90.2%
Unsold Lots: 65
Price Unknown: 0

Total Sales (GBP): 7,351.69
Low Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of Lots Sold (GBP): 0.00
Low Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
High Estimate of All Lots (GBP): 0.00
Total Sales as a % of High Est.: Inf%
Currency: GBP
Inflation Adjusted Price in U.S. Dollars: 3,031,700.00

Top twenty five by sale price

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
16	BURNS ROBERT	POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT	1786	GBP -	780.00
126	SIDNEY SIR PHILIP	THE COUNTESSE OF PEMBROKES ARCADIA, WRITTEN BY SIR PHILIPPE SIDNEI	1590	GBP -	540.00
199	DICKENS CHARLES	BARDELL AND PICKWICK / MR. CHOPS, THE DWARF / MR. BOB SAWYER'S PARTY / Three Readings / each in one chapter / Privately Printed /	1866	GBP -	400.00
150		MATTHAEUS DE CKACOVIA. TRACTATUS RATIONIS ET CON-SCIENTIAE DE SUMPTIONE PABULI SALUTIFERI CORPORIS DOMINI NOSTRI JESU CHRISTI	1459	GBP -	290.00
31	DEFOE DANIEL	THE LIFE AND STRANGE SURPRIZING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE OF YORK MARINER: who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America ... [and Part II] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	1719	GBP -	275.00
87	MILTON JOHN	POEMS BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN	1645	GBP -	170.00
325		FLOWER-PAINTINGS. A COLLECTION OF 205 ORIGINAL WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS OF FLOWERS, BEAUTIFULLY EXECUTED, ON SHEETS OF VELLUM		GBP -	160.00
537		KORAN. A VERY FINE 16TH CENTURY ARABIC MANUSCRIPT	962 A.H.=1555 A.D.	GBP -	125.00
112	RICHARDSON SAMUEL	WORKS, Clarissa. or, the History of a Young Lady, History of Sir Charles Grandison, Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ... With Observations by Anna L. Barbauld	1741-42, 1748, 1755, 1804, 1741-1804	GBP -	125.00
151		HORAE B.V.M. CUM CALENDARIO AD USUM SARUM, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM	c. 1530	GBP -	120.00
161		GOSPEL LECTIONARY FOR HOLY WEEK, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		GBP -	115.00
654	WASHINGTON George	A fine A. L. s.		GBP -	110.00
80	LA FONTAINE J. DE	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS	1762	GBP -	105.00
159		HOURS OF THE VIRGIN, WITH CALENDAR, USE OF TOUL, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		GBP -	100.00
160		HOUES OF THE VIRGIN, WITH CALENDAR, USE OF ROME [preceded by Hours of the Cross; Hours of the Holy Spirit, etc.] ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM in a neat gothic script in red and black		GBP -	95.00
447	CUNNINGHAM WILLIAM, Doctor in Physiche	THE COSMO-GRAPHICAL GLASSE conteinyng the pleasant Principles of Cosmographie, Georgraphie, Hydrographie, or Nauigation	1566	GBP -	88.00
448	Mr. Yorick	STERNE (LAURENCE) A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY THROUGH FRANCE AND ITALY	1768	GBP -	76.00
62	GOLDSMITH OLIVER	THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD : A TALE.	1766	GBP -	66.00
152		HORAE B.V.M. AD USUM PARISIENSEM CUM CALENDARIO, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		GBP -	65.00
433	WHITE Gilbert	THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. A very fine Autograph Manuscript, Introduction "Advertisement" to his famous work		GBP -	62.00
185		HORAE. ROUEN USE. Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Rouan au long sans requerir. PRINTED ENTIRELY ON VELLUM	1508	GBP -	62.00
288	SHELLEY P. B.	QUEEN MAB; A PHILOSOPHICAL POEM : WITH NOTES	1813	GBP -	60.00
187	LA FONTAINE J. DE	CONTES ET NOUVELLES EN VERS	1762	GBP -	52.00
86	MILTON JOHN	AREOPAGITICA; A Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing	1644	GBP -	52.00
162		ANTIPHONALE, ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM		GBP -	52.00

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Antique prints, paintings and maps
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Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
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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€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
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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€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
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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€

Gonnelli
Auction 59
Antique prints, paintings and maps
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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€
Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
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

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

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

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Maffei (Giovanni), Indiarum orientalium Occidentaliumque Descriptio..., 1589. £1,200-1,500

Dominic Winter, May 14: World. Ortelius (Abraham), Typus Orbis Terrarum, [1598]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter, May 14: Bible [English]. [The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New..., 1613]. £2,000-3,000

Dominic Winter Auctioneers
May 14
Printed Books & Maps, Travel, Atlases & Exploration

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
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: The Shem Tov Bible, 1312 | A Masterpiece from the Golden Age of Spain. Sold: 6,960,000 USD

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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Sotheby’s: Thomas Taylor | The original cover art for Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Sold: 1,920,000 USD

Sotheby’s: Machiavelli | Il Principe, a previously unrecorded copy of the book where modern political thought began. Sold: 576,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Leonardo da Vinci | Trattato della pittura, ca. 1639, a very fine pre-publication manuscript. Sold: 381,000 GBP

Sotheby’s: Henri Matisse | Jazz, Paris 1947, the complete portfolio. Sold: 312,000 EUR