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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. -
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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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
Sothebys: PRINTED BOOKS AND A FEW MANUSCRIPTS., 09Mar1936,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 09, 1936 - March 09, 1936
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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100 | Gay John | Polly: an Opera. | 1729 |
GBP - | 1.03 | |
101 | Hales John | Golden Remains. | 1659 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
102 | Jackson C, J. | English Goldsmiths and their Marks. | 1905 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
103 | Jonson Ben | Volpone: or the Fox. | 1898 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
104 | Meinhold Wm. | Sidonia the Sorceress. | 1893 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
105 | Lawrence H. W. and B. L. | Dighton French Line Engravings of the late XVIII Century. | 1910 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
106 | Longus; Castiglione Count B. | Daphnis and Chloe from Amyot's Translation.; The Book of the Courtier. | 1890, 1902 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
107 | Magnusson E. and Wm. Morris; Meinhold Wm. | The Story of Grettir the Strong.; Mary Schweidler, The Amber Witch. | 1901, 1903 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
108 | Malory Sir Thomas | Le Morte Darthur. | 1893-94 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
109 | Mayne Jasper | The Citye Match. | Oxford | 1639 |
GBP - | 2.02 |
110 | Nicolas N. H. | The Siege of Carlaverock. | 1828 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
111 | C. H. Shannon and J. W. G. | Pageant (The).; The Butterfly. | 1896-97, 1899 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
112 | Percy Bishop | Folio Manuscript, Ballads and Romances. | 1867-68 |
GBP - | 1.04 | |
113 | Petronius | The Satyricon. | 1910 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
114 | P. G. Hamerton | Portfolio (The) Monographs on Artistic Subjects. | 1894-98 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
115 | Drayton Michael | Poems. | 1856 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
116 | Roxburghe Club | Map of the Holy Land. | 1867 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
117 | Settle Elkanah | Ibrahim the Illustrious Bassa. A Tragedy. | 1677 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
118 | Shakespeare Wm. | Works. | 1888 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
119 | Spenser Edmund | The Faerie Queene. | 1897 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
120 | Stansfield Collection. | n.d. |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
121 | Pedrick G. | Trinity College, Dublin.; Monastic Seals of the XIIIth Century. | 1904, 1902 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
122 | Tuer A. W. | History of the Horn-Book. | 1897 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
123 | Wagner Richard | The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie. | 1910 |
GBP - | 5.05 | |
124 | Wagner R. | Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods. | 1911 |
GBP - | 4.10 | |
125 | Walpole H.; Vertue G. | Anecdotes of Painting in England; Description of the Works of Hollar. | 1762, 1759 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
126 | Walpole Society | Annual Publications. | Oxford | 1912-17 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
127 | Water Colour Sketches of Scenes on the Rhine. | GBP - | 1.05 | |||
128 | Aesop | Aesop Fables. | 1665 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
129 | Armstrong Sir Walter | Sir Henry Raeburn. | 1901 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
130 | Armstrong Sir W. | Turner. | 1902 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
131 | Ashmole Elias | The Institution Laws and Ceremonies of the most Noble Order of the Garter. | 1672 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
132 | Bacon Francis | Resuscitatio or bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces...hitherto sleeping. | 1671 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
133 | Sir E. Sullivan | Book of Kells described. | 1914 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
134 | Boyle P. | Museum Britannicum after the original designs. | 1791 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
135 | Browne Dr. John | Myographia Nova sive Musculorum omnium... accuratissima Descriptio. | London | 1684 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
136 | Chiswick Library of Noble Writers. | 1903-04 |
GBP - | 2.05 | ||
137 | Colonna F. | Poliphili Hypnerotomachia. | Methuen | 1904 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
138 | Dugdale, William and R. Dodsworth | Monasticon Anglicanum. | London | 1655 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
139 | Dugdale, Wm. | Antiquities of Warwickshire. | 1656 |
GBP - | 2.18 | |
140 | Dugdale Wm. | History of St. Pauls Cathedral. | russia | 1658 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
141 | GOULD, JOHN | A MONOGRAPH OF THE TROCHILIDAE or Family of Humming Birds. | 1849-61 |
GBP - | 23.00 | |
142 | Neolith (The) Published Quarterly under the direction of E. Nesbit. | 1907-08 |
GBP - | 2.08 | ||
143 | Ogilby J.; Kircher A. | An Embassy... to the Emperour of China; La Chine. | 1669, 1670 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
144 | Rops Felicien | Das erotische Werk. | 1905 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
145 | Salaman M. C. | French Colour Prints of the XVIIIth Century. | 1913 |
GBP - | 1.01 | |
146 | Sandford, F.; Dugdale Wm. | Genealogical History of the Kings of England.; History of Imbanking and Drayning. | 1677, 1662 |
GBP - | 4.15 | |
147 | Schedel, Hartmann | Liber Chronicarum. | Nuremberg | 1493 |
GBP - | 11.00 |
148 | Vasari, Society | Publications for the Reproductions of drawings by Old Masters. | 1905-15 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
149 | Monstrelet, E. de; Michaud, M. | Chroniques avec notes par J. A. Buchon.; Histoire des Croisades. | 1826, 1825-29 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
150 | Tallemant, des Reaux | Les Historiettes, revue par Mm de Monmerque et Paulin Paris. | 1854-60 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
151 | Renan, Ernest; Allard Paul | Vie de Jesus.; Julien L'Apostate. | 1883, 1906 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
152 | Petit, de Julleville, L. | Histoire de la Langue et de la Littérature française. | 1896-99 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
153 | Pasquier, E. D. Chanceiier; Segur, Gen. Comtc | Memoires publiés par M. le Duc d'Audifret-Pasquier.; Histoirc et Memoires. | 1893-1908, 1877 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
154 | Villani, M. | Istorie. | Florence | 1581-87 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
155 | Sorel, Albert; Duruy G. | L'Europe et la Revolution Françhise.; Memoires de Barras. | 1887-1914, 1895 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
156 | Langon, Baron; Lamartine, A. de | Evenings with Prince Cambaceres.; Histoire des Girondins. | 1837, 1847 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
157 | Conrad, Joseph | Typhoon and Other Stories. | 1903 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
158 | Barrie, J. M.; Stevenson, R. L.; Galsworthy, J. | Margaret Ogilvy.; Catriona.; The Silver Spoon. | 1896, 1893, 1926 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
159 | Gray, T. | Poems and Letters. | 1863 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
160 | Lever, C.; Greenwood, James | Charles O'Mailey; Curiosities of Savage Life. | 1865, 1865, n. d. |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
161 | Chambers, R.; Forester, T. | The Book of Days.; Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia. | 1864, 1861 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
162 | Gaskell, Mrs. E. C. | Cranford. | 1853 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
163 | HUGHES, ARTHUR R.A., 1832-1915; Carroll Lewis; Locker Fred.; Hunt W. Holman | A Collection of 45 books from the Library of Arthur Hughes, R.A., some being presentation copies.; Phantasmagoria.; Selection from the Works.; Pre-Raphaelitism. | 1855, 1869, 1865, 1905 |
GBP - | 11.00 | |
164 | Dickens, Charles | Oliver Twist. | 1838 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
165 | Dickens, C. | American Notes for General Circulation. | 1842 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
166 | Wilde, Oscar | House of Pomegranates. | 1891 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
167 | Thackeray, W. M. | Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Cairo. | 1853 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
168 | A'Beckett, G. A. | The Comic History of England. | 1847-8 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
169 | Dickens, C.; Beerbohm M.; Stevenson, R. L. | Mystery of Edwin Drood.; Fifty Caricatures.; Songs of Travel. | 1870, 1913; 1896 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
170 | Hazlitt, W. and Leigh, Hunt | The Round Table. | Edinburgh | 1817 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
171 | Hunt, Leigh The, Liberal | Verse and Prose. | 1822-3 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
172 | DICKENS, C. | THE LIFE & ADVENTURES OF MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT. | 1844 |
GBP - | 4.05 | |
173 | Ainsworth, W. H.; Thackeray, W. M. | Ovingdean Grange.; Denis Duval. | 1860, 1867 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
174 | Hunt, Leigh | The Palfrey. | 1842 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
175 | THACKERAY, W. M. | THE NEWCOMES. | 1854-5 |
GBP - | 4.15 | |
176 | Dickens, Chas. | Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. | 1838 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
177 | Smith, T.; Hawker, P. | Life of a Fox.; Instructions to Young Sportsmen.; Walton and Cotton's Complete Angler. | 1843, 1830, 1883 |
GBP - | 2.12 | |
178 | Donne, John | Devotions upon Emergent Oecadons. | 1624 |
GBP - | 5.15 | |
179 | STERNE, L. | COLLECTION OF HIS FIRST EDITIONS. | 1760-67 |
GBP - | 42.00 | |
180 | Surtees, R. S. | Hawbuck Grange. | 1847 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
181 | Aesop; Barrie J. M. | Aesop Fables.; Sentimental Tommy. | 1818, 1896 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
182 | Reade J. E.; Desaugiers et Gentil | Revelation of Life.; La Petite Cendrillon.; Berliner Kalender auf des Gemein Jahr, 1839. | 1849, 1810, 1839 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
183 | Bonaventura St. | Privileges.; Sermones aurei atque subfiles de tempore. | 1574, 1502 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
184 | GODART J. B. AND P. A. J. DUPONCHEL | Histoire Naturelle des Lepidopteres ou Papillons de France. | 1821-44 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
185 | MILLIERE, P. | Iconographie et Description de Chenilles et Lepidopteres inedits. | n. d., 1864 and 1869 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
186 | Bacon, Sir F. | Works.; Plutarch's Lives. | 1821, 1809 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
187 | Pollock, Sir F. and F. W. Maitland | History of English Law.; Maitland. | 1895; 1897 |
GBP - | 1.16 | |
188 | Wordsworth, W. and S. T. Coleridge | Lyrical Ballads. | 1800 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
189 | Vaughan, T.; Hermes, Trismegistus | Secrets Reveal'd... containing the greatest Treasure in Chymistry.; The Divine Pymander. | 1669, 1650 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
190 | Spenser, E. | Works.; Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin. | 1873, 1890 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
191 | Arnold, F. T. | The Art of Accompaniment from a Through-Bass. | Oxford | 1931 |
GBP - | 3.00 |
192 | Caffi, F.; Torrefranca, F. | Storia della Musica Sacra.; Le Origni Italiane del Romanticismo Musicale. | Milan, Turin | 1931, 1930 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
193 | Harrison, J. | Description concerning such Mechanism as will afford a... Mensuration of Time. | 1775 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
194 | Terry, C. S.; Jahn O.; Wagner, R. | John Christian Bach.; Life of Mozart.; My Life. | 1929, 1882, 1911 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
195 | Rimsky-Korsakow N.; Riemann H.; Brancour R. | Principles of Orchestration.; Geschichte der Musiktheone.; Histoire des Instru ments de Musique. | Paris | 1923, n. d., 1921 |
GBP - | 1.15 |
196 | Bach, C. P. E. | Versuch uber die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen. | Leipzig | 1762-87 |
GBP - | 7.00 |
197 | Burney, C. | Account of the Musical Performances... in commemoration of Handel. | 1785 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
198 | Winterfeld, C. von; Gevaert, F. A. | Johannes Gabrieli und sein Zeitalter.; New Treatise on Instrumentation. | n. d., n. d. |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
199 | Ludovicus, de Comitibus | Disceptatio Practicae Manualis expenmento veraciter comprobata. | Venice | 1661 |
GBP - | 1.00 |