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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
![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: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 200 | Virgil | Opera. | 1757 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 201 | Caxton, W. | The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers. | 1877 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
| 202 | Tasso, T. | Aminta. | Crisopoli | 1789 |
GBP - | 1.18 |
| 203 | Butler, C. | The Principles of Musik, in Singing and Setting. | 1636 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 204 | Verstegan, R. | Restitution of Decayed Intelligence. | Antwerp | 1605 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
| 205 | Willan, L. | Orgula; or, The Fatall Error, a Tragedy. | 1658 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
| 206 | Mullen, A. | Anatomical Account of the Elephant accidentally Burnt in Dublin. | 1682 |
GBP - | 6.10 | |
| 207 | Massinger, Philip | The Renegado, a Tragae Comedie. | 1630 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 208 | Markham, G. | The English Husbandman. | 1635 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 209 | Wilson, John | Cheerful Ayres or Ballads for Three Voyces. | Oxford | 1660 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 210 | Donne, J. Biathanatos | A Declaration of that Paradoxe, or Thesis, that Selfe-homicide is not so Naturally Sinne. | 1644 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 211 | Ranters Religion. | 1650 |
GBP - | 1.10 | ||
| 212 | Ranters Declaration. | 1650 |
GBP - | 1.10 | ||
| 213 | QUAKERS. | London | 1670-80 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 214 | SCOTLAND. | GBP - | 3.00 | |||
| 215 | VERBOON, Elizabeth | The Conversion and Persecutions of Eve Cohan. | 1680 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 216 | REPTON, H. | OBSERVATIONS ON THE THEORY & PRACTICE OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING. | 1803 |
GBP - | 10.00 | |
| 217 | Warburton J. | History of Dublin. | 1818 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 218 | JENKINS, J. | NAVAL ACHIEVEMENTS of Great Britain from 1793 to 1817. | n. d. |
GBP - | 22.00 | |
| 219 | BULLEN, A. H. | COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS. | 1882-87 |
GBP - | 16.10 | |
| 220 | Markham, G. | Cavelarice; or, the English Horseman. | 1607 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 221 | Philopatris | Humble Petition offered to the Worshipfull Estates of the present Parliament assembled at Westminster Palace. | 1606 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 222 | Whately, William | Sinne no More. | London | 1628 |
GBP - | 2.05 |
| 223 | Curio, C. S. | Pasquine in a Traunce. | T. Este | 1584 |
GBP - | 3.10 |
| 224 | Fuller, Thos | Joseph's Party-coloured Coat. | London | 1640 |
GBP - | 1.05 |
| 225 | Heywood, T. | Life of Merlin, Sirnamed Ambrosius, his prophesies, & predictions interpreted. | 1641 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 226 | New Invention (A): or, a paire of Cristall Spectacles.; The Eye Clear'd: or, a Preservative for the sight. | 1644, circa 1644 |
GBP - | 6.10 | ||
| 227 | Smith, J. C.; Davenport, C.; Burton, W. | British Mezzotinto Portraits.; Mezzotints.; History of English Porcelain. | 1883, 1904, 1902 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 228 | Binns, W. Moore | The First Century of English Porcelain. | 1906 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
| 229 | GORER, E. AND J. F. BLACKER | Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones. | 1911 |
GBP - | 14.10 | |
| 230 | Armstrong, R. B. | Musical Instruments. | Edinburgh | 1904-8 |
GBP - | 2.15 |
| 231 | J. A. Fuller Maitland and W. Barclay, Squire | Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. | 1899 |
GBP - | 4.15 | |
| 232 | Purcell, Henry | Orpheus Britannicus. | W. Pearson | 1706-12 |
GBP - | 2.10 |
| 233 | Gaffurio F. | Theorice Musice. | Milan | 1934 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
| 234 | Hipkins, A. J. | Musical Instruments. | 1888 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 235 | Macquoid, P. and R. Edwards | The Dictionary of English Furniture. | 1924 |
GBP - | 8.15 | |
| 236 | Mulliner, H. H. | The Decorative Arts in England, 1660-1780. | n. d. |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 237 | Britton, John | History of Cassiobury Park. | 1827 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
| 238 | HOUGHTON, GALLERY | Engraved Plates in mezzotint. | 1788 |
GBP - | 21.10 | |
| 239 | PLOOS, VAN AMSTEL C. J. | COLLECTION DIMITATIONS de Dessins d'apres les principaux maitres Hollandais et Flamands. | 1821 |
GBP - | 31.00 | |
| 240 | British, Museum | Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum. | 1834 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 241 | D'OYLY Sir C. | VIEWS IN CALCUTTA AND ITS ENVIRONS. | 1848 |
GBP - | 13.10 | |
| 242 | MACHTAVELLI, Niccolo | THE PRINCE. | GBP - | 8.00 | ||
| 243 | Woodroffe, Benjamin | Advice to a Young Man Just Married. | 20 Jan., 1674 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 244 | STATUTES. | cum privilegio Regali | N.D. circa 1544 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 245 | KINGLAKE, A. W. | Invasion of the Crimea. | GBP - | 0.10 | ||
| 246 | SHAKESPEARE, W. | A COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS. | GBP - | 10.00 | ||
| 247 | Grew, N. | The Anatomy of Plants. | 1682 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 248 | Pliny | The Historie of the World. | 1634 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
| 249 | Gerarde, J. | The Herball. | 1633 |
GBP - | 5.00 | |
| 250 | Grew N.; Sewell W. | The Anatomy of Plants.; History of the Quakers. | Burlington | 1682, 1774 |
GBP - | 0.16 |
| 251 | Duke, of Beaufort | Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. | 1889-1901 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 252 | Balzac, H. de | Comedie Humaine. | 1895-98 |
GBP - | 6.15 | |
| 253 | Boaden, J.; Leslie C. R. and T. Taylor | Life of Mrs. Jordan.; Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds. | 1831, 1865 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 254 | Brayley, E. W.; Storer and Greig | Topographical History of Surrey.; The Antiquarian Itinerary. | 1850, 1815-18 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 255 | Burton, Sir R. F.; Stanley, H. M. | Works.; In Darkest Africa. | 1893-94; 1890 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 256 | Combe, Wm. | The English Dance of Death. | 1815-16 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 257 | Defoe, Daniel | Romances and Narratives. | 1895 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 258 | De Maupassant Guy Works. | New York | 1923 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
| 259 | Dickens, Charles | Pickwick Papers. | 1837 |
GBP - | 1.06 | |
| 260 | Dickens, C. | Nicholas Nickleby. | 1839 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 261 | Dickens, C. | Letters. | 1880-82 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
| 262 | DUMAS, ALEXANDRE | WORKS. | Dent & Co. | 1893-97 |
GBP - | 16.00 |
| 263 | Dumas, Alex | Celebrated Crimes Translated by I. G. Burnham. | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 264 | Durfey, T. | Wit and Mirth: or Pills to Purge Melancholy. | GBP - | 1.00 | ||
| 265 | Egan, Pierce | Life in London. | 1821 |
GBP - | 3.00 | |
| 266 | Faulkner, Thomas | Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea. | 1810 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
| 267 | Gilpin, William | Works. | 1786-91 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 268 | Hpmilton, Count A. | Select Tales.; Memoirs Denzil Lord Holies, Baron of Ifield. | 1760, 1699 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
| 269 | Jonson, Ben | Works. | 1716 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 270 | Leland, John | The Itinerary in England and Wales. | 1907-10 |
GBP - | 3.15 | |
| 271 | Letter (A) to the House of Commons on the Subject of the Litany and the Allowance to the Queen. | 1821 |
GBP - | 1.12 | ||
| 272 | Lever, Charles | Jack Hinton the Guardsman. | Dublin | 1843 |
GBP - | 1.14 |
| 273 | Brydall, J.; Chancellor, E. B. | A collection of 53 books on London.; Camera Regis, or, a short View of London.; A peep into the Holy Land, or Sinks of London Laid Open.; History of the Squares of London plates. | 1676, circa 1825, 1907 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
| 274 | McCarthy, J. | History of the Four Georges.; Hone's Every-Day Book and Hone's Year Book. | 1884, 1830-32 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 275 | Marlowe, Christopher | Works. | 1826 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
| 276 | Marryat, Capt. F. | Novels. | 1895-96 |
GBP - | 5.05 | |
| 277 | Middle Temple | The Middle Temple Bench Book.; Middle Temple Records. | 1912, 1910, 1903-05 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 278 | Thackeray, W. M.; J. Gairdner | Paston Letters.; Works. | Edinburgh | 1910, 1898-1901 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
| 279 | H. B. Wheatley | Pepys Samuel Diary. | 1893-99 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
| 280 | Scott, Sir Walter | Waverley Novels with Notes by Andrew Lang. | 1892-4 |
GBP - | 5.10 | |
| 281 | Shakespeare, W. | Works. | 1865 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 282 | Shakespeare, Wm. | Works. | 1767 |
GBP - | 1.02 | |
| 283 | Shakespeare, Wm. | Plays with notes by Sam. Johnson and Others. | 1765 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
| 284 | Smollett, Tobias | Works Edited by George Saintsbury. | 1895 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 285 | Sterne L.; Shakespeare Wm. | Works, with Life.; Works with Notes by Theobald. | 1783, 1740 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
| 286 | Stevenson, R. L. | Works. | Edinb. | 1895-1903 |
GBP - | 14.10 |
| 287 | Surtees, R. S. | Sporting Novels. | 1899-1900 |
GBP - | 1.15 | |
| 288 | Swift, Dean J. | Works with notes and life by Sir Walter Scott. | 1883-84 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
| 289 | Trial of Lord George Gordon for High Treason. | Edinb. | 1781 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 290 | Wilson, Harriette | Memoirs of Harriette Wilson, a Celebrated Courtezan. | Duncombe | n. d. |
GBP - | 4.15 |
| 291 | Wyllie, B.; Bell M. | Sheffield Plate.; Old Pewter. | n. d., n. d. |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
| 292 | ACKERMANN, R. | THE MICROCOSM OF LONDON. | 1808-10 |
GBP - | 27.10 | |
| 293 | Addison, Joseph; Hamilton, Count A. | Works.; Memoirs of Count Grammont. | 1721, 1811 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
| 294 | Casanova, Giacomo | Memoirs Translated by Arthur Machen. | 1922 |
GBP - | 6.00 | |
| 295 | Caulfield, James | Portraits of Remarkable Persons. | 1813 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
| 296 | Barrere A. and C. G. Leland | Century Cyclopaedia of Names.; Dictionary of Slang. | 1904, 1897 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
| 297 | Egan P. | Cruikshankian Momus.; Life of an Actor. | 1892, 1892 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
| 298 | Daniel, Samuel; Walker, C. | The Collection of the Historie of England.; Relations and Observations Historical and Politick upon the Parliament. | n. d., 1648 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
| 299 | Goldsmith, Oliver | She Stoops to Conquer.; Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets and Olde ffrends with newe Faces. | n. d., 1883 |
GBP - | 1.12 |
![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.")
