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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., 20Mar1939,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- March 20, 1939 - March 20, 1939
Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
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101 | Harrison, J. | The Floricultural Cabinet | 1840-51 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
102 | Sowerby, J.; Wood, W. | Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells; General Conchology | 1835 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
103 | Boswell, J.; Kipling, R. | Life of Johnson; Soldier Tales | 1804; 1822; 1896 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
104 | Wooster, D. | Alpine Plants | 1874 |
GBP - | 1.01 | |
105 | Dickens, C. | Extra Christmas numbers of All the Year Round | 1863-67 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
106 | Dickensian | 1905-24 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
107 | Petrarch, Francis; Hayward, Sir John; Hall, J.; Derendel, Peter; Swinburne, A. C.; Barclay, John | Phisicke against Fortune; The First Part of the Life and raigne of King Henrie the IIII; Select Observations; The true and lyuely historyke purtreatures of the woll Bible; A Study of Shakespeare; Mary Stuart; The Mirrour of Mindes or Barclays Icon Animoru | Lyons | 1579; 1599; 1679; 1553; 1880; 1881; 1889-1929; 1631 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
112 | Walpole, Hora | Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England | Strawberry Hill | 1758 |
GBP - | 2.00 |
113 | Guez J. L. Sieur de Balzac; Bacon, F.; Childrey, J.; Lloyd, David; Sandys, George; Mallet, David | Augsburg Confession; New Epistles; Baconiana; Britannica Baconica; The Statesmen and Favourites of England since the Reformation; Anglorum Speculum; Life of Francis Bacon | 1536; 1638; 1679; 1661; 1665; 1740; 1684 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
114 | Lambarde, William | A Perambulation of Kent | 1596 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
115 | Dodgson, C. L. | Through the Looking-Glass | 1872 |
GBP - | 0.07 | |
116 | Freke, W.; Clarke, S.; Gratian, B. | Select Essays tending to the Universal Reformation of Learning; A Collection of Papers which passed between Mr. Leibnitz and Dr. Clarke; The Compleat Gentleman | 1730; 1693; 1717 |
GBP - | 0.15 | |
117 | Willis, J. | Mnemonica; or | 1661 |
GBP - | 2.04 | |
118 | Waller, J.; Hibbert, S.; Saunders, R. | Treatise; Sketches of the Philosophy of Apparitions; Astrological Judgement of Physick | Edinburgh | 1824; 1816; 1677 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
119 | Guichard, M.; Valerius Flaccus; Hierocles; Naudé, G. | De Antiquis Triumphorum Spectaculis; Argonautica; De Providentia et Fato; Naudeana et Patiniana | Amsterdam; Leyden | 1661; 1702-1673; 1703 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
120 | Passio Christi; Wilbraham Family; Journal of D. A. R. Kirwan | 18th century; early 19th century; 1897-98 |
GBP - | 0.05 | ||
121 | Boyle, Robert; Brook, Robert, Lord; Bunyan, J. | The Christian Virtuoso; The Nature of Truth; Pilgrim's Progress | 1640; c. 1710; 1690 |
GBP - | 2.15 | |
122 | Gersaint, E. F. | Catalogue Raisonné des differens Effets Curieux contenus dans le Cabinet de feu M. le Chevalier de la Roque | 1745; 1748 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
123 | Stephens, E.; Langhorne, J.; Callcott, J. | Poems on Various Subjects; Fables of Flora; Musical Grammar | velvet | 1794; 1806; 1759 |
GBP - | 0.18 |
124 | Roberts, W.; Pougin, A. | Bookhunter in London; Dictionnaire du Theatre | Paris | 1885; 1895 |
GBP - | 0.16 |
125 | LANZA, Ferdinand; LEOPOLD I. | A. L. s. to Garibaldi; King of the Belgians | Palermo | 30 May, 1860; 30 May, 1842 |
GBP - | Not Sold |
126 | Quincy, J.; Gataker, J.; Grosvenor, B. | Medicina Statica; being the Aphorisms of Sanctorius; The Operations in Surgery of M. Le Dran; Health | 1720; 1757; 1716 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
127 | Pinch, Anne, Countess of Winchilsea; Harte, W. | Miscellany Poems; Poetical Miscellanies by the Best Hands; Poems on Several Occasions | 1713; 1714; 1727 |
GBP - | 2.00 | |
128 | Lewis, D.; Savage, R. | Miscellaneous Poems by Several Hands; Works | 1726; 1775 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
129 | Walton, I.; Collier, J. | Life of Dr. Sanderson; A Defence of the Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage | 1678; 1699 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
130 | Wesley, J.; Bacon, F.; Seymour, R. | Doctrine of Original Sin; Essays; The Court Gamester; Le Beau Monde | Bristol | 1757; 1691; 1722; 1807 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
131 | Goldsmith, Oliver; Heath, B. | Essays; A Revisal of Shakespeare's Text | 1765; 1765 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
132 | Ferrall, S. A. | A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America; The Modern Traveller | 1832; 1829 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
133 | Aubin, P.; Spenser, E. | The Illustrious French Lovers; Works | 1727; 1715 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
134 | Naval Chronicle | 1799-1809 |
GBP - | Not Sold | ||
135 | Rietstap, J. B. | Armorial Général | Gouda | 1884-87 |
GBP - | 3.15 |
136 | Trollope, Anthony | The Chronicles of Barsetshire | 1879 |
GBP - | 1.06 | |
137 | Schema aller Uniform der Kaiserl | Vienna | 1787 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
138 | BOSWELL, JAMES | Anstruther (Sir William) Essays | Edinburgh | 1701 |
GBP - | 10.10 |
139 | Reisch, Gregorius | Margarita Philosophica | Freiburg | 16th March, 1504 |
GBP - | 3.05 |
140 | Browne, Sir Thomas; Milton, John | Religio Medici; Eikonoclastes | Strassburg | 1652; 1650 |
GBP - | 1.10 |
141 | Gibbons, Thomas; Chatterton, Thomas; Johnson, Samuel | Memoirs of the Rev. Isaac Watts; Poems; Letters | 1780; 1777; 1788 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
142 | Landor, Walter Savage; Abbott, Edwin A.; Hogg, James | Imaginary Conversations; Flatland; Mador of the Moor | Edinburgh | 1816; 1824; 1884 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
143 | Bouchot, Henri; Chappell, W. | The Book; Popular Music of the Olden Time | 1890 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
144 | Notes and Queries | 1849-1921 |
GBP - | 1.00 | ||
145 | Brooke, Sir Robert | Ascuns Novell Cases | 1587 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
146 | Goldsmith, Oliver | Le Ministre de Wakefield | London; Paris | 1767 |
GBP - | 1.05 |
147 | St. Evremont; Voltaire, F. M. A. de; Swift, Jonathan | Miscellaneous Essays... continued by Mr. Dryden; Letters concerning the English Nation; A Tale of a Tub | 1692; 1710; 1733 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
148 | Burns, Robert; Longfellow, H. W.; Milton, John | Poems and Songs; The Golden Legend; Paradise Lost | 1824; 1851; 1821 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
149 | Godwin, William | Mandeville | Edinburgh | 1817 |
GBP - | 1.00 |
150 | Emerson, R. W. | English Traits | Boston | 1856 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
151 | Dickens, Charles | Pickwick Papers | New York | 1838 |
GBP - | 0.10 |
152 | Ruskin, John; Wood, Nicholas | The Stones of Venice; A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads | 1851-53; 1838 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
153 | Goldsmith, Oliver | She Stoops to Conquer | 1773 |
GBP - | 7.10 | |
154 | Scotland | Edinburgh | 1682-1731 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
155 | Bacon, Sir Francis; Doderidge, Sir John | Elements of the Common Lawes of England; The English Lawyer | 1630; 1631 |
GBP - | 1.05 | |
156 | Byron, G. G., Lord; Clough, A. H.; Drayton, M. | English Bards and Scotch Reviewers; The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosich; Nymphidia | Oxford | 1814; 1848; 1811 |
GBP - | 0.08 |
157 | Carlyle, T.; Eliot, G.; Sherley, T. | Latter-day Pamphlets; Shooting Niagara: and after; Daniel Deronda; A Philosophical Essay | Edin | 1876; 1672; 1850; 1867 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
158 | Dante Alighieri | La Comedia | Vinegia | 1544 |
GBP - | 2.05 |
159 | Dickens, C. | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | 1870 |
GBP - | 4.00 | |
160 | Dickens, C. | The Pickwick Club; Nicholas Nickleby; Martin Chuzzlewit; Bleak House | 1837; 1839; 1844; 1853 |
GBP - | 1.18 | |
161 | Erskine, Mrs. Steuart; Hirth, G.; Parkyns, Sir T. | Lady Diana Beauclerk: her Life and Work; Formenschatz; The Inn-Play | Jahrgang | 1895; 1727; 1903 |
GBP - | 3.05 |
162 | Gruyer, F. A.; Cain, G.; Law, E. | La Peinture au Chateau de Chantilly; Nooks and Corners of old Paris; The Royal Gallery of Hampton Court | Paris | 1896; 1898; 1907 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
163 | Hamerton, P. G. | Etching and Etchers | 1868 |
GBP - | 1.01 | |
164 | Thackeray, W. M. | History of Pendennis; The Virginians; The Newcomes | 1849; 1858; 1854-55 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
165 | Ariosto, L. | Orlando Pvrioso | Venetia | 1560 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
166 | Bryner, B. C. | British Flag Triumphant; Abraham Lincoln in Peoria | U.S.A. | 1806; 1924 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
167 | Miscellaneous | 1859-67 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
168 | Vecellio, Cesare | Habiti Antichi et Moderni di titto il Mondo | Venetia | 1598 |
GBP - | 3.15 |
169 | Bell, Malcolm; Cuvelier, Jean | Edward Burne-Jones; Illustrations from the Life of Bertrand Dugueselin | 1892; 1909 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
170 | Gotch, J. Alfred | Architecture of the Renaissance in England | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.18 | |
171 | Gotch, J. A.; Turner, J. M. W. | Account of the Building erected in Northamptonshire by Sir T. Tresham; Richmondshire | Northampton | 1883; 1891 |
GBP - | 0.05 |
172 | Harrison, J. E. | D. S. MacColl. Greek Vase Paintings | 1894 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
173 | Hogarth, W. | Works; edited by Nichols | GBP - | 0.10 | ||
174 | Roberts, D. | The Holy Land | 1842-49 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
175 | Rothenstein, W.; Dawson, Alfred | English Portraits; Life of Henry Dawson | 1898; 1891 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
176 | Triggs, H. I. | The Art of Garden Design in Italy | 1906 |
GBP - | 1.00 | |
177 | Yeatman, J. P. | Early Genealogical History of the House of Arundel | 1882 |
GBP - | 0.08 | |
178 | Hawkins, Sir John | A General History of the Science and Practice of Music | 1776 |
GBP - | 4.15 | |
179 | Anderson, A. | The History of Commerce | 1787-89 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
180 | Parry, Capt. W. E.; Moore, Thomas | Narrative of an Attempt to reach the North Pole; Life of Byron | 1828; 1830 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
181 | Bridgens, R. | Costumes of Italy | 1821 |
GBP - | 1.12 | |
182 | Gerning, Baron J. J. von | A Picturesque Tour along the Rhine from Mentz to Cologne | 1820 |
GBP - | 3.10 | |
183 | Burney, C. | An Account of the Musical Performances in Westminster Abbey and the Pantheon | 1785 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
184 | Atkinson, G. F.; Burke, B.; Cuming, E. D. | Curry and Rice; Dormant; British Sport | 1866; 1919 |
GBP - | 2.05 | |
185 | BRITISH SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN EGYPT | 1909-28 |
GBP - | 0.10 | ||
186 | Palatino, G. B.; Parsons, Robert; Fauchet, Claude; Scott, Sir Walter; Legh, Gerard; Ayscu, E.; Seiden, John; La Primaudaye, P. de; Heylyn, P.; Estienne, Charles, et Jean Liebault; Cosin, Richard | Libro nel qual s'insegna à Scriver; Leycesters Common-wealth; Les Antiquitez Gauloises ou Francoises; Marmion; The Accedence of Armorie; A Historie; The Historie of Tithes; The French Academie; The Historie of St. George; L'Agriculture et Maison Rustique; | Rome; Paris | 1561; 1641; 1620; 1808; 1597; 1607; 1618; 1586; 1631; 1593; 1570 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
187 | Furber, R. and others | The Flower-Garden Display'd | 1734 |
GBP - | 8.05 | |
188 | Pemble, W.; Vindiciae Gratiae; Hoegger, H. | Vindiciae Fidei; A Plea for Grace; Salomons Recantation and Repentance; Introduction to the Worthy Receiving the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; Disquisitio Historica de Papa Foemina | Oxford; Leyden | 1629; 1628; 1692 |
GBP - | 0.15 |
189 | Douglas, J.; Curtis, S. | Dissertation on the Antiquity of the Earth; The Florists Directory | 1785; 1810 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
190 | Cescinsky, H. and M. R. Webster | English Domestic Clocks | 1914 |
GBP - | 3.05 | |
191 | Symonds, R. W. | English Furniture from Charles II to George II | 1929 |
GBP - | 1.08 | |
192 | Symonds, R. W.; Lenygon, F.; Chancellor, A. S. | Present State of Old English Furniture; Decoration and Furniture of English Mansions during the XVII & XVIIIth centuries; Examples of Old Furniture | 1921; 1919; 1897 |
GBP - | 0.10 | |
193 | Symonds, R. W.; Strange, T. A.; Bell, J. M. | Old English Walnut and Lacquer Furniture; English Furniture; Furniture Designs of Chippendale | 1923; 1910 |
GBP - | 1.10 | |
194 | Percival, Maclver; Evan-Thomas, O.; Litchfield, F. | Old English Furniture and Its Surroundings; Domestic Utensils of Wood; Illustrated History of Furniture | 1920; 1899; 1932 |
GBP - | 0.14 | |
195 | Westropp, M. S. D.; Lewis, J. S. | Irish Glass; Old Glass and How to Collect It | GBP - | 1.12 | ||
196 | Bryan, M. | Dictionary of Painters and Engravers | 1886-89 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
197 | Hall, J. | Episcopacie by Divine Right; An Harmony of the Confessions of the Faith of the Christian and Reformed Churches | Cambridge | 1640; 1586 |
GBP - | 0.18 |
198 | Phipps, Constantine John | A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by his Majesty's Command | 1774 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
199 | Loudon, Mrs. J. | British Wild Flowers | 1846 |
GBP - | 2.10 | |
200 | Sparrow, W. S. | A Book of Sporting Painters | 1931 |
GBP - | 0.12 | |
201 | Lyon, Capt. G. F.; Besso, S. | Travels in Northern Africa in 1818-20; Siam and China | 1821 |
GBP - | 0.05 | |
202 | Scott, Sir Walter | Lay of the last Minstrel; Marmion; Lady of the Lake; Lord of the Isles | 1808; 1810; 1815 |
GBP - | 0.16 | |
203 | Hayley, W.; Shakespeare, W.; Stevenson, R. L. | Plays of Three Acts; The Tempest; A Lowden Sabbath Morn | 1784; 1926; 1898 |
GBP - | 0.06 | |
204 | Man, John; Cass, F. C.; Deedes, Rev. C. and H. B. Walters | History and Antiquities of the Borough of Reading; Monken Hadley; The Church Bells of Essex | 1909; 1816; 1880 |
GBP - | 0.05 |