Sothebys: Books, Manuscripts and Music from Medieval to Modern - online 11/28, L24401, London

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Auction Date
December 12, 2024 - December 12, 2024
Page Size: 94 items in 4 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
51 Sir Alfred Milner, Viscount Milner

Series of c.120 autograph letters signed, many of great length, to Lady Violet Cecil, covering twenty years of close friendship and ending shortly before their marriage,...

GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 Not Sold
52 Cardinal John Henry Newman.

Series of 20 autograph letters signed (including one with a clipped signature), with two further fragments, and one printed letter signed, to the Rev. Lord Charles Thynne and his wife Harriet,...

1852-67 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 7,200.00
53 Florence Nightingale

Notes on Nursing: What it is, and What it is Not.

London 1860 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 GBP 9,600.00
54 Beatrix Potter

The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

London 1902 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 24,000.00
55 Rainer Maria Rilke, trans. V & E Sackville West

Duineser Elegien. Elegies from the Castle of Duino

London 1931 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 Not Sold
56 J.K. Rowling

Inscribed copies of the first two Harry Potter books, comprising: i. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

London 1997 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
57 J.K. Rowling

A collection of letters and related ephemera, comprising: (i) Typed letter signed, dated 11 November 1997, addressed to "Everyone in Miss. Searle's Class", ...

1997 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 4,800.00
58 J.K. Rowling

A collection of first edition Harry Potter books, comprising: (i) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.

London 1997 GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 GBP 14,400.00
59 J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

London 1998 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,200.00
60 Arthur Szyk---Cecil Roth (editor)

The Haggadah, Executed by Arthur Szyk, Edited by Cecil Roth.

Watford 1940 GBP 15,000.00 - 25,000.00 Not Sold
61 Arthur Szyk

The Haggadah executed by Arthur Szyk edited and with an introduction by Cecil Roth.

Watford 1940 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 Not Sold
62 Christian Zervos

Pablo Picasso. OEuvres de 1895 a [1972].

Paris 1949-1986 GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00 Not Sold
63 Album

Attractive early twentieth-century German album containing signatures and inscriptions of c.60 singers, musicians and actors, together with a number of photographs

Germany, early twentieth-century GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 1,080.00
64 Bela Bartok

Extraordinary autograph field-book of Hungarian folksong transcriptions, UNPUBLISHED

1906-1918 GBP 60,000.00 - 80,000.00 GBP 132,000.00
65 Bela Bartok

Collection of 24 Hungarian folksong transcriptions 1906-1030

1906-1930 GBP 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 GBP 21,600.00
66 Bela Bartok

Autograph manuscript of 18 Hungarian folksong texts, SOME WITH RHYTHMIC AND MUSICAL ANNOTATIONS, APPARENTLY UNRECORDED

1918 or later GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 2,040.00
67 Bela Bartok

Autograph notebook documenting Bartok's phonograph recordings of Hungarian folksongs, UNPUBLISHED

1906-1907 GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 GBP 12,000.00
68 Bela Bartok

Autograph notebook documenting Bartok's phonograph recordings of Slovak folksongs

c.1907 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 3,600.00
69 Bela Bartok

Remarkable manuscript of Slovak folksong-text transcriptions apparently in Klara Gombossy's hand, CORRECTED AND ANNOTATED BY BARTOK, UNPUBLISHED IN THIS FORM

1915-1916 GBP 3,000.00 - 5,000.00 GBP 4,200.00
70 Bela Bartok

Autograph letter to Klara Gombossy, ONLY PARTLY PUBLISHED

1916 GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00 GBP 6,000.00
71 Bela Bartok

Remarkable autograph letter signed, with Bartok's monogram ("khaB"), to Klara Gombossy, PARTIALLY PUBLISHED, ABOUT HIS OWN MUSIC

1916 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,560.00
72 Bela Bartok

Two autograph letters to his muse Klara Gombossy, about the ballet The Wooden Prince and the Five Songs op.15, ONLY PARTIALLY PUBLISHED

1916 GBP 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 GBP 5,400.00
73 Bela Bartok

Four autograph letters, three signed ("B"; "Bartok Bila"; "Alib Kotrab"), to Klara Gombossy, SUBSTANTIALLY UNPUBLISHED

1916 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 4,800.00
74 Bela Bartok

Collection of autograph letters by Ditta Bartok, and other Bartok material, the letters c.1942-1950, APPARENTLY UNPUBLISHED

c.1942-1950 GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 GBP 7,800.00
75 Johannes Brahms and Franz Liszt

Four photographic portraits, two signed ("Johannes Brahms" and "F. Liszt"), and three autograph envelopes by Brahms

New York c.1860s-1897 GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 GBP 5,400.00
  • High Bids Win
    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Ellis Smith Prints unsigned. 20” by 16”.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: United typothetae of America presidents. Pictures of 37 UTA presidents 46th annual convention United typothetae of America Cincinnati 1932.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec signed Paper Impressionism Art Prints. MayMilton 9 1/2” by 13” Reine de Joie 9 1/2” by 13”.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Aberle’ Ballet editions. 108th triumph, American season spring and summer 1944.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Puss ‘n Boots. 1994 Charles Perrult All four are signed by Andreas Deja
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Specimen book of type faces. Job composition department, Philadelphia gazette publishing company .
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: An exhibit of printed books, Bridwell library.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur Court By Mark Twain 1889.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 1963 Philadelphia Eagles official program.
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    Rare Books, Catalogs, Magazines
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    December 24 to January 9
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: 8 - Esquire the magazine for men 1954.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: The American printer, July 1910.
    High Bids Win, Dec. 24 – Jan. 9: Leaves of grass 1855 by Walt Whitman.
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    The Poems and Sonnets of William Shakespeare, 1960. 7,210 USD
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    A Christmas Carol, First Edition, 1843. 17,500 USD
    Sotheby’s: William Golding.
    Lord of the Flies, First Edition, 1954. 5,400 USD
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    Sotheby’s: Lewis Carroll.
    Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There, Inscribed First Edition, 1872. 25,000 USD
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    The Hobbit, First Edition, 1937. 12,000 USD
    Sotheby’s: John Milton.
    Paradise Lost, 1759. 5,400 USD
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