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Source Title	Catalogue of the Magnificant Library of the Late Hon. Henry C. Murphy.....
Description	Mr. Murphy was born in Brooklyn in 1810 and departed this mortal coil in 1882. His books, that brought him comfort in life, returned cash to his family two years later. In life, he was a politician who became mayor of Brooklyn and later a congressman twice with a defeat in between. In 1852 he was a serious candidate for president until people remembered he was Irish. He then served as United States Minister to Holland continuously until Abraham Lincoln recalled him. He then went to Albany as a State Senator. As a book collector he was exceptional. His library was complex and complete to the point of obsession but it was the age to obsess and he did so very effectively. It is no longer possible to do what he did. In his time he saw the opportunity and made the most of it. That chance will not come again.
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Total Records in AED	3307

<center>Sotheby’s New York Fine Autograph Letters and Manuscripts from a Distinguished Private Collection: Part II December 13, 2018

Sotheby’s NY, Dec 13: Sibelius, Jean. Autograph manuscript of “Spagnuolo” for piano, boldly signed “Jean Sibelius.” $20,000 to $30,000

Sotheby’s NY, Dec 13: Verdi, Giuseppe. Fourteen largely unpublished autograph letters signed to Alessandro Lanari, the “Napoleon of Impresarios.” $100,000 to $150,000

Sotheby’s NY, Dec 13: Jefferson, Thomas. Autograph letter signed ("Th: Jefferson") to William Lee, Monticello, 26 August 1816. $20,000 to $30,000

Sotheby’s NY, Dec 13: Whitman, Walt. Signed carte-de-visite photograph by Benjamin Gurney, 1875. $1,000 to $1,500

Sotheby’s NY, Dec 13: Wilde, Oscar. Autograph letter signed ("Oscar Wilde"). 8 pages on 2 bifolia of different sizes, with ink sketch on the first page. $25,000 to $30,000
<center>Sotheby’s New York Fine Books & Manuscripts Online Ending December 17

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies… The Second Impression. 1632. $100,000 to $150,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: GEORGE CURZON, 1ST MARQUESS CURZON OF KEDLESTON. “Curzon Tiger Hunt.” [India: circa 1901]. 120 albumen photographs. $3,000 to $5,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: (CASSADY, NEAL). Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking Press, 1957. Inscribed. $10,000 to $15,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: VEGA, JOSEPH PENSO DE LA. Confusion de Confusiones. Dialogos curiosos entre un Philosopho agudo, un Mercader discrete... Amsterdam, 1688. $200,000 to $300,000

Sotheby’s Online, Now - Dec 17: RACKHAM, ARTHUR — [WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE]. "The Moon Like to a Silver Bow New-Bent in Heaven," original illustration for A Midsummer Night's Dream. $12,000 to $18,000
19th Century Shop: Charles Darwin on sexuality and the transmission of hereditary characteristics: Autograph Letter Signed to Lawson Tait. Down, 17 January [1877].

19th Century Shop: MILTON, JOHN. Paradise Lost. A Poem written in ten books. London: 1667. A very rare example with the contemporary binding untouched and with a 1667 title page.

19th Century Shop: Hamilton secures the ratification of the Constitution: The Debates and Proceedings of the Convention of the State of New-York, assembled at Poughkeespsie, on the 17th June, 1788.

19th Century Shop: The social contract “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”: ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES. Principes du Droit Politique [Du Contract Social]. Amsterdam: Michel Rey, 1762

19th Century Shop: “The first English textbook on geometrical land-measurement and surveying”: BENESE, RICHARD. This Boke Sheweth the Maner of Measurynge All Maner of Lande…
Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: KNIGHT, HILARY. The Original Portrait of Eloise that Hung at the Plaza Hotel. $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: WARHOL, ANDY. "Iced Lemon Delight," an Original Watercolor Presented to Hilary Knight's cat, Phoebe $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SENDAK, MAURICE. Where the Wild Things Are. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED with drawing to Hilary Knight in the month following publication. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: NOLAND, KENNETH. Original circle painting, untitled, acrylic and ink on cloth, for cover of monograph $8,000 to 12,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. Histoires Naturelles, 1899. With 22 original lithographs. $10,000 to 15,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM. A Collection of Poems, [1711]. The first authoritative and complete collected Sonnets.$15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: LONDON, JACK. The Call of the Wild. 1903. First edition, first state jacket. $2,000 to 3,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: FROST, ROBERT. Autograph Manuscript of "Build Soil," 12 pp, 1932-1936. $15,000 to 20,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: GOULD, GLENN. Glenn Gould's extensively annotated copy of Bach's Goldberg Variations $100,000 to 150,000

Bonhams New York: Fine Books and Manuscripts Including the World of Hilary Knight. December 5, 2018

Bonhams, Dec 5: PLATH, SYLVIA. EARLY Autograph Letter Signed, about her beginnings as a writer, Northampton, MA, 1951. $7,000 to 10,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: HOUDINI, HARRY. A collection of 11 cast iron shackle and lock items from Houdini's personal collection. $20,000 to 30,000

Bonhams, Dec 5: M4 ENGIMA MACHINE, with very rare RARE HYDRA KEY ENVELOPE. $400,000 to 600,000
Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: LÉOPOLD II of Belgium. Autograph letter signed to Ferdinand de Lesseps. (Brusselss, 30th of August 1881. € 500 / 600

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Unique collection of c. 280 satirical postcards on Léopold II of Belgium. € 3.000 / 3.500

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Horae, use of Rouen, c. 1475. € 22.000 / 30.000

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Sensuyt la tresplaisante hystoire du preux et vaillant Guerin de Montglaue [...]. € 6.000 / 8.000

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: SCUTENAIRE, Louis. Mes inscriptions. 1945-1963. € 1.000 / 1.200

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Études Gèographiques [puzzle]. € 70 / 100

Arenberg Auctions: Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Works on Paper. December 14 & 15, 2018

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Unique series of fifty 19th-c. Persian miniatures. € 1.500 / 2.500

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: SIXTUS IV. De sanguine Christi et De potentia Dei, 1474. € 4.500 / 6.000

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: Joan Miró, lithographies. € 200 / 300

Arenberg Auctions, Dec 14-15: MERIAN, Anna Maria Sibylla. [Metamorphosis of a brown butterfly]. € 4.000 / 5.000

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