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<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 Fourteen largely unpublished autograph letters signed to Alessandro Lanari, the “Napoleon of Impresarios.”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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