Sothebys: Sothebys : L03410, L03410,

Auction Details

Auction Date: January 01, 2003 - January 01, 2003

Page Size: 215 items in 3 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	AMMON, WOLFGANG	Neuw GesangbuchTeutsch und Lateinisch, darinn die furnembste Psalmen und Gesange der Kirchen Augsp.	Frankfurt	1581	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	3,360.00
2	BACH, CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL	Kurze und leichte Clavierstucke mit veranderten Reprisen und beyfugter Fingersetzung fur Anfanger	Augsburg	1768	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,640.00
3	BACH, JOHANN CHRISTIAN	A Second Sett of Six Concertos for the Harpsichord or Piano Forte...		1771	GBP 1,300.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
4	BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Magnificat a cinque voci	Bonn	1811	GBP 15,000.00 - 2,000.00	1,800.00
5	BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Choral-Vorspiele fur die Orgel mit einem und zwey Klavieren und Pedal.	Leipzig	1803-1806	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
6	BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Messe von Johann Sebastian Bach nach dem Autographum gestochen.	Zurich	c. 1833	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	10,800.00
7	BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Kirchengesange fur Solo- und Chor-Stimmen...Himmelkonig sei willkommen	Berlin	c. 1843	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,680.00
8	BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN	Motetten in Partitur.	Leipzig	11802-1803	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
9	BALAKIREV, MILY	Autograph letter signed (Mily Balakirev), in Russian, to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
10	BALAKIREV, MILY	Important letter signed (M. Balakirew), to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch, in French, WITH A FOUR-PAGE AUTOGRAPH LIST OF HIS OWN COMPOSITIONS, enclosed with the letter entitled Compositions de Mili Balakirew recording forty-six original works and tra		21 November (4 December, new style) 1902	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,440.00
11	BALAKIREV, MILY	Good autograph letter signed (Mily Balakirev), in Russian, about the Overture to King Lear, WITHTHREE AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATIONS to the writer and critic, Rosa Newmarch (Rosa Eduardovna!); he describes his plans to complete the Incidental Music to King		2 May (15 May, new style) 1903	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,440.00
12	BALAKIREV, MILY	Good autograph letter signed (Mily Balakirev), in Russian, about the incidental music for King Lear, WITH A FOUR-LINE AUTOGRAPH MUSICAL QUOTATION to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch, describing his work reorchestrating the entr'acte to Acts 2 and 3, ma		19 September (2 October, new style) 1903	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,640.00
13	BALAKIREV, MILY	Autograph letter signed (Mily Balakirev in D flat major for piano in Russian, about Waltz no.5 to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch (Madame!), informing her that he wishes to dedicate his 5eme Valse to her, expressing his regret for not replying earlier		21 April (4 May, new style) 1903	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	960.00
14	BANTOCK, SIR GRANVILLE	Autograph letter signed (Granville), together with a collection of seventeen typed copies of letters to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch reporting on the favourable reception of a draft of her book on Sibelius by critics in the United States, providing	Boston	1 May 1938, the copies, 4to, letters dated from 1905-1918	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	540.00
15	BECHER, ALFRED JULIUS	composer and revolutionary, 1803-1848. Autograph manuscript of the Introduzione to the Third String Quartet, signed notated in full score on two and three systems, each of four staves, entitled Quartetto No.3 von Dr A.J. Becher/ Introduzione annotated at	Vienna	June 1841	GBP 800.00 - 1,200.00	840.00
16	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	BEETHOVEN'S MANUSCRIPT OFTHE NINTH SYMPHONY, PREPARED FORTHE PRINTER AND USED FORTHE FIRST EDITION, WITH EXTENSIVE REVISIONS, CORRECTIONS AND ALTERATIONS BYTHE COMPOSER, CONTAINING NEW MUSIC CUT BY BEETHOVEN AND NEVER PUBLISHED, THE FULL SCORE FOR CHOIR,	Vienna	1824-1826	GBP 2,000,000.00 - 3,000,000.00	2,133,600.00
17	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	Autograph letter signed (Beethoven) TO HENRIETTE SONTAG (meine schone werthe Sonntag!), PRAISING HER PERFORMANCE INTHE PREMIERE OFTHE NINTH SYMPHONY thanking her for her wonderful contribution (ihre schone Mitwirkung) to his concert, suggesting that he in	Vienna	12 May 1824	GBP 25,000.00 - 35,000.00	Not Sold
18	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	Adelaide von Matthisson Eine Kantate fur eine Singstimme mit Begleitung des Clavier	Vienna	1797	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	900.00
19	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	Trois Sonates pour le piano-forte composees & dediees a Joseph Haydn...	Bonn	1798	GBP 700.00 - 900.00	Not Sold
20	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	X Variations pour le Clavecin ou Piano-Forte Sur le Duo La Stessa	Vienna	1799	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	Not Sold
21	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN	Sonate fur Piano-Forte und Violin...96tes Werk	Vienna	1816	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	660.00
22	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG, van	Good collection of three first and two early editions of the late string quartets	Vienna, Mainz, Vienna, Mainz, Berlin	c. 1830s, c. 1826, 1827, 1827, 1827	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	Not Sold
23	BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG van	Autograph letter signed Beethoven, to the publisher S.A. Steiner, about Fidelio asking him whether he could let Grijnbaum's manuscript of the score of the opera be copied, explaining that it would take too long to arrange to have the opera-house manuscrip	Vienna	1 April 1826	GBP 20,000.00 - 25,000.00	36,000.00
24	BERG, ALBAN	Autograph correction leaves for theThree Fragments from Wozzeck for orchestra, with long autograph note of explanation by the composer		2 August 1925	GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	10,800.00
25	BERLIOZ, HECTOR	Fine autograph musical quotation from Benvenuto Cellini signed and inscribed (Phrase de I'ouverture de Benvenuto Cellini H. Berlioz 6 Mars 1843), twenty-one bars, for violins, notated in dark brown ink on four staves, marked All0 and Violini	Leipzig	14 January 1844, 6 March 1843	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	4,560.00
26	BOUSSET, JEAN BAPTISTE DE.	I [...Ve] Recueil d'airs nouveaux serieux et a boire, dediez a Madame La Duchesse de Bourgogne	Paris	1704-1706	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	840.00
27	BOUSSET, JEAN BAPTISTE DE.	I [...VIIIe] Recueil d'airs nouveaux serieux et a boire, dediez a Madame La Duchesse de Bourgogne	Paris	1705-1709	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	540.00
28	BRAHMS, JOHANNES	Four remarkable photographs of the composer in later years, all mounted on cards	Vienna, Wiesbaden	15. Juni. 1896, 1983, 1983	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,560.00
29	BRAHMS, JOHANNES	Jocular note signed with initials (J.B.) and a small drawing			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	840.00
30	BRAHMS, JOHANNES	Volume of first editions of piano music all published by Simrock, Berlin, including			GBP 500.00 - 600.00	780.00
31	BRAHMS, JOHANNES	Lock of grey/black hair, cut from Brahms's head on the day of his death			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,880.00
32	BRAHMS, JOHANNES	Autograph letter unsigned, almost certainly from a member of the Wittgenstein family to Liebste Clara possibly Clara Schumann, with autograph postscript by Brahms			GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
33	BRIDGE, FRANK	Autograph manuscript of the String Quartet in B flat, signed (Frank Bridge); each movement also signed with a monogram the full score in four movements, notated in black ink on three systems per page, each of four staves, with autograph title	London SW	March 14th 1901	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	7,200.00
34	BRIDGE, FRANK	Autograph manuscript of the Quartet for Piano, Violin, Viola and Cello, in C minor, signed several times (Frank Bridge and with monograms) the score in four movements, notated in black ink on two systems per page, each of five staves, with autograph addit	London	16 February-14 July 1902	GBP 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	11,400.00
35	BRIDGE, FRANK	Three medals presented to Frank Bridge, including the Cobbett Gold Medal	Frank Bridge, New York,	1929, 1938, 1938	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
36	BRIDGE, FRANK	Engraved proof for the Piano Sonata, corrected by the composer, Augener Ltd, [1925] revised by the composer in pencil throughout, including added and altered tempo and metronome markings and some fingerings and pedalling,		10 March 1925	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
37	BRIDGE, FRANK	Autograph sketch leaves, letters and documents			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	840.00
38	BRIDGE, FRANK	Collection of first editions, some signed by the composer on the wrappers (Frank Bridge), including, Stainer & Bell for the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust,	Novello, Augener, Augener, Winthrop Rogers, Winthrop Rogers, Augener, Augener,	1920, 1915, c. 1920, 1928, 1918, 1927, 1939, c. 1915	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
39	BRIDGE, FRANK	Two manuscripts, one autograph, of the Trio, Rhapsody, for two violins and viola signed (Frank Bridge)			GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,400.00
40	BRITTEN, BENJAMIN	Three first editions, formerly owned by Frank Bridge	T.B. Pitfield	c. 1934, c. 1936, c. 1938	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
41	BRITTEN, BENJAMIN	Variations on aTheme of Frank Bridge for String Orchestra, (Opus 10), FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBEDTO FRANK BRIDGE ONTHETITLE AND VERSO (Frank Bridge all this, and more from Benjie March 1938)		1938	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	1,560.00
42	BRITTEN, BENJAMIN	Soirees Musicales Suite of Five Movements from Rossini for Orchestra, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED AND INSCRIBEDTO FRANK BRIDGE ONTHETITLE (Frank Bridge, with love BenjaminB)		1938	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	660.00
43	BRITTEN, BENJAMIN	Photographic copy of the hitherto lost first version of the Diversions for piano left hand and orchestra, here entitled Concert Variations for Paul Wittgenstein Op. 21,extensively annotated in pencil and red crayon by Wittgenstein in score for two pianos,	Maine	1940	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	Not Sold
44	BRUCKNER, ANTON	Printed contract signed (DrABrucknerlparaph]), relating to the publication and dissemination of the Vaterlandisch Weinlied, by Emil Berte, Vienna, signed and inscribed also by Berte (Wir verpflichten uns den Chor auch in Einzelausgaben erschienen zu lasse	Vienna	18 March 1892	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,040.00
45	CONTI, FRANCESCO	Songs in the new Opera, Call'd Clotilda.		1709	GBP 500.00 - 600.00	540.00
46	CUI, CESAR	Five autograph letters signed (C Cui) in French to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch		28 January 1899-5 February 1903	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	720.00
47	CZERNY, CARL	Autograph musical quotation signed and dedicated to his pupilTheodor Leschetizky	Vienna	April 1846	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,320.00
48	DANCE---MEURSIUS, JOANNES	Orchestra, sive, De saltationibus veterum	Leiden	1618	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	Not Sold
49	DRESDEN	Collection of autograph letters by and about composers and musicians working in Dresden	Vienna	1823-1873	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	576.00
50	DEBUSSY, CLAUDE	Autograph manuscript of the song Fut-il jamais signed twice, a working manuscript, with many revisions, corrections and deletions, some in pencil, written in black ink on four systems per page, each of three staves, the Stichvorlage, marked up by the prin		1864-1911	GBP 8,000.00 - 12,000.00	9,000.00
51	DURANTE, FRANCESCO	Volume of eighteenth-century manuscripts of Masses by Durante, including Missa pro defunctis [Requiem] in C minor, for three [solo] voices (two sopranos and alto), five-part chorus and strings, in a scribal hand, signed at the end, with alterations, corre	Francesco Durante	1684-1755	GBP 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	Not Sold
52	ELGAR, Sir EDWARD	Autograph full score of Souvenir d'Amour, for small orchestra, signed Ed: Elgar a working manuscript, with numerous revisions and alterations, two autograph title-pages in German and English, signed in various places: (a Carice...Liebesgruss...fur Orchest	Edward Elgar	July 1888	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	57,600.00
53	ELGAR, SIR EDWARD	Eight unpublished autograph letters signed (Edward Elgar) to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch, about his music and contemporary criticism writing at the height of his musical powers, Elgar gives his ideas about a musical magazine which Newmarch is cont	Plas Gwyn, Hereford, Hampstead and elsewhere	1906 to 1921	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	5,400.00
54	ENESCO, GEORGES	Autograph manuscript of the Nocturne for cello and piano, signed several times		8. Mai 97	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	2,160.00
55	FLUTE---NAUDOT, JACQUES-CHRISTOPHE	Three first editions of flute music	Paris	1726-1728	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
56	Quantz, Devienne, Berbiguier, Nicholson, John Radcliff, and Bochsa	FLUTE. Collection of early editions of flute treatises, including by	Paris, Paris,	1770, c. 1800, , c. 1824, c. 1828	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,440.00
57	FRANCK, CESAR	Autograph manuscript of the Chorus Hermines qui glissez from the opera Hulda vocal score notated for female voices and accompaniment, autograph title Choeur extrait de Hulda unsigned, written in black ink on three or four systems per page of up to five st	Paris	c.1885	GBP 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
58	GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO	Le prime sonate a violino, e basso...nuovamente ristampate, e con diligenza corrette, aggiuntovi ancora per maggiore facilita le grazie agli adagj ed i numeri per la trasposizione della mano	London (no imprint)	1739	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
59	GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO	Sonate a violino e basso...	London (no imprint)	1739	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
60	GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO	Two early editions	London (without imprint), London,	1747, 1757	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
61	GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO	The Art of Playing on the violin...	London	1751	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	960.00
62	GEMINIANI, FRANCESCO	The Art of Accompaniament or A new and well digested method to learn to perform theThorough Bass on the Harpsichord...	London	1756-1757	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	Not Sold
63	GERMAN CHORALE	Fine early seventeenth-century manuscript of the chorale melody Ach Herr Du NebsterVather mein the cantus part notated in dark brown ink on two staves, inscribed (Cantus a 4 voc:), with seven verses of text written out in an elegant Gothic hand, apparentl			GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
64	GOBERT, THOMAS	Paraphrase des pseaumes de David, en vers frangois par Antoine Godeau...	Paris	1661	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
65	GREGORIAN CHANT---Funeral rite	Obsequiale, Vel liber Agendorum, circa sacramenta, benedictiones, & ceremonias secundum antiquum usum, & ritum ecclesie Ratsbonensis [...(o3:) De variis modis proponendi verbum Dei populo, pro junioribus concionatoribus],	Ingolstadt	1570	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	960.00
66	GERSHWIN, GEORGE	Porgy and Bess, vocal score	New York	1935	GBP 1,600.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
67	GLUCK, CHRISTOPH WILLI BALD VON	Armide, drame heroique [full score]	Paris	1777	GBP 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	Not Sold
68	GRIEG, EDVARD	Autograph letter signed (EdvardGrieg), to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch, in English Grieg declines to write about Tchaikovsky, explaining that he is too occupied at present, thanking John Lane for his offer, and telling her that he looks forward to	Kristiana	25 October 1905	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	900.00
69	GROVE, SIR GEORGE AND MUSICAL CRITICISM	Two autograph letters signed, to the writer and critic Rosa Newmarch, about Russian music	Lower Sydenham	1895	GBP 500.00 - 700.00	900.00
70	HARP	Volume of eighteenth-century editions of music for harp by Petrini, Cardon and others, mostly published in Paris	Versailles	1772	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
71	GUITAR	Autograph manuscript of music for the cittern, in the hand of Charles Pollet (the elder), with autograph dedication signed (Polet)			GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,120.00
72	HARPSICHORD	Collection of rare eighteenth-century editions	Paris, Paris, Paris	c. 1710-1711, c. 1762, c. 1770	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,280.00
73	HARPSICHORD, Handel, Samuel Arnold, Greene, Maria Barthelemon, Alberti, , Alberti, Pasquali & Nardini, Nussen,	Collection of eighteenth-century editions, including of works		c. 1736, c. 7750, c. 1780, c. 1777-1779, 1779, 1776, c.1748,	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,560.00
74	HAYDN, JOSEPH and others	Collection of early printed librettos			GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
75	HAYDN, JOSEPH	Die Schopfung...in Klavierauszug ubertragen von Ferdinand Ries	Bonn	1800	GBP 400.00 - 500.00	Not Sold
76	HELLER, STEPHEN	Autograph manuscript signed of the Fantaisie brillant on Halevy's opera Charles VI notated for piano in brown ink on five or six systems per page, each of two staves, with many deletions, alterations and revisions, and annotations for the publisher signed	Paris	about 1843-1844	GBP 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
77	JANACEK, LEOS	TWO autograph postcards signed (Leos Janacek), in Czech	Brno, Brno	22 April 1923, 30 December 1923	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	960.00
78	JOURNAL HEBDOMADAIRE	Fine volume of late eighteenth-century songs and keyboard works, published in Paris	Paris	c. 1784, 1786, 1784-1787	GBP 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
79	JUE, EDOUARD	Meloplaste ou precis des legons analytiques de musique d'apres la methode de P[ierre] Galin	Paris	December 1824	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	600.00
80	KORNGOLD, ERICH WOLFGANG	Two autograph letters signed (Erich Wolfgang Korngold), to the pianist Paul Wittgenstein,	Steiermark, Hollywood	19 June 1923, 20 October 1935	GBP 300.00 - 500.00	1,080.00
81	LESCHETIZKY, THEODOR	Autograph manuscript of Motif finlandaisfor piano, signed (Th. Leschetitsky)			GBP 500.00 - 700.00	600.00
82	LABOR, JOSEF	Important collection of about fifty musical manuscripts and fifty first editions, including		1842-1924	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	7,200.00
83	LISZT, FRANZ	Remarkable autograph working manuscript of the Hungarian Rhapsody no.9 (Pesther Carnival), in E major, for piano trio comprising a draft of the piece, incomplete at the end, notated in brown ink on twenty-stave-paper, hand-drawn staves, extensively revise		c.1848	GBP 40,000.00 - 60,000.00	Not Sold
84	LISZT, FRANZ	Manuscript of Angelus! Priere aux anges gardiens, extensively annotated and revised by Liszt, the first item in the Annees de Pelerinage, vol.3 the Stichvorlage, marked by and for the printer, written in a scribal hand in brown/black ink on twelve-stave p		1883 or earlier	GBP 6,000.00 - 8,000.00	11,400.00
85	LISZT, FRANZ	Proof copy of the Annees de Pelerinage, 3me Annee extensively annotated by the composer			GBP 10,000.00 - 15,000.00	21,600.00
86	LISZT, FRANZ	Fine cabinet-style head and shoulders portrait of the composer in later life, signed and inscribed by him to the wife of the piano manufacturer Erard (Madame Camille Erard Le vieil enfant tres reconaissant de la maison Erard F.Liszt)			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,560.00
87	LISZT, FRANZ	Two manuscripts of Aux Cypres de la Villa d'Este I the second piece in Annees de Pelerinage		c. 1883, between 1863 and 1877	GBP 12,000.00 - 15,000.00	12,000.00
88	LULLY, JEAN-BAPTISTE	LesTrio des Opera...mis en ordre pour les concerts. Propres a chanter, &a jouer sur la Flute, leViolon, &autres Instruments, [part 2],	Amsterdam	1691	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	1,920.00
89	Bach, Beethoven, Schumann	MAHLER, GUSTAV. Autograph manuscript of part of his performing version of Weber's Oberon			GBP 15,000.00 - 20,000.00	16,800.00
90	MAHLER, GUSTAV	Large portrait bust of Mahler		1915	GBP 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	2,640.00
91	MAHLER, GUSTAV	Autograph letter signed (Gustav Mahler), to a friend, declining to perform the score he has sent him, which he suspects is by Karl von Kaskel			GBP 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	1,800.00
92	MALIBRAN, MARIA AND GIACOMO MEYERBEER	Collection of autograph letters by Meyerbeer and of manuscripts about Malibran	Paris, Paris	3 April 1830, no date Ic. 1830	GBP 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	3,600.00
93	MARTINI, Padre GIOVANNI BATTISTA	Fine contemporary scribal manuscript of the Sonate d' lntavolatura per I'organo, e cembalo, notated in dark brown ink on six systems, each of two staves, with an elegant calligraphic title-page within a rule			GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
94	MASSENET, JULES	First edition of Le Cid MARKED UPWITH ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS, SIGNED BY MASSENET and with a fine long autograph inscription to the singer Anna Devianne,	Paris	1885	GBP 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	Not Sold
95	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX	Highly important series of thirty-one autograph letters signed, CONTAININGTWO AUTOGRAPH SONGS, ONE UNPUBLISHED, to Charlotte, wife of the composer Ignaz Moscheles, who was once his piano tutor, and one to the publisher Kistner; with ten apparently unpubli		11 May 1834, 12 December 1837	GBP 80,000.00 - 100,000.00	89,600.00
96	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX	Autograph letter signed (Felix), to his friend Karl Klingemann in London, instructing him to burn unread a sealed letter he once gave him, as it is no longer needed, complaining of the cost of postage for all the letters and parcels he has to send, announ	Leipzig	11 December 1836	GBP 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold
97	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX	Fine long autograph letter signed, to his friend Karl Klingemann in London, discussing in great detail an opera libretto his correspondent was preparing for him, based on Kotzebue's Pervonte (a project never undertaken),	Dusseldorf	14 August 1834	GBP 3,000.00 - 3,500.00	Not Sold
98	MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY, FELIX, and others	Collection of first and early editions, including	Bonn, Vienna, Leipzig, Vienna	1846, c. 1810-1815, c. 1856, c. 1842-48	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	Not Sold
99	MEYERBEER, GIACOMO	Carte-de-visite photograph signed beneath the image (G. Meyerbeer), showing him writing at a desk	Berlin	c.1862	GBP 600.00 - 800.00	720.00
100	MOZART, LEOPOLD	Grundliche Violinschule mit vier Kupfertafeln und einerTabelle. Zweyte vermehrte Auflage	Augsburg	1770	GBP 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	Not Sold

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Francesco Colonna. Hypnerotomachie, Paris, 1546, Parisian calf by Wotton Binder C for Marcus Fugger. €200,000 to €300,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Nausea. De principiis dialectices Gorgias, and other works, Venice, 1523, morocco gilt for Cardinal Campeggio. €3,000 to €4,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 17: Billon. Le fort inexpugnable de l'honneur, Paris, 1555, Parisian calf gilt for Peter Ernst, Graf von Mansfeld. €120,000 to €180,000.

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December 9-17, 2025

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Salinger, J.D. The Graham Family archive, including autographed letters, an inscribed Catcher, a rare studio photograph of the author, and more. $120,000 to $180,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of Sense and Sensibility, the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.

Sotheby’s, Dec. 16: Massachusetts General Court. A powerful precursor to the Declaration of Independence: "every Act of Government … without the Consent of the People, is … Tyranny." $40,000 to $60,000.
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Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("Martinus Luther") to His Friend the Theologian Gerhard Wiskamp ("Gerardo Xantho Lampadario"). $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: An Exceptionally Fine Copy of Austenís Emma: A Novel in Three Volumes. $40,000 - $60,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Presentation Copy of Ernest Hemmingwayís A Farewell to Arms for Edward Titus of the Black Mankin Press. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript Signed Integrally for "The Songs of Pooh," by Alan Alexander. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Manuscript of "Three Fragments from Gˆtterd‰mmerung" by Richard Wagner. $30,000 - $50,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Preliminary Artwork, for the First Edition of Snow Crash. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("T.R. Malthus") to Economist Nassau Senior on Wealth, Labor and Adam Smith. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides Finely Bound by Michael Wilcox. $20,000 - $30,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: First Edition of Lewis and Clark: Travels to the Source of the Missouri River and Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Original Artwork for the First Edition of Neal Stephenson's Groundbreaking Novel Snow Crash. $100,000 - $150,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: A Complete Set Signed Deluxe Editions of King's The Dark Tower Series by Stephen King. $8,000 - $12,000.

Bonhams, Dec. 8-18: Autograph Letter Signed ("John Adams") to James Le Ray de Chaumont During the Crucial Years of the Revolutionary War. $8,000 - $12,000.