Christies: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, including illustrated books and bindings. FIRST SESSION, 5101,

Auction Details

Auction Date: November 20, 1981 - November 20, 1981

Page Size: 635 items in 7 pages

Lot Number	Author Name	Book Title	Place Printed	Year Published	Estimate	Actual Price
1	ACKERMANN, RUDOLPH, publisher	The Microcosm of London	London	1808-10	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	1,600.00
2	ACKERMANN, R.	The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster	London	1812	USD 250.00 - 350.00	320.00
3	ACKERMANN, R.	A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls and Public Buildings	London	1814	USD 1,400.00 - 1,700.00	1,000.00
4	ACKERMANN, R.	A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings	London	1814	USD 900.00 - 1,300.00	900.00
5	ACKERMANN, R.	A History of the University of Oxford, its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings	London	1814	USD 900.00 - 1,300.00	800.00
6	ACKERMANN, R.	A History of the University of Cambridge	London	1815	USD 1,600.00 - 1,800.00	1,600.00
7	ACKERMANN, R.	A History of the University of Cambridge	London	1815	USD 400.00 - 600.00	800.00
8	ACKERMANN, R.	The History of the Colleges of Winchester, Eton and Westminster ... Harrow and Rugby	London	1816, plates watermarked 1812-27-42	USD 400.00 - 500.00	400.00
9	ACKERMANN, R.	The History of the Colleges, A History of the University of Oxford	London's	1816, 1814	USD 150.00 - 250.00	100.00
10		The Fables...with a Life of the Author, Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour	London's	1793, 1853	USD 80.00 - 100.00	180.00
11	GAY, JOHN	The Fables, Fables		1793, 1793	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
12	CAVENDISH, GEORGE; swift, Jonathan; homer; jones, david; illustrator. coleridge, S.T; Shakespeare, w; Shakespeare	ALCUIN PRESS., The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, Chipping Campden, golden cockerel press., Selected Essays., The Odyssey [in Greek], The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, limited editions club., The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, nonesuch press., mil	Gloucestershire, Oxford, Bristol, New York, London's	1930, 1925, 1909, 1929, 1933, 1937, 1925	USD 200.00 - 300.00	650.00
13	ALKEN, HENRY	The Beauties & Defects in the Figure of the Horse Comparatively Delineated in a Series of Coloured Plates	London	n.d., plates watermarked 1831	USD 75.00 - 100.00	160.00
14	TOLSTOY, LEO; angelo, valenti	ALLEN PRESS., What Men Live By, The Sermon on the Mount	Belvedere, New York	1951, 1935	USD 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
15	ALLOM, T., illustrator	Views in the Tyrol... with Letterpress Descriptions	n.p., London	n.d., c. 1840	USD 100.00 - 120.00	250.00
16	ATHERTON, GERTRUDE; REMINGTON, FREDERIC; SMITH, FRANCIS HOPKINSON; TOM GROGAN; STOCKTON, FRANK	AMERICAN AUTHORS, The Gorgeous Isle, Sundown Leflare, The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander	New York and Boston	1908, 1899, 1896, 1899	USD 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
17	FROST, ROBERT; HALE, EDWARD EVERETT; HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL; LONGFELLOW, H. W; MAJOR, CHARLES; PORTER, WILLIAM SYDNEY; O. HENRY; TARKINGTON, BOOTH; WALLACE, LEW	AMERICAN AUTHORS, West-Running Brook, The Life of George Washington, The House of The Seven Gables, The Song of Hiawatha, When Knightwood Was in Flower, by Edwin Caskoden, Indianapolis and Kansas City, Cabbages and Kings, Heart of the West, The Gentleman		1928, 1888, 1851, 1855, 1898, 1904, 1907, 1899, 1880	USD 400.00 - 600.00	850.00
18	ANDREWS, WILLIAM LORING	A Choice Collection of Books from the Aldine Presses in the Possession of...	New York	1885	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
19	ANDREWS, W. L.	Roger Payne and His Art	New York	1892	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
20	ANDREWS, W.L.	Among my Books	New York	1894	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
21	ANDREWS, W.L.	The Old Booksellers of New York and Other Papers	New York	1895	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
22	ANDREWS, W.L.	An Essay on the Portraiture of the American Revolutionary War	New York	1896	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
23	ANDREWS, W.L.	Sextodecimos et Infra	New York	1899	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
24	ANDREWS, W.L.	Gossip About Book-Collecting	New York	Mead 1900	USD 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
25	ANDREWS, W.L.	Bibliopegy in the United States and Kindred Subjects	New York	Mead 1902	USD 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
26	ANDREWS, W.L. BERNERS, Dame JULIANA	The Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle from The Book of St. Albans	New York	1903	USD 200.00 - 300.00	300.00
27	ANDREWS, W.L.	An English XIX Century Sportsman, Bibliopole, and Binder of Angling Books	New York	Mead 1906	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
28	ANDREWS, W.L.	Jean Grolier, Of the Extra Illustration of Books, A Short Historical Sketch of the Art of Bookbinding	New York, London, n.p.	1892, 1910, 1895	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
29	ANDREWS, W.L.	A Trio of Eighteenth Century French Engravers of Portraits in Miniature: Ficquet, Savait, Grateloup, The Heavenly Jerusalem: A Mediaeval Song	New York's	1899, 1908	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
30	ANDREWS, W.L.	The Journey of the Iconophiles Around New York in Search of the Historical and Picturesque, Washington's Reception by the Ladies of Trenton	New York's	1897, 1903	USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
31	ANDREWS, W.L.	The Bradford Map, New Amsterdam, New Orange, Fragments of American History, James Lyne's Survey or... The Bradford Map, The Iconography of the Battery and Castle Garden, New York as Washington Knew It after the Revolution, The Continental Insurance Compan	New York	1893, 1897, 1898, 1900, 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908	USD 400.00 - 500.00	550.00
32	ANDREWS, W.L.	In Memoriam William Loring Andrews	New York	1921	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
33	ANGELO, VALENTI, illustrator	The Sermon on the Mount, The Song of Songs		1935, 1935, 1937	USD 120.00 - 180.00	250.00
34	Graily Hewitt	ASHENDENE PRESS., Ecclesiasticus. The Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach Commonly Called Ecclesiasticus	Chelsea	1932	USD 1,000.00 - 1,300.00	1,400.00
35	MILTON, JOHN	ASHENDENE PRESS., Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity, A Chronological List, with Prices of the Forty Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXXV, A Hand-List of the Books Printed at the Ashendene Press MDCCCXCV-MCMXXV		1928, 1935, 1925	USD 250.00 - 350.00	500.00
36	Eric Gill	ASHENDENE PRESS & OTHER PRIVATE PRESS LEAVES.			USD 300.00 - 400.00	750.00
37	AUSTEN, JANE	Pride and Prejudice	London	1813, Autograph letter signed to Jennie Casseday	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,200.00
38	WALLACE, LEW.; LONGFELLOW, H. W.; BURROUGHS, JOHN; RITCHIE, ANNE ISABELLA; AUTHORESS, DAUGHTER OF W.M. THACKERAY; ROGERS, SAMUEL	AUTOGRAPHS: LITERARY, a Kingdom of wider bounds than the earth...", 3 autograph letters signed and 1 autograph postcard signed to Robert W. Johnson of The Century Magazine, Autograph letter signed to [Sarianna] Browning, sister of Robert Browning, Autogra	Crawfordsville's, Quaker Hill, N.Y., various places, Wimbledon, London	July 10, 1886, July 26, 1886 & Dec. 13, 1888, c. 1910-1911, March 19, 1890, Nov. 20, 1839	USD 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
39	BASAN, PIERRE, editor; adeler, Raphael and Joannes	Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul, A collection of 100 engravings of anchorite saints	Paris	1781	USD 300.00 - 400.00	700.00
40	Bucolica, Georgica	BASKERVILLE PRESS. VIRGIL., et Aeneis	Birmingham	1757	USD 400.00 - 500.00	220.00
41	MILTON, JOHN	BASKERVILLE PRESS., Paradise Lost [--Regained]	Birmingham	1758	USD 120.00 - 150.00	250.00
42	JUVENAL and PERSIUS	BASKERVILLE PRESS., Satyrae	Birmingham	1761	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
43	BASKIN, LEONARD, illustrator; CRANE, HART	GEHENNA PRESS., Voyages.	New York	1957	USD 200.00 - 250.00	120.00
44	BASKIN	GEHENNA PRESS., Horned Beetles and Other Insects	Northampton	1958	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,400.00
45	BASKIN, EURIPIDES	GEHENNA PRESS., Hippolytos.	Northampton	1969	USD 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
46	BASKIN, EURIPIDES	GEHENNA PRESS., Hippolytos	Northampton	1969	USD 250.00 - 350.00	200.00
47	BASKIN, TENNYSON, ALFRED	GEHENNA PRESS., Lord, Tiresias, Northampton	Massachusetts	1970	USD 250.00 - 350.00	350.00
48	BASKIN, SHAKESPEARE, W.	GEHENNA PRESS., Othello	Northampton, n.p.	1973	USD 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
49	BASKIN, SHAKESPEARE, W.	GEHENNA PRESS., Titus Andronicus	n.p., Northampton	1973	USD 200.00 - 250.00	120.00
50	BASKIN, BLAKE, W.; NATHAN, LEONARD; BLAKE, W.	GEHENNA PRESS., Auguries of Innocence, Demons, Imps & Fiends.		1959, 1976, 1965, 1967, 1964	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
51	BASKIN	Birds & Animals	n.p., Northampton	1974	USD 250.00 - 300.00	380.00
52	BAUM, L. FRANK	Mother Goose in Prose	Chicago	1897	USD 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
53	BEARDSLEY, AUBREY, illustrator; MALORY, Sir THOMAS	Le Morte Darthur	London	1893-94	USD 400.00 - 600.00	1,100.00
54	BEATTIE, WILLIAM; WILLIS, AND J. STIRLING COYNE; WRIGHT, REV. C.N. FRANCE ILLUSTRATED	Switzerland... in a Series of Views, Scotland Illustrated, The Ports, Harbours, Watering-Places and Coast Scenery of Great Britain, The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland	London's, n.p.	1836, 1838, 1842, n.d., n.d.	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,600.00
55	CLARE, JOHN	BEAUMONT PRESS., Madrigals & Chronicles... Edited with a Preface and Commentary	London	1924	USD 250.00 - 350.00	550.00
56	BEER, GEORG JOSEPH	The Art of Preserving the Sight Unimpaired to an Extreme Old Age	London	1813	USD 350.00 - 450.00	220.00
57	BENET, STEPHEN VINCENT	John Brown's Body	Garden City	1928	USD 400.00 - 500.00	280.00
58	BENET, S.V.	Ballads and Poems, James Shore's Daughter		1931, 1934	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
59	BEWICK, THOMAS, illustrator	The Fables of Aesop and others, with designs on wood	Newcastle	1818	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
60	BEWICK, T. AESOP	The Fables of Aesop and others, with designs on wood	Newcastle	1818	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
61	John Johnson	BIBLE, English. The Holy Bible	Oxford	1935	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
62	BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM	The Baronial and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Scotland	London	1852	USD 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
63	BLAKE, WILLIAM illustrator; YOUNG, EDWARD	The Complaint, and The Consolation; or, Night Thoughts	London	1797	USD 500.00 - 600.00	1,200.00
64	BLAKE, W. illustrator; BLAIR, ROBERT	The Grave, a poem	London	1808	USD 400.00 - 450.00	400.00
65	BLAKE, W.	Illustrations of The Book of Job	London	March 8: 1825, i.e. March 1826	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	7,500.00
66	BLAKE, W.	America, a Prophecy	Edmonton	January 1887	USD 300.00 - 350.00	450.00
67	BLAKE, W.	Europe, a Prophecy	Edmonton	September 1887	USD 300.00 - 350.00	380.00
68	BLAKE, W.	The Song of Los	Edmonton	November 1890	USD 250.00 - 300.00	480.00
69	BLAKE, W.; WICKSTEED, JOSEPH	William Blake's Jerusalem [companion volume to the preceding]	Jerusalem	1951, 1953	USD 600.00 - 700.00	1,400.00
70	BLAKE, W.	Songs of Innocence and Of Experience		1955	USD 400.00 - 500.00	950.00
71	BLAKE, W.	The Book of Urizen		1958	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
72	BLAKE, W.	The Marriage of Heaven and Hell		1960	USD 450.00 - 500.00	350.00
73	BLAKE, W.	America a Prophecy		1963	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
74	KEYNES, Sir GEOFFREY	A Study of the illuminated books of William Blake		1964	USD 80.00 - 100.00	110.00
75	BLAKE, W.	Milton, a Poem		1967	USD 350.00 - 400.00	180.00
76	BLAKE, W.	The Gates of Paradise		1968	USD 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
77	BLAKE, W.	Europe, a Prophecy		1969	USD 200.00 - 250.00	100.00
78	BLAKE, W.	William Blake's Water-Colour Designs for the Poems of Thomas Gray		1972	USD 500.00 - 600.00	600.00
79	BLAKE, W.	The Book of Ahania		1973	USD 500.00 - 600.00	320.00
80	BLAKE, W.	Jerusalem. The Emanation of The Giant Albion		1974	USD 800.00 - 900.00	480.00
81	BLAKE, W.	The Song of Los		1975	USD 100.00 - 150.00	40.00
82	BLAKE, W.	The Book of Los		1976	USD 80.00 - 100.00	60.00
83	KEYNES, Sir GEOFFREY	William Blake's Laocoön a last testament		1976	USD 80.00 - 100.00	60.00
84	BLAKE, W. BINYON, LAURENCE	The Engraved Designs of William Blake	London	1926	USD 40.00 - 60.00	70.00
85	BLIGH, Lieut. WILLIAM	A Narrative of the Mutiny on board His Majesty's Ship Bounty	London	1790	USD 700.00 - 800.00	1,000.00
86	Bossi, Volpato and Patrini	BODONI PRESS., Epithalamia exoticis linguis reddita	Parma	1775	USD 300.00 - 450.00	700.00
87		BODONI PRESS., Prose e versi per onorare la memoria di Livia Doria Caraffa ... di alcuni rinomati au tori	Parma	1784	USD 200.00 - 300.00	350.00
88	DE ROSSI, GIOVANNI GHERARDO	BODONI PRESS., Scherzi Poetici e Pittorici	Parma	1795	USD 250.00 - 300.00	480.00
89	BOETHIUS	BODONI PRESS., De consolatione philosophiae	Parma	1798	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
90		BODONI PRESS., Fabulae graecae, latine conversa	Parma	1800	USD 80.00 - 100.00	200.00
91		BODONI PRESS., Oratio Dominica in CLV linguas versa et exoticis characteribus plerumque expressa	Parma	1806	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,500.00
92	LEONI, MICHELE	BODONI PRESS., I Principali Monumenti innalzati dal MDCCXIV a tutto il MDCCCXXIII da Sua Maesta ... Maria Luigia	Parma	1824	USD 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
93		BOOK OF HOURS (use of Rome). Ces presentes heures a lusaige de Rome	Paris	17 September 1501	USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00	2,000.00
94	ALMACK, EDWARD	Fine Old Bindings. With Other Interesting Miscellanea in Edward Almack's Library	London	1913	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
95	BULLEN, HENRY LEWIS	The Nuremberg Chronicle ... A Monograph	San Francisco	1930	USD 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
96	DUNTHORNE, GORDON	Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries	Washington, D.C.	1938	USD 80.00 - 100.00	200.00
97		GROLIER CLUB., One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature, with Facsimiles of the Title-Pages [and] Bibliographical Notes on One Hundred Books Famous in English Literature	New York	1902-03	USD 200.00 - 250.00	300.00
98	HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL	A History of the Art of Printing	London	1868	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
99	LOVETT, RICHARD	The English Bible in the John Rylands Library	London	1899	USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
100	PETIT, JULES LE.	Bibliographie des principales Editions Originales d'Ecrivains Francais du XVe au XVIIIe Siecle	Paris	1888	USD 60.00 - 80.00	150.00

Heritage Auctions
Rare Books Signature Auction
December 15, 2025

Heritage, Dec. 15: John Donne. Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death. London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Heritage, Dec. 15: F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Bram Stoker. Dracula. Westminster: Archibald Constable & Co., 1897.

Heritage, Dec. 15: Jerry Thomas. How to Mix Drinks, or the Bon-Vivant's Companion, Containing Clear and Reliable Directions for Mixing All the Beverages Used in the United States…
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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.
Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.

Sotheby’s
Book Week
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.