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
101	ROBERTSON, JOHN W.	Bibliography of the Writings of Edgar A. Poe	San Francisco	1934	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
102	Lucy Allen Paton	Selected Bindings from the Gennadius Library ... Introduction and Descriptions	Cambridge	1924	USD 200.00 - 250.00	250.00
103	WAGNER, HENRY R.	The Spanish Southwest, An Annotated Bibliography	Berkeley	1542-1794, 1924	USD 350.00 - 450.00	650.00
104	BLANCK, JACOB; HOE, ROBERT; SMITH, HARRY B.	Peter Parley to Penrod, grolier club, One Hundred Influential American Books Printed before 1900, Auction Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe, The Anderson Auction Company 1911-12, A Sentimental Library		1938, 1947, 1914	USD 150.00 - 200.00	350.00
105	ECKEL, JOHN C.; HATTON, T. AND A. H. CLEAVER	The First Editions of... Charles Dickens, A Bibliography of the Periodical Works of Charles Dickens	New York, London	1932, 1933	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
106	FLOWER, DESMOND and MUNBY A.N.L.; JAGGARD, WILLIAM; KEYNES, GEOFFREY; QUARITCH, BERNARD; RAHIR, EDOUARD	eds. English Poetical Autographs, Shakespeare Bibliography, Jane Austen: a Bibliography, A Catalogue of Medieval Literature Especially of the Romances of Chivalry, Facsimiles of Choice Examples Selected from Illuminated Manuscripts... and Illustrated Book	London's, Stratford-on-Avon, Paris	1938, 1911, 1929, 1890, 1890, 1910	USD 100.00 - 150.00	300.00
107	TOMKINSON, G.S.; RANSOM, WILL; JONES, THOMAS	A Select Bibliography of the Principal Modern Presses..., Private Presses and Their Books	London, New York, Oxford	1928, 1929, 1954	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
108	BORROW, GEORGE	The Bible in Spain, The Scholar, the Gypsy, and the Priest, Wild Wales		1843, 1851, 1862	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
109	BOSWELL, JAMES	The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D.	London	1785	USD 150.00 - 200.00	380.00
110	BOSWELL, J.	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 500.00 - 700.00	850.00
111	BOSWELL J.	The Life of Samuel Johnson	London	1791	USD 600.00 - 700.00	850.00
112	BOURGEOIS, CONSTANT	Voyage pittoresque a La Grande Chartreuse	Paris	n.d., c. 1821	USD 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
113	BOYDELL, JOHN and JOSIAH	An History of the River Thames	London	1794-96	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,600.00
114	BOYS, THOMAS SHOTTER	Original Views of London as it Is	London	1842, reprinted 1954	USD 80.00 - 100.00	70.00
115	BRADFORD, WILLIAM	Sketches of the Country, Character, and Costume, in Portugal and Spain [--Sketches of Military Costume in Spain and Portugal]	London	1809-10	USD 350.00 - 450.00	650.00
116	BACON, SIR FRANCIS; SOPHOCLES	BREMER PRESS, HOMER. Ilias [and] Odysseia, The Essays of Munich, Odipus der Tyrann übersetzt von Friedrich Hölderlin	Munich, Tolz	1923-24, 1920, 1919	USD 400.00 - 600.00	650.00
117	ABBOTT, EDWIN ABBOTT; BEERBOHM, MAX; BRAMAH, ERNEST; BROOKE, RUPERT; DRINKWATER, JOHN; HARDY, THOMAS; MOORE, GEORGE; PRIESTLEY, J.B.	BRITISH AUTHORS, The Works of..., Kai Lung's Golden Hours, Five Sonnets, drinkwater, Abraham Lincoln, Song of the Soldiers, Conversations in Ebury Street, Brief Diversions	Flatland, New York's, Hove, Cambridge	1884, 1896, 1922, "1914", 1915, 1918, 1914, 1924, 1922	USD 200.00 - 300.00	350.00
118	BULLEN, FRANK T.; HUDSON, W.H.; MAUGHAM, W.	BRITISH AUTHORS, The Cruise of the "Cachalot", Green Mansions, somerset. Of Human Bondage		1898, 1904, 1915	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
119	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY; THACKERAY, W.M.; WISE, THOMAS J.; MORRIS, WILLIAM	BRITISH AUTHORS, The Book of Snobs, Sir Galahad		1869, 1848, 1858, actually 1894	USD 200.00 - 300.00	280.00
120	BROWNING, ROBERT	Dramatis Personae	London	1864	USD 200.00 - 250.00	400.00
121	BROWNING, R.	The Inn Album	London	Elder, 1875	USD 200.00 - 250.00	320.00
122	BUONAIUTI, B. SERAFINO	Italian Scenery	London	1806	USD 200.00 - 250.00	700.00
123	BURKE, EDMUND	The Speech of... on Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies, March 22, 1775	London	1775	USD 400.00 - 500.00	320.00
124	BURNS, ROBERT	Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect	Dublin	1789	USD 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
125	BURROUGHS, WILLIAM SEWARD; WILLIAM LEE	Junkie	New York	1953	USD 100.00 - 120.00	90.00
126	BUTLER, SAMUEL	Hudibras... with notes by the Rev. Treadway Russell Nash	London	1825	USD 150.00 - 200.00	100.00
127	BYRON, GEORGE GORDON Lord; COLERIDGE, S.T., SHELLEY, P.B.	The Prisoner of Chilien, and Other Poems, Sibylline Leaves	p.b	1816, 1817, 1821	USD 250.00 - 350.00	380.00
128		A collection of 244 engraved, etched or lithographic caricatures, 240 of them handcolored, concerning George IV, William IV, Ernest Augustus Duke of Cumberland, Canning, Wellington, Reform and other subjects, by or after various artists including Woodward	mostly London	1794-1833	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,500.00
129	CATHER, WILLA	April Twilights	Boston	1903	USD 250.00 - 350.00	280.00
130	CATLIN, GEORGE	Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio	London	1844	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	17,000.00
131	CATLIN, GEORGE	Catlin's North American Indian Portfolio	London	1844	USD 10,000.00 - 12,000.00	11,000.00
132	CAXTON, WILLIAM; FRANCE, ANATOLE; GELL, SIR WILLIAM; STURT, JOHN	The Game of the Chesse. Reproduced in [type] facsimile from a copy in the British Museum, Vie de Jeanne d'Arc, Pompeiana, engraver. The Orthodox Communicant	London's, Paris	1860, 1908, 1832, 1721	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
133	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, MIGUEL DE	El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha... corregida por la Real Academia Espanola	Madrid	1780	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,100.00
134	CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, M. DE	El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha... corregida por la Real Academia Espanola	Madrid	1780	USD 500.00 - 600.00	600.00
135	CHATTO, WILLIAM ANDREW; P. FISHER	The Angler's Souvenir...	London and New York	1886	USD 60.00 - 80.00	70.00
136	CHESTERFIELD, PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Earl of	Letters Written by the Late...Earl of Chesterfield to his Son	London	1774	USD 350.00 - 450.00	280.00
137	CHESTERTON, GILBERT KEITH	Charles Dickens	London	1906	USD 100.00 - 150.00	180.00
138		CHILDREN'S BOOK. The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes	London	1783	USD 150.00 - 200.00	450.00
139		CHILDREN'S BOOK. Felissa; or, the Life and Opinions of a Kitten of Sentiment	London	1811	USD 200.00 - 300.00	180.00
140	DODGE, MARY MAPES; HABBERTON, JOHN; HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER	CHILDREN'S BOOKS, Hans Brinker, Helen's Babies, Uncle Remus		1866, 1876, 1881	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
141	ATKINSON, ELEANOR; JOHNSON, OWEN; SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON; WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS; THOMSON, HUGH, ILLUSTRATOR	CHILDREN'S AND ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, Greyfriars Bobby, The Tennesse Shad, Two Little Savages	London and New York	1902, 1911, 1903, 1898, 1892-1906	USD 200.00 - 250.00	380.00
142	CICERO, MARCUS TULLIUS	Tusculanarum Quaestionum libri V	Paris	1549	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
143	CLELAND, T.M.; PREVOST D'EXILES, ANTOINE FRANCOIS; RUZICKA, RUDOLPH, ILLUSTRATOR; DWIGGINS, W.A., ILLUSTRATOR; NATHAN, ROBERT	The Decorative Work of T.M. Cleland: A Record and a Review, Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, One More Spring	New York's	1929, 1958, 1915, 1935	USD 100.00 - 150.00	750.00
144	CLEMENS, SAMUEL LANGHORNE	The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches	New York	1867	USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00	3,000.00
145	CLEMENS, S.L.	A Tramp Abroad	Hartford	1880	USD 200.00 - 300.00	320.00
146	CLEMENS, S.L.	The Prince and the Pauper	Boston	1882	USD 300.00 - 400.00	250.00
147	CLEMENS, S. L.	Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	New York	1885	USD 250.00 - 300.00	200.00
148	CLEMENS, S.L.	A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer	New York & Hartford	1889, 1896, 1881	USD 120.00 - 180.00	250.00
149	CLEMENS, S.L.	Autograph letter signed ("Mark") to "Dear Mr. Duneka,"	New York	December 3	USD 700.00 - 900.00	850.00
150	COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.	The Book Beautiful	San Francisco	1930	USD 200.00 - 300.00	500.00
151	COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision; The Pains of Sleep	London	1816	USD 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
152	CONRAD, JOSEPH	Laughing Anne. A Play	London	1923	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
153	CONRAD, J.	Works with G. Jean-Aubry, Life and Letters	Garden City	1920-28	USD 200.00 - 300.00	400.00
154		CORVINUS PRESS., The Song of Songs.	London	1937	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
155	Eric Gill	CRANACH PRESS., Canticum Canticorum Salomonis	Weimar	1930	USD 350.00 - 400.00	550.00
156	SHAKESPEARE, W. Hamlet	CRANACH PRESS.	Weimar	1930	USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	2,200.00
157	LAWRENCE, D.H.	CRESSET PRESS., Birds, Beasts and Flowers... with wood-engravings	London	1930	USD 80.00 - 100.00	150.00
158	SWIFT, J.	CRESSET PRESS., Gulliver's Travels	London	1930	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,100.00
159	CROSBY, HARRY	The Collected Poems: Chariot of the Sun; Transit of Venus; Torch-bearer; Sleeping Together	all Paris	1931	USD 300.00 - 450.00	500.00
160	THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE	An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank... (From the Westminster Review, no. LXVL)	London	1840	USD 200.00 - 250.00	150.00
161		OIL PAINTING			USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00	1,600.00
162	CURMER, HENRI-LEON, publisher	Le Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne, traduit du Latin... par M. L'Abbé Delaunay	Paris	1841, i.e. 1861	USD 400.00 - 500.00	650.00
163	CURMER, H.L., publisher	Le Livre d'Heures de la Reine Anne de Bretagne, traduit du Latin... par M. l'Abbé Delaunay	Paris	1841, i.e. 1861	USD 250.00 - 350.00	400.00
164	DANIELL, WILLIAM, illustrator and RICHARD AYTON	A Voyage Round Great Britain... Commencing from the Land's End, Cornwall	London	et al 1814-25, watermarked 1811-24	USD 10,000.00 - 13,000.00	Not Sold
165		Decree (A) of the Starre-Chamber, Concerning Printing, Made the Eleventh Day of July Last Past. 1637	London	1637	USD 500.00 - 650.00	750.00
166	DEFOE, DANIEL	The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	London	1820	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
167	DE LA MARE, WALTER	Songs of Childhood.	London	1902	USD 350.00 - 450.00	400.00
168	DE LA MARE, W.	The Three Mulla-mulgars	London	1910	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
169	SMITH, JEROME V.C.	DERRYDALE PRESS., Trout and Angling	New York	1929	USD 150.00 - 180.00	550.00
170	CONNETT, EUGENE V.	DERRYDALE PRESS., Feathered Game		1929, 1937	USD 250.00 - 350.00	250.00
171	DIBDIN, Rev. THOMAS FROGNALL	The Bibliographical Decameron	London	1817	USD 250.00 - 300.00	320.00
172	DIBDIN, Rev. T.F.	Bibliophobia. Remarks on the Present Languid and Depressed State of Literature and the Book Trade	London	1832	USD 150.00 - 200.00	350.00
173	DICKENS, CHARLES	A Christmas Carol.	London	1843	USD 250.00 - 350.00	420.00
174	DICKENS, C.; CLARKE, J. CLAYTON [Kyd]	The Personal History of David Copperfield, A Child's History of England	London's	1850, 1852-54	USD 200.00 - 250.00	420.00
175	DICKENS, C.	Autograph letter signed ("CD.") to Thomas Mitton, his solicitor and one of his earliest close friends, Devonshire Terrace		27 December 1843	USD 400.00 - 500.00	1,400.00
176	DICKENS, C.; BROWNE, HALBOT K.	Phiz. The original steel-engraved plate from which the illustration entitled "The Card-room at Bath"		1836-37	USD 500.00 - 700.00	800.00
177	DODGSON, Rev. CHARLES LUTWIDGE; Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	New York	1866	USD 700.00 - 900.00	750.00
178	DODGSON, Rev. C. L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	London	1866	USD 700.00 - 900.00	800.00
179	DODGSON, Rev. C.L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass	both London	1866, 1872	USD 350.00 - 400.00	400.00
180	DODGSON, Rev. C.L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	London and New York	1872	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
181	DODGSON, Rev. C.L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There	London's and New York's	1886, 1887	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,600.00
182	DODGSON, Rev. C.L.	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass		1932, 1935	USD 400.00 - 500.00	480.00
183	DODGSON, Rev. CL.	Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There	London	1872, 1871	USD 250.00 - 350.00	900.00
184	DORAT, CLAUDE, JOSEPH	Fables nouvelles	Paris and The Hague	1773	USD 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
185	DOUGLAS, ALFRED BRUCE, Lord	A series of 13 autograph and typed letters signed (5 type-signed, 8 signed in script), to a young clergyman, Jack Bell, most Pasadena	California	from early July 1933 to May 25 1934, 9 without dates	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,100.00
186	COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.	The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful		1900	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
187		BIBLE, English		1903-05	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,000.00
188	EMERSON, RALPH WALDO	Essays.		1906	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
189	RUSKIN, JOHN	Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy		1907	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
190	CARLYLE, THOMAS	Sartor Resartus		1907	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
191	BROWNING, ROBERT	Men & Women		1908	USD 400.00 - 500.00	650.00
192	SHAKESPEARE, W.	The Tragieall Historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke		1909	USD 250.00 - 300.00	280.00
193	SHAKESPEARE, W.	The Tragedie of Anthony and Cleopatra		1912	USD 1,300.00 - 1,700.00	1,700.00
194	SHAKESPEARE, W.	Venus and Adonis		1912	USD 1,300.00 - 1,700.00	2,400.00
195	SHAKESPEARE, W.	Venus and Adonis		1912	Not Available	220.00
196	COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.	Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends		1864-1867, 1914	USD 200.00 - 250.00	200.00
197	COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.	Amantium Irae. Letters to Two Friends		1864-1867, 1914	USD 150.00 - 200.00	140.00
198	SHAKESPEARE, W.	The Tragedy of Coriolanus		1914	USD 600.00 - 700.00	1,100.00
199	SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE	Poems		1914	USD 1,300.00 - 1,600.00	1,700.00
200	SHAKESPEARE, W.	Lucrece		1915	USD 1,700.00 - 2,000.00	2,000.00

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.