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
201	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	The Prelude		1915	USD 150.00 - 200.00	380.00
202	WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM	The Prelude		1915	USD 200.00 - 300.00	280.00
203	MACKAIL, J.W.; TENNYSON, ALFRED	William Morris, an Address Delivered the Xlth November MDCCCC at Kelmscott House, Lord. Seven Poems & Two Translations		1901, 1902	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
204		Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, Catalogue Raisonné of Books Printed & Published at the Doves Press, The City Planned, Shakespearian Punctuation, The New Science Museum, Wordsworth's Cosmic Poetry		May 1908, 1900-1911, May 1911, 1910, 1912, 1914, 1914	USD 150.00 - 200.00	500.00
205	COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.	DOVES PRESS	London, Pasadena	1911-1921, 1933	USD 100.00 - 150.00	420.00
206	POLLARD, ALFRED W.	DOVES PRESS, Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press... and a list of the Doves Press Printings	San Francisco	1929	USD 800.00 - 900.00	750.00
207	DOYLE, Sir ARTHUR CONAN	The Adventures [The Memoirs] of Sherlock Holmes	London	1892-94	USD 600.00 - 800.00	900.00
208	DOYLE, Sir A.C.	The Hound of the Baskervilles	London	1902	USD 200.00 - 300.00	500.00
209	DOYLE, Sir A.C.	The Return of Sherlock Holmes	London	1905	USD 200.00 - 300.00	420.00
210	DRYDEN, JOHN; T. SPRAT and E. WALLER; SHAKESPEARE, W.	Three Poems Upon the Death of the Late Usurper Oliver Cromwell, england. Proclamation by King Charles I. Orders and Directions...	London's	1682, 1630, 1632	USD 350.00 - 450.00	250.00
211	DWIGGINS, WILLIAM ADDISON	Marchbanks Press		Calendar 1925	USD 250.00 - 350.00	250.00
212		EDWARD III	Westminster	April 1371	USD 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
213	COLMAN, GEORGE & DAVID GARRICK; COLMAN, GEORGE; GARRICK, DAVID; GAY, JOHN; HOME, JOHN; JOHNSON, CHARLES; ROWE, NICHOLAS	EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PLAYS., The Clandestine Marriage, the Younger. The Iron Chest, The Tempest. An Opera. Taken from Shakespeare, The Distress'd Wife, Douglas, The Successful Pyrate, The Tragedy of Jane Shore		1776, 1796, 1756, 1743, 1757, 1713, 1713	USD 350.00 - 450.00	300.00
214	ELIOT, JOHN, et al	Strength Out of Weakness. Or a Glorious Manifestation Of the further Progresse of the Gospel Amongst the Indians in New-England ... in sundry Letters from divers Ministers	London	1652	USD 300.00 - 400.00	400.00
215	BROWNING, ROBERT; KEATS, JOHN	ESSEX HOUSE PRESS., Flight of the Duchess, the bibliophile society., Unpublished Poem to His Sister Fanny	London, Boston	1905, 1909	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
216	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM; MILTON, JOHN & HENRY LAWES	ESSEX HOUSE PRESS., Poems, nonesuch press., The Mask of Comus, Shakespeare head press., bede, The Venerable. The History of the Church of Englande	London's, Oxford	1899, 1937, 1930	USD 200.00 - 250.00	220.00
217		EUCLID. Opera, edited by David Gregory	Oxford	1703	USD 300.00 - 400.00	150.00
218	FAHEY, HERBERT and PETER	Parchment and Vellum	San Francisco	1940	USD 100.00 - 150.00	420.00
219	ARISTOPHANES	Lysistrata, Women in Parliament	both London	1926, 1929	USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
220	PETRONIUS ARBITER, TITUS	Complete Works...	London	1927	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
221	FIELD, EUGENE	Echoes from the Sabine Farm, The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, Second Book of Tales, Love Songs of Childhood	New Rochelle, New York, Chicago	1891, 1896, 1896, 1905	USD 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
222	FIELDING, HENRY	An Old Man Taught Wisdom; or, the Virgin Unmask'd. A Farce- ... With the Musick Prefix'd to Each Song	London	1735	USD 200.00 - 300.00	420.00
223	FIELDING, H.	Love in Several Masques, The Modern Husband	both London	1728, 1732	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
224	FLAXMAN, JOHN, illustrator.	The Iliad, Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman R. A. Sculptor	London	1805	USD 80.00 - 100.00	40.00
225	FLINT, W. RUSSELL, illustrator	Judith. Reprinted from the Apocrypha	London	1928	USD 400.00 - 600.00	650.00
226	FLINT, W. R., illustrator	The Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna	London	1929	USD 400.00 - 600.00	600.00
227	FORD, PAUL LEICESTER	The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery	New York	1897	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
228	DANTE ALIGHIERI	FORE-EDGE PAINTING., The Divine Comedy	London	1854	USD 200.00 - 250.00	120.00
229	HARE, JULIUS CHARLES and AUGUSTUS WILLIAM	FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS	London	1827	USD 200.00 - 250.00	200.00
230	HUNT, LEIGH	FORE-EDGE PAINTING, Stories in Verse...Now First Collected	London	1855	USD 150.00 - 200.00	90.00
231	KENNEDY, J. CLARK	FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS, Algeria and Tunis in 1845	London	1846	USD 200.00 - 250.00	320.00
232	TENNYSON, ALFRED	FORE-EDGE PAINTING, Lord. Enoch Arden, etc.	London	1864	USD 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
233	FORSTER, E.M.	A Passage to India	London	1924	USD 80.00 - 100.00	250.00
234		FOULIS PRESS., Homeri Ilias	Glasgow	1747	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,700.00
235		FOULIS PRESS., [Greek titles] Iliad [-Odyssey]	Glasgow	1756-58	USD 500.00 - 700.00	1,700.00
236	FOURNIER, PIERRE SIMON	Manuel Typographique, utile aux gens de lettres	Paris	1764-66	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,400.00
237		Francais peints par eux-memes (Les)	Paris	1840-41	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
238	FREART, ROLAND	A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern... with Leon Baptista Alberti' s Treatise of Statues	London	1664	USD 100.00 - 150.00	100.00
239	GARZONI, TOMMASO	Piazza universale, das ist Allgemeiner Schawplatz...aller Professionen, Künsten, Geschäften, Händeln und Handt-Werken	Frankfurt-am-Main	1641	USD 150.00 - 200.00	700.00
240	GELL, Sir WILLIAM	The Geography and Antiquities of Ithaca	London	1807	USD 200.00 - 250.00	300.00
241	GELL, Sir W.	Pompeiana: The Typography, Edifices and Ornaments of Pompeii, the Result of Excavations since 1819	London's	1837	USD 80.00 - 100.00	100.00
242	GILL, ERIC, illustrator; MATHERS, E. POWYS; SHAKESPEARE, W.; CHESTERTON, G.K.	NONESUCH PRESS., Procreant Hymn		1926	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
243	GILL, ERIC	LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB., Hamlet, Gloria in Profundis [Ariel Poems no.5]		1933, 1927	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
244	GILL, ERIC	Golden Cockerel Press: The Lord's Song		1934	USD 250.00 - 300.00	600.00
245	Eric Gill	The Song of Songs	Berkshire	1925	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
246	Eric Gill	Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi	Berkshire	1926	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
247	CHAUCER, G.	Troilus and Criseyde	Berkshire	1927	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	1,700.00
248	KEATS, JOHN	Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes, and Other Poems		1928	USD 150.00 - 180.00	180.00
249	Eric Gill	The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ ... with decorations	Berkshire	1931	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	1,900.00
250	OVID; E. Powys Mathers	The Amores... newly	Berkshire	1932	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
251	BLIGH, WILLIAM	The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch as Related in ... Bligh's Despatch to the Admiralty and the Journal of John Fryer	London	1934	USD 200.00 - 250.00	350.00
252	Blair Hughes-Stanton	Ecclesiastes or The Preacher	London	1934	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
253	CHASE, OWEN, and others	Narratives of the wreck of the Whale-Ship Essex	London	1935	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
254	GILL, ERIC	The Lord's Song	London	1935	USD 60.00 - 80.00	120.00
255	Lettice Sandford	The Song of Songs	London	1936	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
256	MATHERS, E. POWYS	Love Night: a Laotian Gallantry	London	1936	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
257	OMAR KHAYYAM	The Golden Cockerel Rubaiyat...	London	1938	USD 350.00 - 450.00	380.00
258	Mark Severin	The Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite.	London	1948	USD 250.00 - 350.00	350.00
259	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER and THOMAS PARNELL; GRAY, THOMAS	Poems	London's	1795, 1765	USD 250.00 - 300.00	280.00
260	GOODEN, STEPHEN, illustrator; MOORE, GEORGE	Ulick and Soracha		1926	USD 250.00 - 300.00	150.00
261	GOODEN, S., illustrator; LA FONTAINE, J. DE.; ANACREON ODES	The Fables...		1931, 1923	USD 250.00 - 300.00	350.00
262	GOODEN, S. illustrator	Aesop's Fables	London	1936	USD 300.00 - 350.00	350.00
263	GOODEN, S. illustrator; OMAR KHAYYAM	Rubaiyat ... The First Version of Edward Fitzgerald	London	1940	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
264	GOODEN, STEPHEN; DODGSON, CAMPBELL; gooden	An Iconography of the Engravings of Stephen Gooden	London	1944	USD 200.00 - 250.00	280.00
265	GORCUM, JAN VAN	'tBosch der eremyten ende eremitinnen, Van Aegypten ende Palestinen, cartari, vincentio., Pantheon Antiquorum exhibens imagines Deorum	Antwerp, Rotenburg	1644, 1683	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
266	GOSSE, Sir EDMUND	Father and Son. A Study of Two Temperaments	London	1907	USD 400.00 - 600.00	350.00
267	WHITMAN, WALT	GRABHORN PRINTING., Leaves of Grass	New York	1930	USD 650.00 - 800.00	1,200.00
268	POWELL, H.M.T.	GRABHORN PRINTING.; The Sante Fe Trail to California 1849-1852...	San Francisco	1931	USD 800.00 - 900.00	1,100.00
269	GRAHAME, KENNETH	The Wind in the Willows	London	1908	USD 400.00 - 600.00	900.00
270	GRANDVILLE J.J.; Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, illustrator; LA FONTAINE J. DE	Fables	Paris	1839	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
271	GRANDVILLE, illustrator	Scénes de la vie privée et publique des animaux	Paris	1842	USD 200.00 - 250.00	280.00
272	GRANDVILLE, illustrator	Les Fleurs Animées	Paris	1847	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
273	GRANDVILLE, illustrator	Les Metamorphoses du jour	Paris	1854	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
274	GRANDVILLE, illustrator; DEFOE, D.; SWIFT, J.; DEFOE, D.	Robinson Crusoe, Voyages de Gulliver, The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe	Paris's, London	1840, 1856, 1840	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
275	GRANDVILLE, illustrator; HUART, LOUIS; MERY; REYBAUD, JEROME; DELORD, TAXILE; FLORIAN, JEAN PIERRE	Museum Parisien, Les Etoiles, Jerome Paturot, Les Fleurs Animées, Un Autre Monde, Fables, Cent Proverbs	Paris's	1841, 1849, 1846, 1867, 1844, 1842, 1845	USD 200.00 - 300.00	900.00
276	GRANDVILLE, JEAN JACQUES; Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, illustrator	three original drawings, pen-and-ink and pencil, two of them headpiece designs for Fables de Florian		1842	USD 350.00 - 450.00	1,500.00
277	HUBERT FRANCOIS BOURGUIGNON	GRAVELOT	Paris	1764-81	USD 1,400.00 - 1,600.00	2,200.00
278	David Jones	Llyfr y Pregeth-Wr [The Book of Ecclesiastes]	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1927	USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00	800.00
279	HERBERT OF CHERBURY, EDWARD, Lord.	The Autobiography		1928	USD 150.00 - 200.00	120.00
280	H.W. Bray	Psalmau Dafydd (The Book of Psalms in Welsh)	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1929	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
281	BLUNT, WILFRID SCAWEN	The Celebrated Romance of the Stealing of the Mare	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1930	USD 250.00 - 350.00	200.00
282	William Caxton	AESOP. The Fables of...Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1931	USD 500.00 - 650.00	550.00
283	William Caxton; Agnes Miller Parker	AESOP. The Fables... Translated out of Frensshe in to Englysshe	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1931	USD 300.00 - 400.00	480.00
284	VANSITTART, ROBERT	The Singing Caravan	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1932	USD 100.00 - 120.00	220.00
285	Blair Hughes-Stanton	The Revelation of Saint John the Divine	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1932	USD 250.00 - 300.00	320.00
286	Blair Hughes-Stanton	The Lamentations of Jeremiah	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1933	USD 250.00 - 300.00	400.00
287	MILTON, JOHN	Four Poems	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1933	USD 100.00 - 120.00	75.00
288	MADARIAGA, SALVADOR DE	Don Quixote, An Introductory Essay in Psychology	Newtown, Mongomeryshire	1934	USD 150.00 - 200.00	110.00
289	BRIDGES, ROBERT	Eros and Psyche	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1935	USD 200.00 - 300.00	380.00
290	HARTZENBUSCH, JUAN EUGENIO	The Lovers of Teruel: a Drama in Four Acts in Prose and Verse...	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1938	USD 300.00 - 400.00	300.00
291	SHAW, BERNARD	Shaw Gives Himself Away. An Autobiographical Miscellany	Newtown, Montgomeryshire	1939	USD 450.00 - 550.00	380.00
292	DAVIES, W.H.; FORTESCUE, SIR JOHN WILLIAM	The Lovers' Song-Book, The Story of a Red-Deer		1933, 1935	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
293	LE ROUX DE LINCY, A.J. V.	GROLIER CLUB., Researches Concerning Jean Grolier, His Life and His Library; with a Partial Catalogue of His Books.	New York	1907	USD 120.00 - 150.00	220.00
294	MORISON, STANLEY	GROLIER CLUB., Fra Luca de Pacioli of Borgo S. Sepolcro	New York	1933	USD 400.00 - 500.00	520.00
295	BURY, RICHARD DE	GROLIER CLUB., A Decree of the Star Chamber Concerning Printing		Made July 11, 1637, 1884, 1889	USD 200.00 - 300.00	100.00
296	GUTENBERG, JOHANN, printer	BIBLE, Latin [Mainz, c. 1450-55]	Leipzig	1913-14	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	2,000.00
297	HARDY, THOMAS	The Dynasts, The Prologue and Epilogue	London	1914	USD 400.00 - 600.00	420.00
298	HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL	Fanshawe, a Tale	Boston	1828	USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00	Not Sold
299	HAWTHORNE N.	The Weal-Reaf. A Record of the Essex Institute Fair, Held at Salem, Sept. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, with Two Supplementary Numbers Sept. 10, 11	Salem	1860	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
300	HAWTHORNE, N.	Twice-Told Tales	Boston	1837	USD 200.00 - 300.00	300.00

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.