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
301	HAWTHORNE, N.	Grandfather's Chair: a History for Youth, Famous Old People: Being the Second Epoch of Grandfather's Chair, Liberty Tree: with the Last Words of Grandfather's Chair			USD 200.00 - 300.00	250.00
302	HAWTHORNE, N.	A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Tanglewood Tales, for Girls and Boys; being a Second Wonder-Book		1852, 1853	USD 250.00 - 350.00	380.00
303	HAWTHORNE, N.; SCOTT, SIR WALTER	Mosses from an Old Manse, The Scarlet Letter, True Stories from History and Biography, The Snow Image, The Blithedale Romance, Life of Franklin Pierce, Our Old Home, Pansie, Woodstock	London, Edinburgh	1846, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1852, 1852, 1863, 1864, 1826	USD 300.00 - 400.00	350.00
304	HEALE WILLIAM	An Apologie for Women. Or an opposition to Mr. Dr. G[ager] his assertion... That it was lawfull for husbands to beate their wives	Oxford	1609	USD 100.00 - 150.00	200.00
305	HEARN, LAFCADIO	Japan. An Attempt at Interpretation	New York	1904	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
306	HEMINGWAY, ERNEST	A Farewell to Arms	New York	1929	USD 700.00 - 900.00	900.00
307	HEYWOOD, THOMAS	The Royall King, and the Loyall Subject	London	1637	USD 700.00 - 800.00	550.00
308	HOBBES, THOMAS	Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme & Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill	London	1651	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,100.00
309	HOLDEN, OLIVER	Sacred Dirges, Hymns, and Anthems, Commemorative of the Death of General George Washington, The Guardian of His Country, and The Friend of Man... An Original Composition.	Boston	1800	USD 250.00 - 350.00	200.00
310	HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL	Autograph letter signed to Francis J. Garrison	Boston	February 10, 1886	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
311	HOOGHE, ROMEYN DE, illustrator; WICQUEFORT, ABRAHAM	Advis fidelle aux veritables Hollandois... la dernier marche de l'armee du Roy de France en Brabant	n.p., The Hague	1673	USD 250.00 - 300.00	550.00
312	HOOGHE, R. DE, illustrator; BASNAGE, JACOBUS	Le Grand Tableau de l'Univers, ou l'historie des evenemens de l'Eglise ... Huitieme edition	Amsterdam	1714	USD 700.00 - 800.00	1,200.00
313	HOOGHE, R. DE, illustrator; ANTONIDES VANDER GOES, JAN	Alle de Gedichten	Amsterdam	1714	USD 100.00 - 150.00	80.00
314		Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera	London	1733-37	USD 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
315	HOUSMAN, ALFRED EDWARD	A Shropshire Lad	London	1896	USD 600.00 - 800.00	800.00
316	HUNTER, DARD	Primitive Papermaking: an Account of a Mexican Sojourn and of a Voyage to the Pacific Islands in Search of Information... Relating to the Making and Decorating of Bark-Paper, Chillicothe	Ohio	1927	USD 1,600.00 - 1,900.00	2,000.00
317	INGRAM, JAMES	Memorials of Oxford	Oxford	1837	USD 150.00 - 200.00	300.00
318	IRELAND, SAMUEL	Picturesque Views, with An Historical Account of the Inns of Court, in London and Westminster	London	1800	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
319	JAMES, HENRY; DODGSON, REV. CHARLES LUTWIDGE; LEWIS CARROLL; ELIOT, GEORGE	Washington Square, The Hunting of the Snark, Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe	New York, London's	1881, 1876, 1861	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
320	JAMES, WILL	Cowboys North and South	New York	1924	USD 250.00 - 350.00	600.00
321	JEFFERS, ROBINSON	Flagons and Apples	Los Angeles	1912	USD 250.00 - 350.00	420.00
322	JEFFERS, R.	Californians	New York	1916	USD 250.00 - 350.00	300.00
323	JEFFERS, R.	Tamar and Other Poems, Roan Stallion, Tamar, and Other Poems, Cawdor and Other Poems, Two Consolations	San Mateo	1924, 1925, 1928, 1940	USD 300.00 - 400.00	500.00
324	JOHNSON, SAMUEL	A Dictionary of the English Language	London	1755	USD 600.00 - 750.00	1,300.00
325	JOHNSON, S.	A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland	London	1775	USD 250.00 - 350.00	250.00
326	JONES & CO., publisher	Jones' Views of the Seats, Mansions, Castles, &c. of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland	London	1829	USD 200.00 - 250.00	200.00
327	JONES, DAVID, illustrator; COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Bristol	1929	USD 100.00 - 120.00	550.00
328	KAFKA, FRANZ	Der Prozess	Berlin	1925	USD 300.00 - 400.00	300.00
329	MORRIS, WILLIAM	A Dream of John Ball and a King's Lesson		1892	USD 300.00 - 350.00	400.00
330	VORAGINE, JACOBUS DE	The Golden Legend of master William Caxton		1892	USD 650.00 - 750.00	1,700.00
331	SHAKESPEARE, W.	The Poems		1893	USD 350.00 - 500.00	600.00
332	MORRIS, W.	News from Nowhere: or, an Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance		1893	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,300.00
333	CAVENDISH, GEORGE	The Life of Thomas Wolsey... Archbishop of York		1893	USD 200.00 - 250.00	300.00
334	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	Maud, a Monodrama		1893	USD 300.00 - 400.00	380.00
335	ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL	Ballads and Narrative Poems		1893	USD 300.00 - 350.00	450.00
336	ROSSETTI, D.G.	Sonnets and Lyrical Poems		1894	USD 300.00 - 350.00	450.00
337	MORRIS, W.	The Story of the Glittering Plain		1894	USD 600.00 - 750.00	850.00
338	MORRIS, W.	The Wood Beyond the World		1894	USD 400.00 - 500.00	500.00
339	F.S. Ellis	PSALMI penitentiales		1894	USD 500.00 - 700.00	650.00
340	F.S. Ellis	PSALMI penitentiales		1894	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
341	MORRIS, W.	Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair		1895	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,100.00
342	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	The Works two conjugate trial leaves printed on vellum		1894	USD 600.00 - 800.00	1,600.00
343	CHAUCER, G.	The Works. Trial pages [1] and 2 (one cancelled leaf)		1894	USD 350.00 - 450.00	850.00
344	CHAUCER, G.	The Works		1896	USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00	8,000.00
345	CHAUCER, G.	The Works		1896	USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00	5,000.00
346	S.C. Cockerell	LAUDES BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS		1896	USD 250.00 - 350.00	550.00
347	S.C. Cockerell	LAUDES BEATAE MARIAE VIRGINIS		1896	USD 250.00 - 350.00	500.00
348	FROISSART, JEAN	The Chronicles, Two early trial pages for the projected edition		n.d. 1892 and 1893	USD 350.00 - 450.00	850.00
349	FROISSART, J.	Two trial pages of the projected edition of Lord Berners' translation of Froissait		September issued October 7 1897	USD 600.00 - 800.00	2,400.00
350	MORRIS, W.; S.C. Cockerell	Some German Woodcuts of the Fifteenth Century		1898	USD 200.00 - 300.00	380.00
351		LEAVES.			USD 300.00 - 400.00	1,200.00
352	VALLANCE, AYMER; SPARLING, H. HALLIDAY; MILLARD, MORRIS, WILLIAM	KELMSCOTTPRESS., The Art of William Morris, The Kelmscott Press and William Morris, Mrs. george m. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of... Kelmscott Press... in the Little Museum of La Miniature... 1929, Some Thoughts on the Ornamental MSS. of the Middle Ages	London, London, Los Angeles, New York	1897, 1924, 1929, 1934	USD 100.00 - 150.00	650.00
353	KENT, ROCKWELL	The Bookplates & Marks... With a Preface by the Artist	New York	1921	USD 200.00 - 250.00	300.00
354	KENT. R.; ROBINSON, SELMA	N by E, New York: Random House 1930; City Child with decorations by Rockwell Kent	New York's	1930, 1931	USD 80.00 - 100.00	100.00
355	KIPLING, RUDYARD	The Day's Work	London	1898	USD 250.00 - 350.00	600.00
356	KIPLING, R.	Stalky & Co.	London	1899	USD 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
357	KIPLING, R.	Kim	London	1901	USD 250.00 - 350.00	280.00
358	KIPLING, R.	Just So Stories for Little Children	London	1902	USD 400.00 - 600.00	700.00
359	KIPLING, R.	Rudyard Kipling's Verse. Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918	London	1919	USD 300.00 - 400.00	380.00
360	KIPLING, R.	Poems	London	1886-1929, 1929	USD 300.00 - 400.00	500.00
361	KIPLING, R.	Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, Soldier Tales	both London	1892, 1896	USD 120.00 - 180.00	280.00
362	KIPLING, R.	The Jungle Book, The Second Jungle Book, Captains Courageous	all London	1894, 1895, 1897	USD 150.00 - 200.00	320.00
363	KIPLING, R.	Puck of Pook's Hill	both London	1906	USD 250.00 - 350.00	320.00
364	KLIMT, GUSTAVE, illustrator	LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA. Die Hetaerengespraeche... Deutsch von Franz Blei...	Leipzig	1907	USD 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
365	KOBERGER, ANTON, printer; HARDOUYN, GILLES, printer; TORY, GEOFFROY, printer	One leaf from Bible, German, One leaf from a Book of Hours, Two leaves from Champfleury	Nuremberg, Paris's	17 February 1483, c. 1500-25, 1529	USD 80.00 - 100.00	180.00
366	LA BORDE, JEAN BENJAMIN DE	Choix de chansons mises en musique... ornée d'estampes	Paris	1773	USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00	2,500.00
367	LA FONTAINE, JEAN DE	Fables Choisies, mises en vers	Paris	1755-59	USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00	2,400.00
368	LA FONTAINE, J. DE	Fables Choisies, mises en vers	Paris	1755-59	USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00	3,000.00
369	LA FONTAINE, J. DE	Fables Choisies... gravée en taille douce... par le Sr. Fessard	Paris	1765-75	USD 400.00 - 600.00	650.00
370	MELVILLE, HERMAN	LAKESIDE PRESS, Moby Dick or The Whale	Chicago	1930	USD 400.00 - 500.00	480.00
371	LANG, ANDREW, editor	The Green Fairy Book, The Yellow Fairy Book, The Violet Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, The Orange Fairy Book, The Olive Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, The Blue Poetry Book, The True Story Book, The Red True Story Book, My Own	Bristol, all London	1892, 1894, 1901, 1903, 1904, 1906, 1907, 1910, 1891, 1893, 1895, 1895, 1896, 1898, 1899, 1902, 1905, 1908, 1909, 1911	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	2,600.00
372	LAWRENCE, DAVID HERBERT	Women in Love	New York	1920	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,500.00
373	LAWRENCE, D.H.	Lady Chatterley's Lover	Florence	1928	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,000.00
374	LAWRENCE, D.H.	The Escaped Cock	Paris	1929	USD 200.00 - 250.00	180.00
375	LAWRENCE, T.E., translator	The Odyssey	London	1932	USD 400.00 - 450.00	480.00
376	HOMER; LAWRENCE, T.E.	The Odyssey of Homer	London	1932	USD 500.00 - 600.00	550.00
377	LEE, SIDNEY	A Life of William Shakespeare	London	1899	USD 600.00 - 700.00	600.00
378	LEGRAND, EDY, illustrator	BlBLE, SONG OF SONGS, French. Le Cantique des Cantiques	Paris	1930	USD 200.00 - 300.00	480.00
379	LEGRAND, E.	Pentatoli	Paris	1931	USD 80.00 - 100.00	40.00
380	LEGRAND, E., illustrator	Apocalypse selon Saint Jean	Casablanca	1942	USD 100.00 - 120.00	50.00
381	PERRAULT, CHARLES	LIVRE D'AMOUR, ou folasteries du vieux temps, Contes des Fées	Paris's	n.d., c. 1830, n.d., c. 1820	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	150.00
382	LEWIS, JAMES O.	The Aboriginal Port Folio	Philadelphia	1835-36	USD 60.00 - 80.00	4,500.00
383	LOGGAN, DAVID	Oxonia illustrata	Oxford	1675	USD 600.00 - 700.00	500.00
384	LONDON, JACK	The Call of the Wild	New York	1903	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,200.00
385	LYTTON, EDWARD GEORGE EARLE BULWER, Lord	The Last Days of Pompeii	London	1834	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
386	MACAULAY, THOMAS BABINGTON, Lord	Lays of Ancient Rome	London	1842	USD 100.00 - 150.00	150.00
387	McFEE, WILLIAM	Letters from an Ocean Tramp, Casuals of the Sea		1908, 1916	USD 250.00 - 350.00	350.00
388	M'KENNEY, THOMAS L. and JAMES HALL	History of The Indian Tribes of North America	Philadelphia	1836-38-44	USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00	7,000.00
389	M'KENNEY, T. L. and J. HALL; Daniel Rice and James G. Clark	History of The Indian Tribes of North America	Philadelphia	1837, 1842-44	USD 6,500.00 - 7,500.00	6,500.00
390	M'KENNEY, T.L. and J. HALL	History of The Indian Tribes of North America	Philadelphia's and London	n.d., 1842-44	USD 4,000.00 - 5,000.00	5,500.00
391	MACLISE, DANIEL, illustrator; MOORE, THOMAS; FOSTER, BIRKET, illustrator; TAYLOR, TOM	Irish Melodies, tom. Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape	London's	1846, n.d. 1863	USD 120.00 - 150.00	120.00
392	MAHLER, GUSTAV	Autograph manuscript of the unpublished libretto for his folk-tale opera Rübezahl		probably 1879-81	USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00	4,000.00
393	MANET, EDOUARD, illustrator; POE, EDGAR ALLAN	Les Poèmes d' Edgar Poe. Traduction de Stephane Mallarmé, avec portrait et fleuron par Edouard Manet	Bruxelles	1888	USD 1,800.00 - 2,000.00	Not Sold
394	MARIANA, JUAN DE	Historia general de Espana	Madrid	1780	USD 80.00 - 100.00	180.00
395	MASCAGNI, PIETRO	Autograph letter signed ("Piero"), to his wife	Vienna	20 September 1892	USD 800.00 - 1,200.00	800.00
396	MASCAGNI, P.	Autograph letter signed, a retained draft, with revisions to the librettist Giovacchino Forzano, Autograph letter signed, to Mascagni	Livorno, n.p.	20 September 1916, n.d.	USD 700.00 - 1,000.00	Not Sold
397	MASCAGNI, P.	Autograph letter signed ("Piero"), to his wife	Rome	27 July 1914	USD 200.00 - 300.00	60.00
398	MASCAGNI, P.	Autograph letter signed, to Maria Gay-Zenatello	Berlin	9 September 1924	USD 400.00 - 600.00	200.00
399	MELVILLE, HERMAN	Moby-Dick, Typee		1863, 1846	USD 200.00 - 300.00	450.00
400	MEREDITH, GEORGE	The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son	London	1859	USD 300.00 - 400.00	250.00

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.