Christies: PRINTED BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS, including illustrated books and bindings. FIRST SESSION, 5101,
Auction Details
- Auction Date
- November 20, 1981 - November 20, 1981
| Lot Number | Author Name | Book Title | Place Printed | Year Published | Estimate | Actual Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 401 | MILLER, HENRY | Tropic of Capricorn | Paris | n.d. 1939 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 350.00 |
| 402 | MILNE, A.A. | When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner | all London | 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 400.00 |
| 403 | MILNE, A.A. | When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, Now We Are Six, The House at Pooh Corner | all London | 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 600.00 |
| 404 | MILNE, A.A. | When We Were Very Young, Winnie-the-Pooh, The House at Pooh Corner | all London | 1924, 1926, Now We Are Six, 1927, 1928 |
USD 1,400.00 - 1,800.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 405 | MILNE, A.A. | Winnie-the-Pooh | London | 1926 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,800.00 |
| 406 | MILNE, A.A. | The House at Pooh Corner | London | 1928 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,500.00 |
| 407 | MILNE, A.A. | The House at Pooh Corner | New York | 1928 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 250.00 |
| 408 | MILNE, A.A. | The House at Pooh Corner | New York | 1928 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 300.00 |
| 409 | MILNE, A.A. | Toad of Toad Hall. A Play from Kenneth Grahame's Book 'The Wind in the Willows,' | London | 1929 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 280.00 |
| 410 | MILNE, A.A. | The King's Breakfast, Teddy Bear and Other Songs from "When We Were Very Young", Songs from "Now We Are Six" | all London | 1925, 1926, 1927 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 500.00 |
| 411 | MINIATURE BOOKS, London Almanack for the Year, Paul et Virginie, Le Poete de l'Enfance, Schloss's English Bijou Almanac for 1839 | Paris's, London | 1795 and 1824, n.d., c. 1804, 1845, n.d., 1838 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | 200.00 | |
| 412 | MORLEY, CHRISTOPHER | Travels in Philadelphia | Philadelphia | 1920 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
| 413 | MORLEY, C.; TOMLINSON, H.M. | My One Contribution to Seventeenth Century Scholarship, On Visiting Bookshops, The Child and the Book, A Brown Owl | New York, n.p., Chicago, Garden City | 1927, 1931, 1922, 1928 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 200.00 |
| 414 | MORNAY | A Picture of St. Petersburgh, represented in A Collection of Twenty Interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People | London | 1815, plates watermarked 1811 |
USD 700.00 - 800.00 | 1,000.00 |
| 415 | MORRIS, WILLIAM and EIRIKR MAGNUSSON | Völsunga Saga. The Story of the Volsungs & Niblungs with Certain Songs from the Elder Edda. Translated from the Icelandic... | London | 1870 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 2,500.00 |
| 416 | MORRIS, W. | Love is Enough or the Freeing of Pharamond. A Morality | London | 1873 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 250.00 |
| 417 | SWINBURNE, ALGERNON CHARLES | MOSHER PRESS., Songs Before Sunrise, Portland | Maine | 1901 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 300.00 |
| 418 | SWINBURNE, A.C. | MOSHER PRESS., Poems & Ballads. Seconda Third Series, Portland | Maine | 1902 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 280.00 |
| 419 | MOSHER PRESS., A Little Garland of Celtic Verse, Portland | Maine | 1905 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 180.00 | |
| 420 | RODD, RENNELL | MOSHER PRESS., Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf. | Maine | 1906 |
USD 200.00 - 300.00 | 280.00 |
| 421 | MOULE, THOMAS | Winkle's Architectural and Picturesque Illustrations of the Cathedral Churches of England and Wales | London | 1860-51-60 |
USD 120.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 |
| 422 | MOURADJA D'OHSSON, IGNACE DE | Tableau General de l'Empire Othoman | Paris | 1787-1820 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 900.00 |
| 423 | NASH, FREDERICK, illustrator | Picturesque Views of the City of Paris and its Environs | London | 1823 |
USD 120.00 - 150.00 | 180.00 |
| 424 | NASH, JOHN HENRY, printer; POE, EDGAR ALLAN; JAMES SOUTHALL WILSON | Tamerlane & 9 Other Poems... with an appreciation | San Francisco | 1923 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 300.00 |
| 425 | NASH, J.H., printer; FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN | Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press, A Parable on Intolerance, The Psalms of David, His Beloved Grace Archbishop Hanna of San Francisco... has promised to bless the Cornerstone of The Nash Place on Thursday, In Mellow Mood, The Autobiography of Benjamin | 1929, January 1924, 1929, March 12, 1931, 1930, 1931, n.d., March 1934 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 120.00 | |
| 426 | NASH, JOSEPH | The Mansions of England in the Olden Time | London | 1839-40 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 427 | NASH, PAUL, illustrator; BROWNE, Sir THOMAS | Urne Buriall and The Garden of Cyrus... | London | 1932 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 950.00 |
| 428 | ABBOT, JOHN and Sir JAMES EDWARD SMITH | The Natural History of the rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia | London | 1797, plates watermarked 1821-22 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 7,000.00 |
| 429 | AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES | Two autograph letters on one sheet, one signed, to the Countess of Morton and to William Rathbone, the latter incomplete | Edinburgh | 16 January 1827 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 400.00 |
| 430 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph letter signed, to the Botanist Professor John Stevens Henslow at Cambridge | London | 6 February 1835 |
USD 650.00 - 800.00 | 850.00 |
| 431 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Purple Martin (plate 22 of the The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,300.00 | |
| 432 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Maryland Yellow Throat (plate 23 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 650.00 | |
| 433 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of Vigor's Vireo (plate 30 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 350.00 | |
| 434 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Black-Billed Cuckoo (plate 32 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 750.00 | |
| 435 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Children's Warbler (plate 35 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 700.00 | |
| 436 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Traill's Fly Catcher (plate 45 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 700.00 - 800.00 | 800.00 | |
| 437 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Blue Green Warbler (plate 49 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1931-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 700.00 - 800.00 | 800.00 | |
| 438 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Black and Yellow Warbler (plate 50 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., unwatermarked |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 500.00 | |
| 439 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Chestnut-Sided Warbler (plate 59 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | 750.00 | |
| 440 | AUDUBON, J.J. | Autograph manuscript, the description of the Carbonated Warbler (plate 60 of The Birds of America, published in Ornithological Biography, 1831-39) | n.d., watermarked 1829 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 700.00 | |
| 441 | BACHMAN, Rev. JOHN | Manuscript, partly autograph, of his lecture On the Mammalia of the United States," delivered before the Apprentices Society," | July 6 1836 |
USD 1,500.00 - 2,000.00 | Not Sold | |
| 442 | AUDUBON, J. J. | The Birds of America, from drawings made in the United States and their Territories | New York and Philadelphia | 1840-44 |
USD 5,000.00 - 6,000.00 | 7,000.00 |
| 443 | AUDUBON J.J.; AUDUBON, J.J. and Rev. JOHN BACHMAN | The Birds of America, The Quadrupeds of North America | n.d., 1870-71, n.d., 1870-71 |
USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 | 4,500.00 | |
| 444 | BARBUT, JACQUES; GOEDAERDT, JAN.; LATREILLE, PIERRE ANDRE; REDI, FRANCESCO | The Genera Insectorum of Linnaeus, De Insectis... Opera M. Lister, Histoire Naturelle des Fourmis, Experimenta circa generationem insectorum | London's, Paris, Amsterdam | 1781, 1685, 1802, 1671 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | 200.00 |
| 445 | BLACKWELL, ELIZABETH | A Curious Herbal ... of the Most Useful Plants ... in the Practice of Physick | London | 1737, -39 |
USD 5,500.00 - 6,500.00 | 6,000.00 |
| 446 | BUFFON, GEORGE LOUIS LECLERC, Comte de. | Historie Naturelle des Oiseaux | Paris | 1770-83 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | 850.00 |
| 447 | CATESBY, MARK | The Natural History of Carolina | London | 1754 |
USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 26,000.00 |
| 448 | CHARPENTIER, TOUSSAINT DE | Horae Entomologicae | Wratislaviae [i.e. Breslau] | 1825 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | Not Sold |
| 449 | CURTIS, HENRY | Beauties of The Rose | Bristol, London | 1850-53 |
USD 550.00 - 650.00 | 850.00 |
| 450 | GOSSE, PHILIP HENRY | A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica | London | USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 120.00 | |
| 451 | GOULD, JOHN and RICHARD BOWDLER SHARPE | A Monograph of the Trochilidae or Family of Humming-Birds with Supplement, Supplement | London, Sotheran | 1849-61, 1880-87 |
USD 25,000.00 - 30,000.00 | 20,000.00 |
| 452 | HANBURY, WILLIAM | A Complete Body of Planting and Gardening ... | London | 1769-1770-1771-73 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 200.00 |
| 453 | JARDINE, Sir WILLIAM | The Naturalist's Library | Edinburgh, London | 1853-59 |
USD 400.00 - 600.00 | 1,400.00 |
| 454 | LEGGE, Capt. W. VINCENT | A History of the Birds of Ceylon | London | 1880-81 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | 750.00 |
| 455 | LINDLEY, JOHN | Rosarum Monographia; or, A Botanical History of Roses | London | 1830 |
USD 500.00 - 600.00 | 450.00 |
| 456 | MAUND, BENJAMIN, editor | The Botanic Garden...of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, The Fruitist, The Floral Register | London's | 1825-51, n.d., n.d. |
USD 1,800.00 - 1,900.00 | 2,800.00 |
| 457 | MERIAN, MARIA SIBYLLA | Dissertatio de generatione et metamorphosibus insectorum Surinamensium... vermes et erucas... Plantae, flores & Fructus... serpentes, araneae... in America ad vivum accurate depicta | Amsterdam | 1719 |
USD 7,000.00 - 9,000.00 | 11,000.00 |
| 458 | MICHAUX, FRANCOIS ANDRE and THOMAS NUTTALL | The North American Sylva | Philadelphia | Rutter & Co., 1865 |
USD 250.00 - 350.00 | 550.00 |
| 459 | MILLAR, GEORGE HENRY, editor | A New, Complete, and Universal Body or System of Natural History | London | n.d., 1785 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | Not Sold |
| 460 | MILLER, PHILLIP | The Gardener's and Botanist's Dictionary | London | et al 1795-1807 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 200.00 |
| 461 | MOFFETT, THOMAS | Insectorum sive Minimorum Animalium Theatrum | London | 1634 |
USD 350.00 - 450.00 | 320.00 |
| 462 | MULSANT, MARTIAL ETIENNE | Lettres a Julie sur l'Entomologie | Lyon and Paris | 1830 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 100.00 |
| 463 | NEWCASTLE, WILLIAM CAVENDISH, Duke of | Methode et Invention Nouvelle de Dresser les Chevaux | London | 1737 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,200.00 |
| 464 | NIETNER, THOMAS | Die Rose, ihre Geschichte, Arten, Kultur und Verwendung nebst einem Verzeichniss von fünftausend beschreibenen Gartenrosen | Berlin | 1880 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 300.00 |
| 465 | PARSONS, SAMUEL BOWNE | The Rose: its History, Poetry, Culture, and Classification | New York | 1847 |
USD 120.00 - 150.00 | 50.00 |
| 466 | PAXTON, Sir JOSEPH | Paxton's magazine of Botany | London | 1834-49 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 467 | RAY, JOHN | L'Histoire Naturelle ... l'Ornithologie qui traite des oiseaux de terre, de mer et deriviere ... traduit...par M. Salerne | Paris | 1767 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 200.00 |
| 468 | REAUMUR, RENÉ ANTOINE FERCHAULT DE | Memoires pour servir a l'histoire des Insectes | Paris | 1734-42 |
USD 300.00 - 350.00 | 300.00 |
| 469 | REDOUTÉ, PIERRE JOSEPH and CLAUDE ANTOINE THORY | Les Roses | Paris | 1824-26 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 2,700.00 |
| 470 | REDOUTÉ, P.J. and C.A. THORY | Les Roses | Paris | 1828-29 |
USD 5,000.00 - 7,000.00 | 6,200.00 |
| 471 | ROEMER, JOHANN JAKOB; WULFEN, FRANZ XAVIER VON | Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii, Abhandlung vom kärnthnerischen Bleyspate | Winterthur, Vienna | 1789, 1785 |
USD 500.00 - 700.00 | 1,200.00 |
| 472 | ROESEL VON ROSENHOF, AUGUSTIN JOHANN; KLEEMAN, CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH CARL | Der monatlich-herausgegebenen Insecten-Belustigung, Beitrage zur Natur-und Insectengeschichte | Nuremberg's | n.d. c. 1759-1761, 1761-1776 |
USD 2,500.00 - 3,000.00 | 3,000.00 |
| 473 | ROUX, POLYDORE | Ornithologie Provençale | Paris | 1825-30 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 100.00 |
| 474 | ROWLEY, GEORGE DAWSON | Ornithological Miscellany | London | et al 1875-78 |
USD 1,500.00 - 1,700.00 | 1,800.00 |
| 475 | SWAMMERDAM, JAN | Histoire Generale des Insectes | Utrecht | 1682 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | 180.00 |
| 476 | SWEET, ROBERT | Cistineae. The Natural Order of Cistus, or Rock-Rose | London | 1825-30 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | Not Sold |
| 477 | VIEILLOT, LOUIS JEAN PIERRE | Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux de l'Amerique Septentrionale ... Tome premier (only, of 2) | Paris | 1807 |
USD 850.00 - 950.00 | 850.00 |
| 478 | VOET, JOHANN EUSEBIUS | Icones Insectorum Coleopterorum | Erlangen | 1793-94 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | 500.00 |
| 479 | WILSON, ALEXANDER; BONAPARTE, PRINCE CHARLES LUCIEN | American Ornithology [with Biographical Sketch and Supplement by George Ord] | Philadelphia's | et al 1808-25, 1825-28 |
USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00 | 3,500.00 |
| 480 | WILSON, A. | American Ornithology ... Plates | Philadelphia | n.d. 1871 |
USD 850.00 - 1,000.00 | 1,800.00 |
| 481 | NIGHTINGALE, FLORENCE | Notes on Nursing | London | 1859 |
USD 120.00 - 180.00 | 320.00 |
| 482 | DANTE ALIGHIERI | NONESUCH PRESS., La Divina Commedia ... in Italian and English | London | 1928 |
USD 80.00 - 100.00 | 110.00 |
| 483 | DANTE ALIGHIERI | NONESUCH PRESS., La Divina Commedia ... In Italian and English | London | 1928 |
USD 80.00 - 100.00 | Not Sold |
| 484 | SHAKESPEARE, W. | NONESUCH PRESS., Works | London and New York | 1929-31 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 380.00 |
| 485 | NONESUCH PRESS., The Iliad [and] The Odyssey | London | 1931 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 220.00 | |
| 486 | DICKENS, CHARLES | The Nonesuch Dickens | USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00 | 1,600.00 | ||
| 487 | ORCUTT, WILLIAM DANA, printer; PETRARCA, F. | The Triumphs... | Boston | 1906 |
USD 250.00 - 300.00 | Not Sold |
| 488 | PALLADIO, ANDREA | The Architecture of A. Palladio; in Four Books ... Revis'd, Design'd and Publish'd by Giacomo Leoni... | London | et al 1742 |
USD 300.00 - 500.00 | 850.00 |
| 489 | PAPER. Specimens: A Stevens-Nelson Paper Catalogue | New York | n.d. c.1953 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 120.00 | |
| 490 | PAPWORTH, JOHN B. | Select Views of London, with Historical and Descriptive Sketches of some of the Most Interesting of its Public Buildings | London | 1816 |
USD 1,000.00 - 1,200.00 | 1,800.00 |
| 491 | PARRISH, MAXFIELD, illustrator; SAUNDERS, LOUISE | The Knave of Hearts | New York | 1925 |
USD 300.00 - 400.00 | 300.00 |
| 492 | PASCAL, BLAISE | Les Provinciales, ou Lettres escrites par Louis de Montalte a un provincial de ses amis & aux RR. PP. Jesuites sur le sujet de la Morale, & de la Politique des ces Peres | Cologne | 1657, 1656-57 |
USD 600.00 - 900.00 | 1,000.00 |
| 493 | WAKOWSKI, DIANE | PERISHABLE PRESS., The Wandering Tattler... | Wisconsin | 1974 |
USD 100.00 - 150.00 | 200.00 |
| 494 | PHILOSTRATUS, FLAVIUS | Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs ... mis en Francois par Blaise de Vigenere | Paris | 1637 |
USD 200.00 - 250.00 | 60.00 |
| 495 | ADAMS, ANSEL; WESTON, EDWARD | PHOTOGRAPHY., My Camera in Yosemite Valley, Edward Weston | Yosemite National Park and Boston, New York | 1949, 1932 |
USD 400.00 - 500.00 | 550.00 |
| 496 | PIKE, ZEBULON MONTGOMERY | An Account of Expeditions to the Sources of the Mississippi, and through the Western Parts of Louisiana, to the Sources of the Arkansaw, Kans., La Platte, and Pierre Juan Rivers ... and a Tour through the Interior Parts of New Spain | Philadelphia | 1810 |
USD 600.00 - 700.00 | 850.00 |
| 497 | PIRANESI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA | Delia Magnificenza e d'Architettura de Romani | Rome | 1761 |
USD 1,600.00 - 2,000.00 | 2,200.00 |
| 498 | PLATO | Opera | Venice | 13 August 1491 |
USD 1,500.00 - 1,800.00 | 1,600.00 |
| 499 | PLUVINEL, ANTOINE DE | L'Instruction du Roy en l'Exercise de monter a cheval | Amsterdam | 1666 |
USD 600.00 - 800.00 | 1,600.00 |
| 500 | POE, EDGAR ALLAN; CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. | Tales [bound with] The Raven and Other Poems, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | both New York, London | 1845, 1884 |
USD 150.00 - 200.00 | 550.00 |
![<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/9a74d9ff-42dd-46a1-8bb2-b636c4cec796.png "<b>Sotheby’s, Dec. 16:</b> [Austen, Jane]. A handsome first edition of <i>Sense and Sensibility,</i> the author's first novel. $60,000 to $80,000.")
![<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.](https://ae-files.s3.amazonaws.com/AdvertisementPhotos/8caddaea-4c1f-47a7-9455-62f53af36e3f.jpg "<b>Heritage, Dec. 15:</b> John Donne. <i>Poems, By J. D. With Elegies on the Author's Death.</i> London: M[iles]. F[lesher]. for John Marriot, 1633.")
