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
501	POE, E. A.	Histoires extraordinaires... traduction de Charles Baudelaire	Paris	1856	USD 150.00 - 200.00	220.00
502	POE, E.A.; ADAM, PAUL; PERRAULT, CHARLES; FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	Les poemes ... en prose de Stéphane Mallarmé, Histoires extraordinaires traduites par Charles Baudelaire, Dans l'air qui tremble, Contes, La tentation de Saint Antoine	Paris's	1889, 1884, 1916, 1843, 1875	USD 100.00 - 120.00	350.00
503	POWELL, JOHN WESLEY	Exploration of the Colorado River of the West and its Tributaries. Explored in 1869, 1870, 1871, and 1872	Washington	1875	USD 80.00 - 100.00	150.00
504		Priapeia, sive Diversorum Poetarum in Priapum Lusus; Illustrati Commentariis Gasperis Schoppi, Franci	Padua	1664	USD 100.00 - 150.00	120.00
505	PURCHAS, SAMUEL	Hakluytus Posthumous or Purchas His Pilgrimes, Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and Lande Travells	Glasgow	1905	USD 200.00 - 300.00	900.00
506	PYNE, WILLIAM HENRY	The History of the Royal Residences of Windsor Castle, St. James Palace, Carlton House, Kensington Palace, Hampton Court, Buckingham House, and Frog-more	London	1819 plates watermarked 1812-16	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	700.00
507	PYNE, W.H.	The History of the Royal Residences	London	1819 plates watermarked 1816-18, 1907	USD 800.00 - 1,000.00	1,200.00
508	DODGSON, Rev. C.L.; Lewis Carroll	Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	London, New York, Doubleday		USD 350.00 - 450.00	550.00
509	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	A Midsummer-Night's Dream	London and New York	1908	USD 500.00 - 600.00	350.00
510	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Gulliver's Travels	London and New York	1908	USD 400.00 - 500.00	300.00
511	WAGNER, RICHARD	The Ring of the Niblung [The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie; Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods]...	London and New York	1910-11	USD 800.00 - 900.00	700.00
512	RACKHAM, A.	Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures	London	1913	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
513	MILTON, JOHN	Comus	London	1921	USD 200.00 - 300.00	280.00
514	GOLDSMITH, OLIVER	The Vicar of Wakefield	Philadelphia	1929	USD 300.00 - 400.00	200.00
515	WALTON, IZAAK	The Compleat Angler	London	1931	USD 1,200.00 - 1,500.00	1,800.00
516	ANDERSEN, HANS CHRISTIAN	Fairy Tales	London	1932	USD 500.00 - 650.00	420.00
517	RUSKIN, JOHN	The King of the Golden River	London	1932	USD 300.00 - 350.00	280.00
518	ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA	Goblin Market	London	1933	USD 350.00 - 450.00	320.00
519	IBSEN, HENRIK	Peer Gynt	London	1936	USD 400.00 - 500.00	300.00
520	RACKHAM, ARTHUR	The huntress Dian, original drawing, pen and ink and watercolor, signed		1921	USD 7,000.00 - 8,000.00	7,000.00
521	RACKHAM, A.; LATIMORE, SARAH BRIGGS and GRACE CLARK HASKELL	Arthur Rackham: a Bibliography	Los Angeles	1936	USD 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
522	RALEIGH, SIR WALTER	The History of the World	London	1614	USD 350.00 - 450.00	380.00
523	RAVENSCROFT, EDWARD	The London Cuckolds. A Comedy	London	1682	USD 150.00 - 200.00	150.00
524	REMINGTON, FREDERIC	Pony Tracks	New York	1895	USD 250.00 - 350.00	450.00
525	REMINGTON, F. illustrator; ROOSEVELT, THEODORE	Ranch Life and Hunting Trail	New York	1888	USD 250.00 - 350.00	650.00
526	RICCI, ELISA	Old Italian Lace	London and Philadelphia	1913	USD 200.00 - 250.00	150.00
527	RICKETTS, CHARLES; LONGUS; SHAW, G.B.	Daphnis and Chloe, Saint Joan		1893, 1924	USD 100.00 - 150.00	380.00
528	RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB	"The Old Swimmin'-hole," and 'Leven More Poems	Indianapolis	1883	USD 350.00 - 450.00	450.00
529	RIPA, CESARE; VEGETIUS RENATUS, FLAVIUS	Iconologia, overo Descrittione di Diversi Imagini cauate dall'antichità, De Re Militari [with four other works]	Rome, Leyden	1603	USD 300.00 - 350.00	200.00
530	Bruce Rogers	RIVERSIDE PRESS., The Song of Roland	Cambridge	1906	USD 150.00 - 200.00	550.00
531	ROBINSON, EDWIN ARLINGTON	The Children of the Night	Boston	1897	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
532	ROGERS, BRUCE; BERNARD, AUGUSTE JOSEPH	Geofroy Tory ... an Account of His Life and Works...	Boston	1909	USD 200.00 - 250.00	250.00
533	ROWLANDSON, THOMAS, illustrator; JONES, EDWARD	The Bardic Museum of Primitive British Literature ... Musical, Poetical, and Historical relicks of the Welsh Bards and Druids	London	1802	USD 100.00 - 120.00	150.00
534	SAINT-NON, l'abbe RICHARD DE	Voyage pittoresque ou Description des Royaumes de Naples et de Sicile	Paris	1781-86	USD 2,000.00 - 2,500.00	5,500.00
535	SAINT-PIERRE, BERNARDIN DE	Paul et Virginie	Paris	1838	USD 200.00 - 250.00	480.00
536	SALLUST	La Conjuracion de Catilina y la Guerra de Jugurtha	Madrid	1772	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	1,800.00
537	SALLUST	La Conjuracion de Catilina y la Guerra de Jugurta	Madrid	1772	USD 500.00 - 700.00	380.00
538	SCHEDEL, HARTMANN	Liber Chronicarum	Nuremberg	12 July 1493	USD 13,000.00 - 16,000.00	Not Sold
539	SCHEFFER, JOANNES	The History of Lapland	Oxford	1674	USD 500.00 - 600.00	320.00
540	SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY R.	Information respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of The United States	Philadelphia	et al 1853-57	USD 1,200.00 - 1,600.00	1,000.00
541	SCOTT, Sir WALTER; STERNE, LAURENCE	The Abbot, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.	Edinburgh, London	1820, 1768	USD 100.00 - 150.00	140.00
542	SEDLEY, Sir CHARLES	Antony and Cleopatra: A Tragedy	London	1677	USD 150.00 - 200.00	500.00
543	SELDEN, JOHN	The History of Tithes	London	1618	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
544	SEWELL, ANNA	Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions. The Autobiography of a Horse	London	1877	USD 400.00 - 500.00	280.00
545	SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM	Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies	London	1685	USD 900.00 - 1,200.00	3,000.00
546	CHAUCER, GEOFFREY	SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS., The Works	Stratford	1928-29	USD 500.00 - 700.00	600.00
547	BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI	SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS., The Decameron	Oxford	1934-35	USD 120.00 - 180.00	320.00
548	SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD	Nine Answers... with an Introduction by Christopher Morley	n.p.	1923	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
549	SHAW, G.B.	Saint Joan: a Chronicle Play...	London	1924	USD 100.00 - 150.00	250.00
550	SINGER, SAMUEL WELLER	Researches into the history of Playing Cards	London	1816	USD 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
551	SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY	The Rivals, The Critic, The Duenna	all London	1775, 1781, 1794	USD 200.00 - 300.00	150.00
552	STEELE, W.R., editor	The Trans-Continental Published Daily on the Pullman Hotel Express	Between Boston and San Francisco	May 24 - July 4, 1870	USD 150.00 - 200.00	180.00
553	STENO, NICOLAS	De solido intra solidum naturaliter contento dissertationis prodromus	Florence	1669	USD 3,000.00 - 5,000.00	5,500.00
554	STERNE, LAURENCE	The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman	York and London	1760-67	USD 500.00 - 700.00	650.00
555	STERNE, L.	A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.	London	1768	USD 500.00 - 700.00	500.00
556	STEVENSON, ROBERT LOUIS	Treasure Island	London	1883	USD 500.00 - 700.00	700.00
557	STEVENSON, R. L.	A Child's Garden of Verses	London	1885	USD 300.00 - 400.00	220.00
558	STEVENSON, R.L.	Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	London	1886	USD 600.00 - 800.00	2,200.00
559	STEVENSON, R.L.	Kidnapped		1886	USD 200.00 - 300.00	350.00
560	STEVENSON, R.L.	Autograph letter signed ("R.L.S." written large) to his mother	n.p. [France?]	n.d., probably 1875	USD 400.00 - 600.00	2,200.00
561		Pharsalia Cum Notis Hugonis Grotii et Richardi Bentleii	Strawberry-Hill	1760	USD 500.00 - 600.00	500.00
562	MORE, HANNAH	STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS., Bishop Bonner's Ghost	Strawberry-Hill	1789	USD 100.00 - 150.00	220.00
563	SUCHTELEN, General VON and Major General OPPERMANN	Title in Russian Detailed Maps of the Russian Empire		c. 1810, 1805	USD 450.00 - 550.00	350.00
564	SWEERTIUS, FRANCISCUS; ISELBURG, PETRUS	Deorum dearumque capita, Ex antiquis numismatibus Abrahatmi Ortelii... collecta, Emblemata politica In aula magna Curiae Noribergensis depicta	Antwerp, n.p. Nuremberg	1602, 1617	USD 150.00 - 180.00	320.00
565	SWIFT, JONATHAN	Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World...	London	1726	USD 250.00 - 300.00	700.00
566	SWIFT, J.	Travels into several Remote Nations of the World	London	1726	USD 300.00 - 400.00	320.00
567	SWIFT, J.	Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World...	London's	1726, Printed in the Year 1727	USD 300.00 - 350.00	700.00
568	SZYK, ARTHUR, illustrator	Le Livre d'Esther	Paris	1925	USD 350.00 - 450.00	650.00
569	SZYK, A. illustrator; FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE	La Tentation de Saint Antoine	Paris	1926	USD 120.00 - 150.00	400.00
570	SZYK, A. illustrator	The Haggadah...	London	1939	USD 3,500.00 - 4,500.00	5,000.00
571	TARKINGTON, BOOTH and HARRY LEON WILSON	The Guardian. A Play in Four Acts, The Man from Home	New York's	1907, 1908	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
572	TASSO, TORQUATO	Il Goffredo, ovvero Gerusalemme Liberata	Venice	1760-61	USD 80.00 - 100.00	100.00
573	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	The Works	London	1875-74	USD 150.00 - 250.00	280.00
574	TENNYSON, A., Lord	Demeter and Other Poems	London	1889	USD 200.00 - 300.00	500.00
575	THACKERAY, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE	The Newcomes	London	1853-55	USD 150.00 - 200.00	280.00
576	THOMAS, ANTOINE JEAN BAPTISTE	Un An a Rome, et dans ses environs	Paris	1823	USD 400.00 - 500.00	2,200.00
577	THOMPSON, FRANCIS	Poems, Sister Songs: A Offering to Two Sisters	London's	1893, 1895	USD 80.00 - 100.00	70.00
578	THOMSON, HUGH	The First Primrose, original drawing, pen and ink, of four girls and two boys, for mary russell mitford, Our Village	London	1893	USD 250.00 - 350.00	180.00
579	TOMBLESON, WILLIAM, illustrator	Views of the Rhine	London	1832	USD 150.00 - 200.00	1,000.00
580	TOMLINSON, HENRY MAJOR	Under the Red Ensign, The Sea and the Jungle		1926, 1912	USD 200.00 - 300.00	200.00
581	TROLLOPE, ANTHONY	Orley Farm	London	March 1861-October 1862	USD 400.00 - 500.00	1,600.00
582	TYPOPHILES	The Spinach from Many Gardens.	New York	1935	USD 300.00 - 400.00	420.00
583	TENNYSON, ALFRED, Lord	VALE PRESS., In Memoriam	London	1900	USD 400.00 - 500.00	900.00
584	VENUTI, RIDOLFINO	Accurata, e succinta descrizione topografica delle antichita di Roma	Rome	1763	USD 300.00 - 400.00	600.00
585	DU MAURIER, GEORGE; HUDSON, W.H.; MEREDITH, GEOROE	VICTORIAN NOVELS. Trilby, The Purple Land that England Lost, Diana of the Crossways	all London	1894, 1885, 1885	USD 200.00 - 300.00	220.00
586	HENLEY, W.E., meredith, george., smith, Alexander., tennyson	VICTORIAN POETRY. The Song of the Sword, Modern Love, Dreamthorp, a. Lord. Poems, Chiefly Lyrical		1892, 1862, 1863, 1830	USD 150.00 - 200.00	200.00
587	VIENNA	Kurtz lesens-würdige Erinnerung von Herrührung, Erbau und Benambsung... Beschreibung von deroselben letzt Türkischen Beläger	Vienna	1702	USD 150.00 - 250.00	200.00
588	VIRGIL	Opera, ex antiquis monumentis illustrata	n.p., The Hague	n.d., 1753-67	USD 250.00 - 350.00	220.00
589	WALPOLE, HORACE, translator; HENTZNER, PAUL	A Journey into England... in the Year MDXCVIII			USD 80.00 - 100.00	60.00
590	WALTON, IZAAK and CHARLES COTTON	The Complete Angler... with Original Memoirs and Notes	London	1836	USD 150.00 - 200.00	250.00
591	WALTON, I. and C. COTTON	The Complete Angler... with Original Memoirs and Notes	London	1836	USD 120.00 - 150.00	250.00
592	WALTON, I. and C. COTTON	Memoirs of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton with Notes	London	1836	USD 200.00 - 250.00	300.00
593	WALTON, I. and C. COTTON	The Complete Angler...	Philadelphia	n.d.	USD 80.00 - 100.00	80.00
594	WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM; TROLLOPE, A.; HOGG, JAMES	Dickens, Thackeray, Domestic Manners and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott	both London, Edinburgh	1882, 1882, 1882	USD 120.00 - 150.00	90.00
595	WATHEN, JAMES	A Series of Views, Illustrative of the Island of St. Helena	London	et al 1821	USD 300.00 - 400.00	550.00
596	WELBY, ADLARD	A Visit to North America and the English Settlements in Illinois, With a Winter Residence in Philadelphia	London	et al 1821	USD 120.00 - 150.00	300.00
597	WHARTON, EDITH	Ethan Frome	New York	1911	USD 150.00 - 200.00	450.00
598	WHITMAN, WALT	As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free. And Other Poems	Washington, D.C.	1872	USD 400.00 - 600.00	750.00
599	WHITMAN, W.	Autograph letter signed, to his sister-in-law Louisa Whitman ("Dear Lou") in Burlington	N.J.	April 30, 1887	USD 400.00 - 600.00	550.00
600	WILDE, OSCAR	Newdigate Prize Poem. Ravenna. Recited in the Theatre	Oxford, Oxford	June 26, 1878, 1878, 1894	USD 250.00 - 350.00	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.